How should a Muslim act when a peace agreement with the Jews is announced?
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The questioner: Professor, we believe, praise be to Allah, that making peace with the Jews is not permissible. So if a peace process happens, meaning, so that we have proof with insight, let us not fall into the same mistakes we made before. Perhaps our love for Iraq was intense, and so on, and we feared being swept away. If it were not for Allah, He would have sent us to [unclear], and they would have blown this wind away from us, meaning, they would have returned us to the fold.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you safe.
The questioner: May Allah preserve you. We are afraid of being swept away, for example, by ideas that I see, in my opinion, are stronger than ours, or meaning, a strong wind will come to us, or storms. So what is your advice to us, or something on this topic, if Allah wills that it does not happen, for the good of the Islamic Ummah? If this happens, what do you advise us?
The Shaykh: : It seems to you that peace has not happened yet,
The questioner: : No, your words are correct.
The Shaykh: : So then. What are you afraid of now? Are you afraid that what was secret, meaning written, will be announced, and he said to you, "O poet, the Arabs and the Jews are getting along well?" The poet said, "Yes." So this is the peace. But the difference is that this painful reality has not been announced in public, and this is the cunning of the politician. So the Muslim does not differ whether they kept it secret or announced it; this peace is a reality that has no justification, unfortunately. Otherwise, how can this state remain, which is the most humiliated of nations, or rather the most humiliated of peoples, because it is not a nation among Arab states, may Allah will it, counting so and so, because there is a peace, but this peace has not been announced yet, and they are planning to announce it in a way that the poor, oppressed Islamic community absorbs this announcement and does not feel it, as the old Arab poet said, "There is no pain in a dead man's wound." So what are you afraid of? That if they announce the peace, what does it mean?
The questioner: : Yes, meaning it will be like livestock, for example?
The Shaykh: And now what?
The questioner: : : Meaning, similar.
The Shaykh: : Here we say, my brother, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) saidSahih Muslim 49a,
The presenter : Brothers in faith, the continuation of the discussion will be in the next recording.
The Shaykh: : And it is not supposed that we be like livestock. No, we are speaking, for example, that this is not permissible, and this is humiliation and submission to the most humiliated of peoples, as we said. But [Al-Baqarah 2:286], the point is that if they announce the peace that is being planned in a cunning and treacherous way, and they lure into it those who thought they would not be lured into it in one way or another, what can these oppressed peoples do other than to say, in the best of cases, "O Allah, this is wrong, and we do not accept it," and in the best of cases, in their hearts, and that is the weakest of faith? So the truth is, there is nothing new except the announcement. Unfortunately. Abu Salim, Abu 'Abd al-'Aziz, we do not deny this thing.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you safe.
The questioner: May Allah preserve you. We are afraid of being swept away, for example, by ideas that I see, in my opinion, are stronger than ours, or meaning, a strong wind will come to us, or storms. So what is your advice to us, or something on this topic, if Allah wills that it does not happen, for the good of the Islamic Ummah? If this happens, what do you advise us?
The Shaykh: : It seems to you that peace has not happened yet,
The questioner: : No, your words are correct.
The Shaykh: : So then. What are you afraid of now? Are you afraid that what was secret, meaning written, will be announced, and he said to you, "O poet, the Arabs and the Jews are getting along well?" The poet said, "Yes." So this is the peace. But the difference is that this painful reality has not been announced in public, and this is the cunning of the politician. So the Muslim does not differ whether they kept it secret or announced it; this peace is a reality that has no justification, unfortunately. Otherwise, how can this state remain, which is the most humiliated of nations, or rather the most humiliated of peoples, because it is not a nation among Arab states, may Allah will it, counting so and so, because there is a peace, but this peace has not been announced yet, and they are planning to announce it in a way that the poor, oppressed Islamic community absorbs this announcement and does not feel it, as the old Arab poet said, "There is no pain in a dead man's wound." So what are you afraid of? That if they announce the peace, what does it mean?
The questioner: : Yes, meaning it will be like livestock, for example?
The Shaykh: And now what?
The questioner: : : Meaning, similar.
The Shaykh: : Here we say, my brother, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said
He who amongst you sees something abominable should modify it with the help of his hand; and if he has not strength enough to do it, then he should do it with his tongue, and if he has not strength enough to do it, (even) then he should (abhor it) from his heart, and that is the least of faith.
من رأى منكم منكرا فليغيره بيده فإن لم يستطع فبلسانه فإن لم يستطع فبقلبه وذلك أضعف الإيمانThe presenter : Brothers in faith, the continuation of the discussion will be in the next recording.
The Shaykh: :
And that is the weakest of faith,
وذلك أضعف الإيمان،Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 931 — d3watuna.com (55:49)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.