The Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood will remain a turning point in the history of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation (Getty)

In a public lecture at the Library of Alexandria, to which I was invited in the midst of the cultural and political work that filled the world and occupied people in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, I was asked in that lecture: What is my opinion about our relationship with Israel?

I replied: “I want a normal relationship between us and Israel”!!

Most of those present were disappointed, as my position on the Camp David Accords was declared and not hidden, and recorded in successive editions of my book: (On the Political System of the Islamic State); Likewise, my position on normalization, in all its forms, with the Zionist enemy was published in dozens of articles and recorded in a large number of television interviews.

Not long ago from the date of that lecture, I had engaged in a battle with the Sheikh of Al-Azhar at the time, on the pages of Egyptian newspapers, after he received a Zionist rabbi, and he said in response to his critics: “I spoke to him about the Palestinian right, and about the necessity of loosening the Zionist grip on the people of Palestine...” Or what this means. I responded to him with an article entitled: “My lord, Sheikh of Al-Azhar... I wish you had not met him or told him” [text in our book Arab and Egyptian Personalities and Positions, Dar Al-Ma’rifa, Beirut 2004, p. 185].

Then it was followed by another position of the Undersecretary of Al-Azhar - at that time - when a picture was published of him in the Egyptian and Zionist newspapers in which he was holding the arm of a Zionist rabbi, while they were leaving a session at a conference in a European country. The newspapers asked him about this picture, and he said: “There is nothing to be blamed for if I hold the arm of a colleague of mine because he is a cleric (!) So I published - in response to his position - an article entitled: “Hold on to evil” [previous source, p. 194]. After that, an intellectual and political battle began on the pages of Egyptian newspapers.

Welcome and hospitality

All of this was in front of the large audience, which was crowded with the main hall of the Library of Alexandria, so the faces were understandable, and the question marks on the faces were understandable!

Immediately after that, I said about our natural relationship with Israel: “There is an enemy with whom we have a truce, and every truce has an end, and there is no treaty in this world that has not been broken.”

Do not underestimate the audience’s welcome and warm welcome towards this answer, as it exceeded all imagination.

Unlawful control

Since all the colonial powers, and some Arab betrayals, enabled the usurping Zionist entity to be established on the land of Palestine, we feel towards it nothing but hostility resulting from the usurpation of Arab rights, the illegal control, by force, of Christian and Islamic sanctities, the continuous attacks on people and stones, the theft of wealth and the denial of rights. On their owners.

It is an enmity that prompted the people of the earth, the owners of the right, to make many attempts to confront this enemy using primitive means, which were the only ones available to them. The Zionist enemy was able every time to eliminate the attempt of the owners of the right to regain it by using military force that does not respect the law or adhere to morals. Human chivalry or moral value does not deter her from the oppressive transgressor.

A small group that believed in Arab rights, hated Zionist tyranny, was stationed on the land of Palestine, counting as much strength as it could, and building on faith in God and the certainty of the truth of His promise, the souls of men and women, giving them good tidings of the hadith of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, which was narrated by Abu Umamah Al-Bahili and others: “You will continue to... A group of my nation adheres to the religion and is victorious over their enemy. Those who oppose them will not harm them except what has befallen them of hardship (distress and distress) until the command of God comes and they are like that.” [Musnad Ahmad, No. 22320] And in some of his narrations it was said: O Messenger of God, and where are they? He said: “In Bayt al-Maqdis, and the outskirts of Bayt al-Maqdis.”

These Murabituns - whatever their organizational affiliations - are from this sect, which is steadfast in the truth, working to support it, offering its money and lives for its sake, and ultimately victorious, God willing, over its enemy.

These Almoravids were the ones who caused the surprise of October 7, 2023 AD = 22 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1445 AH [Al-Aqsa Flood].

This is what began the comprehensive war of liberation in Palestine, and it is the first step on the path to the demise of Israel and the return of the stolen homeland to its owners. Whoever wants to be sure of the truth of this should remember that (Al-Aqsa Flood) is the first battle in the history of the conflict with the enemy in which those who have rights begin to attack the usurping aggressors.

Yes! This is the first time that we have the initiative in our hands, and we have action, not reaction. I do not say the first time since 1948, but it is the first time since the beginning of Zionist settlement - under British auspices - that we have done this.

We brought (the Al-Aqsa Flood) and the Almoravids who created it from the captivity of (the object) to the freedom of (the subject). Indeed, it is great news, if you only knew.

Psychological defeat

Just as the Holy Land knew the “Almoravids,” it also knew types of deceitful “shiverers” whose words reveal the psychological defeat in their hearts, and the demonic possession they live under, to the point that they make them forget God’s promise of victory: “Indeed, We will give victory to Our messengers and those who believe in The life of this world and the Day when the witnesses will arise is the Day when their excuse will not benefit the wrongdoers, and for them will be the curse, and for them will be an evil abode.} [Ghafir: 51-52].

These trembling people say: What did the people of Palestine gain from this war launched by the resistance fighters (al-Murabitun) against the “State of Israel”?! Thousands were killed, many more were injured, and a large percentage of homes - or even entire residential neighborhoods - were demolished on the heads of their residents. Then we would have no victory, no matter how hard we tried, over the most powerful country in the Middle East


- they claimed! - and the fifth or seventh army in the world.

These people are ignorant, or ignore, that they intend to demolish the stone without caring about human rights. They are ignorant or ignore that those who built Gaza the first time can build it again and again.

They are ignorant, or ignore, that death with dignity, pride, and courage is a thousand times better - according to those with rational minds - than life with humiliation, humiliation, and surrender.

They are ignorant of, or ignore, the words of God - Blessed and Most High - to His Prophet and the Companions of His Prophet: {And do not become weak in seeking the people. If you are suffering, for they are suffering as you are suffering, and you hope from God what you do not suffer. They hope, and God is All-Knowing, All-Wise” (An-Nisa: 104).

They are ignorant of, or ignore - when they criticize us for the martyrs of the Almoravids - what Omar (may God be pleased with him) said to Abu Sufyan on the day of Uhud about the dead polytheists and the martyrs of the Muslims. He said: “They are not the same. Our dead are in Paradise and your dead are in Hell.”

Open soon

Only God knows when the fighting will stop, and when we will put down the pen and refrain from speaking out against the Almoravids and the Shivers. But after one hundred and sixteen days, we see that we are much closer to the day of conquest, the day of the demise of the usurping Zionist state, than we were on the day (Al-Aqsa Flood) began.

I do not say that it will happen tomorrow, but I say what the Lord of the Worlds said: “And they say, ‘When is it?’ Say, ‘Perhaps it will be soon.’” [Al-Isra: 51].

The hadith will be continued, God willing. and thank Allah the god of everything.