An Explanation Of The Du’aa Of Qunoot by Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-‘Uthaymeen

Meaning: Whoever is an enemy to Allaah will never have honor. On the contrary, he will taste humiliation, regret, and failure. Allaah () says, “Whoever is an enemy to Allaah, His angels, His messengers, Jibreel and Meekaal (two honored angels), then Allaah is an enemy to the disbelievers.” [Soorah Al-Baqarah, 2:98] Every disbeliever is in disgrace and worry. For this, if the Muslims actually possessed the honor of Islaam, the dignity of religion and the alliance and loyalty of Allaah, the disbelievers would not be in the position they are in now in which we find ourselves humiliated under them. We secretively look to them with honor and respect, while looking amongst ourselves with disgrace and shame. This is because most Muslims today unfortunately do not truly adhere to their religion, nor do they sincerely seek to correctly learn it. They rely solely upon the materialistic things of this life and its adornment. For this, we have been afflicted with such disgrace that the disbelievers are honored among themselves. However, we believe that the disbelievers are the enemies of Allaah and that He has prescribed disgrace and shame upon all of His enemies as He says, “Indeed, those who oppose Allaah and His Messenger – they are the most humiliated.” [Soorah al-Mujaadilah, 58:20] This is something confirmed and destined to take place. Then Allaah () says, “Allaah has decreed, ‘I will surely overcome – I and My messengers.’ Indeed, Allaah is Powerful, Exalted in Might.” [Soorah al-Mujaadilah, 58:21] So whoever opposes Allaah () will eventually be humiliated and will never truly be honored except in the sense of someone imagining honor as in that which the disbelievers have. As for the one who believes the real honor and dignity is unobtainable except by the close companionship and allegiance to Allaah () and by remaining steadfast upon His religion, then he sees those who disbelieve in Allaah as none other than the most disgraced of Allaah’s creatures.13