‫بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم‬
Editorial Issue 376
Thursday, 11 Rajab 1444
Allah Almighty revealed the characteristics
of the kaffir Jews in many verses of His
wise Book, where He described them in
minute detail. No doubt, the wisdom
behind these accurate divine descriptions
is to advise and warn; to caution and to
prepare; to admonish Muslims to distance
themselves from the path of the Jews; to
warn against befriending them or
following their ways; to counsel against
their deception, and to inevitably: get
ready to fight and battle them.
Unfortunately, most people have neglected
the Qur’anic descriptions of the Jews and
what was meant by them. Instead they
have focused on the historical narration of
events, thus deviating from the original
basis for the battle, judging the war with
the Jews as a nationalistic battle caused by
“an assault on lands and property.” In fact,
they have been warning of the danger of
being drawn into a religious war with the
Jews as if such a war would be a crime!
Shaykhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah touched
upon this in his talk about the history of
the Jews, when he said: "This extrapolation
and tracing shows that Allah will only
grant victory and to those who follow the
Prophet, and that He, Glory be to Him,
wants His word, His victory, and the
victory of His followers to be elevated over
those who oppose Him". This indicates
that what the Qur’an told us about the
history of the Jews was for the purpose of
deliberation - an admonition - and was
not only a historical narration that has
preoccupied people with the history of the
end of the Jews, while distracting them
from reaching the correct path toward that
end.
Now, let us review the attributes of the
kaffir Jews as they were revealed in the
Holy Qur’an. Concerning the disbelief of
the Jews and their worship of other than
Him the Almighty said: "Have you (O
Prophet) not seen those who were given a
portion of the Scriptures yet believe in
idols and false gods". Then, regarding how
they dared to overreach against Allah:
{(Some among) the Jews said, "Allah is
tight-fisted." May their fists be tied and
they be condemned for what they said.
And when they said: "Allah is poor; we are
rich!"; as regards how they took Allah’s
words out of context and changed His
words, the Almighty said: "Some Jews take
words out of context". As for their
suppression of the truth, the Almighty
said: "People of the Book! Why do you
mix the truth with falsehood and hide the
truth knowingly?"; about their treachery,
their breach of covenants, and their killing
of the prophets, the Almighty said: "(They
were condemned) for breaking their
covenant, rejecting Allah’s signs, killing
the prophets unjustly"; on the topic of to
their tremendous animosity toward the
believers, the Almighty said: "You will
surely find the most bitter towards the
believers to be the Jews and mushrikin"; in
addressing their condemnation and their
hardened hearts He said: "But for breaking
their covenant We condemned them and
hardened their hearts"; in describing their
cowardice when confronted, the Almighty
said: "But if they meet you in battle, they
will flee and they will have no helpers"; as
for their dealing in interest and their
thievery of people’s wealth, the Almighty
said: "Taking interest despite its
prohibition, and consuming people’s
wealth unjustly"; of their constant pursuit
of corruption and fitna, He said, glory be
to Him: "Whenever they kindle the fire of
war, Allah puts it out. And they strive to
spread corruption in the land"; about their
acceptance of evil, He said: "they did not
forbid one another from doing evil. Evil
indeed was what they did!"; as for their
love for life, whatever it is, the Almighty
said: "You will surely find them clinging to
life"; on the subject of their arrogance and
egoism, He said: "The Jews and Christians
each claim that none will enter Paradise
except those of their own faith"; in
warning about their envy and rancor
toward Muslims, Allah said: "Many
among the People of the Book wish they
could turn you (believers) back to disbelief
because of their envy". In fact, Allah, the
Most High, linked the Jews with those
who swore allegiance to them, made allies
of them, and considered them as one of
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them when He said: "O believers! Take
neither Jews nor Christians as guardians—
they are guardians of each other. Whoever
does so will be counted as one of them".
And after all these clarifying statements,
does anyone have any argument left to
claim that the war with the Jews is not
religious? Sooner or later, when war is not
based on religion, it turns to conciliations
and agreements. We have seen this on
many fronts where the wars were even
harsher than what we see in Palestine. All
enmities end with the elimination of the
cause except enmity in religion! It is
known in the beliefs of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-
Jama'ah that the bonds of faith are the
strongest. Loyalty belongs to the believers
and hostility to the kuffar. This is the
religion of Ibrahim - peace be upon him–
and which Allah then imposed on our
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬when He said:
"Then We revealed to you (O Prophet,
saying): 'Follow the faith of Ibrahim, the
upright'". According to Allah’s description
of the faith of Ibrahim: "You already have
an excellent example in Ibrahim and those
with him, when they said to their people,
'We totally dissociate ourselves from you
and (shun) whatever (idols) you worship
besides Allah. We reject you. The enmity
and hatred that has arisen between us and
you will last until you believe in Allah
alone'", This is the basis of the battle; this
is where it started and there is where it
shall end.
What Palestine is witnessing now, and
what it saw in the past, is an apparent
indication of the Jews' corruption in the
land and their hostility towards the
Muslims. In this hostility the Jews have
received support from their allies among
the murtadd Arab rulers whom the Islamic
State has declared takfir upon. The Islamic
State considers all of the murtadd Arab
rulers as part of the Jewish invasion of
Palestine, equates all their interlocutors
whether Qatari or Emirati, Arab or non-
Arab, all of them as loyal to the Jews, and
calls to fighting them as per the words of
the Almighty: "Whoever takes them as
guardian will be counted as one of them".
For instance, the murtadd government of
Chad was recently attacked by nationalists,
with words, when it announced
strengthening its ties with the Jews. In the
meantime, the Islamic State was the only
one fighting Chad and its allies in West
Africa before and after that.
Accordingly, we repeat the call and remind
the youth of Palestine to place their war
with the Jews in this blessed Qur’anic
context, to make it a religious war and
detach it from the jahili national flags that
contradict the Qur’an and Sunnah. We
reiterate and stress the benefits of targeting
Jewish temples and synagogues with
bloody attacks that will be more effective
and destructive against the Jews. This will
emphasize that the battle is in the context
of the Qur’an, not a Parliament. We advise
them to equip themselves, first with Iman,
and then with explosive belts, as both have
long been absent from that scene, even
though their specter appeared in the
Jerusalem bombings, the mention of
which was suppressed in the jahili media
when the identity of the perpetrator was
revealed. Nevertheless, its menace was not
lost on the minds of the young Jews who
fear its repetition.
We also urge Muslims everywhere to fight
the Jews and target them inside Jewish
neighborhoods and synagogues scattered
in Europe and other countries. Kill the
Jews by every means and oppress them. Be
the beginning of the war that burns the
kaffir Jews while the tawaghit of the entire
world gather to stop it, and Allah willing,
they will not succeed and even if they were
able to, another will be at its heels.