On the Anniversary of Prophet Mohamad's Birthday – ‘In the Darkest Night, the Full Moon Is Missed’
Praise be to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), all his kinsfolk, companions, and followers till the Day of Judgment.
Now to the topic:
Our beloved Prophet Mohamad (Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) was born in 570 AD, during a dark and gloomy period in human history, when the prevailing civilizations at that time had reached the peak of tyranny, brutality, corruption, injustice, and enslavement of humanity:
In the East, there was the Persian civilization, where people used to worship and sanctify fire and were even divided into disproportionate classes that used to enslave each other.
In the West, there was the Roman Empire, which used to govern people with an iron fist, and plunder the nations’ wealth. During that period, the ruling classes reached the peak of lust and pleasure, while subjecting all other peoples to humiliation and degradation. Even those ruling classes would entertain themselves in stadiums and theaters by watching games like wrestling with hungry lions which prey on defenseless, poor humans.
As for the Arabs, they were dispersed and scattered during the pre-Islam era, some of whom were serving the Persians and others serving the Romans. They used to wage devastating wars for decades only for trivial reasons, which led to destroying crops and people, along with a corrupt pagan belief that made them worship stones and sanctify idols and planets.
In this regard, the English historian Wells summed this situation up, as he reportedly said, “Throughout its history, the world has never witnessed an era of injustice worse and more desperate than in the sixth century AD, until the emergence of Mohamad, the Prophet of the Muslims.”
In the midst of this pitch darkness, the best of Allah’s creation, the Prophet of Truth, and the Seal of Messengers, Mohamad ibn Abdellah (may Allah’s peace be upon him), was born to perform the greatest miracle: ﴾And We have not sent you, [O Mohamad], except as a mercy to the worlds.﴿ (Al-Anbiya: 107).
Through his sound teachings, Prophet Mohamad was able to make the Arabs “the best nation produced for mankind,” in terms of sound faith, correct worship, sublime morals, and refined conduct. Allah Almighty says: ﴾ O you who have believed – be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So, follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted..﴿ (Al-Nisa’: 135).
The Prophet (Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) set out manners and controls upon which the relationship with those who differ in belief is based, and how to deal with them – where these manners and controls are based on justice, not injustice, as Allah Almighty said: ﴾ Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly.﴿ (Al-Mumtahina: 8).
After few years, Muslims launched the call to truth to all peoples in the East and West simultaneously and defeated the Persian and Roman empires, where everyone united under the banner of the true religion, justice prevailed, and all the human races were treated on equal terms.
When man was liberated from all forms of slavery, his energies and creativity were unleashed, which led to the great Islamic civilization that prevailed upon the world for many centuries, including the Rightly-Guided Caliphate era, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Ottoman Caliphate, through the Andalusia civilization, from which the light was directed to the countries of the dark European continent.
Time had already turned, and the leadership of humanity shifted to the materialistic West, having derived the foundation of its renaissance from the civilization of Andalusia, freeing itself from the shackles of the Church and its superstitions. However, it was not long before tyranny, arrogance, and exploitation of most of the world's peoples emerged. The West occupied countries, plundered resources, and divided the world into spheres of influence. Then devastating world wars erupted, killing millions of people and destroying capitals and cities.
Today, the oppressive Western governments are gathering against our exhausted Islamic nation, summoning one another to attack us (‘as people when eating invite others to share their dish’, as the Prophet -PBUH- said in Hadith), with each one of them wanting to plunder the Islamic nation’s wealth and resources, occupy its lands, and expel its people. They have plundered billions, even trillions – by the use of subjection and degradation. They are now striking the Islamic nation in its most precious places and holiest cities (Jerusalem and occupied Palestine), wanting to turn proud Gaza into a kind of ‘Riviera’ for amusement and debauchery, even if that means exterminating all its people or completely displacing them.
Here are the accursed Zionists and hateful Crusaders dropping on Gaza bombs and missiles equivalent to seven atomic bombs, manufactured by America and governments of the fanatical West and then gifted to Israel, to drop them on a defenseless, poor people. So far, they have killed more than seventy thousand innocent civilians, and wounded a quarter of a million children, women and elderly people, and destroyed all of Gaza’s homes, mosques, hospitals, schools, universities, factories, farms, roads, wells, facilities and even all traces of life there.
In fact, all the West's claims of freedom, democracy, and human rights have been shattered, and all international organizations have been crippled, including the United Nations, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and human rights and humanitarian organizations. The Western world has revealed its brutal, racist reality, which violates all taboos in the name of supremacy, domination, and control.
This immorality is shamelessly disguising in an alleged religious cover – they kill in the name of God!! They violate the land in the name of ‘Greater Israel,’ they bring red cows to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, planning to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and all the Muslims' holy sites in the name of building “The Temple”, in preparation for the coming of their alleged Messiah!
Western civilization has gone broke (of ethics) and its satanic, immoral reality has been exposed – even to its own people and youth – who have been misled by decades of falsehood and Zionist propaganda.
At the same time, the true nature of the genuine, good, faithful, pure, and pious people of Palestine has been revealed. They have been patient and resilient in the face of the disappointments and hardships that befell them, clinging to their land, their holy places, and the heritage of their ancestors, sacrificing their lives and everything they owned in defense of their faith and Islam.
The true nature of this great religion has also become apparent when people around the world were wondering about the true nature of this profound faith that has endowed the Palestinian people with such amazing resilience, good patience, and endurance beyond what any human being could bear. It is the sincere faith and deep connection with Allah Almighty that drives contentment and submission (to Allah Almighty) along with heroism and resistance. It is the morals of the noble Prophet and his patient companions.
The huge difference between the great Islam that truly respects human rights, protects human blood, property, and honor, treats all people on equal basis, and achieves justice and equality for them, and the "fanatical Judaism" that views its followers as God’s chosen people above all humanity, or the "arrogant Crusaders" that seek to subjugate all people to their tyranny and oppression with the use of blood and fire.
It will not be long before truth triumphs and falsehood is defeated, and the Arab and Islamic nation returns to the origin of its existence and the secret of its strength, renaissance and life, namely, that great religion – with the Quran revealed from heaven, and the Sunnah (tradition) of its infallible Prophet Mohamad (may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him). Then, the lost and misguided humanity will turn to the message of the Seal of all Messengers, Prophet Mohamad, in which salvation from all of humanity's pain and injustices lies.
It is to be mentioned that following World War II, the English philosopher Bernard Shaw visited Cairo, where journalists, authors, reformers, and philosophers flocked to him, asking: "Oh great philosopher, is there a way out of these devastating wars that have devoured everything?" He famously said: "Ah... it is philosophies that have ruined the world. What the world mostly needs is a man like Mohamad (PBUH) to solve its complex problems while he has a cup of coffee!"
O lost and confused Arabs and Muslims, go back to your true religion and hold fast to it. ﴾O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life...﴿ (Al-Anfal: 24).
The world is in need for you when you proclaim the idea of Islam – the most powerful of all ideas, when you call for the most sublime call of Allah, and when you present to them the Quranic Sharia (Islamic law), the most correct of all laws. O lost and tormented humanity, this is your opportunity for guidance to the true religion. ﴾ O People of the Scripture, there has come to you Our Messenger making clear to you much of what you used to conceal of the Scripture and overlooking much. There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book. By which Allah guides those who pursue His pleasure to the ways of peace and brings them out from darknesses into the light, by His permission, and guides them to a straight path.﴿ (Al-Maidah: 15-16).
And the last of our call will be, "Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds!"
Dr. Salah Abdel Haq
Acting Muslim Brotherhood General Guide
(Saturday, 12 Rabi' al-Awwal 1447 AH / 4 September 2025 AD)