fatma_said
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I came across this beautiful article and wanted to share this with you....
i may highlight that the issues raised here are not recent but we can relate this to sister afia's condition.
From the things that the Ummah should wake up to and be worried about are the affairs of the Muslim prisoners all over the world, especially the scholars and callers to Allah amongst them – those who took it upon themselves to openly speak the truth and confront falsehood. This applies to those imprisoned by the regimes in the Muslim lands – and they are many, and they are put through immense torture and humiliation in these dark oppressive prisons – as well as those being held in the prisons in Western countries. I am especially referring to the Muslim youths who are unjustly held at Guantanamo Bay, as well as the elderly blind scholar, Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd ar-Rahman, who is put through so many types of harm, humiliation, and subjugation in prison. They pay no regard to his weakness, old age, or status with the Ummah, and they do not intend with this except to subjugate Islam and the Muslims! May Allah hasten his release and the release of all of the Muslims all over the world!
O nation of Muslims, do you think that if the other nations had in the prisons of the Muslims what we have in their prisons that they would remain silent? Do you think that they would live in comfort or relaxation?!
I think that you have heard how America and all the other Western nations threatened the Libyan people with various punishments, sanctions, etc. if they didn’t free a group of female European criminals who intentionally killed over four hundred Muslim children by injecting them with AIDS-infected needles, that deadly disease! At the same time, the Islamic nation has hundreds if not thousands of scholars and Muslim youth in the prisons of the disbelievers for no crime except that they said their Lord is Allah, as Allah Said: {“They had nothing against them except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, Worthy of all Praise!”} [al-Buruj; 8] Despite this, the Muslims are completely clueless and heedless except those who Allah has bestowed Mercy upon. They pay no attention to the situation and the oppression and hardships that these prisoners are experiencing, as if these prisoners from the scholars and youth of Islam are not the sons of this nation and have no rights upon their Muslim brothers!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while Allah Said: {“Indeed, the believers are brothers…”} [al-Hujurat; 10] and {“The male and female believers are allies of one another…”}[at-Tawbah; 71]?
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said: “Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and free the prisoner!”
And he said: “It is upon the Muslim faithful to free their prisoners and to pay their ransom.”
And he said: “There is no Muslim who forsakes a Muslim in a situation where his reputation and honor are violated except that Allah will forsake him in a situation where he would want His help, and there is no Muslim who helps a Muslim in a situation where his reputation and honor are being violated except that Allah will help him in a situation where he would want His help.” And what is worse than for the entire Ummah to forsake the best of its sons who took it upon themselves to protect its religion and honor in their hardest hour?!
And he said: “Whoever helps his brother in secret, Allah will help him in this world and the next.”
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said: “The believer to the rest of the believers is like the head to the body: the believer is pained at what afflicts the rest of the believers just as the head feels the pain of whatever afflicts the body.”
And he said: “The believers are like a single person: if the head hurts, the entire body complains, and if his eyes hurt, the entire body complains.” And his saying “the believers” means that every single believer – regardless of their race, color, and nationality – cannot be except like a single person in their cooperation and compassion and unity. They are like a single man, feeling the pain as if they are one body, feeling concerned for each other just as a man feels pain and concern in his entire body when a single limb of his hurts. Are we like this?!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet said: “You see the believers in their mercy and compassion towards each other like a single body: if a single limb hurts, the rest of the body tends to it to relieve it.” So, each one of us should ask himself in order to test his faith and ascription to the believers and to this religion: am I one of those who worries and feels the pain when the Muslims around the world are going through hardships? Or am I one of those who don’t care and only pay attention to my own interests and desires?!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet said: “Whoever relieves a Muslim of a hardship in this life, Allah will relieve him of a hardship in the Hereafter, and Allah will help His slave so much as he helps his brother.” And what hardship is greater to relieve and remove from your Muslim brother than the hardships of being a prisoner? Imagine how great the hardships are of being captive in the depths of the prisons of the oppressors and criminals!
And he said: “The Muslim is the brother of the Muslim. He does not oppress him or hand him over, and whoever helps his brother, Allah will help him. And whoever relieves the distress of a Muslim, Allah will relieve his distress on the Day of Resurrection.” His statement “he does not oppress him or hand him over” means that he does not hand him over to oppression and the oppressors, and rather strives to rescue him from their clutches,
O Muslims, you want the scholars and callers to Allah to openly proclaim the truth and to fulfill their obligations towards the Ummah, yet if they do this and are afflicted with trials and hardships such as their being thrown into the depths of the prisons of the oppressors, you abandon them and distance yourselves from them, and sit back from helping them as if you don’t know them and they have no rights over you… {“That is a division that is most unfair!”} [an-Najm; 22] So, Islam should be aided by the Muslim people as well as their active scholars together – not one instead of the other.
A door to the doors of good has been opened for you, O slave of Allah! So, take advantage of it before it shuts and you are prevented from this abundant good! This door is that you see to the needs of your imprisoned brothers and their families and children. So, I give glad tidings to those who take advantage of this before the door is shut, and they spend the rest of their lives in regret!
O Allah, the Living, the Self-Sustaining! Owner of Majesty and Honor! I ask You by Your Mercy and Power to release the Muslim prisoners everywhere on Earth, to relieve their distress, to unite them with their children and families and loved ones immediately, to be with them in their solitude, to keep them firm, to cause tranquility to descend upon their hearts, and to exact revenge upon the oppressors and their helpers. Show us one of Your signs in how You deal with them, as You are Hearing, Close, and Respondent, our Lord!
And may peace and blessings shower our unlettered Prophet, his Household, and his Companions.
Our final call is that all praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
i may highlight that the issues raised here are not recent but we can relate this to sister afia's condition.
From the things that the Ummah should wake up to and be worried about are the affairs of the Muslim prisoners all over the world, especially the scholars and callers to Allah amongst them – those who took it upon themselves to openly speak the truth and confront falsehood. This applies to those imprisoned by the regimes in the Muslim lands – and they are many, and they are put through immense torture and humiliation in these dark oppressive prisons – as well as those being held in the prisons in Western countries. I am especially referring to the Muslim youths who are unjustly held at Guantanamo Bay, as well as the elderly blind scholar, Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd ar-Rahman, who is put through so many types of harm, humiliation, and subjugation in prison. They pay no regard to his weakness, old age, or status with the Ummah, and they do not intend with this except to subjugate Islam and the Muslims! May Allah hasten his release and the release of all of the Muslims all over the world!
O nation of Muslims, do you think that if the other nations had in the prisons of the Muslims what we have in their prisons that they would remain silent? Do you think that they would live in comfort or relaxation?!
I think that you have heard how America and all the other Western nations threatened the Libyan people with various punishments, sanctions, etc. if they didn’t free a group of female European criminals who intentionally killed over four hundred Muslim children by injecting them with AIDS-infected needles, that deadly disease! At the same time, the Islamic nation has hundreds if not thousands of scholars and Muslim youth in the prisons of the disbelievers for no crime except that they said their Lord is Allah, as Allah Said: {“They had nothing against them except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, Worthy of all Praise!”} [al-Buruj; 8] Despite this, the Muslims are completely clueless and heedless except those who Allah has bestowed Mercy upon. They pay no attention to the situation and the oppression and hardships that these prisoners are experiencing, as if these prisoners from the scholars and youth of Islam are not the sons of this nation and have no rights upon their Muslim brothers!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while Allah Said: {“Indeed, the believers are brothers…”} [al-Hujurat; 10] and {“The male and female believers are allies of one another…”}[at-Tawbah; 71]?
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said: “Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and free the prisoner!”
And he said: “It is upon the Muslim faithful to free their prisoners and to pay their ransom.”
And he said: “There is no Muslim who forsakes a Muslim in a situation where his reputation and honor are violated except that Allah will forsake him in a situation where he would want His help, and there is no Muslim who helps a Muslim in a situation where his reputation and honor are being violated except that Allah will help him in a situation where he would want His help.” And what is worse than for the entire Ummah to forsake the best of its sons who took it upon themselves to protect its religion and honor in their hardest hour?!
And he said: “Whoever helps his brother in secret, Allah will help him in this world and the next.”
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said: “The believer to the rest of the believers is like the head to the body: the believer is pained at what afflicts the rest of the believers just as the head feels the pain of whatever afflicts the body.”
And he said: “The believers are like a single person: if the head hurts, the entire body complains, and if his eyes hurt, the entire body complains.” And his saying “the believers” means that every single believer – regardless of their race, color, and nationality – cannot be except like a single person in their cooperation and compassion and unity. They are like a single man, feeling the pain as if they are one body, feeling concerned for each other just as a man feels pain and concern in his entire body when a single limb of his hurts. Are we like this?!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet said: “You see the believers in their mercy and compassion towards each other like a single body: if a single limb hurts, the rest of the body tends to it to relieve it.” So, each one of us should ask himself in order to test his faith and ascription to the believers and to this religion: am I one of those who worries and feels the pain when the Muslims around the world are going through hardships? Or am I one of those who don’t care and only pay attention to my own interests and desires?!
O Muslims! How can you live comfortably and remain silent in the face of the injustices done to your imprisoned brothers while your Prophet said: “Whoever relieves a Muslim of a hardship in this life, Allah will relieve him of a hardship in the Hereafter, and Allah will help His slave so much as he helps his brother.” And what hardship is greater to relieve and remove from your Muslim brother than the hardships of being a prisoner? Imagine how great the hardships are of being captive in the depths of the prisons of the oppressors and criminals!
And he said: “The Muslim is the brother of the Muslim. He does not oppress him or hand him over, and whoever helps his brother, Allah will help him. And whoever relieves the distress of a Muslim, Allah will relieve his distress on the Day of Resurrection.” His statement “he does not oppress him or hand him over” means that he does not hand him over to oppression and the oppressors, and rather strives to rescue him from their clutches,
O Muslims, you want the scholars and callers to Allah to openly proclaim the truth and to fulfill their obligations towards the Ummah, yet if they do this and are afflicted with trials and hardships such as their being thrown into the depths of the prisons of the oppressors, you abandon them and distance yourselves from them, and sit back from helping them as if you don’t know them and they have no rights over you… {“That is a division that is most unfair!”} [an-Najm; 22] So, Islam should be aided by the Muslim people as well as their active scholars together – not one instead of the other.
A door to the doors of good has been opened for you, O slave of Allah! So, take advantage of it before it shuts and you are prevented from this abundant good! This door is that you see to the needs of your imprisoned brothers and their families and children. So, I give glad tidings to those who take advantage of this before the door is shut, and they spend the rest of their lives in regret!
O Allah, the Living, the Self-Sustaining! Owner of Majesty and Honor! I ask You by Your Mercy and Power to release the Muslim prisoners everywhere on Earth, to relieve their distress, to unite them with their children and families and loved ones immediately, to be with them in their solitude, to keep them firm, to cause tranquility to descend upon their hearts, and to exact revenge upon the oppressors and their helpers. Show us one of Your signs in how You deal with them, as You are Hearing, Close, and Respondent, our Lord!
And may peace and blessings shower our unlettered Prophet, his Household, and his Companions.
Our final call is that all praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.