We are denizens of era of misinformation and of cyber-Muslims touting their Google abilities as certification of Islamic scholarship which all must submit to. To uphold unpopular truth and the moderation Islām teaches, is ever more difficult under these circumstances. This is especially true for someone like me, who cannot keep his mouth shut when faced with falsehood and even inaccuracies. We are supposed to abide with what is correct, not what is popular.
The Ghazzah genocide has amplified the ignorance of the ignorant who flee ever further from the path of moderation. On the one extreme the ignorant display their filthy character and forget the rights of Muslims and Jews. Far removed from their little minds, is that ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAmr (Allāh be pleased with them) narrated the following Ḥadīth when reprimanding his wife for failing to send food to his Jewish neighbour:
مَا زَالَ جِبْرِيلُ يُوصِينِي بِالْجَارِ حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ سَيُوَرِّثُهُ
I heard Allāh’s Messenger say, ‘Jibrīl kept on commending the neighbour to me so that I thought he would make him an heir.’
ʾAbū Dāwūd: 2446
On the other extreme, ignorance also leads to misplacing the reverence Islām teaches us for the Prophets of Israel. One example of which is misidentifying the satanic star of the Zionists as the “Star of David” in reference to Allāh’s pure Prophet Dāwūd, peace be upon him.
The Jews themselves do not claim this
The Jews also call this symbol of the six-pointed star, Magen Dawid (shield of David). Yet they do not claim that it can be traced to Dāwūd, peace be upon him, or even to the original scriptures of the Israelites. The Jewish Encyclopaedia for example states:
It is noteworthy, moreover, that the shield of David is not mentioned in rabbinical literature. The “Magen Dawid,” therefore, probably did not originate within Rabbinism, the official and dominant Judaism for more than 2,000 years
MAGEN DAWID – JewishEncyclopedia.com
The Jewish Scholar, Gershom Scholem, wrote:
Actually the six-pointed star is not a Jewish symbol; a fortiori it could not be “the symbol of Judaism.” … Indeed, until the middle of the 19th century, it did not occur to any scholar or Cabalist to inquire into the secret of its Jewish meaning, and it is not mentioned in the books of the devout or in all of Hasidic literature…The two-triangle star is to be found among many peoples, both as decoration and as a magical sign…Its occasional appearance as a decoration gives it no claim to be a “Jewish” symbol; and even as a simple decoration it is only rarely found among our antiquities. It appears among the motifs that served to decorate ancient buildings, including the synagogue of Capernaum (2nd or 3rd century CE), but in the same synagogue the swastika is found side by side with it, and certainly no one will contend that this makes the swastika a Jewish symbol. The six-pointed star has been discovered on an ancient Hebrew (or Phoenician) seal, but together with other signs and figures, none of which can be considered a Jewish religious symbol. It is not to be found at all in medieval synagogues or on medieval ceremonial objects… so is it with the 13th-century author of the Book of Splendor (“Zohar”) and with the 16th century Cabalist, R. Isaac Luria (“the Ari”). There is no reference at all to the Shield of David in their works, let alone as a symbol of Judaism.
How the “Magen David” Six-Pointed Star Became the Jewish Symbol: a Curious History (commentary.org)
Real Origins
Thus it is clear that the Zionist star has no traceable link to our Prophet Dāwūd, peace be upon him, and does not deserve respect from a Muslim. At most, some Jews had been using it, just as they had used other regional symbols such as the swastika. But why did these Jews use this symbol which had no origin in the teachings of Dāwūd or other Prophets?
Scholem explains:
The true history of the six-pointed star and its ascent to the rank of a symbol in Israel is bound up with what is called Practical Cabala, which is nothing more than Jewish magic… The virtue of this seal as a talisman was always to accomplish one thing and one thing alone: to serve as a shield against the evil spirits. Consequently we find it in many of the magical versions of the mezuzah, which were so widespread from the beginning of the Middle Ages till about the 14th century. Mezuzot and amulets served an identical function for the adepts of magic….
Ibid
Adoption by Zionists
How then did the Star, with no link to the Prophets of Israel, but used by some Jews for decoration or magic become the flag of the Zionists? In 1354 Emperor Charles IV granted the Jews of Prague the right to their own flag. The Jews adopted the Star. From there it continued to spread as a Jewish symbol, until the Zionist movement arose in the 19th century and…
From such general use it was taken over by the Zionist movement. The very first issue of Die Welt, Herzl’s Zionist journal, bore it as its emblem.
Magen David – Star of David (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Conclusion
I had intended to expand into the Hindu Shatkona symbolism, as well as latter Jewish comments on Shekhina the feminine divine presence of God descended in this world [sic], and other sexual symbolism behind the Star, but that would be beyond the scope of this article. The reader is welcome research on your own. (Since even Muslim teens are now qualified to comment on all Islamic affairs).
It suffices us to realise that the so-called Star of David has no relation to Allāh’s Prophet David, peace be upon him, but was concocted and/or used by Jews long after him. Islām teaches us moderation and respect for the legacy of the Prophets of Israel. However, the symbol falsely attributed to David, peace be upon him, on flag of the entity that falsely claims the holy title of “Israel,” has closer links to symbols of sorcery, than to the teachings of monotheism. Thus, its deranged display as a flag of sodomites is more fitting than as a symbol of Allah’s Prophets.
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