Explanation of His saying (Mighty and Majestic): ((If you support Allah, He will support you))
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The Shaykh : We all read a verse from the verses of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and indeed, this verse is often used to adorn the fronts of some gatherings or the walls of some houses. It is His saying (Mighty and Majestic): [Muhammad 47:7]. Signs are placed and written in beautiful gold naskh or Persian script, and so on, and hung on the walls. Regrettably, this verse has become a decoration for walls, while the hearts of Muslims are empty of it. We barely feel what the objective of this verse is: [Muhammad 47:7]. Therefore, the position of the Islamic world today is one of confusion and turmoil, with no apparent way out, even though the way out is mentioned in many verses, and this verse is among them.
If we remind the Muslims of this verse, I think the matter does not require much explanation or clarification; it is merely a reminder, and remembrance benefits the believers. All of us know, if Allah wills, that His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He:[Muhammad 47:7] is a condition whose answer is: . If you eat, if you drink, if, if; the answer is: you live. If you do not eat, if you do not drink, what happens? You die! So, exactly the same meaning is in this verse: [Muhammad 47:7]. The concept, as the jurists say, is the concept of contradiction: if you do not support Allah, He will not support you. This is the reality of the Muslims today. The clarification of this verse came in the Sunnah in many legal texts, and especially in the Prophetic hadiths. [Muhammad 47:7] It is self-evident that Allah does not mean that we should support Him against His enemy with our armies, fleets, and material forces; no, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is Prevailing over His affair, so He is not in need of anyone supporting Him with material support; this is a self-evident matter. Therefore, the meaning of: [Muhammad 47:7] is: if you follow the rulings of Allah, that is your support for Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He.
And now, have the Muslims fulfilled this condition? Have they fulfilled this obligatory duty first? And then, it is a condition for the realization of Allah's support for the Muslims second? The answer is with each one of you: the Muslims have not supported Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
And I want to mention a word here, also, by way of reminder and not by way of teaching, at least for some of the attendees:
Most Muslims today have turned away from knowing or getting to know their religion, from learning the rulings of their religion. Most of them do not know Islam, and many, or most, of them, if they know something of Islam, they know it not as true Islam, but as a distorted Islam, deviating from what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were upon. Therefore, the support of Allah promised to whoever supports Allah is based first on knowing Islam correctly, as it came in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and then on acting upon it second. Otherwise, the knowledge will be a burden on its owner, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said:[As-Saf 61:2-3]. Thus, we are in need of learning Islam and acting upon Islam.
if you support Allah, He will support you
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْif you support Allah, He will support you
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْIf we remind the Muslims of this verse, I think the matter does not require much explanation or clarification; it is merely a reminder, and remembrance benefits the believers. All of us know, if Allah wills, that His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He:
if you support Allah
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَHe will support you
يَنْصُرْكُمْif you support Allah, He will support you
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْif you support Allah
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَif you support Allah
إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَAnd now, have the Muslims fulfilled this condition? Have they fulfilled this obligatory duty first? And then, it is a condition for the realization of Allah's support for the Muslims second? The answer is with each one of you: the Muslims have not supported Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
And I want to mention a word here, also, by way of reminder and not by way of teaching, at least for some of the attendees:
Most Muslims today have turned away from knowing or getting to know their religion, from learning the rulings of their religion. Most of them do not know Islam, and many, or most, of them, if they know something of Islam, they know it not as true Islam, but as a distorted Islam, deviating from what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were upon. Therefore, the support of Allah promised to whoever supports Allah is based first on knowing Islam correctly, as it came in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and then on acting upon it second. Otherwise, the knowledge will be a burden on its owner, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said:
(2) O you who have believed, why do you say what you do not do? (3) Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ * كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَنْ تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
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