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The History Returns from the Past to the Present

By Dr Shaykh Salih bin Fawzan bin Abdillah Al Fawzan Hafidhullah

Translated by Abul Baraa Muhammad Abdullah bin Earl bin Earl A’l Allister Al Amreeki

http://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/node/13918

For there were not for the Arabs in Jahiliyya [ pre Islamic times] a book for them.  And no Messenger was sent to them, Allah said:

  وَمَا آتَيْنَاهُم مِّن كُتُبٍ يَدْرُسُونَهَا ۖ وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمْ قَبْلَكَ مِن نَّذِيرٍ
(  سورة سبأ  , Saba, Chapter #34, Verse #44)

And We had not given them Scriptures which they could study, nor sent to them before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) any warner (Messenger).

So the Arabs live under the mercy of the countries around them such as the countries Persia and Roman. From what between them no government over all of them. Their was no order they conduct except their Tribes and Rules of Jahiliyya. So when Allah sent them a Messenger from them. It was sent down upon them a Book [ the Quran] in their language.  And it was establish for them one state under one rule that rule from the Book of Allah.  And they learn from the Book of Allah knowledge on the support of His Messenger sallahu wa alayhi wa salam and from the support of those who inherit from the Messenger sallahu wa alayhi wa salam from after him the scholars Rabaniyoon [ learnt men of Islam, who is rooted in knowledge] Allah the Most High said:

هُوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولًا مِّنْهُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُوا مِن قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ
(  سورة الجمعة  , Al-Jumua, Chapter #62, Verse #2)

He it is Who sent among the unlettered ones a Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) from among themselves, reciting to them His Verses, purifying them (from the filth of disbelief and polytheism), and teaching them the Book (this Qur’an, Islamic laws and Islamic jurisprudence) and Al-Hikmah (As-Sunnah: legal ways, orders, acts of worship of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم). And verily, they had been before in manifest error;

They rule over the world, and nations are in debt to them [for their efforts and works], and they became the educators of the world in knowledge and actions. And civilization was establish by them and elevated was their existences. They establish justice and spread the knowledge just as Allah said:

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ

(  سورة الأنبياء  , Al-Anbiya, Chapter #21, Verse #107)

And We have sent you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): not but as a mercy for the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists).

And ended the oppressors from tyrant oppression and ended the worshipers from the worship of idols and other than it [all forms of polytheistic beliefs] to the worship of Allah Him Alone without associating rivals in worship with Him [polytheistic beliefs of all kinds].  And We have sent you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): not but as a mercy for the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists).

But when they abandon their Deen [religion/ way of life] and spread in them Bidah [innovations of all types] and Shirkyaat [all types of Shirk {polytheism of all kinds}] and the desires of  their personality [rulers and governments such as communism, socialism. democratic etc]  seize  and  they posed the system of the West [ in rule and government] and the ways of the West and their etiquette and they change and alter and imposed other than Allah [ways and laws like Shariah, and religion of true Tawheed] on themselves.

ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَكُ مُغَيِّراً نِعْمَةً أَنْعَمَهَا عَلَى قَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ

(  سورة الأنفال  , Al-Anfal, Chapter #8, Verse #53)

That is so because Allah will never change a grace which He has bestowed on a people until they change what is in their ownselves. And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.

So they broken themselves into a party/sects:

كُلُّ حِزْبٍ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ 

(  سورة الروم  , Ar-Room, Chapter #30, Verse #32)

… and became sects [party], [i.e. they invented new things in the religion (Bid’ah ), and followed their vain desires], each sect rejoicing in that which is with it.

And Allah gave power to the disbeliever over them and  they ignite fitnah between them [ the Muslims]. They rouse them against each other and they ignite for them a plan and treachery and they fueling difference between  them and lost their united country. They became countries that are divided and they conducted themselves as the disbeliever countries under it desires. They desire good for their countries just as the prophet sallahu alayhi wa salam said:

رَوَى أبو داود في سننه عن ثَوْبَانَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم :” يُوشِكُ الأُمَمُ أَنْ تَتَدَاعَى عَلَيْكُمْ؛ كَمَا تَدَاعَى الأَكَلَةُ إلَى قَصْعَتِهَا، فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: ومِنْ قِلَّةٍ نَحْنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ؟ قَالَ: بَلْ أَنْتُمْ كَثِيرٌ، ولَكِنَّكُمْ غُثَاءٌ كَغُثَاءِ السَّيْلِ، وَلَيَنْزِعَنَّ اللَّهُ مِنْ صُدُورِ عَدُوِّكُمُ المَهَابَةَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَيَقْذِفَنَّ فِي قُلُوبِكُمُ الوَهَنَ، فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَمَا الوَهَنُ؟ قَالَ: حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا، وَكَرَاهِيَةُ المَوْتِ”.

Thawban, radi Allahu `anhu, one of the companions of the Prophet sallahu wa alayhi wa salam and a freed slave, narrated a hadith  of the beloved Prophet sallahu wa alayhi wa salam. He related that the Messenger of Allah sallahu wa alayhi wa salam said, “The nations are about to call each other and set upon you, just as diners set upon food.”

It was asked, “Will it be because of our small number that day?”

The Prophet sallahu wa alyhi wa salam answered, “Rather, on that day you will be many, but you will be like foam, like the foam on the ocean. And Allah will remove the fear of you from the hearts of your enemies and will throw wahn (weakness) into your hearts.”

Someone then asked, “O Messenger of Allah! What is Wahn?”

He replied, “Love of the world and the hatred for death” (Abu Dawood 4297).

 And in these days the disbeliever does not lie in and wait  regarding the Muslims and who is weak from them. The disbeliever continues until they decrease  the countries  of the Muslims to their end. So the people[Arabs] establish on their governments [ways of the disbelievers/ the West] So they failed their countries and became into problems which they are not able to end it [the problems]. Unless by returning to the origin which gather them together and gave them honor and help and it was the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger sallahu wa alayhi wa salam. For that will return them to that honor [ position they had because of Islam] and will establish their country. Allah the Most High said:

 وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَـٰكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ 

(  سورة المنافقون  , Al-Munafiqoon, Chapter #63, Verse #8)

 But honor  power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), and to the believers, but the hypocrites know not.

وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ 

(  سورة آل عمران  , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter #3, Verse #139)

So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be superior (in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers.

Just as Imam Malik rahimahullah said:

 لا يصلح آخر هذه الأمة إلا ما صلح أولها

The latter Ummah will not be corrected except what corrected the first Generation [ means the generation of the Messenger sallahu wa alayhi wa salam that which united them.]

And with us is those who claim that the correction is following what is from the West. And this is from the setback in the period that the Arab they did not obtain honor, except with Islam.   And today they remain behind the West, and they are degrading themselves  having no value between the people.

O Allah restore us to  the Islam and restore us together and gather us on our word [ the Shadadah/ Tawheed] on the Truth and peace and blessing be upon our Prophet Muhammad and on his family and companions.

Written by:

صالح بن فوزان الفوزان

عضو هيئة كبار العلماء

1433-06-04هـ