The Egyptian Islamic thinker and legal jurist, Dr. Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, “The Al-Aqsa Flood” made everyone see that conquering Israel is possible (Al-Jazeera)
The great Islamic thinker, Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, believes that the windows of the Arab world, especially its youth, have opened to the field of resistance, the fruits of which are all directed towards restoring the stolen Palestinian right, after October 7, 2023.
In his interview with Al Jazeera Net, Al-Awa considers that many of the active forces in Arab societies have changed their view of Western values in implementation, “and have become certain that they are merely slogans for export, or at most for local consumption in their countries, but their implementation in any matter concerning Arabs, Muslims, Africans, or Asians, regardless of their religion, are subject to Kharth al-Qataad.”
Al-Awa is an Egyptian Islamic thinker and legal jurist, born in 1942. He is the former Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, President of the Egypt Society for Culture and Dialogue, and a founding member of the Arab Team for Islamic-Christian Dialogue. He obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Comparative Law from the University of London in 1972, and wrote many articles. In scientific, religious and cultural magazines and newspapers, he participated in many legal, Islamic and educational scientific conferences and seminars in various parts of the world.
Al-Awa served as Deputy Public Prosecutor of Egypt and was appointed as a lawyer in the State Lawsuits Authority in Egypt. He worked as a professor of Islamic law and jurisprudence in a number of Arab universities. He is a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo and the International Islamic Jurisprudence Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. So to the dialogue:
What are the implications of the Al-Aqsa flood in the life and reality of the Arab countries in general and occupied Palestine in particular?
The Al-Aqsa flood is a new, effective engine for the Arab and Islamic peoples, and especially for the ancient Palestinian people after a long period of stagnation, as if to say that we are capable of confronting the Zionist enemy and inflicting the greatest losses on it until its deception leaves our occupied land so that rights can return to their owners.
This significance alone is sufficient to celebrate the Al-Aqsa flood, to glorify the heroic Mujahideen who planned it and carried it out ably, and to push fathers and mothers in the entire nation to a new outlook in raising sons and daughters on the principles of truth, justice, strength, and sanctifying freedom.
Why did Arab thinkers, intellectuals, and religious scholars express their willingness to participate in the Al-Aqsa flood and fight the Israeli occupation? Does their preference for military resistance mean a loss of hope in intellectual and political projects in the Arab world?
I believe that thinkers, intellectuals, and religious scholars in the entire Arab world have long lost, perhaps immediately after the Camp David Accords, any hope for an intellectual or political project to resolve the Palestinian issue.
The Al-Aqsa flood was a new window of light, which made a significant number of them declare their willingness to participate in the Al-Aqsa flood and fight the Zionist occupier.
The Al-Aqsa flood came to put an end to the illusions related to the peace process, and to normal relations between the occupying Zionist and all Arabs, Muslims and Christians.
In my opinion, the Arab nation should not have abandoned the option of armed resistance from the beginning in its confrontation with the Zionist enemy, which only understands the language of force, does not fulfill a covenant, and does not respect an agreement. The Al-Aqsa flood came to put an end to the illusions related to the peace process and the natural relations between... The Zionist occupier and all Arabs, Muslims and Christians.
Some thinkers believe that the Al-Aqsa flood revealed the conflict of interests between the “axis of resistance” and the Palestinian resistance in particular.. Can the Arab world confront the political and military unity of the countries of the West without one of the components of the Arab region?
I see the opposite, as the Al-Aqsa flood created a tremendous rapprochement between the axis of resistance in the entire region and the Palestinian resistance in particular. I have no doubt that those in charge of the resistance are fully aware of the importance of political and military unity, and above all intellectual unity, for the Arab peoples and their countries. Because without this unity, we are unable, not only to resist the West, but even to resist the Zionist enemy despite its dispersion and fear of the idea of resistance itself.
The Al-Aqsa flood created a tremendous rapprochement between the axis of resistance in the entire region and the Palestinian resistance in particular. I have no doubt that those in charge of the resistance are fully aware of the importance of political and military unity, and above all intellectual unity, for the Arab peoples.
Did the “Al-Aqsa Flood” open a new cultural, existential and political phase? What are the features of this stage? What are its most important pillars and areas?
The Al-Aqsa flood opened the windows of the Arab world, especially its youth, to the fertile field, I mean the field of resistance, the fruits of which are all directed towards restoring the stolen Palestinian right and restoring the Arab dignity that was wasted since the establishment of the Zionist state - and even before its establishment - and continued to be wasted until the seventh day of October. The first is 2023, when the Arabs saw - as the world saw - that defeating the enemy is possible and that confronting him without regular armies will cause him heavy losses that he cannot bear. The mere presence of these facts in the minds of Arab youth opens the doors to a new cultural, political, and even existential phase, the most important features of which are feelings. With the ability to confront, with strength in confronting tyranny, and with the effectiveness of intellectual, cultural and political resistance, as well as military resistance in obtaining stolen rights, including the right to restore occupied countries.
The Arabs saw - as the world saw - that defeating the enemy was possible, and that confronting him without regular armies would cause him heavy losses that he could not bear. The mere presence of these facts in the minds of Arab youth opened the doors to a new cultural, political, and even existential stage.
Before the Al-Aqsa flood, the Arab world was besieged by the Western political model and its Western values. Was the vision clear for the Arabs, rulers, peoples, parties, and civil organizations?
I think that the vision is not yet clear, especially for the rulers and official organizations. As for the peoples, parties, and civil organizations, they are not at the heart of one man. Rather, some of them benefited from the lesson of the flood and realized that the entire West supports the Zionist aggression under any circumstances, and even supplies it with weapons, ammunition, and armed forces (ships). And planes) for free and without any compensation, in the hope that he would be able to inflict a crushing defeat on the valiant Palestinian resistance, keeping the entire Arab nation under the control of the West for another century or two.
Many of the active forces in Arab societies have changed their view of Western values in implementation, and have become certain that they are merely slogans for export, or at most for local consumption in their countries.
What I see is that many of the active forces in Arab societies have changed their view of Western values in application, and have confirmed that they are merely slogans for export, or at most for local consumption in their countries, but their implementation in any matter concerns Arabs, Muslims, Africans, or Asians, regardless of their religion, A command below him is the hart al-qataad.
Despite the genocide that the besieged people of Palestine have been subjected to for decades, they still see the option of resistance as an approach to liberation, according to the latest opinion poll. Where is the Palestinian issue heading after the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood?
The issue of Palestine after the Al-Aqsa flood is different from the issue of Palestine before it.
The Al-Aqsa flood is the first time since the beginning of the Zionist settlement in the land of Palestine in the first quarter of the last century, that the oppressed, the robbed of their lands, began to confront the usurping occupier by force of arms.
All previous battles between the rightful people and the Zionist usurpers began with aggression on the part of the latter, which the former tried to stop without achieving its full goals. Only the Ramadan War of 1393 AH, October 1973 AD is an exception, even if it was also a response to the action of the occupation that seized control of the city. The entire land of Sinai 6 years before the Battle of Ramadan.
“The Al-Aqsa Flood” is the first step in a liberation war that will end, God willing, with the return of the right to its people and the land to its original owners.
As for the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, it is our battle. We started it, and we are continuing it. It is the first step in a war of liberation that will end, God willing, with the return of the right to its people and the land to its original owners. As for the sacrifices that our people make in Palestine, this is the price of liberation, and we and they believe in the truth of their words. God, Blessed and Most High: ((Fight them, God will punish them at your hands and disgrace them and grant you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people)), [Al-Tawbah 14], and also with the truth of the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, “...not the same: they killed us in Paradise at the time "You will not be punched in Hell."
And the Palestinian people, their women ululate when one of their sons becomes a martyr. Yes... there is sadness at the separation of the martyrs, but they are a people that do not surrender, and do not stop pumping new blood every hour into the arteries of the continuing resistance, God Almighty willing, until the truth and its people are victorious and falsehood is defeated.
Has the Israeli occupation and its Western supporters really entered the curse of the “eighth decade”?
The curse of the “Eighth Decade” is a historical concept revived by the Mujahid Sheikh, founder of the Palestinian resistance, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. We believe in what Sheikh Ahmed Yassin believed in, and we expect it to happen, but it will not happen alone. Rather, there must be reasons that lead to it, and the first of these reasons is the continuation of armed resistance and the development of its methods. And expand its scope until the earth burns under the feet of the Zionists with fire, and then they will find no helpers besides God.
The normalizers saw the results of their relations with the Zionist enemy and that they never brought anyone good, but rather brought people's resentment and hatred, and did not achieve any political or economic interest for them. Rather, in the end, they made them parts of a mill whose pole was the Zionist enemy, who is in control of them, and who only cares about them. With his own interests, he uses the peoples whose governments have normalized with him as areas for economic, cultural, and intellectual expansion, in the hope of erasing the Islamic idea and the Arab personality.
What political path has the Arab world entered? Will the train of normalization with the Israeli occupation stop permanently or will it continue on its way to other Arab countries?
I make no difference between the normalization train stopping or its continuation. I still fully believe in the truth of the saying of our great friend, Sheikh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din: “Governments have their necessities, and peoples have their choices.”
The normalizers saw the results of their relations with the Zionist enemy and that they never brought anyone good, but rather brought people’s resentment and hatred, and did not achieve any political or economic interest for them, but in the end made them parts of a mill whose pole was the Zionist enemy, which is in control and does not care. Except for his own interests, and he uses the peoples whose governments have normalized with him as areas for economic, cultural and intellectual expansion, in the hope of erasing the Islamic idea and the Arab personality, and eliminating every future possibility of the emergence of an armed resistance that will eliminate him, or even cause him grave harm, even if it is limited to disturbing him. .
But we believe that God has control over His affairs, but most people do not know. We are certain that victory will come at the time determined by the Lord of the Worlds. ((And they say: When is it? Say, perhaps it will be soon)) [Al-Isra: 51].
Source: Al Jazeera