🧵 reflecting on the Qur’anic ethics of dispossessed people and their right to resist.
The Palestinians have been forcibly removed from their lands for 100 years, and they very much have an inherent right to recover their land from the occupying apartheid regime.
#FreePalestine
The Palestinians have been forcibly removed from their lands for 100 years, and they very much have an inherent right to recover their land from the occupying apartheid regime.
#FreePalestine
The Qur’an references the story of Abdullah bin Jahsh and a group of Sahaba who killed some of their enemies in the 4 months the Arabs had agreed there would be no killing. There was a massive campaign against the early Muslims by the tribes for this act.
Allah swt then revealed the verse in 2:217, reminding the Muslims that while it had been wrong to kill in the sacred months, they should not let the wider structure and system of oppression confuse them.
Key in the verse that we find a similitude with Palestine today, is that they had been barred from the sacred house and removed from their lands - the greater offence. Further, we are told that the structure of oppression is worse than the killing. That context is everything.
The natural justice of reclaiming your homes is presented a number of times in the Qur’an, that those who have been wronged have an inherent right to reclaim it. Surahs Baqarah (194), Hajj (60) and Shurah (39) all present this right.
Being harmed by an aggressor carries with it blamelessness in Allah’s sight of the one who chooses to defend themselves as they see fit, according to their oppressor’s aggression. This is important because liberalism attempts to cage the dispossessed in terms of their oppressors.
There is no doctrine of defence as such in the traditional early books on jihad. Part of the reason for this is that it is taken for granted that should a people be attacked and removed from their homes, they have a natural justice right to fight to reclaim their lost land.
Part of any edifice of oppression is the ability of that power to control the information and narrative that comes into the public space. In Surah Hujarat, we are told that when news comes from evildoers, it should always be verified.
So important Muslims hold on to the ethics of the Qur’an, especially as we have witnessed many times over the pathological lying that has emanated from the Zionist apartheid state. We only need to look to their coverage of Shireen Abu Akleh to know the extent of their obfuscation
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