HIZBIYYAH
TRANSLATORS FOREWARD
Verily, all praise belongs to Allah, we praise him, seek his
help and we seek his forgiveness, and we seek refuge from Allah from the evils
of our souls and our deeds. Whoever Allah guides, none can lead him astray, and
whoever he leads astray, none can guide him. I bear witness that there is no
deity worthy of worship but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and messenger.
As for what follows, then the most truthful of speech is the book of Allah, and
the best of guidance is that of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be with
him, his household, his companions and all those who follow his path until the
day of resurrection.
O you who believe! Fear Allah as he ought to be feared and
die not except in the state of Islam(3:102)
O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a
single soul (Aadam), and from him (Aadam) He created his wife (Hawwa{Eve}), and
from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you
demand your mutual {rights}, and (do not sever the relations of) the wombs
(kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you.”(4:1)
O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allah and fear Him, and
speak (always) the truth. He will direct you to do righteous deeds and will
forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, peace be on
him he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the hell fire and made to
enter paradise) {3:70-71}.
As for what follows:
Understanding partisanship especially in these times of
calamity and strife is compulsory on every Muslim in order to safeguard himself
and his family from the corrupt beliefs and methodologies that have entered
into Islaam. This brief but I hope
beneficial message is a partial translation of the book ‘Al-Hizbiyyah’ by our
teacher Abd Raouf bn Bello from the original Arabic text. I included extra
footnotes marked with the letter M for further clarification at the suggestion
of the author himself. I hope that this work serves the desired purpose which
is to guide the Muslims from the darkness of partisanship into the light of
following the Prophet and the Righteous Predecessors in belief, worship,
manners and methodology because following the Prophet is key to guidance and
steering clear from misguidance: “This is My straight path, so follow it and
follow not diverse ways lest they lead you away from his way”. (6:154). And all
praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and may the peace and blessings
of Allah be on the soul of the noble prophet Muhammad, his family and his
companions until the day of resurrection, the day that neither wealth nor
children will be of benefit except the one who comes to Allah with a pure
heart.
INTRODUCTION
Verily, all praise belongs to Allah, we praise him, seek his
help and we seek his forgiveness, and we seek refuge from Allah from the evils
of our souls and our deeds. Whoever Allah guides, none can lead him astray, and
whoever he leads astray, none can guide him. I bear witness that there is no
deity worthy of worship but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and messenger.
As for what follows, then the most truthful of speech is the book of Allah, and
the best of guidance is that of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be with
him, his household, his companions and all those who follow his path until the
day of resurrection.
O you who believe! Fear Allah as he ought to be feared and
die not except in the state of Islam(3:102)
O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a
single soul (Aadam), and from him (Aadam) He created his wife (Hawwa{Eve}), and
from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you
demand your mutual {rights}, and (do not sever the relations of) the wombs
(kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you.”(4:1)
O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allah and fear Him, and
speak (always) the truth. He will direct you to do righteous deeds and will
forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, peace be on
him he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the hell fire and made to
enter paradise) {3:70-71}.
As for what follows:
Aboo Aaliyah, may Allah have mercy on him said, I read the
“Muhkam” (unambiguous verses of the Quran) after the death of your Prophet,
peace be on him, in ten years and Allah blessed me with two things, I do not
know which is better: that he made me a Muslim and that he did not make me a
harooree (a deviant sect in Islam AKA The Khawaarij). And with what this
successor of the companions of the Prophet said, I say: all praise to Allah who
made us Muslims, Salafees, Sunnis, Atharees.1
Not innovators in the religion, not partisans, not on
hizbiyyah, nor racists, nor blind followers, nor selfish extremists, nor
glorifying other than Allah. And we are hopeful for the good which is with our
Lord, Allah.
EXPLANATION OF THE WORD.
Perhaps O noble reader, you are repeating in your mind a
question which necessitates an answer and that is “why did I write on the topic
hizbiyah {partisanship}?” I will explain to remove any confusion. I wrote this
book with the intention to make the truth manifest to the student of knowledge
and also to the callers of Islam and societies(jamaa’at) in order for them to
firmly establish their souls and guard themselves and that they straighten
their path and reasoning. I wrote this book for the brothers [mobbish, riff
raff, ragtag] who put themselves in front to cure the people and yet cannot
distinguish between the hunter and the archer, or between the truth and
falsehood and between thin and fat. They are those who molded themselves like
the cattle. They do not know where they guide themselves either to the
slaughterhouse or the grazing field. And they are like parrots who repeat
whatever they hear without pondering and they make themselves like trumpets in
the hand of the musician, (that is, they follow blindly the statements and
actions of their leaders without sound evidence). I am writing this book to
inform the righteous brothers whom I deem, and I purify none above Allah, as
possessors of zeal and excellence in Islam, who are deluded by these groups of
despicable partisanship and do not know that emotion and zeal and self respect
alone are not sufficient. And specifically, if there is no sound understanding
of the religion, the emotions will be inverted and destroyed which none but
Allah can avert.
I wrote this book as a deterrent for the biased brothers who
are passionate and are on hizbiyah and I fear that the word of Allah is true
about them that: ‘Verily there are amongst the Jewish rabbis and Christian
monks who devour the wealth of the people in falsehood“. [Q9:34]. And the
statement of Ibn Masoud, may Allah be pleased with him [RA], “and they seek the adornments of this world with
the works of the hereafter.
WHAT IS HIZBIYAH?
Hizbiyah in the Arabic language is derived from the letters
h,z,b. It is said that the hizb of a man are his companions. Also coined from the
word is Hizbul Quran[companions of the Quran] . Hizb may mean a group. Also, it
means a group which gathered in order to fight the Prophets [Al-ahzaab]. Hizb
may also mean a hard, strong ground for the people of hizbiyah are usually hard
and strong in their partisanship. It may also mean a weapon, society or sect.
Its plural is ahzaab. And they [ahzaab] join forces to wage war on the group of
the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be on him. Finally, it may mean the
army of a man and the companions under his banner. Allah says:
And he who believed said:” O my people! Verily I fear for
you a fate like that day of disaster of the confederates [ahzaab] of old”.
Meaning the example of the people of Noah, Hud, Thamud and the people of
Madyan. That is hizbiyah in the grammatical sense. As for the legislative or
Shariah meaning, then it is a concept necessitating belief in allegiance and
disassociation based on the foundation of membership for collecting individuals
and leading them. Hizbiyoon is mentioned on the tongue of the one who utters it
in as much as he believes that they are on the truth with no partners from
other than them and that they are the most deserving of the help of Islam and
that whoever goes out of their fold loses out and Islam does not benefit such a
person.
Also, the great scholar and doctor, Abd Salaam bn Barjis
Abdul Kareem may Allah have mercy on him said: Al-hizb is coming together for a
specific purpose. It is said about the societies of the people that they are a
hizb. Allah says:
“Each group [hizb] rejoicing in what is with it as in
beliefs.”{23;53}.
And hizb could be praiseworthy or blameworthy. As for the
praiseworthy type, it is the Muslim congregation [jamaa’ah] that sticks to the
congregation with a clear leader, this is the group of Allah which Allah
mentioned about:
“They are the party of Allah. Verily it is the party of
Allah that will be successful”.[58;22]
As for the blameworthy partisanship, then it is leaving the
congregation of Muslims to other groups, meeting in order to split the
congregation and deviating from following the Islamic sharee’ah and instead
following vain desires from the group of shaytan. This is because they split
the group of Allah.
“So after the truth, what else can there be, save
error.[10;32]
“They are the party of shaytan. Verily, it is the party of
shaytan that will be the losers! [58:32]
Therefore, hizbiyah is a concept, and the adherents to this
concept are called ‘hizbiyoon’. Therefore, this word hizbiyah is a word which
has synonyms, some of which are harakiyah and harakiyoon or islamiyah and Islamiyoon.
Harakiyoon and Islamiyoon are people who work for Islam apparently, and they
see that the fiqh or understanding of the religion is not sufficient in
establishing Islam, until every individual affiliates his or herself to adherence
to da’wah or calling to Islam; commanding and prohibiting, and being heard and
obeyed, and what is preponderant is the fact that they accompany all of this
with an agreement and covenant [bay’ah] with somebody even if they are in a Muslim
land with a Muslim ruler as sultan. And because of this, we understand the reason
they are named harakiyoon; their evil opinion of the religion makes them
imagine that they do not move in severe opposition to the dominion of the Muslim
leaders, and that the fuqaha [plural of faqeeh which means a scholar of Islamic
jurisprudence] resemble the Sufi dervishes, not adhering to their movement.
This is because in their opinion, the fuqaha have become instruments in the
hands of the rulers and that they i.e the fuqaha have no knowledge.*
*This is well known in history as well as modern times. The
people of hizbiyyah pledge their allegiance to a man other than the established
Muslim ruler and seek to cause fitnah in the land. Also, they belittle the
scholars of Islaam and seek the direction of other than them, thus leading
themselves and the people astray. M
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