This is my second blog on what Muslims should do in resolving the Palestine conflict. I have couple of questions to all Muslims around the globe reading this article and to all the leaders of the Ummah. Why are you still not taking any concrete steps in helping your Palestinian brothers? What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the time when Masjid al Aqsa gets blown up by the Zionists or for the time when all of the Palestinians get mercilessly killed by the Zionists and there is no Palestinian left to mourn for? What would you expect from other Muslim countries when the same happens to you?
Today its the Palestinians who are suffering this brutality and who knows maybe tomorrow it would be the Iranians and the day after that it would be the Turks and the day after that it would be the Saudis and after that it would be Pakistanis. Palestinians are waiting for the Ummah for there help against the brutality that they have been suffering for the last seven decades. They don't just want your condemnation of these attacks. They don't only want your aid. They don't only want you to organize rallies in your own country. I am not saying that all of these things do not help the Palestinian cause. They do but not that much. If you are protesting or organizing rallies then there are activists in Europe and the United States who are protesting against there own governments and against this brutality of Israel. The point I am trying to make here is that what would be the difference between them and you. Aren't we Muslims brothers. If the Palestinians are suffering then we should take more concrete steps then them because we share a special bond with the Palestinians that us the bond of Brotherhood due to Islam. Below are some sayings of the Prophet Muhammad SAW regarding brotherhood and unity among the Muslims:
"You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it." [Sahih Bukhari 6011]
The whole Muslim Ummah is like a body. If there is pain in one part of the body then whole body feels that pain. The Palestinians are in pain then why can't other Muslims feel there pain as there own. It's like they don't even care and if Muslims do care then why aren't you going beyond just condemnation or just sending aid. Just imagine for a while that what if it were you in place of the Palestinians then what would you expect from other Muslim nations? At that point what would you want other Muslim countries to do for you? Just sending aid or condemnation or you would want them to sanction Israel and send you arms to fight against this brutality. What would you expect from the rest of the Muslims when you watch your children and your loved ones die in front of you.
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Umar:
Allah's Apostle said, "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs; whoever brought his (Muslim) brother out of a discomfort, Allah will bring him out of the discomforts of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection . "[Sahih Bukhari]
As you can also see in the above Hadith of Prophet Muhammad SAW that all of the Muslims are brother to one another. If your brother is suffering what would you do to help him? You would go to any extent to get him out of that suffering. Similarly Palestinians are our brothers who are suffering. Just ask yourself this question: Are we doing enough to help the Palestinians? As I also mentioned above that in many Muslim countries rallies are being organized against the Israeli brutality. Governments of many Muslim nations are condemning Israel including the OIC. Again I am not saying that these things do not help the Palestine cause. Yes it does not but now if you compare this to what the United States and many Western nations have done sofar in this conflict to help Israel then we as Muslims and Muslim countries have done not even half of what US and its allies have done to help Israel. Israel and the West only shares one bond which is that they are allies but we share a very special bond of brotherhood with the Palestinians but unfortunately, we have failed the Palestinians.
Even if this war comes to an end then Muslims should keep in mind one thing that it would not end permanently. After couple of years there would be another war between the Israelis and the Palestinians and again it would be the Palestinians who would suffer just like they have been doing for the past seven decades. The only permanent solution is that Palestine should be free and there should be no occupation or existence of the Zionist state in Palestine. Yes a Jewish nation should exist to safeguard there rights but it shouldn't be in Palestine. It should be somewhere else in the world.
If you want to read my first blog in which I wrote about the role Muslims should play in the Palestinian conflict then click on this link.
Role Muslims Should Play in Resolving the Palestinian conflict
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