"And He takes from you Martyrs"

Rough Translation:

Allah said:


All the people will die.


But not all of them attain the rank of martyrdom. The rank of martyrdom is an honourable one. And from the mercy of Allah on this Ummah is that martyrdom can be attained through numerous doors, and it is not only by being killed in a battle against an enemy. The Prophet (salalahu ‘alyhi wasalam) said: ‘The one who is killed defending his wealth is a shaheed, the one who is killed defending his religion is a shaheed, the one who is killed defending his life is a shaheed and the one who is killed defending his family is a shaheed.’ (narrated by at-Tirmidhi and it’s a saheeh hadeeth). And also in another authentic narration: ‘…and whoever dies beneath rubble is a shaheed.' And many of our brothers and sisters and children and the infants of this Ummah died these days, beneath destruction, and beneath this demolition, meaning beneath rubble, we beg for them shahadah and its reward and its level, with Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. And Allah is al-Kareem (’azza wajal). He will not disappoint whosoever went to Him hoping to please Him.

And Nizar Rayyan went in this attack, as did his wives and children, 13 from his family (in total). That man was from the people of Hadeeth, who studied the Prophetic Sunnah and adhered to it with his appearance, which you see in that beard and this Aqeedah. The Aqeedah of the Salaf that he adopted and for that we ask all the people of Palestine to make that man an example in adhering to the Sunnah of Muhammad ibn Abdullah (sallalahu ‘alyhi wasallam) in whatever is apparent and hidden, and to love the Aqeedah of the Salaf and to not come near the people of the kufri and misguided beliefs, and similarly to follow the sunan al-fitrah which entails letting the beard grow, since whosoever dies on the way of Muhammad ibn Abdullah (salalahu ‘alyhi wasalam) will be happy and we beg Allah to allow that man and his family to be among them.

وَيَمْحَقَ الْكَافِرِينَ

This is from the Divine wisdom. How will He eradicate them after He exposes their tyranny?. How will He eradicate them? After they committed many crimes, how will He eradicate them, after they deserved eradication and destruction due to their retaliation?. Their retaliation will continue and their tyranny will be exposed and for that, they must be eradicated since the law of Allah will not linger. However, we do not say when? Or why did it not come yet? Or (that) the destruction is late, because it’s all in Allah’s Hand, Our Lord, the Best Lord and the Best Helper, He will make it befall whenever He wills, Glorified is He. Ya Allah, hasten the relief of the Muslims.

http://sumoodan.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/and-he-takes-from-you-martyrs/