Reconsidering Our Position on the Al-Aqsa Flood

Greetings, dear brothers. This statement will only be understood by one person, so whoever watches it must watch it until the end; otherwise, they should not watch it at all. If you are not going to watch it until the end, my advice is to withdraw now.

Brothers, those who have followed me for 40 days, since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood, know that I was one of its strongest supporters, rejoicers, and defenders. Now, with the new information, after the destruction and killing we have seen, will we remain in the same position? Or can a person change their position if they detach from the influence of emotion and listen to the language of reason and reality?

Could it be that what happened in the Al-Aqsa Flood was that a group of Muslims led a defenseless people into an unequal confrontation? Should we not then think deeply and calmly about whether this action was a victory, or whether it might destroy more than it builds and lose more gains than it achieves?

It is very important that we know the answers to these questions: Do we support or oppose the principle of jihad with modest means in this time, so that we know if this action is a model to be followed, or if Muslims should refrain from it and be warned against doing something like it.

I will reconsider our position on the Al-Aqsa Flood from several aspects:

1. The legitimacy of the action in the religion of God Almighty.
2. The results of this action over the past forty days.
3. The loss of the relative state of stability that the people of Gaza enjoyed before the flood.
4. The objection of some of the people of Gaza to this action after its results became apparent.
5. Previous positions related to the Iranian project.
6. The positions of some activists regarding the flood and what they indicated, that it is not appropriate to embark on an act of this kind without having sufficient material force.

So we say, with the help of God:

The Legitimacy of the Al-Aqsa Flood

Was the Al-Aqsa Flood a Legitimate Action?

I do not think anyone disagrees that it was, in origin, a legitimate action. And perhaps I can say with confidence: All Muslims around the world rejoiced in it, even those who had joy mixed with fear of the consequences of this flood, but they also rejoiced in it at first.

The flood was legitimate because, as one of the brothers described it, it was a battle in which the best of God's servants, whom we consider to be the cream of the earth of God, confront the evil of the beasts of God, in the most apparent battle between truth and falsehood, so that the word of God may be supreme and the word of those who disbelieved may be inferior.

The Al-Aqsa Flood was a legitimate action because God Almighty said: "Permission has been given to those who are being fought because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is over their help competent." And because God Almighty said: "And prepare against them what you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy." And I think that no rational person can deny that the mujahideen brothers have indeed prepared what they were able to.

It is legitimate because we are talking about an enemy who has occupied the land of the Muslims, shed their blood, and desecrated their sanctuaries. In this case, the hypothesis of jihad is not a matter of ijtihad, discussion, or expressing opinions in origin.

It is a legitimate action because our brothers who launched the Al-Aqsa Flood, and they are more truthful to us than all the disbelievers, hypocrites, and false media outlets, informed us that the Zionists were preparing to invade Gaza, so the mujahideen preempted them by invading their heartland and inflicting losses on them. Thus, in origin, it was protection from this impending danger.

So, let us agree that the action in its origin is legitimate.

Re-evaluating the Al-Aqsa Flood Based on Its Results

But wait, before you judge an action as legitimate or not, look at its results. Ah, this brings us to the second point: re-evaluating the Al-Aqsa Flood based on its results over the past forty days.

Is it right for a group of mujahideen to carry out an action whose result is the killing of thousands of Muslims, the destruction of homes, the displacement of their inhabitants, their slow death in hospitals, and their perishing from hunger and thirst?

The question that arises strongly: Is this the inevitable result of the Al-Aqsa Flood? Or could things have gone differently, and a massive uprising could have occurred in the Muslim countries that would uproot the Zionist entity and shake the foundations of the international system and its tentacles in the Muslim countries? Or not, is it not possible?

If it is not possible, why did all the infidel countries come to the aid of the despicable entity? And did the international system rise up hysterically, declaring war openly without any attempt to deceive the feelings of the Muslims, and throwing all its treaties in the trash? If it is impossible, why does the entity act with such madness and sacrifice the lives of hundreds of prisoners despite the severe pressure from their families?

Things could have gone differently, and the Al-Aqsa Flood could have swept away all the filth in the region. So, what prevented that? It was prevented by guards who help the forces of infidelity to deal with our people in Gaza alone, and peoples who were not prepared and did not prepare as their brothers in Gaza did. So, do not blame those who did what they had to do for the fault of those who did not do what they had to do, and do not judge the Al-Aqsa Flood by its non-inevitable results.

The action is either legitimate or not. And if our Prophet peace be upon him commanded to say: "And if I had known the unseen, I would have increased in good, and evil would not have touched me," how can our brothers know the unseen to carry out the Al-Aqsa Flood or not to carry it out?

The Muslims were afflicted with a calamity in the Battle of Uhud. Does this mean that their going out to the battle was a mistake? Of course not. When you discuss this topic, remember statistics from "Statista" and others that show that the military expenditures of seven Arab countries in 2021 amounted to 88 billion dollars. 88 billion dollars! And remember that these are the funds of the nation, the funds of the Muslim peoples that must be used to defend the nation without any consideration of the borders set by the occupier. The duty is to question the ruling of depriving the Muslims of aiding their brothers with the weapons bought with their money, not to blame those who performed the duty of jihad with the modest means available.

Those who have been listening to us so far may think that we are saying: It is true that the Al-Aqsa Flood began with a victory, but after that, this victory was lost. Never, never! But if actions are measured by their results, then the results of the Al-Aqsa Flood are among the greatest gains in the history of the Islamic nation: reviving generations of lost youth, consolidating the creed of loyalty to the believers and disavowal of the disbelievers, enraging the disbelievers, inflicting losses on them, and still recording heroics in that regard, exposing the hypocrites and enemies of the religion for what they truly are so that those who perish may perish with evidence and those who live may live with evidence, the entry of people into Islam, and the knowledge of many peoples of the truth of the usurping entity and the truth of the people.

And I consider all of this to be in the scale of good deeds of the patient people of Gaza and their mujahideen, by the permission of God. Those who are killed and those who are being killed among our brothers in Gaza are martyrs, God willing. And those who are harmed in their families, bodies, and possessions and remain patient, God will compensate them with something better. They have not lost, but rather, the one who loses and incurs the wrath of God is the one who is able to aid them but does not, and worse than him is the one who prevents their aid.

Loss of Relative Stability in Gaza

Peace be upon you, brother, but despite all this, look at the loss of the relative stability that the people of Gaza enjoyed before the flood. Ah, this is the third point we mentioned at the beginning: relative stability. People were living, albeit in severe hardship, and Gaza was like a large prison, but they were living, eating, drinking, praying, and relatively safe.

Those who followed the affairs of Gaza before the flood knew that it was on the brink of great danger, a great danger to its religion, the innate nature of its children, and their morals. Food and aid were entering, but through the United Nations and its offspring, and the NGOs affiliated with Western countries, which were providing this aid laced with the poisons of UNFPA and gender ideology, working on the gradual detachment of the people of Gaza from their religion.

On 20/9/2023, meaning about two weeks before the Al-Aqsa Flood, we had published a statement titled "The Ethics of UNRWA and the People of Gaza," in which we explained that UNRWA had distributed a book to Gaza's teachers, the summary of which, in extreme brevity: "We want you, people of Gaza, to accept the spread of indecency and perversion and the fight against innate nature in your children, yes, teach it to your children in Gaza against your will, and put your religion and the Quran aside, you teachers, and say we hear and obey the United Nations and its new religion." Those who think we are exaggerating can go listen to the statement and see the extent of their audacity in the texts we quoted from their words verbatim.

Gaza was the place in Palestine most exposed to attempts at blackmail and taming by institutions and associations that we saw at the beginning of the war coming out like rats after they had exerted their efforts in religious and moral sabotage, so that their emissaries from Western countries could complete the urban destruction, killing, and displacement.

Gaza was a besieged, starving place, where it was criminalized for Muslims to donate to it, so that only crumbs would reach it through these wicked associations, with much blackmail so that institutions like "Reform" and "Sawasia" and characters who are deeply rooted in Sharia like Zainab Al-Ghunaim could promote perversion, allowing them to hold wicked events promoting perversion, transformation, and the filth of UNFPA, which was documented by Telegram channels with sound and pictures such as the channel "Gaza Resists the Perverts of the Horizons" and the channel "The Popular Movement to Overthrow UNFPA." This was one of the reasons for my initiative of the competition "Palestine Confronts the War on Innate Nature," which was primarily directed at Gaza and then at Palestine.

Gaza was not safe from the conspiracy against it; it was subjected to vile blackmail, and its people, reformers, and mujahideen were oppressed by this mischief, the pace of which was increasing in the recent years and months. Then came the Al-Aqsa Flood and washed away all this filth, bringing out all the rats from Gaza along with the filth of gender and the fight against Sharia, which Gaza's environment cannot tolerate and cannot eat bread poisoned with this filth. And our children in Gaza, who were being schemed against to be raised on disbelief and perversion, are now heroes who ransom their religion with their souls.

Therefore, when you see someone say: What victory are you talking about? People were eating and drinking, the children were going to school. Tell him: And what about the soundness of their innate nature, their morals, and their hereafter? Do not be among those who know only the outward appearance of this worldly life while being heedless of the hereafter.

Then what if the Al-Aqsa Flood had not happened? And what if the people of Gaza had succumbed to attempts at corruption? Would they have been safe in this world? Even in this world? The criminal Zionists who now enjoy declaring safe corridors to the people of Gaza, then if our people take them, they bomb them with utmost criminality, and we have seen clips that turn one's hair white.

The criminal Zionists who filmed one of their soldiers pretending to help the elderly Bashir Al-Haji, 79 years old, as he was fleeing his town, then executed him with bullets in his head and chest. Would they have left Gaza alone from their evil if the Al-Aqsa Flood had not happened? Have we forgotten when two boats were fired upon, killing the father and five brothers, and the wailing of that girl over her family is still in our minds on a day when there was no fighting nor Al-Aqsa Flood? And these criminals do not leave anyone from their evil.

Objection of Some Gaza Residents

However, even some of the people of Gaza objected to the Al-Aqsa Flood after the killing and destruction occurred, and we saw this on the screens of Al-Arabiya channel, for example. Yes, this is expected. And the people of Gaza are not better than the Prophet's community. The Prophet's community had Abu Bakr and Umar and the brave companions, and it had those who hated confrontation so that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) ordered them to go to Badr, they said: {They dispute with you concerning the truth after it has become clear, as if they were being driven to death while they were looking.} And in the Prophet's community, there were the weak in faith, and there were the hypocrites who say: {If we had any share in the affair, we would not have been killed here.}

And I am not here to belittle those who showed distress and pain and wished that the matter had not been from our afflicted people in Gaza, may God help them and help us to support them. But no rational person doubts that the people of Gaza as a whole struck the most beautiful examples that amazed people and called infidels to embrace Islam. But there are wicked media that only fall on what they want to exploit to strike the principle of jihad.

Positions of Hamas and the Iranian Project

You know, Ayaad, we could agree with all this talk were it not for a lump in our throat, which is the positions of the Hamas movement regarding the Iranian project, the Party of Satan, and the systems that have caused Muslims immense suffering. Alright, this brings us to the fifth and penultimate point.

For your information, my brothers, I am one of the strongest people in rejecting these positions and clarifying their lack of legitimacy and their danger. However, do not forget that the Zionists targeted the Ihyia Al-Sunna Mosque in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza with a missile that killed more than 50 worshippers who were praying Maghrib and Isha together in fear of the raids the day before yesterday. This is not a war confined to Hamas; this is a war of Islam and disbelief.

The fathers who bear the loss of their sons and wives, the children who challenge their enemies, the old woman who says, "As long as the youth, meaning the mujahideen, are fine, we are fine." Are all of them sacrificing for the Rafidi project? Not at all, it never crosses their minds. And praise be to Allah that all the evil projects have revealed their true nature in these events when they abandoned the people of Gaza.

We have been and will remain denouncing any position that praises an oppressor or is hostile to the Sunnah, and any position that compromises the issues of Muslims. For the issue of the Palestinian Muslim is not separate from the issue of the Syrian or the Iraqi. One nation, and the borders between us are of no value, because we believe in the saying of our Prophet, peace be upon him: "The believers are like one body; if one part of it is in pain, the whole body feels the pain." And we ask Allah to purify with this flood the actions, positions, and pages of those who have erred in this matter, and that we do not see such positions from them henceforth.

The same applies to our stance on democracy, nationalism, the two-state solution, international legitimacy, and so on. None of these are the meanings that move men on the ground now nor do they represent their positions. Are our people in Gaza fighting, sacrificing, and enduring for nationalism or for democracy? Rather, we believe that the majority of them do so that the word of Allah may be supreme, and that they know that the sovereignty of the word of Allah and the law of Allah includes their rights, their honor, their dignity, and the restoration of their land.

There may be some confusion among them between these national purposes and legitimacy, so our role is to remind them and remind ourselves to scrutinize our intentions for Allah and His will to support the law of Allah and establish His rule on earth, not to abandon them by justifying the presence of mistakes and saying the words of the first hypocrite: "Allah has indeed bestowed a favor upon me in that I was not with them as a witness."

What if, in the future, things take a non-auspicious turn by employing the Flood of Al-Aqsa for concessions that I do not say would alleviate the suffering of our people, but rather legitimize entering into an unlawful tunnel that will not benefit them in this world or the hereafter? Every situation has its own discourse. The duty of the time now is to support them, not to abandon them and justify ourselves by saying that this might happen.

Positions of Some Activists Regarding the Flood

Sixth and finally, my brothers, what about the positions of some regarding the Flood and what they have indicated, that it is not appropriate to embark on an act of this kind without sufficient physical force?

As for those who are of noble character and understanding, and between whom and us there are commonalities in the correct religious discourse, perhaps what has been mentioned so far is sufficient for them in terms of persuasion. And we say to him as well: When did the battle between Islam and disbelief begin, does the criticism and blame and analysis of the usefulness stop? Because this is from the shaking and weakening and discouraging and diverting of efforts. All effort should now be directed towards supporting your brothers and warding off harm from them. All blame, and even fault-finding and slander, should be directed at those who are able to support them but in reality aid their enemies against them. Any distraction now is a lifeline for the hypocrites and conspirators, diverting attention from them and using it as an excuse to besiege the religion under the pretext that there is popular rejection of what they have done. So fear Allah, O blamer, in what you say.

On the other hand, there is a class of people who insult those who carried out the Flood of Al-Aqsa and invoke curses upon them, and at the same time praise their masters who conspire against the Muslims and are polite to them, and you may see him with a beard and a keffiyeh and claim that he bases his positions on the Sharia. This class of people resembles the hypocrites in everything: They abandoned the Messenger of Allah and the believers at Uhud after it was said to them: "Come, fight in the cause of Allah or repel [evil]." And they legitimized the actions of those who conspired against the Muslims and allied with their enemies: "So you see those in whose hearts is a disease hastening among them." Then when a calamity befell the Muslims, they said: "If they had obeyed us, they would not have been killed." And they attributed the calamities to the Messenger of Allah and those with him: "And if an evil befalls them, they say, 'This is from you.'" Of course, this is not a comparison of any movement or group to the Prophet of Allah, peace be upon him, and those with him, but rather an explanation of the enmity of the hypocrites towards the truth and its people in every time and place.

Conclusion: Steadfastness and Victory

O my brothers, do not retreat from your initial view; be steadfast in the truth in supporting your brothers. And know that the enemies of Allah have seen the creed of jihad and Islamic pride being built in the hearts of Muslim peoples, so every bombing on the ground they want, in parallel, to bomb this creed and demolish its structure in your hearts so that it will not be a model to be emulated, because it is dangerous to all the criminals who turn humanity away from the path of Allah and make it crooked.

So be steadfast and do not listen to the shakers and the hypocrites or the weak in faith who have no certainty in all the meanings of faith: "So be patient. Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth. And let not those who have no certainty weaken you."

We ask Allah to support our brothers, to alleviate their suffering, to repel their enemy, and to make their destruction part of His plan. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.