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No. 293 | May 202533people. The nonbelievers formed destructive alliances against Islam and disrupted the spread of da%u2019wah throughout the world. The directive issued to break ties with deceptive relationships went into effect. The end of relations did not occur impulsively because Allah made available a four-month period for introspection. Every Muslim must recognize that bara%u2019ah is not an act of vengeance but a necessary ethical response against widespread hypocrisy. The concept of bara%u2019ah conveys a powerful message: in Islamic ethics, supporting truth must be accompanied by severing ties with falsehood. It is insufficient to merely express solidarity with victims while simultaneously supplying oxygen to their oppressors. It is hollow to proclaim sympathy for the Palestinian people while maintaining trade, security, and intelligence relations with the Zionist entity. This paradox is glaringly evident in much of the modern Arab world: states that compete in raising humanitarian aid yet secretly (or openly) sustain diplomatic and economic relationships with Israel.The ethic of bara%u2019ah demands honest alignment. In Islamic political philosophy, alignment is not a matter of rhetorical declaration but an ontological act%u2014a conscious positioning of oneself within the moral structure of existence. Here, the convergence between the Qur%u2019an and Islamic transcendental philosophy, especially Mulla Sadra%u2019s thought, becomes apparent.Mulla Sadra situates justice as the harmony of all beings with their true essence. When something is not in its rightful place, an imbalance arises. In this framework, the Palestinian colonization goes beyond violating rights because it disrupts the natural order by forcing Palestinian landowners to lose their property, then defiling religious sites through military domination while keeping Palestinian families trapped in endless conflict. The whole situation results in a massive separation between existence and its fundamental reason for being. Thus, in the Sadrian perspective, bara%u2019ah is not simply political disengagement but a cosmic step toward restoring equilibrium. It is part of the essential motion (al-harakah al-jawhariyyah) toward a just social order. Severing ties with the Zionist regime is therefore not merely a diplomatic decision; it is an existential jihad.Yet bara%u2019ah is not isolationism. It is not withdrawal. It is emancipation. It creates space for new narratives, new diplomacies, and new solidarities%u2014not rooted in hollow compromise, but in moral courage. This is what is often missing from much of the Islamic world%u2019s political discourse: the fortitude to say %u201cno%u201d to power structures that disregard justice.Regrettably, many Muslim countries prefer to inhabit the gray zone. They wish to be seen as defenders of Palestine while remaining trade partners with Israel. They decry the bombings of Gaza yet continue to host Israeli foreign ministers. This is the face of political hypocrisy, a betrayal of both Qur%u2019anic spirit and the philosophy of hikmah. At this point, we must return to the first verse of Surah At-Tawbah with renewed honesty.Bara%u2019ah calls us to be truthful to history, to suffering, and to the values we profess to hold sacred. If we claim to love justice, then we must have the courage to delegitimize those who murder it. If we claim to stand with Palestine, then we must withdraw from every table that sustains the machinery of occupation.Most importantly, if we aspire to be a dignified ummah, we must never hesitate to sever in order to reconnect%u2014to sever loyalty to falsehood so that loyalty to truth may flourish. This is the eternal lesson of Surah At-Tawbah.And this is the true path of philosophy: to restore being to its rightful place, to establish a moral structure for the cosmos, and to reject every system that enshrines oppression as a fait accompli. For justice does not belong to the powerful, but to the soul that dares to distance itself from the tyrant and commits itself to truth, even when the path is solitary.Bara%u2019ah calls us to be truthful to history, to suffering, and to the values we profess to hold sacred. If we claim to love justice, then we must have the courage to delegiti-mize those who murder it. If we claim to stand with Palestine, then we must withdraw from every table that sus-tains the machinery of occupation.