@YasirQadhi
Read the full statement below.
Aug 8, 2025

□ comment: the above title was changed from "should take action" to "must take action." 

Dr. Yasir Qadhi
@YasirQadhi

Aug 8

From muslimmatters.org

Over 85 Muslim scholars, imams, community leaders, and institutions today released a joint statement expressing their view that the governments of Muslim-majority countries, including Arab Muslim nations located near Palestine, can take “immediate and concrete action” to secure an end to the Israeli occupation’s escalating genocide in Gaza. Signatories to the statement argue that these Muslim-majority nations have the unique opportunity, legal authority, and moral basis to take various steps, such as:

□ comment: they don't only have the "opportunity", they have the legal responsibility and duty.

1. Ending any economic, diplomatic, intelligence, and military relationships with the Israeli government, including the so-called Abraham Accords.

2. Announcing consideration of an embargo on global oil and gas sales that directly or indirectly contribute support to the Israeli government’s genocide.

3. Banning the use of their country’s airspace and the use of any military bases within their country to support the Israeli government in any way.

4. Opening their side of Gaza entry points like the Rafah crossing, and facilitating the travel of aid trucks, medics, journalists, demonstrators, and others who wish to approach the crossing and demand entry.

5. Organizing a unified diplomatic mission to a Gaza crossing with senior government officials personally leading an aid convoy and refusing to leave until Israel allows unlimited aid to enter freely by land routes.

The full statement

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. All praise and thanks belong to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. May peace and prayers be upon Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his companions.

Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported that the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The parable of the believers in their affection, mercy, and compassion for each other is that of a body. When any limb aches, the whole body reacts with sleeplessness and fever.”

We, the undersigned Islamic scholars, religious leaders, and institutions, write today to share our view that the political leaders of the world’s Muslim-majority nations should take greater, concrete action to stop the ongoing genocide of our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
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Comments

Garfield
@Garfield_0786

14h

Talks and statements will not work ... Muslims need action and there is no leadership in the armband Muslim world ...

Allah SWT will punish all of us especially Muslims for our actions ...
Leon Smith
@LeonSmithVT

Aug 9
Good khutbah btw. Keep pushing. We must do the risky and uncomfortable. May Allah reward you for sticking your neck out with your strong words. Liban
@CPH_KBH

Aug 8
{What is wrong with you that you do not fight for the oppressed?} (4:75). When bombs fall and children burn and starved aid alone is not defense. Jihad becomes fard ayn when no one else rises. To avoid this duty out of fear is not neutrality—it is betrayal. Liban
@CPH_KBH

Aug 8
80 scholars signed a statement yet dodged the one path that commands deterrence: military defense. Their fear of naming jihad turns duty into diplomacy. When truth is trimmed for comfort, it ceases to be truth—and edges into betrayal.
Esma
@esmaa4048

16h
Muslim Nations “should”? NO- They MUST!
Muslim Majority nations “could”? In times when Jihad fi sabeelillah calls are LONG OVER DUE, you’re still giving suggestions?
“TO HELP STOP THE GENOCIDE?” To HELP? We’re the RESPONSIBLE party!

This is the most insincere statement ever!
ISRAEL ARE TERRORISTS
@Cryptodownbad

13h
Good statement except it doesn't deal with the complicity of these regimes and it's ramifications. The regimes are Zionists, so why not treat them on that basis?
@malikanura876

17h
Where's the brotherhood of the Ummah. We have enough intelligence to do what's right.
@YasirQadhi
kasif Hanif 
@kasifhanif1

Aug 8
I believe a sinister plan is about to manifest. Now that the apartheid regime has completely levelled Gaza and starved it's people into submission, many nations who didn't recognise Palestine as a state before have done so. Why? I believe to take in the people and thus empty Gaza
Mr B
@MrBtweets19

Aug 8
This is honestly the bare minimum they should do, and should have already been doing years ago.
virgin
@anatoma1213519

19h
I had respect for the scholars for gulf countries but not anymore, they chose duniya over akhirah
Naaz Jeetoo
@JeetooNaaz

Aug 8
Where are the Saudi scholars? Shame of them Arabs like gold and money the don’t like Muslim they like us and uk leader
A A
@AA4029358196481

20h
Do you believe Arab thugs slave, loyal to terrorist Jews, will do anything?

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