My Enemies and Your Enemies

MashaAllah how perfect is our Quran, that it calls us to action.

So many times it contrasts the believers with those who disbelieve as a means of giving us the impetus to out do them in every way.

And yet most Muslims pay no heed, and slumber, thinking that belief is some static quality that God confers on whom He will.

Read now in Salaat- Al-Maun, the small kindnesses, and stop as the Messenger (saw) stopped on the verse "So woe upon those who worship", pause before continuing on to "those who are heedless of their prayer".

Feel the power of the recitation.

How it contrasts the believers and the disbelievers.

Then think!

Do you really think that the disbelievers, those who deny the Deen, that they as a general rule repell the orphans, treating them as an enemy because they have an undeniable right, and urge not the feeding of those in need?

That is not the message here.
That that is who they are.

Because Allah t'ala then rebukes you who stand in prayer- you are the subject, not them.

The contrast is phenomenal, because it is brought to a head with a rebuke upon yourself by God, Himself.

Not because God wants to rebuke you, but because He wants for you to not be like the disbelievers, to outdo them in every way.

To care for the orphan with an exemplary care.

To look after the needy, and to urge with an ernestness that others should do too.

That every small daily good deed can make a difference to people's lives, and each are valuable.

And now Who are the enemies of God?

"My Enemies and Your Enemies" the conjunction is a conjunction of two separate entities, and occurs many times in the narrative of the Quran.

The clear answer is that Your Enemies, refering to the enemies of the Messenger (saw) are the disbelievers who fought against him and the believers.

And therefore by extension God is declaring that HIs Enemies are the hypocrites, who are amongst us professing belief, but who do not really believe.

And if they were in the best of generations, the first generations of our Messenger's Nation, do you think they would not be amongst us even now?

And God calls them HIs Enemies, and you take them as your friends?

Our religion is not a religion of passivity, despite us being called Muslim- those that willing surrender. 

Our book tells us to surrender to the Most Merciful and then to be His representatives in the creation of a better World, and not to accept the Status Quo!

Indeed after the greatest of verses, Al-Kursi, which is itself prefaced with a verse that urges for you to give and spend in contrast with those who disbelieve, after the verse of the Kursi, Allah t'ala tells you about the disbelievers:

They are the passive ones who aid and help their oppressors when they oppress them, and have doubt that doing wrong and oppression of others is nothing but an oppression upon your very own soul.

That the disbelievers are the Awliyyah, protecting friends of those that oppress them. 

That their leaders when they wrong, they aid them in the wrongdoing.

But we are not those people.

And when we come to know that someone is not truthful, that takes from the believers without giving an acount of himself, then we shun them, and we leave their case with God. 

For they are God's enemies.

Do not let their sweet words begulie your eyes, for ever God raises amongst our Nation liars to see the truth of your soul, whether you will be an actor for good and right no matter how fair seeming they might seem to be.

Or whether you will be a pacifist who takes the words of the Quran for a melody, and not a book which will prove your truth?

Knowledge is through study and contemplation. 

And contemplation is an action that you make within yourself.