Is there any advice for this Muslim community that is idle and playing, while their brothers in Bosnia are being killed by the Christians?
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The questioner : The heart aches, the eye weeps, and the mind is troubled when it sees the Ummah of Islam in this state of humiliation and degradation. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being massacred in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while we are in our celebrations and amusement. Indeed, the entire Islamic world, if you listen to its radio or read its newspapers or other media, you find nothing but condemnation and denunciation if it responds at all, whether in its media or otherwise. Yet its celebrations continue as if they are not affected. Will Allah not ask us about this and about our role, O scholars and reformers? By Allah, O Shaykh, we fear sin. What is your advice for the Ummah of Islam as a whole, for which we ask Allah to convey what you say through this tape? May Allah reward you with the best reward?
The Shaykh : What the questioner mentioned is a trial for the Islamic Ummah. Sometimes a person thinks and says, how can I be at ease drinking this clear, cold water, while our brothers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are drinking from filthy water, from water that flows with urine, feces, and corruption? A person is greatly pained, but what can a person do? The people have no power, and those in charge of the people, many of them, do not care. Their main concern is to remain in their seats, and they have no other concern. Otherwise, in my opinion, if the Islamic governments sought help from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and completely boycotted the Christian nation in everything until they repented from their deviation, aggression, and injustice, there would be much good in that. It is not hidden from many of us what happened with the oil boycott years ago. How the nations submitted until they yielded and came to what we wanted, or some of what we wanted. It is obligatory for the Islamic Ummah, which is capable of removing this trial from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other lands of Islam, including the Islamic republics that separated from the Soviet Union, where there is also affliction, distress, and oppression of Muslims that only Allah knows. And also many other lands afflicted by this. So we ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to unite the word of the Muslims upon the truth, and to give them victory over their enemy, and to make us truly know our enemies, and that every person who is not upon Islam is an enemy to the Muslims, whoever he is. O Allah, conclude our gathering with the acceptance of the supplication. O Allah, support Islam and the Muslims in every place. O Allah, support our brothers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other lands of Islam and Muslims against their enemies. O Allah, unleash upon their enemies and make their wrath between them, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, unite the word of the Muslims upon the truth. O Allah, grant us from You mercy, for You are the Bestower. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Your servant and Your Messenger Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The Shaykh : What the questioner mentioned is a trial for the Islamic Ummah. Sometimes a person thinks and says, how can I be at ease drinking this clear, cold water, while our brothers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are drinking from filthy water, from water that flows with urine, feces, and corruption? A person is greatly pained, but what can a person do? The people have no power, and those in charge of the people, many of them, do not care. Their main concern is to remain in their seats, and they have no other concern. Otherwise, in my opinion, if the Islamic governments sought help from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and completely boycotted the Christian nation in everything until they repented from their deviation, aggression, and injustice, there would be much good in that. It is not hidden from many of us what happened with the oil boycott years ago. How the nations submitted until they yielded and came to what we wanted, or some of what we wanted. It is obligatory for the Islamic Ummah, which is capable of removing this trial from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other lands of Islam, including the Islamic republics that separated from the Soviet Union, where there is also affliction, distress, and oppression of Muslims that only Allah knows. And also many other lands afflicted by this. So we ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to unite the word of the Muslims upon the truth, and to give them victory over their enemy, and to make us truly know our enemies, and that every person who is not upon Islam is an enemy to the Muslims, whoever he is. O Allah, conclude our gathering with the acceptance of the supplication. O Allah, support Islam and the Muslims in every place. O Allah, support our brothers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other lands of Islam and Muslims against their enemies. O Allah, unleash upon their enemies and make their wrath between them, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, unite the word of the Muslims upon the truth. O Allah, grant us from You mercy, for You are the Bestower. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Your servant and Your Messenger Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.