Question
I have a question which I will be glad you could answer: Will we be judged and held accountable for the suffering that our brethren are facing in Syria and around the world? Will Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala punish us for not doing enough to end their misery? There are countless brothers and sisters who, due to heightened emotions, proclaim in videos and messages that the Ulama and the Ummah are sleeping and not doing enough. They put forward emotional arguments such as "Brothers and Sisters! Our brethren are being annihilated so what have you done about it? What answer will you give to Allah when He will ask you why you didn't assist your brethren? What answer will you give?" Are these brothers and sisters correct in what they say? Please comment.
Answer
No one can end the suffering except Allah Ta'ala. What has befallen the Ummah is Allah's Athaab. The emotional cries in videos, etc. are baseless calls of the ignorant who lack Deeni understanding. They stupidly expect more than a billion Muslims of this Ummah to all converge in Syria to rescue them from Allah's Athaab. Even if the billion wish to go into the battlefield, do the logistics and the brains permit it?
However, Muslims in general are not even making dua sincerely for their suffering brothers and sisters. They refrain from assisting in ways in which they are capable of due to niggardliness and shaitaaniyat. They have no true brotherly feelings for the suffering Muslims.
They pretend to be concerned with hollow displays of public 'dua', mock qunoot-e-naazilah, etc., whilst they indulge in all the filth and khuraafaat of the dunya in total obliviousness of the horrendous suffering of the Ummah. They eat gluttonously like beasts, waste and make merry whilst the Muslims elsewhere are being plundered and pillaged.
We may be asked or even punished for not assisting sufficiently the suffering masses of Muslims all over the world. Allah Ta'ala has blessed the Muslim community of South Africa and of other countries with considerable wealth. But they squander their money satanically in haraam functions, haraam wedding feasts, haraam Madrasah jalsahs, haraam tours such as nafl umrah and hajj, palatial mansions, Musjid buildings of riya and takabbur, shaitaani holiday cruisers, haraam holidays to visit Jerusalem and justifying it in the name of Musjid Aqsa, mass mock i'tikaafs, ladies tabligh excursions, etc., etc.
Whilst millions of Muslims are suffering and struggle for daily food and shelter, the Muslim Ummah squanders the Amaanat of wealth in haraam and shaitaani expenditure. For this, most certainly there will be a terrible sequel in Qiyaamah which will be regretted when it is too late to regret.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- Al-Haq Bulletin No. 56
- PDF page
- 7
Appears under MUSLIMS HAVE ABANDONED THE SUFFERING UMMAH (approximate).