فتوى واقتراح على قارئي هذا الإنذار
A Fatwa and Proposal to the Readers of This Warning

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فتوى واقتراح على قارئي هذا الإنذار

إن من يبيع شيئًا من أرض فلسطين وما حولها لليهود أو للإنكليز فهو كمن يبيعهم المسجد الأقصى، وكمن يبيع الوطن كله؛ لأن ما يشترونه وسيلة إلى جعل الحجاز على خطر، فرقبة الأرض في هذه البلاد هي كرقبة الإنسان من جسده، وهي بهذا تعد شرعًا من المنافع الإسلامية العامة، لا من الأملاك الشخصية الخاصة، وتمليك الحربي لدار الإسلام باطل، وخيانة لله ولرسوله ولأمانة الإسلام، لا أذكر هنا كل ما يستحقه مرتكب هذه الخيانة، وإنما أقترح على كل من يؤمن بالله، وبكتابه، وبرسوله خاتم النبيين أن يبث هذا الحكم الشرعي في البلاد مع الدعوة إلى مقاطعة هؤلاء الخونة الذين يصرون على خيانتهم، في كل شيء من المعاشرة والمعاملة والزواج والكلام حتى رد السلام.

ورد في صحيح مسلم أن الله تعالى وعد رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم لأمته (أن لا يسلط عليهم عدوًّا من سوى أنفسهم، فيستبيح بيضتهم ولو اجتمع عليهم مَنْ بأقطارها) ... إلخ ما معناه حتى يكونوا هم الذين يفعلون بأنفسهم ذلك، وقد بينت في شرحه من جزء التفسير السابع (ص 495 و 496 طبعة ثانية) أنه ما زال مُلْك الإسلام عن قطر إلا بخيانة من المسلمين فتوبوا إلى الله أيها الخائنون.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَخُونُوا اللَّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُوا أَمَانَاتِكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ * وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْلادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ (الأنفال: 27- 28) .

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A Fatwa and Proposal to the Readers of This Warning

Whoever sells any part of the land of Palestine and its surroundings to the Jews or the English is like one who sells them al-Aqsa Mosque, and like one who sells the entire homeland. For what they purchase is a means of placing the Ḥijāz in danger. The land itself in these countries is like the neck in the human body. It is therefore legally regarded as one of the general interests of Islam, not as private personal property. Transferring possession in the Abode of Islam to a belligerent enemy is invalid and is a betrayal of God, His Messenger and the trust of Islam.

I will not mention here everything deserved by the perpetrator of this betrayal. I propose only that everyone who believes in God, His Book and His Messenger, the Seal of the Prophets, disseminate this legal ruling throughout the country, together with a call to boycott those traitors who persist in their betrayal—in every form of social intercourse and dealing, in marriage, in speech and even in returning a greeting.

It is reported in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim that God, exalted is He, promised His Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace, concerning his community: that He would not give an enemy from outside themselves power over them so as to violate their collective integrity, even if those from all its regions gathered against them, to the end of the report. Its meaning is that this can happen only when they themselves do it to themselves. In my explanation of it in volume 7 of the Tafsīr, pp. 495–496, second edition, I established that no territory has ever ceased to belong to the dominion of Islam except through betrayal by Muslims.

So repent to God, you traitors: O you who believe, do not betray God and the Messenger, nor knowingly betray your trusts. Know that your wealth and your children are only a trial, and that with God is a tremendous reward. [Qurʾan 8:27–28]

Analysis

Riḍā treats a land sale to any of יהודים YEHUDIM or to an English buyer as a transfer to a wartime enemy. He calls it legally invalid and a betrayal of Islam, then asks readers to boycott persistent sellers in trade, marriage, speech and even the return of a greeting. The ruling is antizionist because it seeks to block Jewish acquisition of land in ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL. The page establishes the scope of his published appeal in March 1935. It does not show that a court applied the ruling, that sellers were actually boycotted, or that the people he condemned had committed the betrayal he alleged. His religious quotation and historical claim about lost Muslim territory remain part of his argument, not independent proof of it.