Some people, not out of love for Ali but rather out of hatred for Muawiyah, are now digging up old graves after the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei. They argue that by supporting Bashar al-Assad in Syria, he became responsible for the killing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims. Likewise, they accuse him of secretly siding with America against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, or of expressing joy at Saddam’s death, and so on and so forth. After his martyrdom, they are presenting a charge sheet against him and expressing satisfaction and even happiness, while also advising others not even to express sorrow over his death.
But such people forget, first and foremost, the command of the Shariah. Secondly, if digging up old graves and assassinating characters becomes the standard, then the matter will go very far indeed, and no one will be able to endure its consequences. If we speak only of Saddam Hussein, he himself became the absolute ruler of Iraq through military coups, conspiracies, secret political maneuvers, and by removing numerous opponents from his path. He seized power through a secular, socialist, and nationalist party. His so-called government was not an Islamic government either.
Consumed by the ambition of becoming the sole leader of the Arab world after Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein launched a devastating eight-year war against Iran immediately after the Islamists overthrew the American-backed Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Acting with American encouragement and support, Saddam sought to occupy Iran and gain control of its oil fields. During this war, he used horrific chemical weapons to massacre civilians in Iran, while America and Western powers themselves supplied him with those deadly weapons.
The scale of this brutality can be understood from the fact that nearly one million people were killed in the Iran-Iraq war. Afterward, he used the same poisonous gas against the Kurdish Muslims of his own country—a people linked to the nation of Salahuddin Ayyubi. This genocide became known as the Anfal Campaign, during which between fifty thousand and one hundred eighty-two thousand innocent people were slaughtered.
Drunk on power, he even invaded Kuwait in order to seize its oil fields, causing thousands more deaths. Thus, his rule became nothing but a tragic tale of bloodshed and destruction. The Arab rulers who had once supported him became deeply terrified after Kuwait and began to see him as the greatest threat. Using all of this as a pretext, America established its military bases throughout the Gulf states. Yet when he was ultimately killed at the hands of the Pharaoh of the age, the Muslim world forgot all of his crimes and elevated him too to the rank of martyrdom. We ourselves do not wish for his evils to be discussed now either. But since his name was brought into the discussion, all of this had to be written.
Secondly, if Ali Khamenei expressed happiness over Saddam’s death, does that mean you also wish to do the same now?
Thirdly, did Saudi Arabia not support the overthrow of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Egypt? Did it not provide every kind of financial and military support for the killing and displacement of thousands of Islamic people, the imprisonment of major ministers of the Morsi government, the torture of supporters in prisons, and the systematic destruction of Islamists through oppression and suffering in jails? Were not the Saudi and Emirati rulers behind all of this?
Yes, even today, if Mohammed bin Salman, whom the world criticizes and whose name is repeatedly mentioned regarding the Khashoggi murder and the Epstein files, were nevertheless to stand against the Pharaoh of the age, support the oppressed, strive for the liberation of Al-Quds from Israel, and support the resistance of the people of Gaza, then if he too were to die upon this path, the Ummah would grant him the rank of martyrdom and raise him upon its shoulders. The heart of the Ummah is vast and broad-minded, but let them first prove themselves through action.
When the battle is between an Israeli Dajjali disbeliever and a Muslim who outwardly professes the Kalimah, even if he may be sinful—then the demand of faith is precisely this, that the Muslim be supported, defended, and stood beside. This is the principle of Islam. This is the command of the Shariah, clearly explained by the great scholars and jurists.
Then how can any Muslim dare to dig up the past sins of one who professes the Kalimah while standing against a disbeliever, exposing his faults, humiliating him, and disgracing him? To curse and condemn those who wage jihad and attain martyrdom while fighting oppressive, tyrannical, and anti-human disbelievers is, in reality, akin to assisting the disbelievers themselves. This is an insult to faith and a satanic tactic to divide Muslims before the forces of disbelief.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah powerfully explains this very principle, “The intelligent person chooses the better of two goods and accepts the lesser of two evils.”
He then further says:
“Do you not see that Ahl al-Sunnah, even though they say what they say regarding the Khawarij, the Rawafid, and other people of innovation, still do not assist the disbelievers against them, nor are they pleased with the dominance of disbelief and its people, even if what stands against it is a lesser innovation…” (Minhaj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah, Vol. 6, p. 375)
This reality shines today as clearly as the sun. When the enemies of Islam are attacking with full force, Muslims must strengthen their ranks, conceal one another’s weaknesses, and stand firmly in support of anyone who professes the Kalimah, even if outwardly sinful. Yes, Iran committed grave mistakes regarding Syria and Iraq, and it is precisely because of those mistakes that matters have reached this stage today. But now is not the time to repeat those errors.
For the dominance of disbelief is a thousand times more hateful and destructive than innovation. The issue here is the unity of the Muslim world and standing united against Dajjali powers. As long as Europe and America continue destroying one Muslim country after another by using other Muslim nations as tools under various pretexts, and as long as we continue clapping and saying: “Saddam was a tyrant, so he was killed; he was not Shia,” “Then Gaddafi was killed,” “Morsi was overthrown because they were Ikhwani and not Salafi,” “Massacres were carried out in Sudan,” “The Houthis and others in Yemen are being crushed because they are not from us,” “Afghanistan was destroyed because they are not from us,” “The Iranian president was martyred,” “The major leaders of the Palestinian resistance were assassinated one by one,” and now “Khamenei was martyred because he was not Sunni”—if we continue comforting ourselves with such reasoning, then what kind of wisdom is this?
At more than 30 military bases, US commanders reportedly told soldiers that the war against Iran is “part of God’s plan” and linked it to “Armageddon” — the final battle between truth and falsehood. One commander allegedly stated that Trump had been “chosen by Jesus to ignite the signal fire in Iran so that Armageddon may begin.”
According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), it has received more than 110 similar complaints in which this war was described as “Biblically justified” and portrayed as a sign of Christianity’s “End Times.”
One by one, everyone’s turn is coming, because the enemy seeks to establish its Dajjali global order. So how long will we remain trapped in division and sunk in a deep slumber? When will we finally come to our senses?