So there’s been a lot of discussion about the rebelling and the looting of stores. It reminds me of a verse in the Quran that is incredibly powerful. Backstory: The Prophet (S) had sent some companions on a raid two months before the battle of Badr, they ended up killing a person on the first night of Ragab, a sacred month. The sacred months were inviolable, and the mushrikeen were shocked, offended, outraged that its sanctity be breached by the Muslims. Of course they were using the incident to lay full blame on those who they themselves had wronged (sound familiar?) Allah says, 'They ask you about the sacred month - about fighting therein. Say, 'Fighting in it is great [sin]..' Yup, it’s wrong. It’s a big deal. But it is NOWHERE as big a deal as what ya’ll have done to get us to this point... 'but preventing [people] from the way of Allah and disbelief in Him and [preventing access to] al-Masjid al-Haram and the expulsion of its people from it are greater [evil] in the sight of Allah . And fitnah is greater than killing.' (AlBaqarah v. 217) So no, there is no moral high ground that the oppressors get to occupy. The Mushrikeen don’t get to do everything they’ve done to the believing community and then pretend that they are the injured party. The weight of the sins are not the same. And that is what needs to be stressed again and again, the weights of the sins are not the same. They are not even close, and to even attempt to invoke them shows that your own internal scales of justice need to be recalibrated We are talking about a people who are targets, And you are talking about Target… Edit: Bringing up this comment because somehow some can’t look beyond the looting. I am in no way defending looting, just as the verse did not defend killing in the sacred months. The point I was intending to make is that the conversation should not be shifted to looting at the expense of the greater crime, which is the **continuous** murder of black people who are unarmed or otherwise non threatening.
Wael Hamza
7y agoAl-Baqarah (2:217)+1 more
إن من أساليب الطغاة على مر الأزمان أن يلمزوا أهل الحق بخطأ فعلوه عن غير قصد فيضخمونه ويتهمونهم به حتى يفتوا في عزائمهم ويحاولون فُض الناس عنهم. ففرعون طاغية عصره وزمانه والاسم الذي يطلقه الناس على كل طاغية. الرجل الذي طغا في الارض وقتل الأولاد واستعبد الامم ، يرد على رسالة موسى بنفس الأسلوب الرخيص 'وفعلت فعلتك التي فعلت' يذكره والحاضرين بحادثة القتل الخطأ التي وقع فيها موسى صغيرا. ومجرمو قريش الذين لم يدعوا جريمة في حق المؤمنين الا وارتكبوها، ها هم يلمزون مجموعة المؤمنين الذين أخطأوا وقاتلوا في الشهر الحرام : 'يسألونك عن الشهر الحرام قتال فيه' وها هم يفعلون ذلك في كل العصور حتى نكاد نرى ذلك يوميا
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