Sayyid Qutb said: “Another fact to ponder here is a comment of the Quran on the story of the Makers of the Pit (Sura Buruj) where Allah Most High says: ‘And they were angered with the Believers, only because they believed in Allah, the All-Powerful, the All- Praiseworthy.’ The callers to Allah Almighty, of any period or generation, ought to think over this deep truth. The struggle between the Believers and their enemies is in essence a struggle of belief, and not in any way of anything else. The enemies are angered only because of their faith, enraged only because of their belief. This was not a political or an economic or a racial struggle; had it been any of these, its settlement would have been easy, the solution of its difficulties would have been simple. But essentially it was a struggle between beliefs – either unbelief or faith, either Jahiliyyahh or Islam. Indeed, this was a question of belief and a battle of belief. The Believers ought to be certain of this, whatever be the declaration of their enemies. They are their enemies only because of their belief- ‘only because they believe in Allah, the All-Powerful, the All-Praiseworthy’ and because they purify for Him alone their obedience and submission. The enemies of the Believers may wish to change this struggle into an economic or political or racial struggle, so that the Believers become confused concerning the true nature of the struggle and the flame of belief in their hearts becomes extinguished. The Believers must not be deceived, and must understand that this is a trick. The enemy, by changing the nature of the struggle, intends to deprive them of their weapon of true victory, the victory which can take any form, be it the victory of the freedom of spirit as was case of the Believers in the story of the Makers of the Pit, or dominance in the world - as a consequence of the freedom of spirit - as happened in the case of the first generation of Muslims. We see an example of this today in the attempts of Christendom to try to deceive us by distorting history and saying that the Crusades were a form of imperialism. The truth of the matter is that the latter-day imperialism is but a mask for the crusading spirit, since it is not possible for it to appear in its true form, as it was possible in the Middle Ages. The unveiled crusading spirit was smashed against the rock of the faith of Muslim leadership which came from various elements, including Salahuddin the Kurd and Turan Shah the Mamluk, who forgot the differences of nationalities and remembered their belief, and were victorious under the banner of Islam. ‘They were angered with the Believers only because they believed in Allah, the All-Powerful, the All-Praiseworthy.’ Almighty Allah spoke the truth, and these treacherous deceivers are liars!"
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:47:28 +0000
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