Will Makkah Return to Being a Land of kufr

After the Prophet’s Conquest of It?

Question:

“There are those who seek to use the Hadīth, “No Hijrah [emigration] after the Conquest” as evidence that Makkah will not return to being a Land of kufr. So how do we combine this usage of this Hadīth, if it is valid, with the current situation of Makkah today? And Jazākum Allāhu Khayran.

Answer:

All Praise belongs to Allāh, the Lord of the Universe.

There is nothing in the Hadīth which implies that Makkah will return to being a Land of kufr, nor that it will never return to being a Land of kufr. It only contains that the first Hijrah from Makkah to Madīnah has passed for its (i.e. the first Hijrah’s) people; and that there is no Hijrah after the Conquest of Makkah, from Makkah to Madīnah – because it (i.e. Makkah) had become a Land of Islām.

And the fact that it became a Land of Islām, does not mean that it will be permanent with this ruling (of being Land of Islām), or that this characteristic will remain with Makkah over all the ages and until the Day of Resurrection. For indeed it has been authentically narrated from the Prophet (saw) that he said, “The Hour will not be established until the House (of Allāh) is not made pilgrimage to.”[1] And that the Hour will not come, until Al-Lāt and Al-‘Uzzā are worshipped once again.[2]

“I am Allāh – And in Allāh I am

I created the Creation – And destroy it I shall”

And the people used to flee from them, and they would hang onto the drapes of the Ka’bah (to protect themselves from the Qarāmitah), but that did not benefit them in the least. And this was not sufficient for the Qarāmitah – may Allāh curse them; they even deracinated the Black Stone, and took it with them (to Al-Ahsā’) and kept it for 22 years and (only) then they returned it[6]; and their story is well recorded and known in the books of History!

So the question is: Was Makkah, in those days, under the Reign of the Heretic Qarāmitah, a Land of Islām? Or was it a Land of Kufr and Harb?

The answer is: There is no doubt, nor any disagreement, that it was a Land of Harb and Kufr; and that liberating it from the tyranny and reign of the heretical Qarāmitah was from amongst the most important individual obligations [Fardh Al-‘Ayn].

And likewise, were the days in which it (Makkah) was governed by Ash-Sharīf Husayn[7] – puppet of the British… Was it ruled with Islām?

The answer, as everyone knows, is “No”.

And Allāh the Highest is Most Knowledgeable.

[1] Refer to As-Silsilah As-Sahīhah (# 2,430), Shaykh Nāsir Ad-Dīn Al-Albānī commented, “Its chain is Sahīh according to the conditions of Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.” Also refer to Sahīh Al-Jāmi’ (# 7,419).

[2] Refer to Sahīh Muslim (# 2,907).

[3] Al-Qarāmitah: cult founded by Hamdān Ibn Al-Ash’as, labeled with “Qarmat”, originally a Persian Magian, and it is said also he was a Sabian. He had initially entered into the cult of Al-Bātiniyyah Al-Ismā’īliyyah in the beginning of his life upon the hand of Husayn Al-Ahwāzī (who was the son of the founder of the Al-Ismā’īlī Al-‘Ubaydī cult, ‘Abdullāh Ibn Maymūn Ibn Day’ān Al-Qaddāh Al-Yahūdī). He later split off from the Ismā’īliyyah creating his own cult in 277 AH. From amongst their evil creed, is that “Salāt” means alliance with their Imām; “Hajj” means visiting him and serving him; “Siyām” means keeping away from revealing the secrets of the Imām; and “Zinā” means revealing his secret without a covenant or permission. They made it permissible to marry sisters, mothers, and daughters; and marrying young boys and sodomy was made permissible by them. And they were the first ones to start the evil tradition of raping women in front of their families. It is also from their creed that “Paradise” is this world and its pleasures, and “Hell” is what the people of prayers, and fasting, and Jihād, and Hajj go through. They also disbelieved in Prophethood and Resurrection. Some historians believe that the root of their creed is from the Magians, and others believe it is from the materialists. Refer to Al-Milal Wan-Nihal of Ash-Shahrastānī, Al-Farq Bayn Al-Firaq of ‘Abdul-Qāhir, Al-Fisal Fī Al-Milal Wal-Ahwā’ Wan-Nihal of Ibn Hazm, and Tārīkh Al-Islām of Ath-Thahabī, from the events of year 281 to 320.

[4] He is Sulaymān Abū Tāhir Al-Qarmatī, the Enemy of Allāh, who entered Makkah in the year 317 AH, and killed and enslaved what is recorded by historians as around 30,000 Muslim women and children from amongst the pilgrims and the residents of Makkah. Amongst those who were killed by him, the eminent Tābi’ī, ‘Abdur-Rahmān Ibn ‘Abdillāh Ibn Az-Zubayr (ra). After Al-Qarmatī’s death in 331 AH, the governance was split amongst his sons, and the Qarāmitah were severely weakened.

[5] The Day of Tarwiyah is the Eighth from Thul-Hijjah from the Days of Hajj.

[6] In the year 339 AH, his sons sold the Black Stone to the Khalīfah Al-Mutī’ for 50,000 Dīnār.

[7] He was Ash-Sharīf Husayn Ibn ‘Alī, born in Istanbul in 1854. He was initially a viceroy over Hijāz on behalf of the Ottomans beginning in 1908. The British successfully instigated him to revolt against the Ottomans on grounds of racism of Arabs against Turks. He was declared sovereign “King of Hijāz” in 1916. In March 1924 he pronounced himself Khalīfah, and in September he was defeated by the Ikhwān Man Tā’a Allāh. In October he abdicated, and the British conveyed him to Cyprus, where he lived till 1930. He died in ‘Ammān 1931 G