Bismillah, ir-Rahman ir-Rahim
"There will come a time
for my Ummah when their rulers will be cruel, their scholars
will be greedy and have little piety, their worshippers (will
act) hypocritically, their merchants will commit usury and
conceal the defects of their buying and selling, and their women
will be busy with the ornaments of the world. Hence, at this
time, the most vicious of them will dominate over them, and
their good doers will invocate but they will not be
answered." - Prophet Muhammad (sal)
Origins
of Apostacy
In 1740, from the wastelands of
Najd, Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab
called upon the Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula to
"return" to what he proposed was the pure form of
Islam - opposed to the purported corruption he claimed had been
introduced in the centuries following the lifetime of the
Prophet (sal). Under the influence of the sectarian ideas of Ibn
Taymiyyah, he espoused a puritanical Islam much resembling the
unholy Christian crusaders of the 11th-13th centuries. He was
immediately confronted by the Uthmani Khalifah (Ottoman Empire)
scholars, who, acting upon the interpretations and opinions of
the classical Islamic ulama, denounced his heretical views. Ibn
Abdul Wahhab responded by declaring his opponents apostates and
polytheists - terms he and his followers often threw around.
Consequently, he was labeled a renegade, subject to disciplinary
justice, and sought refuge in the town of Diriyya, which at that
time was ruled by Muhammad bin Saud - who was also the chief of
the al-A'nnza clan of the al-Saud tribe.
The two saw in each other the
means of their rise to power. On the one hand, Muhammad bin Saud
provided the necessary leadership skills and cold indifference
to besiege an entire country and ruthlessly subjugate and/or
murder its inhabitants. On the other, Ibn Abdul Wahhab
administered his own brand of war-hungry rhetoric, and supplied
as its motivation the promise of a reward far greater than any
tribal leader could offer his soldiers: Paradise. They formed an
alliance which was the beginning of the marriage between what
became known as the House of Saud and the founder of the Wahhabi/Neo-Salafi
school of 'thought'. In turn, this partnership paved the way for
what was later to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - with
tribal authority vested in Muhammad bin Saud as the political
leader, and in Ibn Abdul Wahhab as the spiritual leader. Thus,
in 1747, we mark the inauguration of the Wahhabiyya Movement.
Muhammad bin Saud died in 1769,
and left his authority to his son, Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad - who
then launched their cold-blooded campaign to seize control of
the entire peninsula. In 1787, Abdul Aziz arranged a gathering
in attempts to seek Islamic legitimacy for his alleged authority
- whereupon he was declared the leader of the Muslims. The next
year, Abdul Aziz - with the aid of British Forces, who had
funded and helped prompt his imperialism - attacked Kuwait
(which had links to the Ottoman Empire), and occupied it. Before
long, through a bloody campaign of merciless killings and
plunder, al-Saud had seized the whole of Eastern Arabia.
By 1811, al-Saud had pillaged
and conquered all the way up to Damascus. This impelled the
Ottoman governor, Muhammad Ali Pasha, to dispatch his son,
Touson Pasha, and his soldiers who defeated Abdul Aziz's army
and liberated Madina. Again, in 1816, Ottoman forces fought,
under Muhammad Ali Pasha's son, Ibrahim Pasha, who liberated
Kuwait, Damascus, and Iraq from Wahhabi hands. In 1818, after
their last stronghold had been destroyed in ad-Diriyya, the al-Saud
family were forced to flee to Jeddah, under the protection of
the British military hordes.
The majority of the Saudi-Wahhabis,
however, fled to Riyadh, where they prepared for their next
crusade under their new leader, Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman al-Saud
(a.k.a. Ibn Saud). Between 1824 and 1891, the remaining
followers battled the forces of the Khalifah, until al-Rashid,
the Khalifah's Wali, was able to force the remnants of the group
into exile in Kuwait. However, in 1902, a small force led by Ibn
Saud scaled the walls of Riyadh in the night hours and murdered
the Wali, bringing Eastern Arabia into his and British colonial
control .
There, Ibn Saud's political
emergence began. To demonstrate his resolve, he ordered the
heads of his enemies spiked and displayed at the gates of the
city. He then proceeded to terrorize his subjects with threats
and intimidation, and under his stay of rule, 1200 people were
burned to death.
At the end of the 19th century,
the region stretching from Egypt, across the Red Sea, and around
the Arabian Peninsula was critical for British trade. In 1914,
just before the outbreak of World War I, Britain controlled many
of the coastal areas of the peninsula, while the interior
remained under the control of the Ottoman Turks. Britain cut a
deal with two local tribal leaders, Sharif Hussein and Ibn Saud,
to lead a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In turn, they would
be given an independent Arabia.
During the War, Ibn Saud's
campaigns against the Ottoman Empire led his troops across the
Nafus desert, where they took al-Aqaba from the rear, securing
the Saudi-Wahhabi/British force's allied capture of Palestine
and Damascus. With that the Ottoman Empire drew to a close,
which in its final treaty - concluded in the early 1920's - left
the Saudi family with a sovereign state over much of the Arabian
Peninsula, and left English and French colonialists with the
remainder of the Arab world. After the war, both Hussein and
Saud remained on the British payroll.
The treaties made by the Saudi-Wahhabi's
and their European brethren to gain control over the trusting
and peace-loving Arab-Muslim nations, were, of course, lies and
deceit. In fact, they were never meant to be kept. Under the
guise of cooperation and mutual interest, the Saudi's begat the
brutal massacre of their lives and culture - all too reminiscent
of their Shayateen puppet masters who employed the same
deceitful tactics in their conquest of the Indian peoples of the
Amerikkkas.
Despite the displeasure of the
newly colonized people, on January 8, 1926, Ibn Saud declared
himself Sultan of Najd and Hijaz. The new king (a title in
itself considered blasphemous in Islam, which recognizes that
Majesty is Allah's alone) became adept at courting the
paternalism of his British comrades, which ensured his power in
the kingdom. While preserving British interests, he was
simultaneously able to maintain his own authority over much of
the Peninsula. In 1932, he renamed his family enterprise, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - with Wahhabi 'Islam' as the official
religious and political ideology.
Know
Your Enemy
The fundamentals of Wahhabi/Salafi
doctrine are quite simple: Tawhid, direct submission to Qur'an
(without interpretation or intermediary), and the adherence to
the sunnah of the Rasulullah (sal). That is to say, this is what
they claim.
The Wahhabi/Salafi doctrine of
'Tawhid' is taken directly from the anthropomorphic dreams of
Ibn Taymiyyah, who, invoking Qur'anic ayat, ascribed the
qualities of possessing hands, ears, eyes, and location to Allah
Subhana wa ta'ala:
"...He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer." - al-Qur'an,
Sura 42:11
"To one whom I have created with Both My Hands." - al-Qur'an,
Sura 38:75
"The Hand of Allah is over their hands." - al-Qur'an,
Sura 48:10
Wahhabi disbelief declares that
Allah is confined to time and place, and that the alamin
(cosmos) is an entity distinct from the "Supreme
Being," who lives on his throne in the sky.
"Those who object claim
that Allah has no limit, no boundary, and no end... these are
statements that we have never heard anyone say before him...
Allah certainly has a limit... and so has His place, for He is
on His Throne above the heavens, and these are two limits."
- Ibn Taymiyyah
"Who told you that the
top of the mountain is not closer to Allah than its bottom?...
The top of the minaret is closer to Allah than its bottom."
- Ibn Taymiyyah
According to this doctrine, the
tall man is closer to Allah than the short man, and those in
airplanes are even closer to the Throne of Allah. However,
contrary to the lies of these mushrikun, the Muslims are ordered
to:
"Prostrate and draw near." - al-Qur'an, Sura 96:19
It is these tyrants that are
guilty of shirk when they ascribe partners to Allah, claiming
there is not ONE, but that there is a human-like 'god' up in the
sky, AND a material universe which is distinct from its Creator
- 'god' and creation: TWO. Subhan'Allah! Allah declares:
"Allah! There is no
god, but only Hu, the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No
slumber can seize Hu nor sleep. Hu's are all things in the
heavens and on earth. Who is there to intercede in Hu's presence
except as Hu permitteth? Hu knoweth what (appeareth to Hu's
creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they
compass aught of Hu's knowledge except as Hu willeth. Hu's
Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and Hu
feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for Hu is the
Most High, the Supreme (in glory)." - al-Qur'an, Sura 2:255
The thinking believer - who
approaches his din in order to submit to Truth, rather than
dictate it - takes heed from Allah's warning when Hu says:
"Hu it is Who has
revealed the Book to you; some of its verses are decisive, they
are the basis of the Book, and others
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