I insist on reviving and highlighting the notion of “The Muslim Ummah” in the minds of all Muslims, in particular Muslim officials. This is because the enemies of Islam and Muslims have always tried to consign the phrase “The Muslim Ummah” to oblivion so that we forget that this great approximately 2-billion group of people in tens of Islamic countries are a single unit. And the enemies have unfortunately succeeded to that end.
Today, if you look at our region, you will see that instead of deploying forces between Islam and kufr, and between believers and transgressors, the deployments are between Muslims themselves. An Islamic country with Muslim people but with evil – in the true sense of the word – rulers which stand beside the usurping Zionist regime instead of showing enmity towards it. It works, speaks and chants slogans in favor of that regime. That is while it fights against an Islamic country. The enemies have unfortunately succeeded in doing this: they have created deployments and rows among Islamic countries and among brothers. The world of Islam should remedy this.
Notice that a usurping enemy has shown an active and criminal presence in the center of Islamic countries – that is to say, Palestine. This makes it necessary for all Muslims to be sensitive towards this matter, to deploy their forces against this enemy and to prevent him from committing his crimes. However, instead of doing so, some people in the world of Islam compromise with him and engage in wrestling, fighting and fighting with their Muslim brothers, scratching their faces and creating discord. The problem is this.
Eid ul-Fitr is the Eid of the Islamic Ummah and therefore, we should think of unity among the Islamic Ummah. I would like to offer words of advice to the countries and governments which forget what the Quran has requested from them. They have forgotten this. The ayahs which were recited here say, “And those who are with him are strong against unbelievers, but compassionate among each other.” [The Holy Quran, 48: 29] However, those individuals are strong against believers, compassionate to unbelievers. They are the opposite. Are they Muslims?
Whenever English policies which occurred in the past – and American policies today – infiltrated and entered into Islamic countries, such cases of fitna showed up. They create discord, hatred and hostility both among Islamic countries and inside a country. Notice what is happening in Libya. Why should two groups shed each other’s blood in a Muslim country while both groups come from the same country, the same soil and the same waters and while their interests are intertwined? Who is provoking them to do so?
Why should the mosques, bazaars, hospitals, primary schools and infrastructure in a country like Yemen be bombarded? Why? They are bombarded by whom? They are being bombarded by those who claim to advocate Islam. This is committed by a country which is Islam and whose people are Muslims. They work and endeavor on the basis of the whims and desires of the enemies of Islam and in the heart of the world of Islam. This is where our problem lies.
