Palestine & The Scenario Of The End Times
26-03-2009
There are still some Muslims in certain countries who question the issue of
Palestine. They asked: “Why should we involve ourselves in observing the events
that happen to Gaza which is a far away place? Doesn’t our country has many of
its own problems? It is better for us to just manage our country. The issues of
Palestine, yeah... let it be taken care of by others. We just manage our own
affairs..!!”
Is this a right kind of attitude?
Brothers, the Prophet SAW had reminded us that one of the signs of the coming of
the Judgement Day is that the Muslims are fighting the Jews. A form of war which
is so unique because the Prophet SAW described that even nature at that time
join in taking side with the Muslims. Trees and rocks on that day will be
permitted by Allah to speak to the Islamic forces. Nature will inform the
Islamic forces about the positions of the Jewish forces.
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
قَالَ لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ الْيَهُودَ
فَيَقْتُلُهُمْ الْمُسْلِمُونَ حَتَّى يَخْتَبِئَ الْيَهُودِيُّ مِنْ وَرَاءِ
الْحَجَرِ وَالشَّجَرِ فَيَقُولُ الْحَجَرُ أَوْ الشَّجَرُ يَا مُسْلِمُ يَا عَبْدَ
اللَّهِ هَذَا يَهُودِيٌّ خَلْفِي فَتَعَالَ فَاقْتُلْهُ إِلَّا الْغَرْقَدَ
فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ شَجَرِ الْيَهُودِ
"The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews,
and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and
tree will say: oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him!" (HR Muslim 5203)
Meaning, according to the above hadith, when the Muslims realize that the Jewish
people are their traditional enemies who in the end must be fought against, then
at that time the Judgement Day is already near. Whereas, the recent events in
Gaza are obviously conflicts which involved the Jews on one side and the Muslims
on the other.
However, there are important matters which we must note. In the above hadith,
the Prophet SAW mentioned that the war against the Jews which is the sign of the
imminence of the Judgement Day is the war that is launched by the Muslims
against the Jews.
There is nothing in the hadith at all that signifies that those fighting the
Jews are the Muslims from a certain race, for example the Palestinians alone.
That war will be joined by all the Muslims with different backgrounds from
various races. When the trees and rocks are calling they don’t say: "Oh
Palestinians... Oh Egyptians... Oh Jordanians... Oh Syrians.... Oh Arabs... Oh
Malaysians... Oh Indonesians..." NO, brothers…! The time that ideological war
takes place, the trees and rocks would only call with one identity: “Oh Muslims,
Oh servants of Allah...”
When we look at the recent events in Gaza, we could witness that the practice of
the Palestinians was to fight the Jews alone. Nobody was helping them. This has
explained why the help from Allah and the victory have not been entirely on the
side of the Islamic ummah. And Israel could easily, with all its arrogance,
carry out a very evil act... genocide!
Therefore, my Brothers, here exists the duty for us to be involved in showing
our solidarity towards the sufferings of our brothers there. Because, when we do
not care about what they are facing, then the Prophet SAW had threatened that we
would not be considered as a part of the Islamic ummah community...!!
من لم يهتم بأمر المسلمين فليس منهم
"Who does not care for the Muslims affairs is not one of them" (HR Thabrani
7686)
We are too helpless nowadays. We could only afford to watch the slaughterings of
our brothers in Gaza. We could only go as far as praying for them, crying,
sending funds, medicines, foods, clothes, writing articles, sending medical
teams, journalists and humanitarian activists. But one thing is for sure, we
totally do not have the permission, opportunity and ability to take part in
Jihad, shoulder to shoulder with the Hamas fighters, as well as the fighters
from the other Palestinian factions.
Indeed, this shows that the war in Gaza recently was not the war that the
Prophet SAW had predicted in the above hadith. The recent war in Gaza only
involved a part of the Islamic ummah from a certain race. It had not become a
war that involved the entire Muslims with various backgrounds from all parts of
the world. Whereas the Israelis had reached the stage where it involved the
entire Jews with various backgrounds from different corners of the world. Israel
had incessantly prepared its entire citizens with the "greenery" mega project by
planting the Ghorqod trees as much as the could...!!! Sometimes it seems that
they understand the Prophet’s hadith more than some of us.
Forget the war that involves the entire Muslims from various races and parts of
the world, in fact even amongst the Arab governments who are neighbours to Gaza
themselves are instead becoming accomplices of Israel..!! We are witnessing that
it is difficult for the Palestinian factions to be united, especially between
the Hamas and Fatah, not due to any wanton reasons. But it should be remembered
that some leaders of Fatah, especially those who are currently holding the
formal positions in the Palestinian Authorities council, are evidently having
very close relations with the evil government of Israel to the extent that,
whether they want it or not, the effect that came out of it was that they are
collaborating with the enemies. Additionally, Hamas has all the evidences that
confirm the existence of the said effects.
Therefore, my Brothers, the case of Gaza at least makes the world generally and
the Islamic ummah specifically, more aware that struggling against the Jews
requires us to be united in the ranks of the Mujahideen fi sabilillah. And we
are optimistic enough that, even though the Gazans are alone in confronting the
military might of the Zionist Jews Israel, at least there have been awareness
and conditioning on most part of the Islamic ummah. It’s not the national union
of Palestine that could solve the problem created by the Israeli invaders’
brutality. Also, not the Arab league. But there must be a spirit and Islamic
network to end this problem. Because, in truth, this problem is an eternal
conflict between the defender of Haqq (Truth) versus the defender of Bathil
(falsehood). The Islamic forces are a representation from the ahlul-haq alias
Hizbullah whereas the Jewish forces are the representation from the ahlul-batil
alias Hizbush-Shaithan.
Wallahua’lam bissowwab.
Original article by: Ihsan Tandjung
Submitted by a Mujahid