A Proclamation to the People Over the Events in Palestine
07-01-2009
By: A group of scholars and callers in Egypt
1/4/2009
At-Tibyān Publications
All praise is due to Allāh, Lord of the Worlds. There is no deity worthy of
worship but Him, the All-Powerful, the Able, the All-Mighty, the Triumphant, the
One, the Subduer. Nothing escapes him on the Earth or in the heavens. And may
the Blessings and Peace [of Allāh] be upon our Prophet Muhammad, the slave of
Allāh and His Messenger, the Imām of the Mujāhidīn and the commander of the
conquerers.
Indeed the events occurring now on one of the lands of Islām and the Muslims, in
the land of Ghazzah (Gaza) in Palestine the Resistant, from unconcealed
transgression and massacres, are spurned by all values and morals, and are
rejected by all humanity. [These events] forced those of us who have signed this
proclamation – a group of the scholars and callers of our beloved Egypt – to
clarify our opinion so as to have an excuse in front of Allāh ‘Azza Wa Jall, and
in clarification to the people.
Firstly: Indeed the blessed land of Palestine, which Allāh has blessed in His
Book, is an Islāmic land in every sense of the word. Within it was the first of
the two Qiblahs, and in it is the second of the two Masjids and the third of the
holy sanctuaries, and it was the place of our Messenger’s, صلى الله عليه و سلم,
ascension. Therefore, it is not permissible for anyone, whoever he may be, to
give up this land, or even a part of it, to the non-Muslims.
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلاً مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى
الْمَسْجِدِ الأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا
إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ البَصِيرُ
Glorified (and Exalted) is He (Allāh) [above all that (evil) they associate with
Him] Who took His slave (Muhammad) for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-al-Harām
(at Makkah) to Al-Masjid-al-Aqsā (in Jerusalem), the neighborhood whereof We
have blessed, in order that We might show him (Muhammad) of Our Ayāt Verily, He
is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer
Al-Isrā’; 1
Secondly: The global Zionist movement manifested in the
state of Israel, they are the people strongest in enmity towards the believers
throughout their history. Their enmity to Allāh and His Prophets and Messengers
is overflowing, and they are behind every evil, and behind every corruption.
They nullified the covenants and they made the prohibited permissible, and
betrayed and made an example of everyone who dealt with them and came close to
them. And they usurped the land of Palestine at the expense of its humble people
and Muslim inhabitants, with continuous oppressive, transgressive support from
the west
لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ الْيَهُودَ
وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُواْ
Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers
(Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikūn
Al-Mā’idah; 82
And these Israeli Zionists are an occupying gang who usurped the land of
Palestine, but the rights must be returned to its people no matter the length of
the time that has passed, and we will not be pleased with and we will not accept
this tyrannical occupation of this Holy Land by this gang of Zionists.
Third: Al-Jihād in the Path of Allāh and armed resistance is the strategic
option for the return of the usurped land and the plundered rights. The Zionists
do not know the language of dialogue and do not understand the meaning of peace.
Their Manhaj (methodology) is that of killing and causing corruption upon the
earth. Therefore, we believe and we are certain that the only language they
understand is the language of Jihād, by all of its ways. And Jihād should not be
stopped except after the expulsion of the last Zionist from the land of
Palestine.
وَأَعِدُّواْ لَهُم مَّا اسْتَطَعْتُم مِّن قُوَّةٍ وَمِن رِّبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ
تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدْوَّ اللّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ
And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war
(tanks, planes, missiles, artillery) to threaten the enemy of Allāh and your
enemy Al-Anfāl; 60
Fourthly: Those who took the path of Jihād and resistance as their path, and
carried their souls upon their palms and put forth their martyrs and their
wealth and sacrificed what is expensive and dear to them as a price in order to
free this land, despite the military apparatus that is possessed by the enemy
and despite their criminal offensive power that makes its blind hatred towards
everything that is Muslim known, these people are from the Victorious Party by
the Permission of Allāh, and they are worthy of support and assistance and aid.
Fifthly: And here we remind and we assert that the role of the masses is in
aiding this cause, and their Shar’ī obligation that our Religion has mandated
for us is Jihād in the Path of Allāh in every sense of the word, and offering
financial aid and boycotting Israel in every possible way, economically,
politically, culturally on an equal level, as well as boycotting those who prop
up Israel in the East or the West, and rejecting normalization [of relations] in
every way. And we assert the prohibition of interacting with the Zionist
entities and those who prop them up in any of the ways of interaction and
normalization.
And it is obligatory for us to stand under His Ta’ālā’s Statement,
وَلاَ تَهِنُوا وَلاَ تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ *
إِن يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ الْقَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِّثْلُهُ وَتِلْكَ
الأيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ
وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنكُمْ شُهَدَاء وَاللّهُ لاَ يُحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ
So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be superior
(in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers. If a wound (and killing) has
touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others. And
so are the days (good and not so good), We give to men by turns, that Allāh may
test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allāh
likes not the Thālimūn (wrong-doers)
Āl-’Imrān; 139-140
And it is upon the entire Ummah to unify and gather like the heart of one man,
everyone undertaking what is obligatory upon him, and leaving all forms of hated
difference which hinders Jihād in the Path of Allāh
وَاعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ اللّهِ جَمِيعاً وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَتَ
اللّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَاء فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ
فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَاناً
And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allāh (i.e. this Qur’ān), and
be not divided among yourselves, and remember Allāh’s Favor on you, for you were
enemies one to another but He joined your hearts together, so that, by His
Grace, you became brethren
Āl-’Imrān; 103
This is a proclamation to the people, and it is upon everyone to shoulder the
responsibility. And as for the honored Mujāhidīn in Palestine’s Ghazzah, and in
any area of the usurped Muslim lands, then we say to them, indeed you have paid
your blood as a tax of faith and honor and nobility, so be steadfast and
persevere and have patience, and Allāh is with you and will not make your
actions in vain
الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُواْ لَكُمْ
فَاخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَاناً وَقَالُواْ حَسْبُنَا اللّهُ وَنِعْمَ
الْوَكِيلُ
Those (i.e. believers) unto whom the people (hypocrites) said, “Verily, the
people (pagans) have gathered against you (a great army), therefore, fear them.”
But it (only) increased them in Faith, and they said: “Allāh (Alone) is
Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us)
Āl-’Imrān; 173
The signatories:
1 – Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil
2 - Dr. Zaghlūl An-Najjār
3 - Dr. ‘Abdus-Sattār Fat’h-Allāh Sa’īd
4 - Dr. Muhammad ‘Umārah
5 - Dr. Muhammad ‘Abdul-Mun’im Al-Barrī
6 - Dr. Abdul-Fattāh Ash-Shaykh
7 – Dr. Safwat Hijāzī
8 – Shaykh Jamāl Qutb
9 – Shaykh Ahmad Al-Mihlāwī
10 – Dr. Abdul-Halīm ‘Uways
11 – Dr. Muhammad Ra’fat ‘Uthmān
12 – Dr. ‘Abdullāh Barakāt
13 – Dr. ‘Abdullāh Samak
14 – Shaykh Abū Ishāq Al-Huwaynī
15 – Shaykh Hāzim Salāh Abū Ismā’īl
16 – Shaykh Muhammad Jibrīl
17 – Dr. Salāh Sultān
18 – Shaykh Ahmad Halīl
19 – Dr. Muhammad As-Saghīr
20 – Shaykh Sālim Abūl-Futūh
21 – Dr. Ahmad Al-’Assāl
22 – Dr. Hāzim As-Sarsāwī
23 – Dr. ‘Abdur-Rahmān Fawdah
24 – Shaykh Muhammad Mustafā
25 – Dr. Husayn Shajā’ah
26 – Dr. Sālih Hārūn
27 – Shaykh Salāmah ‘Abdul-Qawī
28 – Dr. Jamāl ‘Abdul-Hādī
29 – Dr. Hasan ‘Abdū
30 – Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abdul-Fattāh
31 – Dr. Ahmad Abū Khadījah
32 – Dr. ‘Alā’ As-Sayyid ‘Abdur-Rahīm
33 – Dr. ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abdil-’Azīz
34 – Shaykh Rajab Zakī
35 – Dr. Māzin As-Sarsāwī
36 – Shaykh Ahmad Sabrī
37 – Shaykh Ahmad Al-Juhaynī
38 – Shaykh Mathhar Amīn
39 – Shaykh ‘Alī Abul-Hasan
40 – Shaykh Mustafā Al-Azharī
Submitted by a Mujahid