QUESTION: So-called UUCSA has released an article on the Global Sumud Flotilla which has been captured by so-called Israel. In its article, uucsa titles Nelson Mandela as “ICONIC”. There are other parts of the article also that makes me feel nauseous. Please help me if I’m correct in feeling like this regarding so-called uucsa’s articles?
ANSWER: The Sumud Flotilla is a convoy of boats laden with food and other basic supplies and necessities of life, to help the starving people of Gaza. This initiative is mostly from the Kuffaar. Majority of its activists are Kuffaar. One needs not to be a Muslim to have such a feeling for the Muslims of Gaza. One merely needs to be a human to have such a concern which has motivated these non-Muslims to undertake this initiative which comes with a huge risk. While this is not the first ship, or convoy of boats in this case that has/have attempted to deliver aid in the besieged Gaza, this however is perhaps the first convoy of so many ships with activists from various countries.
Just as the Sumud Flotilla is a convoy of ships sailing towards Gaza to oppose a blockade on the people of Gaza, so too was the Masjid court case an Imaani movement motivated by sincere Ulama and Muslims and professionals (sincere lawyers, doctors, etc.) in 2020 (during the covid circus) to unblock the un-Islamic blockade imposed on Allah’s Houses by the government, illogical lockdown and even so-called scholars like JUSA. But the so-called “uucsa” instead of supporting the demands of Imaan, supported the closure of the Masaajid! Their bread was buttered on the government and lockdown side which was the anti-Sunnah standpoint, based on flimsy and silly scientific views which are so flimsy, that even an old man who blows in their direction will collapse the entire basis of their theories.
So why now all of a sudden there’s a huge cry and noise from so-called “uucsa” regarding the Sumud Flotilla? The same so-called “uucsa” who in 2020 were the very same ones who were dancing to the tunes of upholding the closure or the blockade imposed on our Masaajid? Was the court case against the blockade of our Masaajid not more important for the Imaan of South African Muslims than the Sumud Flotilla? After all, the Sumud Flotilla is not any Islamic movement, or holds any special Islamic virtues, compared to the Masaajid. Yes, we wish the Sumud Flotilla reaches its intended destination, as that will benefit thousands of starving Gazan Muslims. On the other hand, the Ulama who supported and went to court to remove the illogical blockade on our Masaajid which so-called “uucsa” opposed, was for the benefit of the Imaan of thousands of South African Muslims. But so-called “uucsa”prefers politics over Deen. Thus, in the court case of the Masaajid, politics demanded the accursed stance of so-called “uucsa”. And the Sumud Flotilla is a kind of a political movement, since activists and professionals are involved in it. Thus, it serves so-called “uucsa” well to issue an article about the Sumud, and to have opposed the Masaajid in 2020.
Thus, so-called “uucsa’s” articles are truly nauseous for people of Imaan as they stink of politics and ulterior motives.
After all, remember, so-called “uucsa” is an activist in politics and not Deen. Their level of Deeni knowledge is really concerning. Even Maktab students may outdo so-called “uucsa” in some of the basic Deeni issues.