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In The Name of ALLAH, the
Beneficent, the Merciful
All praise is due to Allah. We praise Him, seek His aid, and seek His
forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil which is within ourselves,
and from the evil in our actions. Whoever Allah guides, none can send astray;
whoever Allah sends astray, none can guide.
I bear witness that there is no deity other than Allah and there is no partner
in worship besides Him. I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His
messenger. May Allah send His blessings and his greetings upon Muhammad and upon
the people of Muhammad.
Since the creation of Adam, Shaitaan (may Allah curse him) has hated Adam and
his children and has been an enemy against all mankind. Shaitaan has promised to
lead all mankind astray except Allah’s sincere slaves.
Thus began the war of truth and falsehood between the party of Allah and the
party of shaitaan. Shaitaan pursued all the methods that he is capable of to
mislead the children of Adam and to beautify falsehood for them. Allah made an
agreement with the children of Adam that they should not worship shaitaan as he
is their clear enemy.
Allah sent his messengers as bringers of glad tidings and warners against
shaitaan so that man would not have a plea against Allah after the coming of the
messengers. The messengers of Allah continued to come with the sole task of
subjugating the people to Allah alone, without any partners. So the chosen ones
carried the torch of Tawheed inviting their communities to the worship of Allah
subhana wa ta’ala and that they have no deity besides Him.
This torch of Tawheed passed from messenger to messenger until it came to the
last prophet of Allah, the best of all creations and the best son of Adam,
Muhammad, peace be upon the both of them. The prophet Muhammad was the seal of
the caravan of the messengers that lit up the way to Allah for mankind. Thus
Allah azza wa jalla completed the religion for us and completed His blessings
upon us and chose Islam as our religion. The prophet, may Allah bless and grant
him peace left the nation upon a luminous goal whose night is as bright as its
day, none deviate from it except the perishable.
But the war between shaitaan and Adam’s children has not ended. It is a long and
difficult war wherein falsehood is adorned with the truth and then the party of
shaitaan follow it and the party of Allah avoids it.
In this era shaitaan and his helpers have followed a different method to destroy
Islam. They try to destroy Islam not by wiping the word Islam out of existence
but by distorting the meaning of Islam and the meaning of Islamic terms in such
a manner that it does not harm them nor does it harm their authority.
For this reason the problem and tribulation of people today is their ignorance
of the true faith that Allah subahana wa ta’ala requires from them and their
ignorance of the disbelief which Allah subhana wa ta’ala has asked them to stay
away from. As a result they are unable to tell the difference between the
disbeliever and the muslim nor do they know who is a true disbeliever and who is
a true muslim according to the definition of their Lord, Allah subhana wa
ta’ala.
The judge over people today is no longer the Quran and Sunnah but the views of
people, their persuasions and convictions of these views as well as the quantity
of information on Islam that the taghut (false deities) allow them to know and
which does not pose a danger to them.
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