Harmed Before You Came, and After

When this was decreed, what did Banū Isrāʾīl say?

Banū Isrāʾīl said: we received harm before you came to us, and we are receiving harm since you came. All this trouble is because of you. They were killing us in the beginning because of you — because of your birth; that is why our children were killed. And now our children are being killed again. Why? Because of you, another time.

And this is the nature of people who are not willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of Allah: people who are already humiliated, who are crushed, and who do not want to move ahead. They are not willing to give anything. They want victory. They want success. They want position. But they are not willing to pay the price for it.

And unfortunately, sometimes — sometimes — we are guilty of doing the same thing. How come Islam is not established? How come there is no khilāfah? How come there is no…? And this person — you find that he is not doing anything, and he is blaming the whole ummah, and he is the only one who is innocent. Look at the Muslims, look at the Muslims — and he is speaking about everyone but himself.

Why is the problem in Chechnya happening? Why is the problem in Iraq happening? Why is the problem in Palestine happening? Why is it happening in Kashmir? It is because of the faults of me and you. Do not think that the problem of Kashmir is a Kashmiri problem, or that the problem of the Chechens is a Chechen problem, or that the problem of Palestine is a Palestinian problem. This is a problem of the Muslim ummah, because Allah (swt) does not recognise these different states and nations. Allah (swt) knows one ummah — one ummah. So whenever there is a punishment, or a problem, or suffering in one part of the ummah, it is suffering for all of us, and we are all held responsible for all of us. So the problems we are going through now are because of us, and we are responsible for solving them.