besides Allah) (Al-Ma’idah 5:116). So what was Jesus’ reply? “Exalted are You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to say. If I had said it, You would already know it. You know what is within myself, whereas I do not know what is within Yourself. Indeed, You alone are the Knower of the unseen. I told them only what You commanded me: ‘Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.’ I was a witness over them for as long as I remained among them; but when You took me up, You were Yourself the Watcher over them, and You are Witness over all things” (Al-Ma’idah 5:116–117).

Thus Jesus son of Mary conveyed to them nothing but what Allah had ordered: “Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.” Yet they worshipped Jesus, they worshipped Mary, and they worshipped Allah while claiming that “Allah is the third of three.” How, then, can such people claim affiliation with Jesus when he will repudiate them before Allah Most High?

The Jews, the Christians, the idolaters—such as the Buddhists and others—and the communists: all of these are enemies of the Muslims. It is obligatory upon the Muslims to fight them until the word of Allah is uppermost. Sadly, today the Muslims are in extreme weakness, humiliation, and disgrace; they fight one another more than they fight their enemies. They wage war among themselves more than they do against those who oppose them. Consequently, the enemies have been empowered over us, and we have become like a ball in their hands, hurled about wherever they wish.

For this reason, Muslims must take heed and prepare the necessary means, for Allah the Exalted has said: “And prepare against them whatever force and strings of horses you can muster, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them whom you do not know; Allah knows them” (Al-Anfal 8:60). He also says: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not accept the religion of truth, from among those who were given…"