I do not hide the fact that I am ashamed to address my speech to you, Al-Marabitoun! There is a difference between the warrior and the spectator! But when your letter reached my ears, I realized that advice and correction is a civilizational, social and political trust, and I ask God to forgive my missteps and shortcomings! Yes, it has been said that not everyone who does not fight is a mujahid, but not everyone who does not fight is sitting or crawling, and not everyone who fights is a mujahid for the sake of truth! There are those who fight with the pen and awareness, and others who fight with all their details, and for these we have a degree.
But we must be careful not to use combat or intellectual jihad to serve the interests of one or the other! You and our brothers in Palestine are on the bats of fighting and defending existence, and death may knock on your door at any moment. Be careful not to meet Allah in sin! Beware that your existential defense is limited to geography and not civilization, the cultural self and the Arab and Islamic body! And do not be tempted by jihad, as it may be an argument against you! It is not an end in itself but a means to an end! So look carefully! Is this jihad achieving the end or is it unintentionally politically manipulated to achieve the social and cultural goals of the other in the absence of our civilizational goal that we are charged with achieving!
I know, Mujahid.
Our battle today is not a military one, nor is it a struggle for geographical existence only, but for civilizational, cultural and social existence! Either we preserve the body of the nation or we tear it apart with our speeches, attitudes, and disregard for the importance of the word and its role in distorting awareness and managing public opinion in an irresponsible manner!
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) warned us: “A man may speak a word that he does not care about and fall seventy khareefs into the Fire!” Do not underestimate the word in exchange for weapons! Believe me, if you buy the weapon with the word, that’s a bad division! Today, we are stationed on a combat and cultural front, and every scientist, thinker, and speaker who does not speak the truth and whose fatwas and statements favor this or that political actor is a crawler, but I do not exaggerate if I say that he is fighting in the ranks of others!
I don’t hide from you, Abu Ubaydah, it’s a big deal!
You are oblivious to the consequences and danger of the cultural and awareness front! Your statements, which are eagerly received by the youth, the public, the elites and public opinion, assassinate the nation’s consciousness instead of being its backbone! In one way or another, it promotes the culture of the criminal party and the Iranian actor who has criminalized our civilization and our people! It killed, displaced and abused the descendants of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, destroyed their homes and cities, tore apart their incubators, violated their honor and raped their daughters in the Levant, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq!
How can you, my brother, glorify this civilizational invader and exalt him in the mind and emotion of the nation! Know, Abu Ubaydah, that if the combat front does not support the social awareness front and does not take this front into account, in this way it feeds the cultural and social projects of the other side with the blood of our sons and daughters, our families and our civilization! Do not think that the military battle, which is limited to preserving a geographical spot only, is more important for the Arab and Islamic nation and civilization than preserving social, religious and civilizational awareness! This is what the usurper entity realizes and we have not yet realized it! Therefore, we find this entity’s treasure in the human element and its weak point is the cultural and social malfunction it suffers from, and everything else is variable! Despite its victory, it is always smiling and claiming grievances because one of the most important reasons for its existence is based on cultural grievances, and it is not ready to lose one of the factors of its cultural existence! While our Arab culture is ashamed of the solidarity of its peoples and its cultural, popular and human strengths! Our regimes always claim victory and turn a blind eye to recognizing defeat, because their existence is based on selling illusion and the truth is that the illusion of victory is the same as defeat! Simply because it disrupts social thinking and disrupts human behavior and strips it of its motivation, as it is naturally victorious in its imagination! The place for him is a place of celebration, not re-evaluating issues, diagnosing reality, preparing plans and transforming them into projects that can organize civilizational energies towards the right direction in order to achieve victory! From me to you, Abu Ubaydah, a descendant of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, I say it with awareness, love and reproach: You are from us, so are we from you?
In your recent speech, you could not help but call the Iranian invaders, Hezbollah’s neighbors and the criminal Hassan leaders and flag-bearers of the nation! You appealed to the nation’s scholars and criticized their lax attitude and marveled at their inaction! In your speech, you asked, “Are they waiting for Al-Aqsa to be demolished?” You called on them to “mobilize scholars to explain the reality of the conflict and the gravity of what is happening to the holy sites and the Palestinian people!” You called on them to “declare jihad to support the land and Al-Aqsa and the need to absent the sectarian discourse that is tearing the nation apart!” Advising your brothers, whom you called “the descendants of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Hanbal and Al-Azz ibn Abd al-Salam!”
I do not hide from you, Abu Ubaydah, that you did not speak with the same nation!
Rather, your speech is based on political pragmatism, which is undoubtedly dangerous and does not reflect positively on the interest of the nation, the resistance, or the Palestinian cause. Because it empties the Arab and Islamic popular incubator around the Palestinian cause and cuts it off from the civilizational body! This is what Iran wants and what the Israeli occupation seeks to achieve! Yes … this is the Iran that abandoned all Arab capitals and wreaked havoc on our Arab and Islamic lands and any corruption! All this in preparation for the empowerment of the Israeli occupation today! So why are you wasting your brothers! Abu Obeida, you are from us, so are we from you!
You have to realize, Abu Obeida, that Iran will not look at Gaza and Palestine in a way that contradicts its policy in all Arab capitals and the civilized body of this nation! You are wrong if you trade your brothers and sons of your nation for weapons and equipment! You are selling us cheaply! You are also wrong if you think for a moment in this period of time that you are the white bull that the occupation is devouring and the nations are vying for its castle! Haven’t you seen what Iran has done to Damascus, Baghdad, Beirut and Sana’a? Simply put, the Israeli occupation is aimed at defending authoritarian regimes and dismantling Islamic and Arab civilization, and this is what Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the rest of the functional arms in our Islamic and Arab body!
Abu Ubaydah, didn’t you see?
The Israeli occupation would not have dared to bite into our territories before the Arab Movement because it feared our social and cultural strength! It ruled out normalization in the first place for fear of cultural assimilation! In other words, the lack of peace with our country was a Zionist will, not an Arab one! But now I do not exaggerate if I say that Iran and its functional arms brought him to our country safely after displacing us, killing us, and dismantling our cultural and social system! To turn us into a weak cultural force in front of this Zionist invader! This invader who lacks the cultural element and saw that the solution is to weaken the surrounding cultures and used the arms of Iran and Hezbollah to turn the incubators of the Levant and the Arabs into weak cultural chickens that do not pose a threat to its civilizational, humanitarian and cultural existence! The funny thing is that some hold the responsibility for this incursion and what is happening today to the viewer and the victim who ate the candy as a matter of social humor and rejoiced at the death of the criminal at the hands of the criminal! As if spontaneous popular joy needs security approval or a legal fatwa from the authorities! Everything has become politicized, even feelings! This is the reality of an absent civilization ruled by criminals, guarded by priests, and legitimized by major countries that kill in the name of the sacred law! That law carved by the strong to enslave, kill and abuse the weak and their civilization and beliefs!
Do you really, Abu Obaida, still think that the fact that the people of the Levant and the rest of the afflicted body do not support Hezbollah emotionally is sectarianism? Do you really think that someone’s post on social media expressing their joy at the death of the criminal is sectarian? Why don’t you understand the motives of the joy and speech of these afflicted people and ask them to understand the motives of your positive speech against the Iranian aggressor and its criminal militias! Knowing that the behavior of public opinion cannot be logically and scientifically assimilated, while the behavior and rhetoric of the resistance leadership is very easy to manage and assimilate! And is it true that what you described as the sectarian rhetoric of the people of the Levant is from the fragmentation of the nation! What do you call the sectarian behavior of Iran and Hezbollah that you condone in your rhetoric? Does their behavior unite the nation? Is it closer to God? This senseless Safavid-Zionist behavior that abuses, kills and displaces your brothers in the Levant does not concern you! We are the children of a religion whose compass is the one body that, if one member complains, the rest of the members will help it! We are the children of a religion that says to the holiest place in the world: The destruction of the Kaaba stone by stone is lesser in the eyes of Allah than the shedding of a Muslim’s blood! Our compass is the Muslim human being, not graves, shrines, mosques, gas and oil wells, and sources of funding and armament! I was wrong when I described it as sectarian rhetoric! We are not sectarian! We do not evoke history with our enmity with Iran, Hezbollah and their terrorist arms! We are evoking the present … today….. but the hour! We are against Hezbollah and Iran because they are the ones who enabled everything the Israeli occupation is doing today! O Abu Obeida, we are from you, so are you from us!
You called us the descendants of Ibn Taymiyyah of Damascus!
But I want to remind you that we are also the sons of the Syrian Qassam under whose banner you are fighting! Yes, we are the ones who have been overwhelmed by this civilization of Hezbollah and Iran! The Qassam who demolished the idol of place and borders! The Muslim was his compass and this explains why he came to defend Palestine! But with your rhetoric! You create an idol that Qassam demolished, which is the place, geography and sanctuaries that make stones a priority and turn the human being into a secondary element! Know that liberating Al-Aqsa before liberating man turns Al-Aqsa into an idol to be worshipped by humans! If we liberate man before Al-Aqsa, then the liberation becomes meaningful and civilized! O Abu Ubaida, the compass is the compass, and civilization is not built by pragmatism, but by sacrifice, attitude, and correcting the compass with a little bit of balance!
In your speech, you called on the scholars to rise up and declare jihad to save what you described as “our people”! In fact, Abu Obeida, this is a grave and irresponsible mistake, there is no our people and your people! We are one people, one blood, one destiny, and there is no holy blood and unholy blood! Unless you are calling for the creation of another body other than the one called for by the Holy Prophet! Originally, you are asking the scholars of Islam to declare jihad! The question arises: Aren’t we the ones you are calling on the scholars to call on!
I ask you, by Allah, how can these people fight with you and join you when you treat their killing and tearing them apart as if it were a secondary matter not worth mentioning! Not only that, but you glorify their murderer and call him a martyr of Jerusalem and insistently! What contradiction and what disregard for your brothers, your civilization, and the body of the Ummah that you are making! Do you know, Abu Ubaydah, that your attitude and behavior leads to the disruption of the emotional public opinion about the intifada for Al-Aqsa and for the Muslims in Palestine! Do you know that you bear the responsibility of disrupting this social movement! Because you are tampering with the instincts and emotions of Muslims out of nowhere!
How can you call on scholars to call on your people in the Arab and Islamic world to call for jihad to liberate Gaza in Palestine and describe their murderer as a martyr of Jerusalem! Believe me, these calls are not in favor of the cause, religion, or Islamic and Arab unity! What is happening is the dwarfing and commoditization of the cause! Such calls and statements push the public and Arab and Islamic public opinion to turn against Jerusalem and Palestine! It doesn’t stop there! Inviting scholars and mobilizing their religious discourse in favor of the political actor with unprecedented shamelessness would push people to turn against the subjectivity of religion, and this is what Iran wants and the occupation seeks!
The local international political tyrant today seeks to trim the nails of the Iranian military project in favor of local political actors and regimes after it has become entrenched and entrenched! This tyrant wants to dismantle the general Arab and Islamic culture by planting and cultivating cultures that do not exist! This tyrant seeks to turn Iranian and Hezbollah militias into cultural centers that aim to float Shiite culture to be the dominant culture for its unity of reference and ease of management and political employment!
Especially since such functional models have proven to be very successful in the current historical stage! This culture, which you market through your speeches without realizing it, is politically intended to be socialized to transform our culture into a functional culture and our energies into sleeper cells that can be politically activated at any moment the other wants! Such a culture to be marketed, its strength and importance to the local and international political actor is that it is employable and destructive and not capable of civilizational construction in a state of stability! Beware and stop, you are responsible!
To all those who say that there is no criticism during the war, I say that criticism can only be during these occasions and at their time, because now the deeds are raised to the pages of history and now history records the national, cultural and intellectual narratives, documents the traitor, martyr and mujahid, sculpts awareness, concepts and terminology, and approves historical and cultural narratives, and we will not allow anyone to tamper with concepts, distort the truth and make the traitor a mujahid and the mujahid a traitor, let you know, Abu Obeid, that I speak in the name of Qassam’s grandchildren in Sham, Sanaa, Baghdad and Lebanon to tell you with love and honesty: You are from us, but are we from you?
Scientific Office
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Dr. Dr. Alaa Rajab Tabab
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