By Hafiz Osama Haqqani
Throughout history, Afghanistan has remained like a Nile in which tyrants and oppressors have drowned. Over the past century in particular, every power that has entered this land with arrogance and aggression, considering itself above the law of Allah, Glorified and Exalted, has ultimately been defeated before the will of the Afghan people. This land has repeatedly proven itself to be the graveyard of empires.
The colonial arrogance of the British Empire stormed into Afghanistan like a tempest, but it was defeated by the resistance of the people of this land and was driven out in historical disgrace. After that, the Soviet Union entered Afghanistan with a vast army and great military power, yet the determination of the Afghan people defeated it as well, and its soldiers were buried in this very land.
Later, the United States, the Pharaoh of the age, came to Afghanistan with the most advanced weapons and technology in order to impose its will upon this nation. Yet after twenty years of occupation, it ultimately withdrew in humiliation and embarrassment, admitting that Afghanistan is a battlefield where great powers meet their defeat.
Today, the military regime of Pakistan, which has chosen the path of oppression and aggression, should understand that the fate of tyrants has never changed in this land. If any government stands against Muslims on the basis of injustice and bloodshed, sooner or later it will be drowned in the storm of punishment within Afghanistan’s Nile.
The military regime of Pakistan must understand that the oppression of governments ultimately pushes nations into crisis. It must bring an end to its military aggression. If the people and religious scholars of Pakistan remain silent in the face of the oppression and bloodshed carried out by their regime, history will regard them as accomplices in these crimes.
Hazrat Umar (RA) said:
“A true scholar is the one who recognizes the ignorance of his time.”
Therefore, scholars must not remain silent in the face of oppression and ignorance, because silence against injustice is itself a form of complicity with it. History bears witness that every vessel that sails on the foundation of oppression will ultimately sink in the Nile of justice.
