Kamil Ahmad is a Toronto-based Imam and scholar. He studied at the Islamic University of Madinah and Qassim University in Saudi Arabia. Over the last decade, he has lectured in various countries and appeared on a number of satellite channels, including Peace TV and Huda TV. Ahmad has also been teaching for the Islamic Online University since 2010 where he currently serves as assistant professor for the MAIS (Masters in Islamic Studies) program.
On 17 January, 2009 Kamil Ahmad published an article in two parts titled “‘When will the Help of Allah arrive?’ Unquestionably, the Help of Allah is near!” Here are excerpts from part 2 of this article:
With the aggression and terrorism of the Zionist regime [Israel] finally subsiding, with over a thousand Muslims massacred and several other thousands injured, there are many lessons emanating from the events that took place in Ghazza [Gaza] over the last few weeks. I’d like to take this opportunity to mention a few of those lessons…
Fifthly: The events that unfolded in Ghazza [Gaza] displayed once again the various characteristics of the Jews. We’ve always read those verses in the Qur’an that describe the true nature of the Jews. Well, the recent events in Ghazza [Gaza] truly reflect on those verses. Here are a few of them:
1. The severest in enmity toward the believers:
“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews and those who associate others with Allah.” [Al-Ma’idah 5:82]
“And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able.” [Al-Baqarah 2:217]
2. Violating agreements and treaties:
“Is it not true that every time they took a covenant a party of them threw it away?” [Al-Baqarah 2:100]
“The ones with whom you made a treaty but then they break their pledge every time, and they do not fear Allah.” [Al-Anfal 8:56]
3. Initiating wars and causing mischief in the land:
“And We have cast among them animosity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection. Every time they kindled the fire of war, Allah extinguished it. And they strive throughout the land causing mischief, and Allah does not like the mischief-makers.” [Al-Ma’idah 5:64]
“And Our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, even after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.” [Al-Ma’idah 5:32]
4. Extreme cowardice:
“They will not fight you all except within fortified cities or from behind walls. Their enmity among themselves is severe. You think they are united, but their hearts are divided. That is because they are a people who understand not.” [Al-Hashr 59:14]
“They said, ‘O Musa, we shall never enter it (Palestine) as long as they (a tyrannical people) are within it. So go, you and your Lord, and fight. Indeed, we are remaining right here.” [Al-Ma’idah 5:24]
5. Killing prophets and scholars:
“And they were covered with humiliation and misery, and returned with the wrath of Allah upon them. That was because they repeatedly disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right.” [Al-Baqarah 2:61]
“Those who disbelieve in the signs of Allah, and kill the prophets without right, and kill those who order justice from among the people – give them tidings of a painful punishment.” [Aali ‘Imran 3:21]
These are the Jews that Allah described to us in the Qur’an over fourteen centuries ago. Do you find any difference between these characteristics and the characteristics of those who attacked our brothers and sisters in Ghazza [Gaza]?
“Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such trial has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you. They were touched by poverty and hardship and were shaken until even their messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When will the Help of Allah arrive?’ Unquestionably, the Help of Allah is near!” [Al-Baqarah 2:214]
Madeenah, Saudi Arabia
29th of Muharram 1430 17 January, 2009
On April 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada published snippets from this article and filed a complaint with Toronto Police against Kamil Ahamd.
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Canadian Islamic Sermons, Literature on Killing Jews and Enemies of Islam
Why Canadian Imams Recite Prayers against the “Filth of the Jews”
