The Zionist are hellbent on erasing Palestine off of the map and the Palestinians off the face of the Earth.  The Zionist claim that they are the Children of Israel and have a right to Palestine because their ancestors were driven out 3500 years ago. Let’s examine that claim.

The former Egyptian President Gamel Nasser famously, on national TV, told the Zionist entity after they, the French and the British attacked his country over control of the Suez Canal in 1956,: “You will never be able to live here in peace, because you left here black and came back white” 

Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) in his 1964 article Zionist Logic in the Egyptian Gazette

Messiah?

If the “religious” claim of the Zionists is true that they were to be led to the promised land by their messiah, and Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of that prophesy: where is their messiah whom their prophets said would get the credit for leading them there? It was [United Nations mediator] Ralph Bunche who “negotiated” the Zionists into possession of Occupied Palestine! Is Ralph Bunche the messiah of Zionism? If Ralph Bunche is not their messiah, and their messiah has not yet come, then what are they doing in Palestine ahead of their messiah?

Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation…where Spain used to be, as the European Zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?

In short, the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history…not even in their own religion. Where is their Messiah?

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—The Egyptian Gazette, Sept. 17, 1964

Though we should know now that an Israeli is not an Israelite.  In Genesis, the identity of the people who occupy Palestinian land is revealed:

“Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”26 He also said,“Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. 27 May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.” Genesis 9:26-27

To understand this verse, we’d have to understand what each of the aforementioned characters represent:

Japhet: Gog and Magog= Khazars; Shem: Semites= Children of Israel; Canaan: The former name of the area known today as Palestine and her people. The Cannanites are the children of Ham, the original people of the land.

The Zionist profess Judaism.  But their ancestors are from the line of Japhet descendants Gog & Magog and more specifically from Gog and Magog descendants, the Khazars, who converted to Judaism in 740 CE:

Gog and Magog, in the Hebrew Bible, the prophesied invader of Israel and the land from which he comes, respectively; or, in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament), evil forces opposed to the people of God. Although biblical references to Gog and Magog are relatively few, they assumed an important place in apocalyptic literature and medieval legend. They are also discussed in the Qurʾān (see also Yājūj and Mājūj).

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gog

Yajuj wa Ma’juj (Gog and Magog)

Courtesy: Excerpted from The Next World Order by Ahmad Thomson, Copyright © 1994.

http://muslimsonline.com/

.. The great Muslim scholar, Ibn Kathir, when discussing the origins of ‘Yajuj wa Ma’juj’ (Gog and Magog) – the people who traditionally inhabited the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which is where the Khazar kingdom was originally situated – in his historical work, Al-Bidayah wa’l-Nihayah (The Beginning and the End), specifically states that “Gog and Magog are two groups of Turks, descended from Yafith (Japheth), the father of the Turks, one of the sons of Noah.”

It is interesting to note in passing that one of the questions which Hasdai ibn Shaprut [the treasurer, court physician and minister of (Caliph) Abdar-Rahman III (912-961 A.D.) in Spain] asked in his letter to [Khazar] King Joseph was whether the tribe of the Khazar Jews had any connection with the ‘lost’ ten tribes – that is, the ten tribes of the Tribe of Israel who, as we have already seen, became known as the Israelites (as opposed to the other two, who became known as the Judahites), and who were disowned by the Judahites, and who ‘disappeared’ after becoming conquered by the Assyrians [in 721 B.C.].

King Joseph categorically stated in his reply that there was no such connection whatsoever. In providing a genealogy of his people, King Joseph, writes Arthur Koestler in his book, The Thirteenth Tribe, “cannot, and does not, claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem but to Noah’s third son, Japheth; or more precisely to Japheth’s grandson, Togarma, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes.”

The Jewish Encyclopaedia says that the Judaist scholars had no doubt as to the genuineness of this correspondence, in which the word Ashkenazi first occurs as denoting this sharply-outlined, hitherto unknown group of “Eastern Jews” and as indicating Slav associations.

This answer of King Joseph is very significant, not only because it demonstrates conclusively that the Khazar Jews are not semitic, but also because, as we shall see in greater detail later on in this book, insh’Allah, the uncle of Togarma, according to Genesis 10.2-3, was Magog.

This means that it is highly likely that the prophecies in The Bible and in the Qur’an, together with the prophecies made by the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning Gog and Magog, are directly relevant to the activities and destiny of the Khazar Jews.

… It is therefore clear that the Khazar Jews are not descended from any of the original twelve tribes that formed the original Tribe of Israel, but rather are directly related to the people of Gog and Magog.

KHAZARS, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries C.E. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism. 

So what if the Zionist actually followed what was revealed to their religious forebears in entering into Palestine to establish a “Jewish Homeland?” 

Deuteronomy

8 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

6 Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. 20 Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%208&version=NIV

And when We said: Enter this city, then eat from it a plenteous (food) wherever you wish, and enter the gate prostrating, and say, forgiveness. We will forgive you your wrongs and give more to those who do good. Surah Al-Baqarah(2):58

Had the Zionist done what Allah commanded the Children of Israel by entering Palestine humbly in submission,there would be no Arab-Israeli conflict, however… 

But the wrongdoers changed it for a saying other than that which had been spoken to them, so We sent upon the wrongdoers a pestilence from heaven, because they transgressed. Surah Al-Baqarah(2):59

These are the words it was changed to:

Deuteronomy 20:16–17 — The New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.

https://biblia.com/bible/esv/deuteronomy/20/16-17

 O you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you– then indeed, he is of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. Surah Al-Maidah(50):51

The dispiriting truth about why many evangelical Christians support Israel

Oct. 22, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT

By Sarah Posner, MSNBC Columnist

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, American evangelicals have been especially vocal in backing Israel. Last week, 90 prominent pastors and other leaders issued “An Evangelical Statement in Support for Israel.” Citing “just war” tradition, the statement affirmed “Israel’s right and duty to defend itself against further attack.” Evangelical leaders around the country have expressed sympathy, as The New York Times reported, “for a country to which many of them feel intense spiritual, cultural and political connections.”

But evangelicals’ support isn’t simply driven by a theology that compels them to love the Holy Land, detached from its convulsive domestic and global political implications. For many “Christians Zionists,” and particularly for popular evangelists with significant clout within the Republican Party, their support for Israel is rooted in its role in the supposed end times: Jesus’ return to Earth, a bloody final battle at Armageddon, and Jesus ruling the world from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In this scenario, war is not something to be avoided, but something inevitable, desired by God, and celebratory.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481

The slaughter and expulsion of Palestinians is seen by the Zionist both Christian and Jew, since 1948 at the beginning of the Nakba (The Disaster) which continues in Gaza and the West Bank today as divine rhetoric masks a far more sinister agenda.

The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves

28 August 2019

Oil and natural gas resources in the occupied Palestinian territory could generate hundreds of billions of dollars for development.

Geologists and resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) lies above sizable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip, according to a recent UNCTAD study.

New discoveries of natural gas in the Levant Basin are in the range of 122 trillion cubic feet while recoverable oil is estimated at 1.7 billion barrels, according to the study, entitled “The Economic Cost of Occupation for the Palestinian People: The Unrealized Oil and Natural Gas Potential.”

This offers an opportunity to distribute and share about US$524 billion among the different parties in the region and promote peace and cooperation among old belligerents, the study notes.

These funds could finance socioeconomic development in the oPt as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

However, so far the Palestinian people have been prohibited from exploiting the oil and gas reserves in their own land and water to meet their energy needs and generate fiscal and export revenues.

https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

What is Israel’s Ben Gurion canal plan and why Gaza matters

Sarah Khalil

17 November, 2023

As Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, talks about a long-discussed economic opportunity known as the Ben Gurion Canal Project have surfaced online.

Named after Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, the project, conceived in the late 1960s, sought to create an alternative route to the Suez Canal, the primary shipping route connecting Europe and Asia.

 newarab.com

Zionism is not a religious movement but an extension of Imperialist powers grab for world resources.

“There is an unmistakable coincidence between the experiences of Arab Palestinians at the hands of Zionism and the experiences of those black, yellow, and brown people who were described as inferior and subhuman by nineteenth-century imperialists,” he wrote in his 1979 essay, Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims. “It is important to remember that in joining the general Western enthusiasm for overseas territorial acquisition, Zionism never spoke of itself unambiguously as a Jewish liberation movement, but rather as a Jewish movement for colonial settlement in the Orient.”

Israeli settlers: The face of US imperialism in the Middle East Zionism, and thus Israel’s settler colonialism, is an extension of American imperialism. Haythem Guesmi Published On 8 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/8/israeli-settlers-the-face-of-us-imperialism-in-the-middle-eastJul 2021

UN’s role in stopping the slaughter and displacement of Palestinians is vital if the International body wants to continue to exist

Muammar Qadhafi (rahmatu alayhi) said in his address to the General Assembly of the UN on Sept. 26, 2009: 

Earlier in his speech he spoke about the need to reform the UN:

 The door to Security Council membership should be closed. This approach is a falsehood, a trick that has been exposed. If we want to reform the United Nations, bringing in more super-Powers is not the way. The solution is to foster democracy at the level of the general congress of the world, the General Assembly, to which the powers of the Security Council should be transferred. The Security Council would become merely an instrument for implementing the decisions taken by the General Assembly, which would be the parliament, the legislative assembly, of the world.

This Assembly is our democratic forum and the Security Council should be responsible before it; we should not accept the current situation. These are the legislators of the Members of the United Nations, and their resolutions should be binding. It is said that the General Assembly should do whatever the Security Council recommends. On the contrary, the Security Council should do whatever the General Assembly decides. This is the United Nations, the Assembly that includes 192 countries. It is not the Security Council, which includes only 15 of the Member States. How can we be happy about global peace and security if the whole world is controlled by only five countries?

Later in his speech he talked about the contrast between Muslim good treatment of Jews from the ill treatment of Muslims by Zionist Jews:

We are cousins and of the same race. We want to live in peace. The refugees should go back. You are the ones who brought the Holocaust upon the Jews. You, not we, are the ones who burned them. We gave them refuge. We gave them safe haven during the Roman era and the Arab reign in Andalusia  and during the rule of Hitler. You are the ones who poisoned them; you are the ones who annihilated them. We provided them with protection. You expelled them. Let us see the truth. We are not hostile; we are not enemies of the Jews. And one day the Jews will need the Arabs. At that point, Arabs will be the ones to give them protection, to save them, as we have done in the past. Look at what everybody else did to the Jews. Hitler is an example. You are the ones who hate the Jews, not us.

MUAMMAR GADDAFI’s Speech to the UN General Assembly September 26, 2009  https://www.africanews.com/tag/muammar-gaddafi/

Solution in the short term is regime change in the Israeli government.  In the middle term, eliminate the racist and colonial Zionism. In the long term, all of Palestine must become a demilitarization zone, neither the Israelis or Palestinians should be allowed to form armies or militias.  This can only be accomplished by a totally revamped UN which is not dominated by Imperialist colonial powers, which would install a temporary International government then over time yield to a local government once all parties agreed to live in peace and security. This is a one state solution.  It is the only way going forward.  Historically, there are plenty of examples of Jews who were protected in Muslim ruled lands. Under the Muslim rule of the Moors in Andalus (Spain), between 711CE- 1492 CE, Jews were intrinsically a part of the government in that period. So much so that it was referred to as the “Golden Age of Judaism,”  Islam is not a terrorist religion.  99.9% of Muslims want to live in peace with everybody else. Within the teachings of the Qur’an is respect and equal treatment of all human beings regardless of religious affiliation.  Yes, it means that Israel as a political entity cannot exist.  The experiment of a Jewish state is an obvious failure.

Sunan Abu Dawud Book 32,

 Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Number 4284:

Narrated Thawban:

The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating and invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and cast feebleness into your hearts. Someone asked: What is wahn (feebleness)? The Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him): He replied: Love of the world and dislike of death.

And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper. Surah An-Nisa(4):75

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Our reply:

Israeli-modern day European settlers who Occupy Palestine, not to be confused with the Ancient Israelites (Bani Isra’il) : Then Egyptian President Gamal Nassir said in 1956 during the Suez Canal War, (referring to the Israelis): “You’d never find peace here, you left Black but came back White!”

Hebrew-possible etymology, eber, most likely, haribu-those who crossed over [i.e. the Jordan River], refers to Ibrahim (as) and his followers, who migrated from Chaldea (Iraq) into Canaan (Palestine). Shemite- a descendant of Shem (Sam,[as]) , one of the 3 surviving sons of Noah (Nuh[as]). Semitic languages include Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopian languages such as Ge’ez, Amhara, Tigrinya

Jew-Arabic: Yahud; from the tribe of Judah. The name “Jew” became popularized when the Kingdom of Judah (Judea) fought and won the war against the Kingdom of Israel as a result, 10 tribes of Israel vanished. The national concept of Judaism was born out of this.

Zionist- a believer in Zionism: a political colonialist movement designed to take over Palestine under the guise of “seeking a homeland for the Jewish people,” founded by Theodore Hezl in 1897. It was backed by the European colonial “powers,” who desired to rid Europe of the Jews. Historically, Jews were hated and persecuted by western European Christians nations, but were able to have acceptance in lands ruled by Muslims. The greatest example of this is Moorish ruled “Muslim Spain”  known by the Moors as ‘Andalus.’ During the rule of the Muslim Moors (711-1492), the Jews were officials in the Islamic government. The Jews referred to that period as THE GOLDEN AGE OF JUDAISM.

By Malcolm X

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The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the “last days of this world” their own God would raise them up a “messiah” who would lead them to their promised land, and they would set up their own “divine” government in this newly-gained land, this “divine” government would enable them to “rule all other nations with a rod of iron.”

If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its “divine” mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.

These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their “divine” authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized.

Camouflage

The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more “benevolent,” more “philanthropic,” a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic “aid,” and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties. During the 19th century, when the masses here in Africa were largely illiterate it was easy for European imperialists to rule them with “force and fear,” but in this present era of enlightenment the African masses are awakening, and it is impossible to hold them in check now with the antiquated methods of the 19th century.

The imperialists, therefore, have been compelled to devise new methods. Since they can no longer force or frighten the masses into submission, they must devise modern methods that will enable them to maneuver the African masses into willing submission.

The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is “dollarism.” The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly “independent” African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists…and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective.

At the close of the 19th century when European imperialists wisely foresaw that the awakening masses of Africa would not submit to their old method of ruling through force and fears, these ever-scheming imperialists had to create a “new weapon,” and to find a “new base” for that weapon.

Dollarism

The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.

Zionist Israel’s occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.

And the continued low standard of living in the Arab world has been skillfully used by the Zionist propagandists to make it appear to the Africans that the Arab leaders are not intellectually or technically qualified to lift the living standard of their people…thus, indirectly inducing Africans to turn away from the Arabs and towards the Israelis for teachers and technical assistance.

“They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”

The imperialists always make themselves look good, but it is only because they are competing against economically crippled newly independent countries whose economies are actually crippled by the Zionist-capitalist conspiracy. They can’t stand against fair competition, thus they dread Gamal Abdul Nasser’s call for African-Arab Unity under Socialism.

Messiah?

If the “religious” claim of the Zionists is true that they were to be led to the promised land by their messiah, and Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of that prophesy: where is their messiah whom their prophets said would get the credit for leading them there? It was [United Nations mediator] Ralph Bunche who “negotiated” the Zionists into possession of Occupied Palestine! Is Ralph Bunche the messiah of Zionism? If Ralph Bunche is not their messiah, and their messiah has not yet come, then what are they doing in Palestine ahead of their messiah?

Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation…where Spain used to be, as the European Zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?

In short the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history…not even in their own religion. Where is their Messiah?

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—The Egyptian Gazette, Sept. 17, 1964

Editor: Imam Halim Mustafa ibn Ilyas

THE SUNNAH: 

Questions You’d Never Asked

Most surely there is a party amongst those who distort the Book with their tongue that you may consider it to be (a part) of the Book, and they say, It is from Allah, while it is not from Allah, and they tell a lie against Allah while they know.   It is not for a human being that Allah should give him the Book and the wisdom and prophethood, then he should say to men: Be my servants rather than Allah’s; but rather (he would say): Be worshippers of the Lord because of your teaching the Book because you have been studying.  And neither would he enjoin you that you should take the angels and the prophets for lords; what! would he enjoin you with unbelief after you are Muslims?

Alay Imram (3):78-80

If you asked the average Sunni Muslim they would say:

“Sunnah” is the Arabic term for the prophet Muhammad’s way of life and legal precedent.

Sunnah, (Arabic: “habitual practice”) also spelled Sunna, the body of traditional social and legal custom and practice of the Islamic community. Along with the Qurʾān (the holy book of Islam) and Hadith (recorded sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), it is a major source of Sharīʿah, or Islamic law. The Sunna is an authoritative source in Islamic law because the Qur’an is understood as ordering Muslims to “obey Allah and obey the Messenger”:

 They ask you about the spoils of war. Say: The spoils of war are for Allah and the Messenger. So be careful of (your duty to) Allah and set aright matters of your difference, and obey Allah and His Messenger if you are believers.

 Al-Anfal (8):1

 and to “take what the Messenger has ordained for you and desist from what he has prohibited” 

 What spoils  Allah (grants) to His Messenger from the people of the towns belongs to Allah, and to His Messenger, and for those of near relatives, orphans, the needy and the traveler, so that it is not in circulation among the rich of you. Whatever the Messenger gives you, take; whatever he forbids you, refrain. And fear Allah; surely Allah is severe in retribution.

Al-Hahsr ( 59):7.

In the framework of Islamic law, the Sunna explains duties left unclear in the Qur’an, such as how to pray; replaces Qur’anic rulings; and adds new details of law and belief as well. 

Although the Qur’an is held by Muslims to be the literal word of Allah and the ultimate fount of all Islamic teachings, from the earliest period of Islam Muslim scholars recognized that the Sunnah’s role as the lens through which the Qur’an was understood made it in effect more authoritative than the Qur’an.

In providing the details for the general principles laid out in the Qur’an, the Sunna effectively defined what those principles were. The Sunnah is not simply a list of Muhammad’s legal pronouncements about what is required or prohibited for Muslims. It denotes his behavior in general, from the details of his dress to his interaction with his wives. As a result many details of the Sunnah are not black and white requirements or prohibitions; they are either behavior that is recommended but not required or behavior that is licit but not recommended.

The statement “take what the Messenger has ordained for you and desist from what he has prohibited” in the above ayahs (verses); Al-Anfal(8):1 and Al-Hashr (59):7 are taken completely out of context:

If one consults the verse, one will note that the quote is completely devoid of context which clearly refers to the booty acquired during war. The Quran is clearly informing the community through the Prophet that whatever of the booty the Prophet allocates, take it and whatever he withholds, abstain from it. This is with the view that the gain does not accumulate solely amongst the rich. http://quransmessage.com/.

Where did the word, “Sunnah” come from?

 It comes from the pre-Islamic Arab notion of Sunna as the way of life of a tribe.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, the term sunnah referred to precedents established by tribal ancestors, accepted as normative and practiced by the entire community.

 It comes from the pre-Islamic Arab notion of Sunna as the way of life of a tribe, which is reflected in the Qur’an’s use of the word to mean “the ways of Allah” (Qur’an 33:37, 62) or “ways of life” of earlier peoples (Qur’an 3:137).

SUNNAH.   In every “founded” religious tradition, maintaining proximity to the founder has been an important source of legitimacy and authority, just as arguments about how to establish that proximity have been a source of conflict. In the Islamic tradition, the word sunnah has been the focal point of such issues. A word with a very old history in the Arabic language, sunnah comes from a root that is concretely associated with honing or molding, with something firmly rooted, like a tooth (sinn ). Sunnah, by extension, came to mean habitual practice, customary procedure or action, norm, standard, or “usage sanctioned by tradition.”

Among pre-Islamic Arabs, sunnah had the force of what anthropologists would call “tribal custom,” that is, the generally agreed upon “thing to do” in matters of piety, morality, and social activity. In fact, it was the sunnah of the prophet Muḥammad’s Arab contemporaries that initially led them to reject him, since the habitual social and spiritual practices of their ancestors were incompatible with his vision and demands. 

And it was his reinterpretation of their sunnah that helped him win them over, for he “reminded” them successfully that what they took to be true tradition (polytheism, for example) was what modern scholars would call “invented tradition,” and that the true sunnah of their ancestors was the same Abrahamic ethical monotheism that he was announcing, in that he called upon his listeners to fulfill Abraham’s moral contract with the one God.

How is the term Sunnah used in the Qur’an?

Louay Fatoohi wrote:

 In the Qur’an, Translators translate the use of the word to mean “the ways of Allah” (Qur’an 33:38, 62) or “ways of life” of earlier peoples (Qur’an 3:137).

The term “sunnah” occurs fourteen times in nine Qur’anic verses. It is used in four verses in the expression “sunnat al-awwalin” or the “sunna of the ancients.” The term “sunna” is usually interpreted as meaning “example” or “fate,” but it is a more general concept that means “way,” “practice,” “course,” “tradition,” “habit,” “state,” or “situation.” So “sunnat al-awwalin” should mean “the way or practice of the ancients.” These are three of those four verses:

Say to the disbelievers that if they desist then they will be forgiven what has passed; but if they return, then the way of the ancients (sunnat al-awwalin) has passed away.  Al-Anfal(8):38 

They (the disbelievers) will not believe in it (the Qur’an), and the way of the ancients (sunnat al-awwalin) has passed away. Al-Hijr (15):13

Nothing prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them and from asking pardon of their Lord other than [arguing for] the way of the ancients (sunnat al-awwalin) to come upon them or for the torment to come upon them before their eyes. Al-Khawf(18):55

The term “sunnah” appears eight times in five verses in the expression “sunnat Allah” or the “way of Allah.” One of these verses has both expressions “sunnat al-awwalin” and “sunnat Allah”:

Do they (the disbelievers) wait for other than the way of the ancients (sunnat al-awwalin), but you will not find any alteration in the way of Allah (sunnat Allah) and you will not find any change in the way of Allah (sunnat Allah). Al-Fatir(35):43

Some interpretations understand the reference to “sunnat al-awwalin” as referring to Allah’s punishment of those who rejected the messengers that He sent to them. In this case, this expression could be translated as the “fate of the ancients.”

These are the other four verses in which “sunnat Allah” appears:

There is no fault in the Prophet in seeking what Allah has ordained for him — the way of Allah (sunnat Allah) with those who passed away before. The commandment of Allah is a determinate decree. Al-Ahzab (33):38

A way of Allah (sunnat Allah) with those who passed away before, and you will not find any alteration in the way of Allah (sunnat Allah). Al-Ahzab(33):62

Their faith did not help them when they faced our might; [this is] the way of Allah (sunnat Allah) which applied in the past to His servants, and there the disbelievers lost. Al-Ghafur or Al-Mu’min(40):85

A way of Allah (sunnat Allah) which applied in the past, and you will not find any alteration in the way of Allah (sunnat Allah). Al-Fath(48):23

Finally, this verse uses the term “sunnah” twice, first in reference to the way of the messengers that Allah sent before Muhammad and then in the expression “sunnatuna (Our way),” meaning Allah’s way:

A way (sunna) of those whom we sent as messengers before you, and you will not find any change in Our way (sunnatuna). Bani Isra’il or Al-Isra (17):77

So the Qur’an does not use the term “sunnah ” in the sense of the way/practice of Prophet Muhammad. The closest that the Qur’an comes to this use is in verse 17:77 which talks about the sunnah of the messengers before Muhammad. Naturally, the reference here is to one sunna or way, as the essence of religion never changed, as so it must apply to Prophet Muhammad also. But this reference must refer to the one set of general practices and values that all Messengers followed, as commanded by Allah, rather than actions that are specific to any one of them. So the distinct meaning of the term “sunna” as the actions and deeds of Prophet Muhammad specifically is not found in the Qur’an. This observation, however, does not change the fact that the Qur’an commands the Muslim to follow and emulate the Prophet:

You have had a good example (usuwatan hasanata) in the Messenger of Allah for the person who hopes for Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much. Al-Ahzab(33):21

But “Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad is not a Quranic Concept?

There are many more verses that command the Muslims to follow the Prophet. These verses confirm that the Prophet set by his words and deeds the best example for the Muslims, as Allah instructed him to do. This is why learning and understanding the behavior of the Prophet is necessary for the Muslim.  But we should always be aware of the fact that “ the Sunnah of the Prophet” has never been as accessible after the Prophet as the Qur’an.  Allah promised in the Qur’an that He will protect the Qur’an from being lost or changed, but He did not make such a promise about “the Sunnah of the Prophet.”

 A number of factors affected what was written about and attributed to the Prophet over the decades and centuries after him.  Indeed, various supposed details of “the Sunnah” have been the subject of considerable disagreement among Muslims scholars from the early times after the Prophet.  This fact should not stop us from being interested in learning “the Sunnah of the Prophet,” but it should make us aware that this process is difficult and fraught with uncertainty. [Louay Fatoohi]

How did the term come to be applied solely to the Prophet Muhammad?

The early Muslims did not immediately concur on what constituted their Sunnah. Some looked to the people of Madinah for an example, and others followed the behavior of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, whereas the provincial legal schools, current in Iraq, Syria, and the Hejaz (in Arabia) in the 8th century CE, attempted to equate Sunnah with an ideal system—based partly on what was traditional in their respective areas and partly on precedents that they themselves had developed. These varying sources, which created differing community practices, were finally reconciled late in the 8th century by the legal scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī (767–820), who accorded the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad—as preserved in eyewitness records of his words, actions, and approbations (the Hadith)—normative and legal status second only to that of the Qurʾān.

Ash-Shāfi‘ī influence was such that he changed the use of the term Sunnah, “until it invariably meant only the Sunnah of the Prophet” (according to John Burton this was his “principle achievement”).  While earlier, sunnah had been used to refer to tribal manners and customs, (and while Al-Shāfi‘ī distinguished between the non-authoritative “sunnah of the Muslims” that was followed in practice, and the “sunnah of the Prophet” that Muslims should follow),  sunnah came to mean the Sunnah of Muhammad.

Ash-Shāfi‘ī emphasized the final authority of a hadith of Muhammad so that even the Qur’an was “to be interpreted in the light of traditions (i.e. hadith), and not vice versa.”  While traditionally the Quran is considered above the Sunna in authority, Ash-Shafi’i “forcefully argued” that the sunna stands “on equal footing with the Quran”, (according to scholar Daniel Brown) for – as Ash-Shafi’i put it – “the command of the Prophet is the command of Almighty Allah.”

Sunni Muslims refer to themselves as “Ahl Sunnah wa Jam’at 

When was this term first used?

Although Sunni Islam (the original Arabic term is ahl al-sunna wa’l-jamaʿa, “the people of the Sunnah and the collective”) takes its name from the term “Sunna,” Shiʿite Muslims are equally committed to the ideal of imitating the prophet’s precedent. Shiʿite Islam simply has its own vision of the Sunnah, namely the teachings of the prophet as transmitted by the twelve imams and elaborated by Shiʿite scholars.

Abu’l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ishaq (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن إسحاق, romanized: Abu’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq; 947/8 – 29 November 1031), better known by his regnal name al-Qadir (Arabic: القادر بالله, romanized: al-Qādir bi’llāh, lit. ’Made powerful by God’), was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 991 to 1031. He was the nephew of al-Muti, and was chosen in place of the deposed caliph, at-Ta’i, his cousin. His reign was marked by the strengthening of the Abbasid caliphate’s role as the champion of Sunni Islam against Shia Islam, notably through the Baghdad Manifesto of 1011, and through the codification, for the first time, of Sunni doctrines and practices in the Risāla al-Qādiriyya, thereby presaging the “Sunni Revival” later in the century.

Shortly after, in 1018, inspired by Hanbali ideas, he issued a decree, the Risāla al-Qādiriyya (‘Epistle of al-Qadir’), which for the first time explicitly formulated Sunni doctrine. The decree condemned Shi’a, Mu’tazilite, and even Ash’arite doctrines, and affirmed the veneration of the first four caliphs (the “Rashidun“), and of the Companions of Muhammad, as an obligation for all Muslims, against Shi’a beliefs that the first three caliphs had been illegitimate, as they had deprived Ali (the fourth caliph) of his rightful inheritance. His activities, and especially the Risāla al-Qādiriyya, were a seminal moment in the history of Sunni Islam. Until then, the Sunnis had defined themselves mostly in opposition to the Shi’a, but “now there was a body of positive belief which had to be accepted by anyone claiming to be a Sunni”.^[13] At the same time, the condemnation of Shi’a practices created a sharp distinction between the two groups, that had not hitherto been the case. As Hugh Kennedy put it, “it was no longer possible to be simply a Muslim, one was either a Sunni or a Shi’a”.^[12] Al-Qadir thus laid the ideological foundations for what has been termed the “Sunni Revival” of the 11th century, which culminated with the destruction of the Buyids by the Seljuk Turks, a new steppe power who saw themselves as champions of Sunnism and of the Abbasid caliph. [al-Qadir-wikipedia]

One common mistake is to assume that Sunni Islam represents a normative Islam that emerged during the period after Muhammad’s death, and that Sufism and Shi’ism developed out of Sunni Islam.^[49] This perception is partly due to the reliance on highly ideological sources that have been accepted as reliable historical works, and also because the vast majority of the population is Sunni. Both Sunnism and Shiism are the end products of several centuries of competition between ideologies. Both sects used each other to further cement their own identities and doctrines.[Sunni Islam-wikipedia] 

 After the Prophet Muhammad (sas) died the Ummah split into warring factions by the time of the khalifate of his cousin and son-in-law, Ali. According to the passage  “Sunni”  was one of the “Shi’as” of Islam, meaning  a faction or a sect, that came into its own some 400 years after the Prophet (sas) died.  This is why Allah warns us about dividing into sects.  The word Allah uses in the Qur’an for “sect” is shi’a.

Of those who divided their religion and became shi’as (sects) every hizbu (party) rejoicing in what they had with them Ar-Rum(30):22

Surely they who divided their religion into parts and became  shi’as (sects), you have no concern with them; their affair is only with Allah, then He will inform them of what they did.

 An-An’am (6):159

Prophet Muhammad (sas) never came to establish a new religion. But he was sent by Allah to re-establish the way (deen) that Allah has already commanded humanity as the code of behavior to follow:

Say: Truthful is Allah, therefore follow the millata (religion/ creed/established path) of Ibrahim, the hanif (upright one); and he was not one of the mushrikeen (polytheists).

 Indeed there has been an excellent example for you in Ibrahim (Abraham) and those with him, when they said to their people: “Verily, we are free from you and whatever you worship besides Allah, we have rejected you, and there has started between us and you, hostility and hatred for ever, until you believe in Allah Alone,” except the saying of Ibrahim (Abraham) to his father: “Verily, I will ask for forgiveness (from Allah) for you, but I have no power to do anything for you before Allah .” Our Lord! In You (Alone) we put our trust, and to You (Alone) we turn in repentance, and to You (Alone) is (our) final Return,

 Say, “We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Yakub and the Tribes and what was given to Musa and Isa and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims Al-Baqarah(2):136

 The Messenger believes in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so do] the believers. All of them believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers, [saying], “We make no distinction between any of His messengers.” And they say, “We hear and we obey. [We seek] Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the [final] destination.” Al-Baqarah(2):285

Allah says in the Qur’an (translated):

   This day those who disbelieved despaired of your deen (religion), so fear them not, and fear Me. This day have I perfected for you your (deen) religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Al-Islam as a deen (religion);

Forbidden to you is that which dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that on which any other name than that of Allah has been invoked, and the strangled (animal) and that beaten to death, and that killed by a fall and that killed by being smitten with the horn, and that which wild beasts have eaten, except what you slaughter, and what is sacrificed on stones set up (for idols) and that you divide by the arrows; that is a transgression. This day have those who disbelieve despaired of your religion, so fear them not, and fear Me. This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion; but whoever is compelled by hunger, not inclining willfully to sin, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.   Al-Ma’idah(5):3

Allah commands us to practice Al-Islam, not Sunni, Shi’a, Salafi, Sufi, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali, Twelfer, Isma’ili, Ahmadiyya, etc.  Just Al-Islam.  According to the Qur’an:

And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be among the losers. Alay Imran (3):85

Whomsoever Allah guides, he is the guided one, and whomsoever He sends astray, those! They are the losers. Al-Araf(7):178

“ROOTED IN THE PAST, FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE”

I identify myself as an Indigenous Muslim American Muur

What is an Indigenous Muslim American Muur?

Indigenous:

“We are from here and nowhere else”

indigenous-produced, growing, or living naturally in a particular region [Merriam-Webster Dictionary; 1997]

indigenous-Native, belonging naturally [Oxford Dictionary; 1929]

Muslim:

“One who submits to the will of Allah”

Muslim- an adherent of Islam [The Merriam-Webster Dictionary; 1997]

American:

“An inhabitant of the continent of America”

American-An aboriginal, or one of the various copper-colored natives found on the American continent by the Europeans. [Webster’s Universal Dictionary of The English Language; 1937]

Muur:

“Dark-skinned aboriginal inhabitants of the first civilization on Earth, Mu, and their descendants”

Muur- A Muur is a Moor and vice versa in that both words describe dark-skinned populations in its most common use.  [MUUR DEFINITIONS: CLEARING UP THE MISCONCEPTIONS OF THE WORD MUUR AND MOOR WordPress.com https://muurishawakening.wordpress.com › 2019/12/30]

Muur is the ancient name for the original people of the earth, based on ancient teachings of the indigenous people of the Washita (OUACHITA) River Valley and its tributaries. … Our ancestors teach us that Mu/Muu (Pronounced MOO) is the indigenous name of the land. Muu is all matter, maternal purpose, divine matrimony. [Muurs? https://www.muurs.com/Muurs/Muurs.html]

Indigenous Muslim American Muur:

“A Muslim born in America of Muurish heritage”

INDIGENOUS MUSLIM AMERICAN MUUR SOCIETY

AMERICA: DESTINY vs FANTASY SERIES part 2

Native American cultures had developed large cities such as Tenochtitlan (below), now the site of Mexico City.

The major groups were the Incas in Peru, Mayans in Central America (including all of Yucatan Peninsula) and Aztecs in Mexico.

In order to know

America’s true destiny, we must know her true past.

We have been led to believe that our Ancient Aboriginal American Muurish Ancestors had a “primitive” earth –bound nomadic cultures that were very different from the more complex “European’ culture.  The truth is that our Ancestors were organized into national and federal governments which controlled vast areas containing complex municipal towns and large cities that had agriculture, sewage, roads (built on ley lines) while supporting large populations that rivaled such cities as London or Paris.  The structures found here in America (i.e. North, Central, and South) were aligned with the heavenly constellations and are comparable to those found in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Turkey, China, etc. American societies had shipping that spanned the globe while docking vessels from other lands. 

There was also with clear evidence that there was a trade and commercial relationship between America and the rest of the world, including the forementioned  places. 

CAHOKIA

Cahokia was the largest city ever built north of Mexico before Columbus and boasted 120 earthen mounds. Many were massive, square-bottomed, flat-topped pyramids — great pedestals atop which civic leaders lived. At the vast plaza in the city’s center rose the largest earthwork in the Americas, the 100-foot Monks Mound.

Around the great urban center, farmers grew crops to feed the city-dwellers, who included not only government officials and religious leaders but also skilled trades workers, artisans and even astronomers. The city was the center of a trading network linked to other societies over much of North America. Cahokia was, in short, one of the most advanced civilizations in

 ancient America.

Retrieved from:

Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi

By Nathan Seppa
Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, March 12 1997; Page H01

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm

TENOCHTITLAN

Tenochtitlán, ancient capital of the Aztec empire. Located at the site of modern Mexico City, it was founded c. 1325 in the marshes of Lake Texcoco. It formed a confederacy with Texcoco and Tlacopan and was the Aztec capital by the late 15th century. Originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco, it gradually spread through the construction of artificial islands to cover more than 5 square miles (13 square km). It was connected to the mainland by several causeways. The population in 1519 was estimated to be about 400,000 people, the largest residential concentration in Mesoamerican history. It contained the palace of Montezuma II, said to consist of 300 rooms, as well as hundreds of temples. It was destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors under 

Hernán Cortés in 1521

Tenochtitlán

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tenochtitlan

MACHU PICCHU

The most famous historical site in all of South America, Machu Picchu is the pinnacle of any trip to Peru, and its unique location lends it an atmosphere of sublime unreality. Built as a sacred city in the 15th century on a mountainous ridge above the torrent of the Urubamba River, the citadel was inhabited for only a hundred years before it was abandoned during the Spanish conquest. It remained a secret, thus allowing it to preserve much of its original structure, and was only rediscovered in 1911 by the American explorer Hiram Bingham. The site was compared to the fabled city of El Dorado, and it retains much of this mystical appeal, despite its current status as one of the foremost tourist attractions in Peru. This is largely due to its unbelievable location in the clouds above the Urubamba, rendering it distantly remote from modern day Peru.

CHAN CHAN

The largest pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan was once the capital of an empire which stretched across the Peruvian coastline. The city, located in a desert plain in Northern Peru, was the seat of the Kingdom of Chimor, which dominated Peru for centuries before the emergence of the Incas. It remains the largest adobe city on earth and is a spectacular record of the society and belief systems of the Chimú culture. The city retains many intricate carvings along its adobe walls which record both the sacred iconography of the Chimú and their daily life, including the animals they hunted and their tools. At its peak in the 15th century, Chan Chan was home to approximately 60,000 people, and the city was divided on strict hierarchical grounds.

Ruins of Civilization:

The Sacred And Historical Sites Of Peru

https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/peru/articles/ruins-of-civilsation-the-sacred-and-historical-sites-of-peru/

PUEBLOS CITIES OF THE SOUTHWESTERN  U.S.

Taos Pueblo is a remarkable example of a traditional type of architecture from the pre-Hispanic period of the Americas. It is unique to this region and has successfully retained most of its traditional forms to the present day. Thanks to the determination of the Native American community — members who have called this place home for the past 1000 years — Taos Pueblo and its living culture have been successfully preserved.

Taos is the best preserved of the pueblos north of the borders defined by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848).

A sovereign tribal government governs the Pueblo. It is the only World Heritage Site in the United States cited for the significance of its traditional Native American living culture.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/taos-pueblo-world-heritage-site.htm

This is a sample of some of the great large cities that stretched throughout America  before the destruction of the Columbian Invasion. 

It was the in the interest of our enemy to portray our Ancestors as ‘backwards’ and ‘uncivilized.”

Remember the Papal Bull, Dum Diversas, Pope Nicholas V wrote

“We weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso – to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit ..

https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/dum-diversas/

Suggested Further reading:

 AMERICAN HOLOCAUST by David E. Stannard

HIDDEN CITEIS; The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization by Roger G. Kennedy