22. MASJID DIRAAR WAS SET ON FIRE
Hypocrites could not pluck the courage to oppose Islam openly. But they would remain busy in cooking conspiracies against Islam and would try to incite hatred and turmoil among the Muslims in order to cause harm to Islam. Therefore, for the fulfilment of their covert aims, they prepared a serious plot in Rajab 9th AH, which was in fact an extremely heinous conspiracy. However, Allah informed the Beloved Prophet about that dangerous conspiracy of hypocrites through revelation. Resultantly, the scheme of the enemies of Islam turned to ashes.
The Noblest Prophet was informed in Rajab-ul- Murajjab of 9th AH that Harqal, the king of Rome is mobilizing an army to fight against the Muslims in the plains of ‘Tabook’ which was situated 430 kilometres away from Madinah in the direction of Damascus. The Beloved Prophet called for Jihad although there was famine and extreme hot weather in Arab those days. So, the Muslims started assembling in Madinah, enthused with the spirit of Jihad.
In the meantime when the Holiest Prophet was busy in the Jihad preparations, the hypocrites took advantage of this situation and planned to construct a Masjid parallel to ‘Masjid Quba’ with the intention that the people who cannot go to Masjid-un- Nabawi due to any reason, they could offer Salah there. The basic intention of the hypocrites was to use this Masjid as a den for causing havoc against Islam as well as a place for their gathering to hold meetings against the Muslims and to plot conspiracies against Islam. They further planned to use this Masjid for the storage of weapons and other logistic support they would secretly receive from the king of Rome. Moreover, they planned to extend this trap of sedition against Islam in the whole Islamic world from there.
After planning all this, the hypocrites came to the Holy Prophet and said, ‘We have constructed a Masjid nearby for the weak and aged people. Now we earnestly request you to come with us and lead Salah over there, so that the Masjid may become
acceptable in the court of Allah. The Prophet of Rahmah replied, ‘At the moment, I am going out of Madinah for a very important Jihad; it will be seen on return.’
However, when the Beloved Prophet returned to Madinah safe and sound after successful Jihad, the reason behind the construction of this Masjid was disclosed to him through Divine revelation and the covert and heinous conspiracy of the hypocrites was exposed. Therefore, the first thing that he did just after arriving in Madinah was to appoint a group of the companions and ordered them to go there and to set that Masjid on fire.
This Masjid was not founded on the basis of piety and godliness; instead it was aimed to incite havoc among the Muslims and consequent harm to Islam. Therefore, it undoubtedly deserved to be burnt and destroyed. It was, in fact, against the principles of
truth to call this stronghold of spreading seditions as a Masjid. That is why, the Holy Quran has openly announced and revealed its reality by saying that this Masjid is not Masjid-e-Taqwa [Masjid of piety], rather it deserves to be called as ‘Masjid Diraar’. Now see the enraged tone and wrathful words that Holy Quran uses whilst talking about this Masjid:
And those (hypocrites) who built a Masjid to cause harm, and due to disbelief, and in order to cause disunion among the Muslims, and to await the one who is at the outset an opponent of Allah and His Noble Prophet; and they will surely swear that ‘we wished only good’; and Allah is witness that they are indeed liars. You never stand (for worship) in that Masjid; indeed the Masjid that has been founded on piety from the very first day deserves that you should stand in it; in it are the people who wish to thoroughly cleanse themselves; and Allah loves the clean ones.
Moral:
A same deed can either be good or bad with the difference of intentions of the performers
To build a Masjid is a noble deed, but only if the sole intention is to seek pleasure of Allah. Conversely, if it is built to create sedition and brawls, then it results in damnation and torment. The construction of Masjid-un-Nabawi and Masjid Quba were accepted
in the court of Allah and it became a source of reward because the intentions of the construction of these Masajid were to attain the pleasure of Allah and were purely based on piety. Whereas, the Masjid constructed by the hypocrites was damned and accursed in the court of Allah and it became a means of punishment, as the reason behind its foundation was impiety. It was intended for destruction of Islam and sowing discord among the Muslims. Therefore, this Masjid was rejected by Allah. It was disliked by Allah to such an extent that Allah prohibited his Beloved Prophet to enter it. Consequently, the Prophet of Rahmah not only evacuated it but also demolished by burning it.
So even in the current era, if a Masjid is constructed by the sects who have gone astray and use it as a centre of mischief to spread sedition by conspiring and spying against the people who are on the right path, then it is binding upon the Muslims not to go in that Masjid to offer their Salah. In fact, they should desolate it through boycott. Moreover, they should neither offer Salah in that Masjid, nor should contribute towards the construction and gathering of the people in it.
The other solution is that all the Muslims should get together and exile the deviant sect from the Masjid and take control over the Masjid so that the control of deviants is completely finished and the Masjid is sanctified and purified forever from the mischief and sedition of such people.
Source: (QURANIC WONDERS) by ‘ABDUL MUSTAFA A’ZAMI.
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