The assassination of Qasem Soleimani, in addition to the political discussions presented today (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=37834), prompts us to look at the situation from a different perspective.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that millions of Sunni Muslims — Syrians and those who sympathize with them — dreamed of this person’s death. For them, his name is equivalent to the names of Shamana generals for the Chechens, Skobelev for the Turkistanis, or Yermolov for the Caucasians — individuals who led destructive wars against their respective peoples. Aleppo, Qusayr, Madaya, Zabadani, and many other cities torn apart by his dogs — their blood was on his hands, and millions prayed to the Lord of the Worlds that he would suffer the same fate. And as the famous hadith says, there is no barrier between the prayer of the oppressed and their Lord…
However, this executioner did not die at the hands of the Muslims, and the reason for his assassination was not their death. The reason that led to this irreversible point in just one week was the killing of an American civilian specialist linked to Soleimani’s militants in an attack on a military base in Kirkuk last Friday. In response, the Americans launched strikes against pro-Iranian formations (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=37799), which led to pro-Iranian forces storming the US embassy in Baghdad (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=37799), to which the Americans responded by killing the one behind it all. Thus, a person responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslims ended up paying with his life for killing only one American and threatening to kill several American diplomats, as stated by the White House.
It is clear that this was just a pretext and that the real reason was that Soleimani was a long-time enemy of the U.S. and its allies in the region, having survived several assassination attempts. But we are interested in this particular excuse because no one has ever used the murders committed by Soleimani, Bashar al-Assad, Suheil, etc., of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Muslims, including brutal murders and torture in their concentration camps, as a reason to kill them. However, it was enough for one of them to organize an attack in which the victim was only an American civilian specialist, and to threaten the lives of several more Americans in Iraq, for an immediate reaction to follow. This is a vivid illustration of how cheap the blood of ordinary Muslims, and ordinary people in general, is in global politics when they are not backed by a powerful state that protects its citizens. This, by the way, is a vivid illustration of the recent topic that may have seemed abstract to many — the value of a passport in the modern world (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=37814).
Nevertheless, tyrants and lawbreakers should not be fooled. As this case shows, even if there is no fearsome worldly power behind the victims of their lawlessness, their prayers will still be heard by the One whose power and might surpasses all others. «If Allah had not repulsed some people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted. But Allah is merciful to the worlds» (Translation of the Meanings of the Qur’an, Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 251).