The
Two Messages From Ustadz Aman Abdurrahman From Inside The
Prison
05 May 2010
By Abu Sulaiman Aman Abdurrahman
1st Message From Ustadz Aman
Abdurrahman From Inside The Prison
To all the ikhwans
Assalamu 'alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
All praises only belong to Allah, Who tests His slaves
with ease and hardship. May Salawat and
salam be showered upon His Prophet, followed by
his household and Sahabahs.
Ikhwani fillah, know that the value of
tawheed is high and the consequences is huge, to
the extent that it must be paid with a lot of
sacrifices, whether it be in the form of being killed,
cruelty of torture by the enemies, as well as
imprisonment or seizure of wealth and properties.
The commitment to tawheed in this era of the
ghurbah will always be enveloped by the
feeling of fear and worry towards the cruelty of the
enemies, like Prophet Musa and his followers in Egypt
and just as experienced by Rasulullah and the
Sahabahs in the early period of Islam. But don't
let those feelings of fear and worry cause you to
abandon this tawheed, as that is the
character of the people whom Allah condemn in His
verse:
"There are among men some who serve Allah, as
it were, on the verge: if good befalls them, they are,
therewith, well content; but if a trial comes to them,
they turn on their faces: they lose both this world
and the Hereafter: that is loss for all to see!"
[Al Hajj : 11]
Namely, the people who want to commit to tawheed
when the condition is easy and happy, and when the
condition is grappling and dreadful, they abandon it.
But you must become the people whose belief in the
truth of this tawheed increases in this time
of ferocity with regards to the enmity of the
thaghut and their ansar towards the
adherents of this tawheed, who are not
willing to be enslaved by them. But, were you to turn
away from this tawheed, then Allah will
replace you with others who love Allah Ta'ala
more, just as He says:
"If ye turn back (from the Path), He will
substitute in your stead another people; then they
would not be like you!" [Muhammad: 38].
And His verse:
"O ye who believe! if any from among you turn
back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people
whom He will love as they will love Him." [Al
Maidah: 54]
Ikhwani fillah..... refrain for a moment from
the pursuit of pleasures that can never end... Pay
attention to your brothers who are currently in
prison... be polite to the families of the
Shuhada's and those who are detained in the path
of Allah, they are the Fuqarâ' (poor) who are
ashamed to ask, they are only the Hawa and
the children who are incapable of doing anything
except in shedding the tears of sadness and sorrow,
they are the weak people whose do'a are
answered by Allah. Rasulullah said, "That you are
given victory and rizq is only because of the weak
people amongst you."
Ikhwani... What I believe in matters of
tawheed along with their relations to today's
reality have been poured out in my writings and
translations, be fervent in learning, be graceful in
accepting the truth and always make do'a to
Allah and ask for guidance. Don't let shubhah
shadow the faith because when shubhah is
allowed to exist in the thoughts, it will become a
disaster when accompanied by the desires of wanting to
live freely and lavishly, like those who do not
practice tawheed.
Therefore, bear the shubhah with faith that
are sourced from the 'ilm of Al Kitab and As
Sunnah, and face the desires with patience.
I pray to Allah to give guidance, fortitude and
patience, and husnul khatimah to us all....
Amin ya Rabbal 'Alamin.....
Akhukum Fillah
2nd Message From Ustadz Aman
Abdurrahman From Inside The Prison
By Abu Sulaiman Aman Abdurrahman
To the ikhwans who are
being tested with the feelings of worry and fear…
Assalamu ‘alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
All praises are for Allah only, Who says:
“Be ye not afraid of them, but fear Me, if ye have
Faith.” [Ali ‘Imran: 175].
May salawat and salam be showered
upon His Rasul, the sahabahs and the people
who follow him until the judgment day.
Ikhwani…
It has become a sunnatullah that the journey
of the tawheed da'wah and its adherents are
experiencing moments of fear and worry from the
evilness of the enemies who are in power. Where the
thaghut authorities are using their power to
silence the Muwahhideen people with paralyses
in the forms of arrests and injuries, by murders, as
well as expulsion and deportation just as Allah says
in His verse:
“Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against
thee, to keep thee in bonds, or slay thee, or get thee
out (of thy home).” [Al Anfal: 30]
Also His verse about the threat by fir’aun to
Prophet Musa:
“(Pharaoh) said: "If thou dost put forward any god
other than me, I will certainly put thee in prison!.”
[As Shu’ara: 29]
and His verse:
“Said Pharaoh: "Leave me to slay Moses; …”
[Al Ghafir: 26].
Therefore, in a condition like this, the Muslims who
are oppressed are enveloped by the feelings of fear
and worry, like what had been experienced by the
Mu'mineen of Bani Israel in the time of
fir’aun:
“But none believed in Moses except some children
of his people, because of the fear of Pharaoh and his
chiefs, lest they should persecute them.” [Yunus:
83]
and as experienced by Rasulullah Shallallahu
‘alaihi wa sallam and the sahabahs in
the early period of Islam, as Allah says:
“Call to mind when ye (the Muhajireen) were a
small (band), despised through the land, and afraid
that men might despoil and kidnap you…” [Al Anfal:
26].
And it is the reality of today where tawheed
and its adherents are becoming strange again, just
like in its early emergence. Just as Rasulullah said
in a saheeh hadith:
"Islam came as strange, and will become strange
once again, so glad tidings to the Strangers."
The Muwahhideen people are all in a grappling
and dreadful condition from the cruelty of the
apparatuses of today's fir’aun who know no
mercy towards the children, the weak women and the
elderlies, much less the male youths. Where, when the
present time fir’auns and their apparatuses
are apprehending the Muwahhideen, they are
truly behaving as enemies who are ready to vent out
their hatred, just as Allah tells us:
“If they were to get the better of you, they would
behave to you as enemies, and stretch forth their
hands and their tongues against you for evil: and they
desire that ye should reject the Truth. ” [Al
Mumtahanah: 2]
and His verse:
“whereas seeing that if they get an advantage over
you, they respect not in you the ties either of
kinship or of covenant.” [At Taubah: 8].
And that is the reality, where they are not heeding
the humanitarian norms, the kinship and covenant,
because the war for them is a way of venting out their
vengeance and carnal desires. But that is the journey
of the tawheed da'wah, it is sure to
experience the trials of oppression and persecution
from the enemies who are in power, and that is the
decision of Allah that cannot be changed and which had
happened to the Rasuls and will be experienced by
every one who carries what was brought by the Rasuls,
just as Allah Ta’ala says:
“And verily, rejected were the apostles before
thee: with patience and constancy they bore their
rejection and their wrongs, until Our aid did reach
them: there is none that can alter the words (and
decrees) of Allah.” [Al An’am: 34].
Waraqah ibnu Naufal said to Rasul Shallallahu
‘alaihi wa sallam:
“Not even one person who comes bringing what you
are bringing, except that he would surely be
ill-treated and fought against.” (HR. Al Bukhari).
But this phase of persecution is a phase that must be
gone through in heading towards the tamkin
(state of being well-established) on this earth, where
it is not impossible that it would not be enjoyed by
the people who are formidable in confronting these
persecutions, but would be enjoyed by the people who
come after them, who continue the journey of this
struggle until they are able to see the destruction of
the power of the fir’auns of this era, just
as Allah Ta’ala says:
“And We made a people, considered weak (and of no
account), inheritors of lands in both east and west, -
lands whereon We sent down Our blessings. The fair
promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of
Israel, because they had patience and constancy, and
We levelled to the ground the great works and fine
buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with
such pride).” [Al A’raf: 137]
and His verse:
“And We wished to be Gracious to those who were
being depressed in the land, to make them leaders (in
Faith) and make them heirs, To establish a firm place
for them in the land, and to show Pharaoh, Haman, and
their hosts, at their hands, the very things against
which they were taking precautions.” [Al Qasas:
5-6]
Whereas, what were feared by the fir’aun of
the past, as well as the present fir’auns and
their chronies, are the replacement of the ideologies
that hold their sovereignty and the destruction of
their worldly interests, just as what the fir’aun
of the past uttered:
“Said Pharaoh: "Leave me to slay Moses; and let
him call on his Lord! What I fear is lest he should
change your religion, or lest he should cause mischief
to appear in the land!” [Al Mu’min: 26]
On that account, be patient O my Brothers, rely on
Allah and ask for guidance from Him. Know that nothing
can bring benefit and harm except Allah. Be patient,
because after the journey in this dry and barren field
full of wild beasts, there lies a refreshing and
beautiful meadow.
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