Do Not Bomb Thy Neighbor’s Eid: The Wrath of Typhoon and the Curse of Corruption

OV-10 Planes bomb Sulu during Eid prayer 2009

Barely a week after the Muslims suffered collective humiliation in Lupah Sug, Allah sent His forces to the region where all headquarters of Philippine military are situated, including the office of their commander-in-chief. The devastating havoc brought by Typhoon Ondoy upon the Philippine capital expressed well the anger of nature that no one ever doubted it was no less than a curse. Truly, “no one feels safe from the wrath of Allah except the disbelievers”.

This brings to mind what happened during the Battle of the Trench, when coalition of kuffar attacked the early Muslim community of Madina, and nature’s forces largely helped neutralized their powerful enemy. A sudden sandstorm blew towards the direction of the kuffar. It blinded their sights and destroyed their camps. Allah saved the Muslims that day from impending annihilation. The sandstorm took away the kuffar’s morale to fight and struck terror in their hearts. The next morning, they withdrew from the first Muslim homeland in shame and defeat.

We may not have prayed for the calamity to befall upon the kuffar at a particular place and time, but surely many of our eyes shed tears before Allah for the unprecedented aggression against our religion and homeland during Eid. We were expecting greetings and all we got were bombs. All our preparations for the day were ruined. Our communal joys turned into anger, and our holy day became a day of sorrow instead of festivities. The tyrants did hurt us and they made us all complain to Almighty God.

It is noteworthy that Ramadhan is a chosen time for the kuffar to attack Muslims. The end of Ramadhan also became their favourite time to humiliate us. Remember that the crusaders commenced their war against Islam by bombing Afghanistan during Ramadhan. Few years ago, they also hanged the leader of the sovereign Iraqi people during Eid. Perhaps, the kuffar never had any clue that Muslims are closest to God when it is Ramadhan. And definitely they are clueless how it is like being close to God.

How helplessly we watched the desecration of our Eid Prayer and places of worship by their jet planes, how deafening were the hours of shelling of our homeland during the time when we should be celebrating. And how clear was the anger of the crusading kuffar against us. In fact not a single kafir and munafiq condemned the incident. We all felt it, we all heard it and we had seen it all.

Some said that the September 21st Eid closely coincided with America’s September 11th and that the timing of bombardment may have been an anniversary retaliation for what happened to the Twin Towers of New York. Considering that Philippine soldiers take lessons from their American ‘advisers’, this is hardly a conspiracy theory but a fact.

If such is the case, then Lupah Sug is undoubtedly on the map of the crusader’s war against Islam. Alhamdulillah, God has chosen our nation to be in the rank of His favoured people. Being a declared enemy of Dajjal is an honour no believer could refuse. Anyhow, war had been waged against us by the kuffar and the munafiqun since time immemorial. And whether we like it or not, the enemies of Allah “will never be satisfied with us unless we follow their religion”.

All power and might belong to Allah. Throughout history of mankind, Allah had always destroyed or weakened tyrant nations with natural calamities. Just as the United States was disgraced by Hurricane Katrina, the Philippine government also is now brought to its knees by Typhoon Ondoy. Be warned though because series of divine punishments did not stop Fir’aun from oppressing Prophet Moses (AS) and his helpless people. Tyrants never learn until they meet their total destruction.

It should be noted that the United States became recipient of record number of hurricanes, devastating forest fires and destructive flooding when they began bombing Muslim nations. As a result, natural disasters wasted their time, sucked their resources and destroyed their capacity to recover. Hurricane Katrina was considered the worst natural calamity to strike the United States. It paralysed the mightiest nation on earth for weeks. It also exposed their weaknesses and poverty before the eyes of the world. And it became the first clear sign that the United States was no longer a ‘superpower’.

Similarly, the Philippine government’s bombardment of Muslim homeland during Eid’l Fitr Prayer was a clear indication of its ultimate downfall. After the epic flooding, Metro Manila will never be the same again. With presidential election next year, politicians will have no time and money to spend to help distressed citizens. The massive corruption they had been doing all these years is curse enough upon the Filipino people. There are huge budgets intended to maintain and improve cities but they prefer their pockets than the hearts and health of the masses. All the streets and canals of Metro Manila could have been flood-proof if all the money being used for bombs and bullets were instead diverted to fix it.

In a way, the wrath brought by Typhoon Ondoy served to remind them that there are better things to do right in their own backyard than wage war against their neighbour.

For the embattled Muslims in Lupah Sug, it is the best time for individual and collective reflection. For injustice to be checked, communal effort is needed because “God does not change the condition of people until they initiate effort to change themselves”. After the Eid humiliation, Tausugs shall never be the same again. We have to move on. We have to decide the destiny of our homeland. Tausugs have greater tasks at hand not just to our homeland but most especially to Islam.

The problems besetting Lupah Sug is old, deep and complex that apart from complete application of Allah’s religion on earth, there is no hope to change it anymore. We are living in the Dajjalic era, and “obeying Allah and His Messenger” is our only salvation.

It is very clear from the Eid day bombardment that we are in a state of war and the enemies of Allah left us no choice but to fight them. Every bomb that was dropped during Eid was a clear proof that the crusading armies are back. Seeing what happened to Metro Manila after the onslaught of Typhoon Ondoy, Tausugs may as well prefer war and enemy attacks rather than wait for the wrath of God.

“Allahumma a’izzal islaama wal muslimeen, wa adhillash shirka wal mushrikeen. Allahumma arinal haqqa haqqan warzuqnat tibaa’ah, wa arinal baatila baatilan warzuqnaj tinaaba.”

“Allahummansuril mujahideena wal mujaahidaati fiy Lupah Sug ayna maa kaanu Qaa-imun fiy sabeelika birahmatika ya Arhamar Raahimeen.”

Wasallallahu ‘alaa sayidinaa Muhammadin Wa’alaa aali wasahbihi ajma-in. Walhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘Alameen!