“The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah and then did not take it on is like that of a donkey who carries volumes [of books].”

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﴾مثَلُ الَّذِينَ حُمِّلُوا التَّوْرَاةَ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَحْمِلُوهَا كَمَثَلِ الْحِمَارِ يَحْمِلُ أَسْفَارًا﴿

“The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah and then did not take it on is like that of a donkey who carries volumes [of books].”

(Translated)

Simply, the question is: For what do these armies, militias and organizations fight for, from Syria to Yemen to Libya, Egypt and Iraq? Who kills who and why? Clearly, the armies of the countries of disbelief America and its allies and Russia do not mind the killing of Muslims and do not hesitate to spread destruction and devastation wherever they descend without any humanitarian or moral consideration. But what is unclear, unjustified, and incomprehensible is the murders committed by the Muslim armies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Turkey in compliance with the orders of the rulers who, in turn, carry out the instructions of their masters in the colonial West.

Kurdish militias are fighting in Syria and Iraq to establish a Kurdish canton, aspiring to impose an independent national entity on the map of the region which was drawn by British colonialism on the ruins of the Khilafah (Caliphate) State, and it does not care for the sake of that the alliance with the devil, be it Britain, America or the Jewish entity! Although their predecessors have inscribed pages of championships in defeating the Crusader attack, written with an ink of Noor (light). On the other hand, Erdogan claims that in order to preserve the Turkish national security, the Turkish army must spill the blood of Muslims in the Kurdish areas of northern Syria and Iraq, knowing that the ancestors of this great army have carried the banner of jihad for many centuries in order to raise the word of Allah until they besieged Vienna twice.

The Yemeni militias fight each other to have control of the authority and government, not concerned about the sanctity of the blood of Muslims. They are supported in that by the criminal wicked rulers in Iran and the so-called Arab alliance led by the Kingdom of Al Saud, each of them pours oil on the fire of fighting and pumps more support for the criminal war machinery that transformed the happy Yemen, which the Messenger of Allah (saw) described its people as the people of wisdom and Iman, to a hotbed of destruction and devastation.

In Egypt, its criminal ruler does not only throw tens of thousands of Muslims in prisons and abuse them, but also pushes the Egyptian army, whose predecessors have broken the barbaric wave of the Tartars in the glorious battle of Ain Jalut, is pushing it into an operation of killing and destruction in the Sinai, pledging to preserve the security of the Jews and to implement Washington’s instructions, instead of liberating the land of Isra and Miraj from the desecration of the Jews, and purifying the Muslim countries of the Crusader forces that spread corruption in it.

In Syria, Iran and its allies from the militias that it supports compete with the Russian occupying forces in spilling the blood of Muslims, under false slogans from which Imam Al-Hussein (as) dissociates himself from.

O Muslims!

The Almighty, the Truth, has obliged upon you the unity of the word and forbade you to dispute, )وَأَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلا تَنَازَعُوا فَتَفْشَلُوا وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ(“And obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not dispute and [thus] lose courage and [then] your strength would depart”. [Al-Anfal: 46]. And forbade the shedding of blood without any right, as stated in the Sahih (correct) Hadith: «لا تَرْجِعُوا بَعْدي كُفَّارًا يَضْرِبُ بَعْضُكُمْ رِقابَ بَعْضٍ»“After me (i.e. after my death), do not become disbelievers, by striking (cutting) the necks of one another”.

He (swt) has also forbidden Muslims to make the disbelievers their supporting allies and seek their victory, let alone to support them in the killing of Muslims; it is stated in the Sahih Hadith that the Prophet (saw) said, addressing the Kaaba: »وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ، لَحُرْمَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَعْظَمُ عِنْدَ اللهِ حُرْمَةً مِنْكِ»“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, the believer has greater sanctity to Allah than you.”

So, what is the matter of you, why are you silent on the rulers who commit treason openly day and night, befriend the Kuffar and exaggerate in the shedding of blood and the destruction of the country and they are hindering the law of Allah, whereas the Sharia requires you to take on their hands and deny their crimes?

This obligation is primary on the people of power and support in you, who can deter them from falsehood by changing on them, and on the scholars, the heirs of the prophets, by proclaiming the word of Truth in the face of these oppressors who do not regard any pact or honor in respect of a believing person.

Allah has warned us of falling into what the children of Israel had fallen into, as He (swt) likened them to: )مثَلُ الَّذِينَ حُمِّلُوا التَّوْرَاةَ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَحْمِلُوهَا كَمَثَلِ الْحِمَارِ يَحْمِلُ أَسْفَارًا(“The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah and then did not take it on is like that of a donkey who carries volumes [of books].” [Al-Jumu’a: 5]

After they have turned away from conveying His law, resorting to it and spreading its guidance, so they concealed it and did not carry it. Thus, He resembled those with a donkey who carries books and do not benefit from them; because it does not comprehend what is in the books, and therefore does not benefit from the guidance; Allah gives us the example of those before us to consider and carry what Allah has revealed to us, and what the Almighty has favored on us. We should be cautious not to fall into this disgraceful act, and should take the task with an enduring determination, otherwise we are denying the verses of Allah, the Almighty, the Wise. Therefore, He (swt) concludes the verse by saying: )بِئْسَ مَثَلُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ(“Wretched is the example of the people who deny the signs of Allah. And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.” [Al-Jumu’a: 5].

So, answer Allah’s call when He calls you to what revives you, cut off the ropes of the rulers who are associated with the enemies of Allah, the religion and the Deen, and work with the workers to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood:

﴾يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ﴿

“O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life.”

[Al-Anfal: 24].

Dr. Osman Bakhach

Director of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir