IN A PREVIOUS post, I discussed how truth empowers the weak and terrifies tyrants. These very tyrants, while relentlessly pursuing the truth for their own benefit, manipulate and distort it for the masses to maintain their grip on power. They discredit those who speak the truth and spin false narratives to deceive and control the people.
This tactic, of course, is nothing new. We saw how the Quraysh treated the Messenger ﷺ: they called him a liar, a madman, a poet, and a soothsayer. And when their slander failed, they resorted to boycotts and violence.
I mentioned Palestine as an example—how for decades, carefully constructed lies have been upheld. Today, however, those lies are crumbling, as the ongoing genocide is live-streamed for the world to witness.
If we are beginning to realise that the story we were told about Palestine was a lie, we must ask ourselves: what else have we been lied to about?
For centuries, the West has promoted its ideologies—secularism, liberalism, materialism, nationalism, democracy, scientism, individualism, utilitarianism, equality, humanism, etc—as the ultimate path forward for humanity. It has built entire institutions (such as the UN, the IMF and the World Bank) to preserve and propagate these beliefs.
Any alternative worldview—especially Islam- has been ruthlessly dismantled and suppressed.
At every turn, Islam has been portrayed as backwards and barbaric. Shariah has been attacked. Islam’s views on women, minorities, and justice have been twisted and ridiculed. This demonisation is deliberate: it serves to turn hearts and minds away from the truth.
In the Muslim world, the colonisers’ project continues. Our intellectuals have been indoctrinated through education and cultural programmes so that they parrot these false ideas without ever questioning their validity. Our rulers have been bought with thrones, tasked with obstructing the Ummah from seeing and seeking the Truth.
But the deception goes deeper still—it shapes not just what we believe, but how we seek solutions. We are told to solve our problems through these very systems that caused them. Predictably, the solutions they offer are false, keeping us trapped in a cycle of crisis and chaos.
It’s like a doctor who not only misdiagnoses an illness but also prescribes the wrong treatment. Without Islam, we too misdiagnose our problems and the wrong solutions we pursue lead only to greater suffering. Darkness upon darkness.
Take Palestine again: for decades, the world was told the Zionists were the victims and the Palestinians the aggressors. Even now, as that lie crumbles, we are only offered the same failed prescriptions—ballot boxes, petitions, protests, boycotts, charity, du’a. Everything but the true cure Islam prescribes: the obligation upon the capable to liberate Palestine militarily.
This is why knowing the truth is so vital.
The ultimate truth is Allah—Al-Haqq—who sent His Messenger ﷺ with the Deen of Haqq. This truth gives us the framework and criteria to evaluate every thought, every action, and every so-called solution. It is the light by which we view every reality.
Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra) said: “Know the truth, and you will know its people.”
We must dedicate ourselves to knowing the truth—through understanding our Deen. We must know the truth of our aqeedah and the falsehood of every “ism.” We must know the truth of our comprehensive way of life and the falsehood of every man-made system.
And once we gain conviction and clarity, we must act: living the truth, speaking the truth, and presenting the truth, so it becomes our dawah and our beacon in a world engulfed in darkness.
يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِـُٔوا۟ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى ٱللَّهُ إِلَّآ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُۥ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ
“They wish to extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, but Allah will only allow His light to be perfected, even to the dismay of the disbelievers.” (at-Tawbah 32)
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