ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ{They have been put under}: The Arabic word is also used for coinage of money which is done by making a mold for it to have copies exactly of the original.

ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الذِّلَّةُ أَيْنَ مَا ثُقِفُواْ {They have been put under humiliation [by Allah] wherever they are overtaken}: Why are they humiliated? Allah (swt), does not wrong people at all, but people do wrong themselves. And He said about the Jews:

فَبِظُلْمٍ مِّنَ الَّذِينَ هَادُواْ حَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ طَيِّبَاتٍ أُحِلَّتْ لَهُمْ وَبِصَدِّهِمْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللّهِ كَثِيرًا

{For wrongdoing on the part of the Jews, we made unlawful for them [certain] good foods which had been lawful to them, and for their averting from the way of Allah many [people],} (An-Nisaa: 160)

As a result of their killing the prophets, their denial of the signs of Allah (swt), and the many demands they asked Moses (pbuh), they were humiliated wherever they were overtaken, and wherever they were found, except in two cases:

First case:

إِلاَّ بِحَبْلٍ مِّنْ اللّهِ {except for a covenant from Allah}: This is the covenant that the Messenger of Allah (swt), made to the Jews, when the Prophet, (saws), and the Muslims came to Medina, they did not show them any enmity at all, but rather the Prophet (saws) held covenants with them, as what done with Banu An-Nadir, Banu Qaynuqa’, Banu Qurayzah, and all the Jews who settled in Medina. As such, this humiliation was imposed on them, with the exception of the covenant that was made between the Prophet (saws) and them.

Second case:

 وَحَبْلٍ مِّنَ النَّاسِ {and a rope from the Muslims.}: Meaning, the people of Israel will not be strong unless there are those who support them, as we see nowadays how the United States of America and the West support them.

Hence, they are humiliated, except that there is a covenant between them and the Muslims, as the Messenger (saws) did. But later, they broke the covenants and charters, for that they were fired from the land of the Arabs and from Medina. So, this verse shows us that they are humiliated, unless they have a covenant and they were faithful to it, or there are people who protect and support them, as we find these days.

وَبَآؤُوا بِغَضَبٍ مِّنَ اللّهِ{And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah}: They deserve it.

وَضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَسْكَنَةُ{They have been put under destitution}: The destitution that they have been put under is a result of what their origins and ancestors did. So that there is humiliation and there is destitution, as for humiliation, there may be an exception when the fulfil the covenant with Allah (swt) or with people. As for destitution, it is part of the gene that they inherit as a result of:

ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُواْ يَكْفُرُونَ بِآيَاتِ اللّهِ {That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah}: The signs of Allah (swt) are the miracles that were revealed to the nation of children of Israel, but they used to meet them with denial, as Allah (swt) says:

فَقَالُواْ أَرِنَا اللّهِ جَهْرَةً فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّاعِقَةُ بِظُلْمِهِمْ ثُمَّ اتَّخَذُواْ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ 

{and said, “Show us Allah outright,” so the thunderbolt struck them for their wrongdoing. Then they took the calf [for worship] after clear evidences had come to them,} (An-Nisaa: 153)

 وَجَاوَزْنَا بِبَنِي إِسْرَآئِيلَ الْبَحْرَ فَأَتَوْاْ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَعْكُفُونَ عَلَى أَصْنَامٍ لَّهُمْ قَالُواْ يَا مُوسَى اجْعَل لَّنَا إِلَهًا كَمَا لَهُمْ آلِهَةٌ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُونَ 

{And We took the Children of Israel across the sea; then they came upon a people intent in devotion to [some] idols of theirs. They said, “O Moses, make for us a ALLAH just as they have ALLAHs.” He said, “Indeed, you are a people behaving ignorantly}. (Al-A’raaf: 138)

And whenever Moses (pbuh) brought them a sign, they denied it, even though they saw these signs with their own eyes; when Moses struck the sea with his stick and it parted, and when he struck the stone with his stick then gushed forth therefrom twelve springs, and when Allah (swt) saved them from Pharaoh and his people….. So Their disbelief in the miracles that came to them was a cause of the humiliation and destitution, in addition to the anger of Allah (swt) that befell them. So Allah (swt) does not wrong people anything.

وَيَقْتُلُونَ الأَنبِيَاء بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ {and killed the prophets without right}: They killed many of the prophets that Allah (swt) sent to the people of Israel, such as Zechariah, Yahya and other prophets (pbut) whom the Jews have confronted.

ذَلِكَ بِمَا عَصَوا وَّكَانُواْ يَعْتَدُونَ {That is because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.}

There is disobedience and there is transgression.

Disobedience: It is violating the orders of Allah (swt). They were not satisfied with disobedience, but they proved their disobedience with their transgression, and this point is very important, according to the Islamic concept, transgression must always be faced with a response, as transgression is the main cause of all the rulings of the Holy Qur’an regarding fight.

Indeed, Islam did not spread at all by the force of the sword, rather by the strength of argument, proof and evidence, but when does jihad (Islamic fighting) has to be taken place? And when will the sword be raised? The answer is: To respond to transgression. However, Allah (swt) did not censure them only because they disobeyed, but because they were transgressors, as the Allah (swt) said:

لُعِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى لِسَانِ دَاوُودَ وَعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ ذَلِكَ بِمَا عَصَوا وَّكَانُواْ يَعْتَدُونَ 

{Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed}. (Al-Maaida: 78)

When disobedience is translated into aggression, the response is to fight. This is in relation to the religion of Islam, as for this confusion that took place as a result of many factors including the intrusion of the Jews into the ranks of Islam in the previous history, and the intrusion of the Western among the Muslims in order to create a terrorist, Takfiri  Islam, which they called Islam, whereas it is far away from Islam; because Islam has never ordered to fight in order to call to Allah (swt), and here when we ask what is the call to Allah? What is its origin and explanation? We must make this matter clear to people. The call to Allah (swt) is to call for good in the way that Allah (swt) has commanded, as Allah (swt) says:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ارْكَعُوا وَاسْجُدُوا وَاعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمْ وَافْعَلُوا الْخَيْرَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

{O you who have believed, bow and prostrate and worship your Lord and do good – that you may succeed.} (Al-Hajj: 77)

When I say: I am calling to Allah, what do I call to? I call for righteousness, for not lying, not bribery, not stealing, not assaulting, not hurting the neighbor, not disobeying parents, I call for all the good values ​​that Allah (swt) wanted:

وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ 

 {And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.} [Aal-Imran: 104]

When we say someone is calling to Allah (swt), we must clarify that the call to Allah (swt) includes all the elements of goodness; because it is not possible for anyone to order people to pray while separating the purposes from the rituals. In other words, Prayer, fasting, zakat, and pilgrimage are worshipping rituals, but what are the purposes? The essences of rituals are the purposes. The prophet (saws) said:

“Whoever his prayer does not restrain him from shameful and unjust deeds, it is as if he had not prayed.”[1]

So prayer forbids immorality and evil, and if the prayer does not prevent the praying person from indecency and evil, so there is a separation between the purposes and the rituals, and the same is true about fasting, which the Prophet (saws) said about:

“If one does not eschew lies and false conduct, Allah has no need that he should abstain from his food and his drink.”[2]

So Preventing the elements of evil in the person’s soul is through fasting, during which a person offers good and help to others, however, abstaining from eating and drinking is the essence of this good that the Muslim exports to society, the same apply to Hajj, as the Prophet (saws) said:

“If anyone performs the pilgrimage for ALLAH’s sake without talking immodestly or acting wickedly, he will return [free from sin] as on the day his mother bore him.”[3]

Allah (swt) says:

خُذْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ صَدَقَةً تُطَهِّرُهُمْ وَتُزَكِّيهِم بِهَا

{Take, [O, Muhammad], from their wealth a charity by which you purify them and cause them increase, and invoke [Allah ‘s blessings] upon them} (At-Tawba: 103)

Indeed, if this zakat (alms), does not purify yourself, then you have separated the rituals from the purposes. The problem of Muslims today is that they separated between rituals and the basic purpose of Islam, which is to spread goodness to all people, not only to Muslims, and the evidence that Allah (swt) says:

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ

{And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds.} (Al-Anbiya: 107)  

Allah (swt) does not say (And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the Muslims.)

And the prophet (saws) said:

“All creatures are the dependents of Allah. The most beloved of them to Allah is he who is most beneficial to his family or (to his dependents “[4]

He (saws) does not say (Muslims are the dependents of Allah). So separation between devotional rites and the purposes of religion is the deep cause of the problems, through it the Westerners, tendentious people and Jews got into Islam in order to produce, as they believe, a terrorist Islam to distort it as they desire, but actually, true Islam means peace, harmony and goodness to society, that is, the exact opposite of what they say about it.

[1] Al-Mu’jam Al-Kabeer of Al-Tabarani, Chapter the letter of ‘Ayn, Hadiths of Abdullah Ibn Masuod, Hadith No. 11047.

[2] Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book of behaviors, chapter of Allah’s saying: (A void false statement), Hadith No. 5710.

[3] Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book of Hajj (Pilgrimage, Chapter of The reward of the true Hajj, Hadith NO. 1449.

[4] Shuab Al-Iman, Chapter of Obeying the ones who are in authority, Hadith No. 7445.