This message is sent to you as part of a service provided by http://www.al-aqsa.org. It has been subscribed to by you or a referral has been made on your behalf. If you wish to unsubscribe please do not reply to this email but send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words "unsubscribe alaqsa" (without the quotation marks) in the body (not the subject) of the email. Alternatively you may visit the website http://www.al-aqsa.org to unsubscribe or to subscribe a friend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly subscription to the: Friday Talk from Al Aqsa Masjid - Al Quds Given by Members of Hizb ut Tahrir. (The following is an approximate translation of the Arabic talk which can be heard at www.al-aqsa.org). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 27-Rajab-1420, 5 November 1999 In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. "Now hath come unto you a Messenger from amongst yourselves: it grieves him that you should perish: ardently anxious is he over you: to the Believers is he most kind and merciful. But if they turn away, say: "Allah suffices me; there is no god but He: on Him is my trust, - He the Lord of the Throne (of Glory) Supreme!" al-Tawba (9:128-129). O Muslims, People are talking in these days about the anniversary of the midnight journey of the Prophet Muhammad and his ascension to heavens. Today I also want to talk about this blessed night and about al-Quds, but it will be different from what you are used to hearing from the "official" "traditional" Muslim scholars when they talk about this occasion. Allah says "Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque (al-Aqsa Mosque), whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who Heareth and Seeth (all things)." Al-Israa (17:1) Currently across the Muslim world their are celebrations around the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's journey by night to al-Aqsa Mosque and his ascension to the seven heavens. Even though Muslims say that al-Aqsa Mosque is associated with the Muslim creed some still celebrate this occasion whilst al-Aqsa Mosque is moaning under Jewish occupation, by eating sweets and chanting songs. Muslims admit that Allah in His holy Quran has mentioned the importance of al-Aqsa Mosque "whose precincts We did bless".. Muslims admit that Allah has connected al-Aqsa Mosque to the belief of the Muslims, that He has shown its importance next to the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. Muslims admit that the Prophet Muhammad has praised al-Aqsa Mosque and that he has praised this land and many of its cities. But the Muslims neglect to mention, when they celebrate this occasion, the memories of Jihad and liberation which are related to this Mosque. The Muslims neglect to mention how sinful those Muslims are who "make peace" with the Jews, the occupiers of this Mosque, or those Muslims who take these Jews as friends and supporters. The Muslims neglect to mention to their rulers how the Jews are occupying not only al-Quds but the whole blessed land from the (Mediterranean) sea to the (Jordan) river, that this land as a whole is a blessed Islamic occupied land. The liberation of this land by Jihad is the responsibility of all Muslims, and not only the people of Palestine. This land has been an Islamic land ever since the Prophet Muhammad had made his journey by night to its Mosque, and since the Khalifah Omar had opened it, and ever since it was liberated by the Muslim Kurdish leader Salahud'deen al Ayyoubi. This land is an Islamic land with their being no difference between al-Quds or Haifa, or between Lod or Asqalan - for which the Prophet Muhammad called the pride of Paradise and in another hadeeth he said about her "May Allah send his Mercy on the people of the graveyard" in Asqalan. The Prophet Muhammad said this even before this land was opened by Muslims. So this land will remain Islamic land until the Day of Doom. This reality will not be changed even if some of the traitorous rulers have given up the land and signed treaties for that purpose. Not only was al-Quds the source of great Islamic scholars like Ibn Qudama alMaqdisi, but Nablus was also the origin of great Muslim Scholars like Abdul Ghani alNabulsi and Asqalan her son the great scholar Ibn Hajar alAsqalany, with yet still many more from other cities in this blessed land. There are great virtues for this land that I will not mention because they are so many, and because I do not want to sound like a man who defends patriotism. Rather we are ideological Muslims that demand that Islam be given the rule in this land and in every other Islamic land. I remind you all, and I remind the rulers with what Omar Ibn alAhss said to the son of Heracules when Omar was on his way to open this land: The son of Heracules, whose name was Palestine, said to Omar Ibn alAhss: Oh the prince of Arabs, we are cousins so why should we fight? This land that we are fighting for was shared by our fathers and our grandfathers, so we had taken what we had taken and you had taken what you had taken. What was the reply of Omar Ibn alAhss? He replied: I have nothing to do with this relationship that you claim. But I came today with regards to this unfair "distribution of estate" that you have talked about and I am coming today to correct it. The liars and the traitors (your rulers) in the 20th century claim that there is a relationship of cousins between us and the Jews. They are telling you that Rabin, Perez and Netanyahu are your cousins. I say to them - wait, the new Omar Ibn alAhss is coming soon to correct the situation even after all these treaties and treason with the Jews. He will liberate all of Palestine from the Sea to the River as well as other Islamic lands. We hope that Allah will make al-Quds the new capital of the Islamic Khilafah State. Oh brothers, There was a new heresy committed in this Masjid when the Friday Speaker today called the Muslims to pray the special prayer (the absentee prayer) immediately after the Friday Prayer, for the sake of the souls of the martyrs in Chechnya and the Martyrs of the fallen Egyptian airplane. We have said it in the past and we have proven to the people that this prayer is a political prayer. There is no opinion from any Islamic scholar throughout history that allows Praying on the Martyr. The martyr does not need our prayers because he is already in Paradise. Is it enough for us to simply pray for the people of Chechnya like what we did previously when we prayed for the people of Bosnia, and before them when we prayed for the people of Afghanistan? May Allah guide us to the straight path. May Allah help us to work for this deen in the correct way and for the sake of Allah alone. May Allah help us to establish the Islamic Khilafah State so that this deen becomes victorious on earth. Ameen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Their is no copyright on this material. You may copy, print, redistribute or forward this email.
