The sons of Saud: the scions of Zion

By Abu Dharr

The clannish rulers of Arabia have abandoned the values of Islam and reverted back to the days of Jahiliyah before Islam. Instead of being slaves of Allah, they are slaves of the Shaytan.

Before Islam, Arabians were nomads roaming the barren deserts with no civilizational character except for their language. Their primitive social condition was akin to the law of the jungle: the strongest tribe exploited the weakest. In this social environment the weakest humans were exploited as slaves and concubines. Possession of turf depended on who had the most “attack power.” The tribal shaykh reigned supreme. His word was the law and it was final. The tribal setup of the Arabian Peninsula then is the tribal setup today as well.

Then came Islam. It was a paradigm shift and brought a sea change in the lives of those impoverished souls. Islam anchored morality into a society that was void of it. The Prophet’s (pbuh) farewell address made it clear that no entity may dispossess another. Violent death became taboo. People now, because of Islam, were equal in the public square and in the court of law. Islam buried Arabian jahiliyah during the years of our dear Prophet (pbuh).

Some of the highlighted features of the Prophet’s (pbuh) farewell address include:

• Complete equality: no Arabian is superior to a non-Arabian, and no non-Arabian is superior to an Arabian; no white person is superior to a black and no black person is superior to a white. The criterion of high quality and favorable position in society is a person’s taqwa (his/her functional awareness of Allah’s power presence).

• Committed Muslims are brothers of each other: none may divest the other against his will.

• People’s lives, family honor, and livelihood are to be inviolate.

• Freedom of conviction and belief are guaranteed for all: there can be no compulsion in matters of din.

• Islam has its own independent social and ideological character: neither materialistic nor phantasmal.

This new and moving reality explains, to some degree, why Islam spread to the four corners of the earth within a span of one century and why non-Muslims were impressed and, therefore, willingly became Muslims.

Alas, this civilizational thrust was stifled by a mental retreat into ignorance. Ijtihad was no longer a feature of Islamic society. In the pre-secular domain of the Muslims prior to World War I, the last line of defense of an Islamic realm was the Ottoman military, which itself became the victim of an all-consuming ignorance. The Ottomans could no longer match the industrial strides made by their enemies who used the opportunity to create a “modern” Islamic civilization in which the Muslims would continue to be subjected to ignorance, only this time by proxy “Islamic” regimes. When Islamic civilization and the Arabic language were divorced from each other every Muslim lost his status in the world of refinement and excellence.

Not absent from this internal unraveling of Islamic sovereignty was the vicious enemy on the outside. The external antagonists took note of that Islamic historical transformation from jahiliyah to Islam, so they plotted a sophisticated scheme of convincing the Arabians that Islam is inferior. Chieftains and tribal chiefs are better than khalifahs and imams. Kings and presidents are modern; khalifahs and imams are outdated. Thus the post-colonial Arabian regimes came into existence as tenants of the neocolonial world order.

And now, without our high Islamic standards, the Arabian polity has recaptured its ancient persona: tribes and entities that raid and kill each other. Instead of having camels they now have F-15s, instead of having horses they have F-16s, and instead of having mules they have tanks and armored combat vehicles. The human beings on camelback then and the human beings in the cockpit now are carbon copies of each other: jahili material, inside and out. Arabian tribal hatred in ancient times is Arabian government hatred in current times. Every official entity hates every other official entity (look wherever you want: from the Arabian Peninsula shaykhs to the kings on their thrones and presidents in their palaces); they all are at each other’s throats. People within these colonial created tribal-states are slaughtered at the whim of the ruler — a very exact caption of the law of the jungle. In these societies in real life and in real time the rulers are the supreme beings!

Taking a look at this pathetic state of affairs it does not take an Ibn Khaldun to figure out that the Qur’an, the Sunnah, qiyas, and ijtihad are all absent from such failing societies.

The crony kings and petty presidents have their religious employees who are willing to issue any fatwa on demand. If the high-and-mighty president or king wants to reach peace with the Zionist colonists they turn to their salaried ‘ulama and motion them to “Islamically” justify a peace treaty with Zionist killers and imperialist annihilators.

The deep-rooted jahiliyah could not live side-by-side with an Islam of morality, equality, and civility. It burst out in the form of the battles of al-Jamal, Siffin, and Karbala’, not to mention the massacre in Madinah when hundreds of Muslimahs were defiled and thousands of committed Muslims were killed in a jahili orgy that continued for several long and bloody days. The Ka‘bah was also assaulted.

Dare we say that following this internal Islamic turmoil, the Persians, upon becoming Muslims, reinvigorated the rational component of Islam, raised the civilizational bar, broke new scientific ground, and became Arabic speakers and thinkers; some of them even mastered the Arabic language on par with the Arabian laureates themselves. Was it not the Amazighis of northern Africa who crossed with their Islam the Mediterranean Sea and went into the dark corners of Europe, only to be branded “barbarians” (Berbers) by the Europeans? Is it far-fetched to equate Ka‘b al-Ahbar of our first Islamic century with Lawrence of Arabia of our last Islamic century?

The Arabian ruling classes of today are the political offspring of tribalists and nationalists who stabbed the Ottoman rulers in the back during World War I, trusting in the British masters who used Arabian nomads for their nefarious schemes and are still using Arabian nomads for their villainous strategies.

In the last century these Arabian chieftains were used by the British to fight against their Muslim Turkish brothers; today they are being prepared by the same British devils to fight against their Muslim Persian brothers. These primitive Arabian desert dwellers in highrises don’t know (and never knew) what it means to be independent. They have no self-governing state in the full sense of the word; they only have tent-states with pieces of cloth they call flags. They have perfected their plots against each other. They finesse instability, and they spend their God-given wealth on every conceivable vice: from military functions to erectile dysfunctions.

They are so beholden to their Zionist and imperialist masters that they cannot think for themselves. They are now insinuating that Islamic Iran is their number-one enemy and Zionist Israel is their number-one friend. What are we to say about Arabian officials who gave Saddam Hussein all he needed to defeat Islamic Iran? Then, when he could not defeat it, these same Arabians said that he was the number-one enemy of the Zionists! And then, on all days of the year, they executed him on ‘Id al-Adha. Then they tried to convince their people that Bashar al-Asad is a dictator who has to go either peacefully or by waging war. Then in the sacred name of Islam and the secular name of democracy, Syria was, by and large, reduced to a rubble state. Its population virtually dislocated inside and outside of Syria.

These Arabians have not had enough: they go to Yemen and try to pulverize an impoverished country! In Egypt democracy was overturned by a dictatorship. In Libya, the Arabian petro-media hyped up the canard that Muammar Qaddafi is a dictator — a foolish and buffoonish dictator. Then came the convenient fatwas authorizing the pursuit of Qaddafi to his death. And so he was killed. The result is a failed state, not to experience the slightest degree of stability any time soon.

This is what happened to Arabians who replaced the Islam of Muhammad (pbuh) with the Islam of Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab. The neo-Arabian jahiliyah puts the ancient jahiliyah to shame,

Do they seek the rule of jahiliyah? And who could be more suitable for governance than Allah [His authority] for people of cognitive certainty? (5:50).

A jahili Hajj

By Abu Dharr

Makkah and al-Madinah were always open to all Muslims but under the Saudis, these have become off-limits. If the Prophet (saws) or Prophets Ibrahim and Ismail (as) wanted to perform Hajj today, the Saudis would insist they obtain a visa before coming!

The Hajj (the annual journey to sanctified Makkah) is in progress as these words are being written. Alas, the Hajj this year, as has been the case for many, many years, is a non-Hajj. Why? Simply because it is a fact, and a recurring one at that. Hajj was meant to have meaning(s).

In Hajj we have the tears of Hajar (Isma‘il’s loving mother); we have the survival of Isma‘il, the dying baby. We have the desperate but hopeful mother Hajar running between al-Safa and al-Marwah to save the life of her infant son who was dying of natural and social causes on the hot Arabian sands of that desolate area in Hijaz. Hajj was meant to relay to humanity the physical and behavioral construction of Allah’s (swt) sanctuary and asylum for the homeless and the stateless.

Makkah itself came into existence to lodge and accommodate Prophet Ibrahim (a) who was expelled by his own people from his original society and its culture. Prophet Ibrahim (a) lived humanity’s first dispersion and homelessness. Thus came a time and place where Ibrahim and his son Isma‘il (a) would (re)construct Allah’s (swt) sanctuary — the inviolable Ka‘bah — as a haven for the world’s displaced and destitute. One of the meanings of circling around the Ka‘bah is to establish the fact that we (the displaced, the marginalized, the oppressed, the victims) do exist — in the manner that neutrons (elementary particles with zero charge and mass about equal to a proton) enter into the structure of the atomic nucleus, eventually becoming a mass — crowds of people, critical mass with meaningful and life-sustaining movement.

The Hajj is meant to motivate us to take issue with Satan in a physical way. The pelting of stones (ramyu al-jamarat) at the symbol of Satan demonstrates our willingness to do battle with the forces of evil, and not be satisfied with words of condemnation alone. These are the forces of evil that have rendered us the forlorn Rohingya, the rootless African-American Muslims, the exiled Islamic movement members, the landless Palestinian populations of the world and the tens of millions of refugees who have been scattered all over the world.

One of the meanings of Makkah, alienated from our conscience, is to offer meat and food to the starving, the poor, the hungry, and the malnourished. When Prophet Ibrahim was ordered to sacrifice his eldest and begotten son Isma‘il (a), the very fiber of human nature said “no.” How can a father (Ibrahim) sacrifice his own son Isma‘il (a) who together with Hajar are the genesis of Makkah, their newly and only home and homeland? How can an alienation of a lifetime suffered by Ibrahim be permitted to revisit him again as a consequence of Isma‘il (a) being sacrificed? But Allah’s will had to be done. And when the father began to actualize the putting to death of his beloved Isma‘il (a), Allah’s (swt) mercy, His sole prerogative, intervened and overturned His command to Ibrahim (a). Allah (swt) did not want human sacrifice; it was a test of Ibrahim (a).

Thus we have, at a minimum, a meaning and a lesson: (a) obeying Allah (swt) eventually leads to feeding the hungry, the thirsty, and the dying; and (b) the intention to sacrifice the most precious thing one has in life becomes reclamation of life itself.

This inclusive and hospitable Makkah lost its meaning and identity, the first time around, when its rulers forced our beloved Prophet (pbuh) to leave under the threat of assassination — when he went to Yathrib (Madinah). Nowadays, Makkah has again lost its meaning and identity when its rulers forbid the Hajj and the ‘Umrah to anyone who recaptures and assimilates the character of Prophets Ibrahim, Isma‘il, and Muhammad (a).

The Hajj was meant to break down all barriers and to fulfill the objective of unity and uniformity among all those who attend. Muslims shed their worldly positions and their social status when they don the ihram. You can’t tell by looking at a person whether he/she is upper class or lower class, military or civilian, from the elite or from the working class, etc.

All of these meanings and much more are absent from the Saudi-ized Hajj. Initially, their British masters and now their American overlords have managed to macro-manage the Hajj through the Saudi petro-family. And due to the absence of the thinking Muslim Ummah the Yahudi-Saudi Hajj has become meaningless ceremonial customs and ossified observances and programmed practices.

Who said that Muslims are only allowed two or three weeks in the land of the Prophet (pbuh) and the Qur’an? With current Saudi rules and regulations Prophets Ibrahim, Isma‘il, and Muhammad (a) would have to apply for visas to go to Makkah and Madinah, and then have to endure security checks once they arrive.

Makkah, Madinah, and the Hijaz have always been open to all the Muslims of the world, until, that is, the advent of the Anglo-Yahudi Saudis. Makkah was the melting pot of the Muslims of the world. Any Muslim from anywhere in the world — from Sumatra to Timbuktu — had he/she so intended and was able to do so, could go to Makkah for the Hajj and/or the ‘Umrah and stay there for the love of Allah (swt) and His Prophet (pbuh). Not any more. Now the Saudi regime sees to it that all Muslims who come to perform the Hajj and ‘Umrah must leave the land of Muhammad (pbuh)… and stay away. The security setup is going electronic and the Saudis with coaching from Washington and Tel Aviv will have files on Muslims coming for Hajj!

Poor Muslims! Under these imposed conditions, they do not have it within their larger selves to take these hydrocarbon Saudis to the cleaners. O Muslims! Where is the ‘Umar and ‘Ali in you? Don’t you know you have all the Allah-given rights to go and be in the vicinity of the Prophet (pbuh) and be there as long as you can support yourselves without the Saudi bid‘ahs of imprimaturs, visas, and other secular endorsements that beg the permission of royals to obey Allah (swt)?

At a time when Palestine is occupied in the bloody manner that breaks out in wars every few years, resulting in thousands of people killed, tens of thousands wounded, and hundreds of thousands becoming homeless, why can’t you the Muslims demand to go to Khaybar? Is Khaybar off-limits to the hujjaj (pilgrims)? Is Khaybar occupied territory? At a time when the Saudis are meeting incessantly with the Yahudis to do war against Islamic self-determination, at a time when their intelligence chiefs are frantically exchanging notes and ideas on how to defeat an awakening of Muslims in Asia and Africa, at a time when Wahhabi Arabia finds common purpose with Talmudic Zionism, at a time when Riyadh receives its orders to classify activist Muslims as “terrorists,” with all the accompanying legal and penal consequences, isn’t it high time that we the Muslims who are going to a purposeful Hajj also go to Khaybar to recollect our thoughts and inspire our generation with our Prophet’s (pbuh) defeat of Yahud in Arabia the first time around?

You heard it here first. Hajj has to become meaningful — it has to have a meaning and a purpose. Al-Hijaz has to be accessible to all Muslims every day of the year. And every place the Prophet (pbuh) went in Arabia should be approachable by any Muslim who so intends to walk the footsteps of the Prophet (pbuh) That obviously and boldly includes Khaybar, the stronghold of Yahud, that was liberated by the Prophet (pbuh) and his committed generation of combat-ready Muslims.

Have you ever taken a few minutes to think about the fact that we don’t have even a picture of Khaybar today? Even the Muslims, who are Saudi citizens and who — it would appear — do not have the same restrictions and restraints placed upon them as other Muslims have — even they do not trek up to Khaybar and have programs there about Zionism and its evil nexus of clients who all cooperate to reduce Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims to what we have become in today’s world.

Why can’t we, the Muslims of the world, think about holding an international and global conference about Palestine in Khaybar itself? Is there any sacred or secular law that says we can’t or shouldn’t? Why aren’t all programs pertaining to Palestine — political, humanitarian, social, educational, academic, etc. — convened in Khaybar?

The simple answer is that Yahud have reoccupied Khaybar through their Saudi soulmates. Just like Palestine no longer belongs to the Muslims, Khaybar, too, no longer belongs to the Muslims. Palestine is under Hebrew occupation and Khaybar is under Arabian occupation.

The Saudi regime is wasting our precious time on their imperialist and Zionist sponsored Hajj. They are wasting our holy places by physically and morally demolishing them in Makkah and Madinah. They are wasting our wealth by financing the imperialist-Zionist military industrial banking complex. They are wasting our din by their Wahhabi nihilist outfits.

And what is due to Allah is for people to journey to the Inviolable House — whoever is able to trek that path… (3:97).