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… fragments of iron. They will have the state. They will fulfil neither covenant nor agreement. They will call to the truth, but they will not be people of the truth. Their names will be parental attributions, and their aliases will be derived from towns. Their hair will be free-flowing like that of women. This situation will remain until they differ among themselves. Thereafter, God will bring forth the Truth through whomever He wills.
… fragments of iron. They will have the state. They will fulfil neither covenant nor agreement. They will call to the truth, but they will not be people of the truth. Their names will be parental attributions, and their aliases will be derived from towns. Their hair will be free-flowing like that of women. This situation will remain until they differ among themselves. Thereafter, God will bring forth the Truth through whomever He wills.
People are asking: does this narration by Ali bin Abi Talib (k.)—that is related by AlBukhari’s teacher (Nu’aym bin Hamad) over one thousand two hundred years ago in his book AlFitan—refer to the ‘Islamic State’?Is it possible to understand the narration as follows? ‘When you see the black flags’: The flags of the ‘Islamic State’ are black. ‘Remain where you are’: i.e., stay where you are, O Muslims, and do not join them. ‘And do not move your hands or your feet’: i.e. do not help them financially or with equipment. ‘Thereafter there shall appear a feeble insignificant folk’: i.e. ‘weak’ and ‘insignificant’ in terms of understanding of religion, morality and religious practice. ‘Their hearts will be like fragments of iron’: i.e. they will ruthlessly kill prisoners of war and cruelly torture people. ‘They will have the state’: For almost a century, no one has claimed to be an Islamic Caliphate other than the current ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and the Levant. ‘They will fulfil neither covenant nor agreement’: The ‘Islamic State’ did not fulfil its agreement with the Sha’etat tribe after the tribe pledged allegiance to them; indeed the ‘Islamic State’ slaughtered them by the hundreds. They also killed journalists. ‘They will call to the truth’: The ‘Islamic State’ calls to Islam. ‘But they will not be people of the truth’: The people of the truth are merciful. The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Have mercy and you will be shown mercy.’ ‘Their names will be parental attributions’: Like: ‘Abu Muthanna’, ‘Abu Muhammad’, ‘Abu Muslim’ and so on. ‘And their aliases will be derived from towns’: Like: ‘Al-Baghdadi’, ‘al-Zarqawi’, ‘al-Tunisi’ and so on. ‘Their hair will be free-flowing like that of women’: ‘Islamic State’ fighters have hair precisely like this. ‘Until they differ among themselves’: Like the differences between the ‘Islamic State’ and its parent, the al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). The fighting between these two has led to around ten thousand deaths in a single year. ‘Thereafter, God will bring forth the truth through whomever He wills’: through a clear and correct Islamic proclamation (like this open letter). The sage Luqman says in the Qur’an: ‘O my son! Even if it should be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, and [even if] it be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, God will bring it forth. Truly God is Subtle, Aware.’ (Luqman, 31: 16)
1. HE Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Ababakar The Sultan of Sokoto, Head of the Nigerian National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs
2. Prof. Abdul-Rahman Abbad Prof. of Islamic Studies at the College of Al-Qur’an AlKarim, and Secretary of the Body of Scholars and Preachers, Jerusalem
3. Mr. Omar Abboud Secretary-General of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue, Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. Prof. Salim Abdul-Jalil Former Undersecretary for da’wah at the Awqaf Ministry, and Professor of Islamic Civilization at Misr University for Science & Technology, Egypt
5. Sheikh Wahid Abdul-Jawad Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt
6. Dr. Mustafa Abdul-Kareem Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt 7.
Prof. Ibrahim Abdul-Rahim Professor of Shari’ah, Dar al-Ulum College, Cairo University, Egypt
8. Prof. Jafar Abdul-Salam Secretary-General of the League of Islamic Universities and Prof. of International Humanitarian Law, Egypt
9. HE Dr. Sheikh Hussain Hasan Abkar Chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Imam of the Muslims in the Republic of Chad, Chad
10. HE Prince Judge Bola AbdulJabbar Ajibola Islamic Mission for Africa (IMA) and Founder of Crescent University, Nigeria
11. HE Prof. Sheikh Shawqi Allam The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Egypt
12. Prof. Sheikh Abdul Nasser Abu AlBasal Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan
13. Prof. Mohammad Mahmoud AbuHashem Vice-President of Al-Azhar University and member of the Centre for Islamic Research at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Egypt
14. HE Prof. Sheikh Mustafa Cagrici Former Mufti of Istanbul, Turkey
15. Sheikh Mohammad Ahmad AlAkwa’ Senior Sunni Scholar, Yemen
16. Prof. Mohammad Al-Amir Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies for Girls, AlMansoura University, Egypt 17.
Dr. Majdi Ashour Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt
18 . Prof. Dr. Abdul-Hai Azab Dean of the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law, Al-Azhar 19 University, Egypt
19. Azhar Aziz President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), USA
20. Prof. Mustafa Abu Sway The Integral Professorial Chair for the Study of Imam Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem
21. Prof. Bakr Zaki Awad Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Al-Azhar University, Egypt
22. Nihad Awad National Executive Director of the Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), USA
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