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EPIDODE 9️⃣: Protests Involve Copying Non-Muslims and Deviants
Allāh (ﷻ) said, “Then We put you (O Muhammad – ﷺ) on a (plain) way of (Our) commandment. So, follow it, and follow not the desires of those who know not.”
[Al-Jaathiyah: 18].
Explaining this verse and the two others before it, Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taimiyyah (رحمه الله) said, “…He placed Muhammad (ﷺ) upon a way of the commandment He established for him and ordered him to follow it, and prohibited him from following the desires of those who know not.
And whoever contradicts his way is included among “those who know not‟. And their “desires” are what they want and what the polytheists are upon in their outward affairs which are entailments and implications of their strayed religion.”
[Iqtidaa as-Siraat al-Mustaqeem (pg. 8) cited from Jilbaab al-Mar‟til al-Muslimah (pg. 162).]
Sit-ins, strikes, go-slows, boycotts, uprisings, etc from the forms of protests and demonstrations against unfair constituted authority clearly contradict the guidance of the Prophet (ﷺ) which shows that such tyranny should be handled by enduring patiently and supplicating to Allah for change and fearing Him in all affairs.
To this extent—and in the language of the Qur’aan—participating in protests and demonstrations against constituted authority fall within following “those who know not.”
Shaykh al-Islam went on in his explanation, “If we take it as given that the action is not from following their desires, there is no doubt that contradicting them in these things protect more against following them in their desires and helps more towards avoiding to follow them thereby attaining Allah’s pleasure.”
(There is no doubt also) that joining them in these things could lead to joining them in other things…
[One major aspect of following the non-Muslims in their ways noted during recent protests over the increase in fuel price, #EndSARS, #EndSWAT, etc in Nigeria—apart from the fact that protests against the constituted authority are basically prohibited in Islam—and other such demonstrations, is some Muslims‟ chanting Christian songs and joining Christian prayers especially in places with a large Christian voice.
Although some of the Muslims may not join the Christians in these things, the larger majority of the rank and file of the Muslims in such gatherings will certainly do!
Do the Muslim clerics who find justification for protests and demonstrations still accept that the Qur’an and the Sunnah support such things that expose the unwary to such dangerous creed-based deviations?!]
…because “whoever loiters about the garden soon enters into it…‟
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A man came to Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما) wanting him to abuse the Khalifah.
So he said to the man, “It‟s all about money! If they give you, you become pleased. But if they give their relatives it annoys you. You only like to copy the Persians and Romans; they never left any of their leaders except that they killed him!” Then tears flowed down Ibn Umar’s cheeks while he supplicated, “O Allah! We don’t want that!”
[Fadaail as-Sahaabah li Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (1/113) and others. Graded Saheeh (authentic) by Shaykh Wasiyyullah ‘Abbass in his checking and editing of the book. See also, Al-Aathaar Al-Waaridah ‘an as-Salaf fee al-‘Aqeedah (2/534).]
The point in Ibn Umar’s statement (رضي الله عنهما) is that it is rather from the ways of the Romans and Persians to rise against their leaders and kill them: uprisings lack any basis in Islam and must not be tolerated; he wept as he prayed…
To be continued… إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ
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