Assalamualaiakum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, Alhamdulillah,Nahmaduhu wa nusalli ‘ala Rasoolihil Kareem,Amma’Ba’ad…

Before beginning the actual ‘Solution to Palestine’ on the forefront, I would just like to pen down a true story for all of us.

Hammudi, as he was affectionately called by his mom, was a very happy 12 year old child.

One day, after playing in the hot summer afternoon, he went to the toilet. He observed that his urine had dark coloration like Pepsi.

His parents were worried and took him to the nearest clinic.The doctor there suggested him to rest for a few days and avoid playing in hot sunny noons,as a therapy,he asked the boy to have lots of water and fresh fruit juice.So the cure was done…

Some days later, Hammudi started growing weak and pale, sometimes to the extent of being unconscious. He was rushed to another medical facility soon. Two bottles of dextrose-glucose into him and lo! the boy was up again.

Weeks later Hammudi got headaches and fever continuously for some days. One more trip to the hospital and a three day antibiotic tablet course did the job. He was fine again.

One year had elapsed and on another happy summer morning, Hammudi felt dizzy, had regurgitation, headaches, fever, chills and dark urination all together! And this time the parents took the Taxi to ‘The Big City Hospital’, detailed scans and tests, only to realize that he had been suffering from Glomerulo Nephritis. A condition where the kidney doesn’t filter out the blood properly as a result of which many complications arise in the body.

Sadly to know, that all the previous instances of illness were actually symptoms of a much underlying disease.

Wallahi, most of us today are worried about the appaling condition of Palestine,and the Muslim Ummah as a whole.We need a solution for the Ummah and not just Palestine alone.

Some of us suggest to have a Khilafah once for all, some of us suggest revolutions and protests to demand our rights, some of our brethen demand an immediate military action against the oppressors,a good number also says that we need more ‘Muslim Engineers’ and ‘Muslim Doctors’ to uplift the Ummah,some say that focus has not been given to ‘humanitarian welfare and aid’ and much much more…

Don’t abuse or curse our rulers,they’re just the reflections of our deeds as a whole community.Pray that Allah guides them to Khair (goodness) just as you pray for the Muslims worldwide.

Each of the above has its own place,even though we may agree or disagree to some of the above,but we as individuals must focus on priorities for ourselves.We can’t run an empire without a good team and an army of experts…Or else it’d be like the medical case we just saw above…!

What we’re seeing as humiliation in Palestine is just a facet of the many problems we face.

The root cause to all the solutions of our problems lies in The Quran and Sunnah.

And if required we can quote volumes about it from The Quran and The Sunnah.

However one Ayah is enough for now as a summary of the solutions.We hear the solution every week in the Jumuah Khutbah…

Allah says in The Quran(33:70-71):- “..يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا.” “…يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ ۗ وَمَن يُطِعِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا.

”O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allah and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth. He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger (Sallahualihiwasallam) he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and made to enter Paradise).”

• *Today we want Allah to send angels for us,but how many of us know that Allah has created us to worship Him Alone and not do shirk(associating partners with Alah).
• *How many of us have spent time learning the Basic Belief of the Muslims?
• *How many of us have read and understood the Quran?
• *How many of us are ready to shun societal practices and Biddah for the Sunnah?
• *Are we really avoiding sins?
• *Do we have the Sahaba as our ideal heros to whom we look upto?
• *Do we have that Eeman to counter mountains and raze them to dust?

“No!”, then the need of the hour is to be good Muslims first,then only can we expect The Help of Allah.

Prioritize things,learn Islam like how the Prophet ﷺ taught the Sahaba,he taught them to be perfect in Tawheed for the first thirteen years in Makkah,and that is the heart of all problems,then came Salah,Sawm,Zakah and Hajj,and being away from sins and the other obligations.

Allah made this ‘team of heroes’ the rulers of Arabia. And then history witnessed the fall of the two superpowers of the day at the hands of the Islamic Caliphate.

No oppressor dared oppress any human being as long as the Muslims were faithful to their deen and Allah had given them power and Izzah (honour).

*Umar ibn Al-Khattab(Radialahuanhu) truly said: “We were the most humiliated people on earth and Allah gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.”*

May Allah give us back the honour and respect we once had and may Allah free our brothers everywhere from opression and tryanny.

Aameen.

-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna

Shaikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid replied:

(The text below is a part of his answer.)

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about the ruling on a man divorcing his wife if his father tells him to do that. He said:

If the father tells his son to divorce his wife, one of the following two scenarios must apply:

1 – Where the father gives a legitimate reason why he should divorce her and separate from her, such as saying, Divorce your wife because her behaviour is suspicious, such as she flirts with men or goes out to gatherings that are not decent and so on. In this case the son should agree and divorce her, because he is not telling her to divorce her on the basis of a whim, rather that is to protect his son’s honour from being besmirched, so he should divorce her.

2 – Where the father tells his son to divorce his wife because the son loves her, but the father feels jealous of his son’s love for her and the mother is more jealous, because many mothers, when they see that their son loves his wife, feel very jealous, as if the son’s wife is a co-wife and rival. We ask Allaah to keep us safe and sound. In this case the son does not have to divorce his wife if his father or mother tells her to divorce her. Rather he should be tactful with them and keep his wife, and he should try to convince them with kind words until they are persuaded that she should stay with him, especially if the wife is religiously committed and has a good attitude.

Imam Ahmad (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about this very issue. A man came and said: “My father is telling me to divorce my wife.” Imam Ahmad said to him: “Do not divorce her.” He said: “Didn’t the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) tell Ibn ‘Umar to divorce his wife when ‘Umar told him to do that?” He said: “Is your father like ‘Umar?”

If the father quotes evidence to his son and says, “O my son, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar to divorce his wife when his father ‘Umar told him to do that,” the response to that is: “Are you like ‘Umar?” But you should speak kindly and gently, and say that ‘Umar saw something which indicated that it was in his son’s interests to divorce his wife. This is the answer to this question which comes up frequently.

Al-Fataawa al-Jaami’ah li’l-Mar’ah al-Muslimah, 2/671.

The Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas was asked about a mother telling her son to divorce his wife for no reason or fault in her religious commitment, rather it was because of the mother’s personal reasons. They replied as follows:

If the situation is as described, that his wife is righteous and he loves her, and she is dear to him, and she does not behave badly towards his mother, and his mother only dislikes her for personal reasons, then he should keep his wife and stay married to her. He does not have to divorce her in obedience to his mother, because it was proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Obedience is only with regard to that which is right and proper.” Based on this, he should honour his mother and uphold ties of kinship with her by visiting her and spending on her, and paying attention to her needs and making her happy and pleasing her in whatever ways he can, apart from divorcing his wife.

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 2/29.

(For the entire answer see https://islamqa.info/en/47040)

Q)What is the ruling on plays and skits(Dramas) for the sake of Dawah in Islam?

The Ulama differed with regards to the permissibility of such *’Islamic Dramas’*, some of them say that it is altogether Haram and some say that it is allowed if some strict Islamic guidelines are observed.

Some of whom, from the Kibaar who totally prohibited Islamic Dramas are Shaikh Saleh ibn Fawzan Al Fawzan Hafidhahullah and Shaikh Al-Albani Rahimahullah.

*The Ruling on Comedy and Plays for Dawah (Shaikh Saleh Al-Fawzan)*

*The Ruling on Plays and Skits (Shaikh Saleh Al-Fawzan)*

*حكم التمثيل- الشيخ الألباني*

(Shaikh Alalbani mentions [in summary] that: (the Dramas involve) a lot of Mukhalafaat(opposition to the Shariah) like men imitating women (and vice versa) and a pious man imitating a sinner and vice versa…)

To read the view of Shaikh Muhammad ibn Saleh Al Uthaymeen Rahimahullah, who mentioned that Islamic Dramas are permissible with certain conditions, you may refer to:

https://islamqa.info/en/10836

Finally, I would like to add that it is always better to be on the safer side and avoid them, as almost all of the *so called* ‘Islamic Dramas’ have some or the other Mukhalafaat (opposition to the Shariah) in addition to the ones mentioned by Shaikh ibn Al-Uthaymeen.

Some of them are:

1. Using false jokes:

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Woe to the one who tells lies to make people laugh, woe to him.” (Narrated by Abu Dawood).

2. Acting and plays are like teaching Muslims to lie and pretend what they’re not. These are not praiseworthy things to learn. Such ‘Islamic drama actors’ learn to lie.

Al-Bukhaari (6094) and Muslim (2607) narrated that Ibn Mas‘ood (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “I enjoin you to be truthful, for truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man may continue to tell the truth and endeavour to be truthful until he is recorded with Allah as a speaker of truth. And beware of lying, for lying leads to wickedness and wickedness leads to Hell. A man may continue to tell lies and endeavour to tell lies, until he is recorded with Allah as a liar.”

3. Such Islamic Dramas are things which are not proven from The Sunnah and The Pious Salaf, they’ve entered us because of our immitation of The Kuffar and their ways. We should rather stop at where the Salaf stopped.

Imam Al-Awza’i said: “Patiently restrict yourself upon the sunnah, stop where the people (ie the companions) stopped, say what they say and refrain from that which they refrained. Traverse upon the path of your Salaf al-Salih, for indeed what was sufficient for them is sufficient for you.” (Al-Shari’ah of al Ajurri, pg58)

4. They involve wasting of time, for practicing dialogues which are useless in and of themselves.

5. Many Muslim dramas are increasingly using Anasheeds (Islamic songs) with or without music which the major scholars have warned against.

6. Using songs and couplets from the sinful and Fahish Hollywood/Bollywood movies on the pretext that we have extracted the music from them.Remember that almost all the people to prepare to sing such *musicless songs* from sinful movies do listen to the actual musical song to rehearse it.

7. Remember what Shaikh Al-Albani said, and see the plays today.

(Shaikh Alalbani mentions [in summary] that: (the Dramas involve) a lot of Mukhalafaat(opposition to the Shariah) like men imitating women (and vice versa) and a pious man imitating a sinner and vice versa…)

With all this, again do read the conditions set by Shaikh Al-Uthaymeen, it is very difficult to avoid all the *oppositions to the sharia* warned against by the scholars.

Hence like what Shaikh Saleh ibn Fawzan Al Fawzan mentioned, because of the numerous harms and evil, we will follow the view that they are impermissible and not allowed.

Wallahu Alam.

(Compiled and points added by Mohammed Manna)

14th July 2018