A Proclamation to the People Over the Events in Palestine
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
