Don’t Let Gaza Down, O Muslims
(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 560 - 13/08/2025 CE

By Ustadh Abdullah Zaid

Alas for betrayal! Its pain breaks the heart. Indeed, betrayal is more painful to the soul than the pain of hunger, imprisonment, and torture. The people of the Blessed Land of Palestine, including the people of Gaza, are calling on the Islamic Ummah to support and liberate them, because the brotherhood of Islam requires Muslims to support the oppressed among them. The Messenger of Allah (saw),

«الْمُسْلِمُ أَخُو الْمُسْلِمِ لَا يَظْلِمُهُ، وَلَا ‌يَخْذُلُهُ، وَلَا يَحْقِرُهُ، التَّقْوَى هَا هُنَا وَيُشِيرُ إِلَى صَدْرِهِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ»

“A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He does not wrong him, nor does he abandon him, nor does he look down on him. Piety is here,” and he pointed to his chest three times.” (Narrated by Muslim). So, the fear of Allah (swt) that is in the hearts of believers requires them to do their utmost to support their brothers and sisters, liberate Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa, the place of the Prophet’s Night Journey, and remove all obstacles that stand in the way of their support for their brothers and sisters.

However, how can Muslims support their brothers and sisters, when the Sykes-Picot nationalistic borders divide them?

How can Muslims help the people of Gaza, when their rulers conspire with their enemy to starve, kill, and force them to surrender?

How can Muslims support their brothers and sisters, when intelligence agencies are counting their breaths, and persecuting them for the words they use to express their anger? And they are monitoring social media and masajid to protect the traitorous, agentic thrones?!

How can Muslims support their Deen while the ulema of the governments revolve around the orbit of the agent rulers, beautifying their falsehood for them?!

O Muslims:

Our situation in Gaza is not far removed from that of our brothers and sisters in Sudan, nor is it different from what befell our people in ash-Sham, or our brothers and sisters in East Turkestan, Burma, Somalia, Bosnia, and so on. The pain of betrayal is felt across lands of Muslims, country by country, and the enemies of Islam are wreaking havoc on our nation everywhere. The greatest crime lies with the agent rulers who collude with their enemies.

Today, the Ummah has reached a state of awareness that it is one Ummah, with its Deen, thought and feelings, and that it is one body that bleeds the wound of Gaza, because the people of the Hijaz, and the people of Yemen are pained by its affliction, and the people of Egypt groan in pain for its groans in pain. However, the people of the Hijaz, Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan, Turkiye and all the Muslim countries have been imprisoned by nationalistic borders, walls and homelands as separate entities from the people of Gaza. The fact is that the heart, mind and soul yearn and burn to support their brothers and sisters, yet, the hand that strikes and the foot that walks are imprisoned by the imprisoning of the agent rulers and nationalistic borders.

Muslims are becoming increasingly convinced that these rulers are nothing but tools in the hands of the Jews and the Americans to discourage Muslims from supporting their brothers. Were it not for these agents, millions would have set out to Al-Quds, raising the Takbir, Allahu Akbar, to make the Salah (prayer) of victory at Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa.

The Islamic Ummah is neither weak nor incapable of supporting Gaza, or of supporting the oppressed among Muslims. Those who portray the Ummah as such are the hypocrite, tyrannical rulers who make Muslims feel helpless and weak, and who wager their blood, sanctities, and honor to America and international colonialist institutions.

The people of Gaza are calling on the Islamic Ummah and its armies to rescue them and liberate them from the Jews, while the agent rulers are appealing to America and international colonialist institutions to lift the siege and allow aid into the country! This demonstrates and confirms that they do not consider the cause of the people of Gaza their own. The ones who decide Gaza's fate are America and the Jews, while their assigned role is to keep the Muslim peoples subjugated, under the pressure of intelligence agencies and repression, so that America and the Jews can implement their schemes in Muslim lands.

O Muslims!

Taking to the streets and squares in support of the people of Gaza is a Shariah obligation, but it is not merely to express solidarity or vent anger and then return home. Instead, what is required of you is to mobilize the Muslim armies, and call on them to overthrow the regimes, that stand between you and supporting your brothers and sisters.

Come out to the public squares to incite the armies to wage Jihad in the Path of Allah (swt), and remove the nationalistic borders drawn by colonialists.

We want to take to the public squares, and not return, until the thrones are shattered and the armies respond. We will not eat until the people of Gaza eat, and we will not sleep until the people of the Blessed Land of Palestine are liberated. We want a flood that will uproot the groups of treason, and remove all the obstacles and barriers that stand between the Islamic Ummah and its unification, the establishment of its Deen, and Jihad in the Path of Allah (swt) to make His Word Supreme, making the word of the kuffar (disbelievers) the lowest, and the Word of Allah (swt) the highest.

O Muslims!

You are capable of this good and you are worthy of this good. Indeed, you have found this good, so support Allah (swt) and He will support you and make your feet firm. Remove the fear of the agent rulers from your hearts, and do not be intimidated by the power and arrogance of America, for the power of Allah (swt) is greater, and Allah is more powerful and more severe in punishment. The believer puts his trust in Allah (swt) with true tawwakul, and Allah is Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs. The people of the Blessed Land of Palestine, with the Help and Guidance of Allah, will remain victorious upon the truth, and those who let them down will not harm them. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said,

«لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي ‌ظَاهِرِينَ ‌عَلَى ‌الْحَقِّ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَلَهُمْ، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ وَهُمْ كَذَلِكَ»

“A group of my Ummah will continue to be victorious upon the truth, and those who let them down will not harm them, until Allah’s Decision comes, and they are still like that.” (Narrated by Muslim). We are confident in the victory of Allah, the Mighty, the Almighty, and we call you to be sincere with Allah (swt) in supporting Your Deen and your brothers and sisters, so that you may attain the honor of liberating the Blessed Land of Palestine. This great favor and this honor are only attained by men who are true to what they pledged to Allah (swt). So be true to Allah (swt), and He will be true to you. It is sufficient for you in this regard that Allah (swt) said,

[إِنَّ اللهَ اشْتَرَى مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ فَيَقْتُلُونَ وَيُقْتَلُونَ وَعْداً عَلَيْهِ حَقّاً فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالْإِنْجِيلِ وَالْقُرْآنِ وَمَنْ أَوْفَى بِعَهْدِهِ مِنَ اللهِ فَاسْتَبْشِرُوا بِبَيْعِكُمُ الَّذِي بَايَعْتُمْ بِهِ وَذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ]

“Indeed, Allah (swt) has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties in exchange for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah (swt), so they kill and are killed. It is a true promise binding upon Him in the Torah, the Injeel, and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah (swt)? So rejoice in your transaction which you have made.” [TMQ Surah At-Tawbah 111]. By this promise, that is the great attainment.

O Allah, open the hearts of the Muslims to Your obedience and support for Your Deen, and grant us from Your side a supporting authority.