Why is Gaza not being helped?
Dear respected people, I received a question from one of the followers who said: (Peace be upon you, Doctor..I have a question and I hope your answer will restore my faith. Where is our Lord from the injustice happening in Gaza??? Where is the victory and the firmness of the feet and the angels who fight with the believers? Is it possible that in the end the Jews are right and the Muslims are the oppressors?????? By God, answer me a convincing answer so that my convictions and faith in everything have become shaken unfortunately. And may our Lord reward you with goodness). This message, brothers, I think represents a number of people, and it shows that we have not yet understood our Islam. There are 3 points in it that we will answer:
1. Why does God not prevent injustice?
2. Where is the victory?
3. Are the Jews better than the Muslims, so they defeat them? First: When you ask where is God from the injustice that is happening? I ask you: Has God Almighty made a promise and broken it? Did He tell you that this world is a place of reward, so the oppressed must be avenged by the oppressor? Have you not read Surah Al-Burooj? People believed, so the disbelievers dug the trench for them and burned them alive until death, and yet God Almighty said about these believers: (Verily, those who believed and did righteous deeds, for them are gardens under which rivers flow. That is the great success). (The great success)..Those who die in obedience are winners, indeed great winners..Their enemy wanted to deter them from their religion, but he could not, so he had no choice but to kill them, so they were killed, but after they had defeated him by breaking his will and thwarting his plot. If this speech does not satisfy you, then this is your problem, that you do not want to submit to the truth that this world is a place of trial, not a place of reward, and that you do not want to submit to the centrality of the Hereafter in the life of the believer. You reject these truths, this is your problem, so review your understanding of Islam, but do not speak about the Lord of Glory as if He promised and broke it, far be it from Him, but He is the One who says: (And do not think that Allah is heedless of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when the eyes will stare). It is very strange that you are a Muslim and then you speak as if the stories of injustice end in this worldly life, then the oppressor and the oppressed become dust and there is no return nor reckoning! Where is the Hereafter from your calculations? Where is the saying of God: (And you will not be requited except according to what you have done)? Did God promise that He would not test? But He promised that He would test, saying: (You will surely be tested in your wealth and yourselves, and you will surely hear from those who were given the Scripture before you and from the polytheists much abuse. But if you are patient and fear Allah, then indeed, that is of the matters [worthy] of determination). And He said: (That [is so]. And if Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them [Himself], but [He ordered that] some of you might take vengeance upon others. And those who are killed in the cause of Allah - never will He waste their deeds). - May God grant patience to the people of Gaza, and you are here in your place doubting?! They are suffering, and yet we see the mercy of God in their steadfastness, and you are watching and not suffering like them, and yet your faith is shaken?! - Okay, you have lost your faith, how have you benefited your brothers? Nothing..but you become a new wound and a new stab in the back of your nation...while if you are busy with a project that benefits your nation and bandages its wounds with call and reviving the spirit of dignity, then you will help them and the oppressed, even if after a while. - Praise be to Allah, there are brothers following me from Gaza, and children who participated in the Quran competitions that we organized from Gaza. And I draw closer to Allah by making their religion beloved to them so that they remain steadfast until they meet their Lord pleased with them by His permission, and I ask Him to help us in helping them and lifting the affliction from them and from the nation of Islam. - O you who care about your brothers in Gaza, be busy with their benefit and the benefit of the oppressed, not with objecting to the Lord of the Worlds because you have not understood His religion nor submitted to the truth that this world is a place of trial, not a place of reward. Secondly: Where is the victory? Why are the Muslims in Gaza not being helped? They are being helped against whom? Against the Zionists? The Zionists are just agents representing the enemies of the Muslims. Otherwise, the people of Gaza are at war with the international system and the Zionists of the Arabs..and so is the war in every place where Muslims are persecuted. Allah said: (And fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together)...meaning fight them together as they fight you together. At that time, yes, the victory will descend, and we will see the fulfillment: (If you support Allah, He will support you and plant your feet firmly). This is a war of faith and disbelief and hypocrisy, in which Gaza and others do not represent the Muslim nation. So, are the people of Gaza paying the price for the negligence of the Muslims? And where is (And no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another)? But we say: whoever dies from the people of Gaza in faith, then Allah has chosen him (And those days We alternate them among the people that Allah may make evident those who believe and may take to Himself from among you martyrs. And Allah does not like the wrongdoers). The believer who is killed in the cause of Allah receives his full and complete reward, not diminished, but Allah honors him and bestows upon him. But the rest of the nation is not qualified for victory until it is rewarded with it. The nation has not dealt with the reality that it is in a war of faith and disbelief until it deserves victory. The victory has causes that I explained in the word (Are we close to victory). And we as Muslims have not taken anything from the causes of this victory. And if we always make excuses that the matter is not in our hands and that those who rule us and control our countries do not fear Allah, then by Allah what we do to ourselves as Muslims is worse than what our enemies do to us from the inside and the outside. The victory has causes that we have not taken, not as a nation, nor as the people of Gaza, for what is in the nation and in Gaza and others of good, we have the righteous and we have less than that. But there are causes for victory and there are obstacles..and the causes are not taken and the obstacles are not avoided. So whoever is killed in faith, and whoever fights in the cause of Allah so that the word of Allah is the highest, without mixing..without mixing in this purpose...this is promised by Allah with the reward of the martyrs, but the nation has not yet qualified for victory. Many of those who say where is the victory of Allah, he himself is a helper to the enemies of Islam, aiding the oppressors and hypocritically dealing with them in the hope of money and status..neglecting the upbringing of his children so they grow up without faith, dignity, or brotherhood, and become tools in the hands of the enemies of Islam, not mastering their work to increase the poverty and ignorance of the Muslims. Then after that he says: (Where is the victory of Allah?!) Strange indeed by Allah! How many diseases of the country are you from its diseases And misfortune is its disease, have you searched for its symptoms O you who carried the axe to demolish it on its ruins Sit down, for you are not the one who strives to revive it And look with your eyes the wolves toiling in their pools You may say: Okay, whatever our shortcomings, does this mean we are in a worse state than the Jews? So they defeat us? Okay, I want to ask you: When the victory was lost in the Battle of Uhud and the polytheists were able to harm the army of the Prophet and the Companions, does this mean that the polytheists were better than the Messenger of Allah and the Companions? I seek refuge in Allah. Okay, why did God not help them? Because victory has causes, and some of the Companions disobeyed the command, which nullified the causes of victory. The believers are promised as a nation with victory if they achieve its causes..if they do not achieve them, then the upper hand will be for whoever is superior militarily and materially. And yet, those who were killed from the army of the Messenger of Allah are martyrs, and Allah honored them and revealed about them (And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision). And so are those who are killed in the cause of Allah in our days. In conclusion: Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Turkestan, Burma, Kashmir, the lands of the Muslims in general...whoever is killed among them patiently, seeking reward, uniting for Allah, glorifying His Sharia, steadfast on His religion, he is a winner whose will was not broken before the plots of the enemies of Islam. While we see people who claim to be Muslims, they have millions and even billions, they help the enemies of the nation against it and conspire against the Muslims, they live in palaces and wear the finest clothes and fly in planes and are surrounded by guards, but by Allah, they will remain with all this humiliated, submissive, and tools for the enemies of the religion. We ask Allah to have mercy on our brothers in Gaza and all the oppressed Muslims, and to grant them steadfastness in faith, guide their hearts, unite them on the word of piety, and help us and the Muslims to help them. And peace be upon you.