A Sad Revelation

A Sad Revelation

1986 4 April 21 A Sad Revelation (329) The Saudi ruler, Shah Faisal, was assassinated by Prince Faisal ibn Musaid, one of his nephews, on March 25, 1975. Mr. Alan Hart, in his book on Yasser Arafat has disclosed that the plot for the Shah’s murder was hatched by Israeli agents and that Faisal ibn Musaid had been exploited as a mere tool. Referring to the chairman of the External Affairs Committee of the PLO, Mr. Khalid Hasan, the writer says that it was implanted in Faisal ibn Musaid’s mind that Shah Faisal had been responsible for the death of his father and that the royal family was discriminating against him. Feelings of revenge and retaliation having already welled up inside the king’s nephew, the Israeli agents had only to fuel them in order to achieve their ends. They found the much-awaited opportunity during his stay in the U.S. where he had gone to further his education. A scheme was chalked out according to which a Jewish girl, who was a member of a secret Israeli agency, developed a friendship with him. She first turned him into a drug addict by helping him to consume large quantities of intoxicants so that he became enslaved, body and soul. Then came the time for her to execute her plot, as Mr. Faisal, having lost the ability to judge for himself, had come to depend entirely upon her judgement in all matters. Posing as one of his great sympathizers, she incited him to avenge his father’s murder by killing the king himself.

According to Mr. Khalid Hasan, the Jews had plotted the murder of Shah Faisal because they feared that his successful initiatives towards Arab unity would eventually compel the U.S. to bring pressure to bear upon Israel to go back to its former frontiers of 1967.

This sorry incident reveals the nature of such plots against Muslims. They may be the plots of the enemies of Islam, but they are, in fact, only an exploitation of Muslim’s own weaknesses.

Weighing up one’s actions before they are weighed up on the divine scales of justice

1986 4 April 21 Weighing up one’s actions before they are weighed up on the divine scales of justice (38) “Reckon with yourselves,” ‘Umer said, “before You are reckoned with in the next world; and weigh your own actions before they are weighed on the divine scales of justice; and prepare yourselves for the great appearance (before God).”