The Children of Gaza Breathe Through Our Veins

“Of Abrahamic Pacts and the Betrayal of Conscience”
(Rendered in the cadence of a nation’s moral memory)
Today, there stirs within the quiet chambers of my soul a strange and disquieting tremor — as though history itself were weeping, time convulsing in grief, and the conscience of the ummah crying out with the anguish of centuries.

One hears, in the silence that surrounds us, a voice rising from the blood-soaked steps of Al-Aqsa, echoing across time and memory:
“O heedless ones! O lovers of the Messenger ﷺ, slumbering beneath the shell of apathy — have you forgotten that sacred blood which was spilt upon the stairs of the Aqsa Mosque?”

As we take to this pulpit today, we do not stand among hollow words or ephemeral rhetoric. No, we are encircled by the very air of Bayt al-Maqdis, which still yearns for the Adhan of Bilal to once again pierce the skies. Around us echo the sighs of Gaza’s martyred children, the sobs of orphaned souls, the silent screams of mothers widowed, and the amputated arms of fathers whose only crime was to dream of freedom.

We convene today not merely to speak of the Abraham Accords — that pact so celebrated by its architects — but to face a test of collective consciousness, a reckoning in the dock of history.

The question before us is plain, yet profound: Do we stand with the people of Palestine, or with their executioners? Are we heirs to Al-Aqsa, or accomplices to its usurpers? Are we followers of the Qur’an or the slaves of Zionist capitalism?

If today we choose silence, then tomorrow our children shall demand:
“Why did you recognise Israel?”
And in that moment, shall we find the courage to meet their gaze?

At this hour, even the breath of history grows heavy, and lightning races through the veins of time. We find ourselves confronted by a pact the world has so benevolently christened “The Abrahamic Accord.” But let us ask, with all moral gravity:
Is this truly a covenant of Abraham — or a design of (Iblis) Devil?
A pact of peace — or a dagger of division?
A promise of unity — or a veiled insult trembling upon the pulpit of Al-Aqsa?”

The Abraham Accords, initiated in the year 2020, were cloaked in the language of diplomacy. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain formally embraced Israel, normalising relations. Sudan and Morocco followed suit. All this was hailed as a “foundation for peace.”
Yet the Qur’an has long unmasked such duplicity:
وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ
“And when it is said to them, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they say, ‘We are but reformers.’ Behold! It is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive it not.” (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:11–12)

These accords arrived at a moment when Palestinian resistance was gaining global sympathy, and
Israel faced mounting international scrutiny. Instead of holding firm, certain Arab regimes stretched a hand — not of resistance, but of reconciliation — thus committing an historic betrayal. Not only does this pact erode the very concept of a Palestinian state, but it also tacitly legitimises the Zionist seizure of Jerusalem.

Once again, the Qur’an reminds us:
يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ
“They seek to extinguish the Light of God with their mouths,
but God shall perfect His Light, though the disbelievers detest it.” (Surah As-Saff, 61:8)

This is no mere diplomatic parchment; it is a web of treachery, spun not solely in Tel Aviv, but in the salons of Washington, the corridors of London, and the palaces of certain Arab capitals. It is a salt upon Palestine’s sacred wounds. It is a calculated manoeuvre to entrench the Zionist state and silence the cries beneath Al-Aqsa’s dome.

Now, the sword of economic coercion is raised anew. The IMF and other global institutions have become the new Mongol horde — unleashing fiscal bombardment upon the Muslim world:
Debt as whip, sanctions as shackle, loans sold as ladders of “progress,” and behind it all the whisper — “Recognise Israel or forfeit all.”

Has our dignity become so cheap? Shall we, as merchants of usury, sell the soul of our faith?
Voices now rise, cloaked in pragmatism, saying:
“When Arab states have recognised Israel…
When factions of the Palestinian Authority seek peace…
When Turkey, Egypt, Jordan — even friendly powers like China — engage with Tel Aviv…
Why then should Pakistan stand alone?
Are we more Muslim than the Arabs? More Palestinian than the Palestinians?”
My answer is plain, unflinching, and borne of history:
“We are slaves to principle, not to circumstance.”

Some claim Pakistan merely awaits a signal from Saudi Arabia.
Yet even as Riyadh maintains a formal distance, quiet diplomatic overtures flicker in the shadows, under American pressure. But to outsource our foreign policy to Riyadh is to pawn our sovereignty. Quaid-e-Azam, the founder of Pakistan, spoke plainly:
“We cannot recognise a state built on injustice and occupation.”

Israel was imposed upon Palestinian soil by force — and we, by faith and honour, must not acknowledge it.

Time and again, Pakistan has postponed its stance in the name of Muslim unity. But is national honour to be determined by the fatwa of another? Did we, at our founding, celebrate on the corpse of the Ottoman Caliphate? Did we not, even then, stand by Palestine?

Recall Jinnah’s words — that settling Jews in Palestine was as unjust as reducing Muslims to a minority in India.
If Arab leaders, driven by political expediency, have chosen silence, must we too bury our moral compass?

If factions of Palestinian leadership succumb to servitude, shall we also bow to Tel Aviv instead of turning to the Kaaba?
Shall we wait eternally for Saudi approval to do what is just?
Shall we barter our beliefs in the name of hollow pan-Islamism?
“We Are Bound to the Qur’an, Not to Kingdoms”

A Nation’s Conscience Against the Tide of Compromise
Let it be known — we are not bound to the whims of monarchs or the edicts of ministries. We are bound to the Qur’an. We are not the echo of imperial decrees; we are the inheritors of the blood of martyrs. And if, having seen the truth with open eyes, we choose silence — then we are not merely complicit in the betrayal of Palestine, we are culpable in the betrayal of our own faith.

Much has been made of China’s economic engagement with Israel. But let us speak with moral clarity: Has China recognised Israel as a guardian of Muslim sanctities? Has it accepted Al-Quds as Israel’s rightful domain?

No. China’s interests are transactional — economic, technological, strategic. Beijing claims no custodianship over the sanctity of Al-Quds, no fealty to the first Qiblah.

And while Turkey maintains formal diplomatic ties, President Erdoğan continues to raise a fiery voice for the cause of Palestine. The Turkish street remains ever the sentinel of Jerusalem.

So, must we measure faith by foreign policy? Must our convictions bow to the precedents of those who themselves walk the tightrope of pragmatism and principle?

Pakistan stands today ensnared in the steel coils of the Western financial system — fettered by the dictates of the IMF and FATF. We do not deny that the state seeks a path out of this stranglehold. But it is equally conceivable that these financial institutions, acting at the behest of imperial overlords, may wield the economic lash to coerce our recognition of Israel — tightening loans, threatening aid, manufacturing crises to bend our will.

If that day comes, it shall not be a treaty — it shall be the funeral of our national dignity.
Do not look far. Only yesterday, India — emboldened by its alliance with Israel — sought, God forbid, to extinguish Pakistan from the map. The unholy Trinity of aggression declared that Pakistan would capitulate within hours. And yet, what transpired?

In late 2024, as tensions simmered along the Line of Control, reports emerged that Israel had armed India with drone technologies, laser-guided missiles, and advanced cyber-intelligence platforms.

On 6th May 2025, India — under full strategic partnership — launched missiles on six Pakistani positions. Word spread that Israeli “Harop” kamikaze drones, along with Israeli operators, had been dispatched to India, boasting that “just four” would suffice to neutralise Pakistani defences.

Pakistan not only intercepted and destroyed 69 Harop drones, but also successfully brought down nine intact, overtaking the very technology once considered impenetrable.

That Indian missiles bore the markings of Israeli manufacture is not mere speculation — it is irrefutable proof that Israel is not merely hostile to Pakistan, but an ally to every enemy of Islam.

From its obliteration of Iraq’s nuclear plant to its repeated violations of Arab airspace, to its brutal campaigns in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen, Israel has waged a sustained and savage assault upon the laws of nations and the sanctities of humanity.

Early in 2025, it struck Iranian positions in Syria and Iraq, openly boasting of covert sabotage within Iran itself. And now, in concert with its Western allies, Israel continues to ignite the fires of devastation across the region.

Let it be known: Over one million Indians now fight as mercenaries under Israel’s shadow — launching assaults on Muslim lands with a sense of religious fervour.

Yet certain Gulf States, eyes veiled in oil-slick diplomacy, continue to offer tacit shelter and logistical comfort. In such shameful complicity, do we now imagine that to recognise Israel is to walk the moral high road?

This is our decision to make. And I say, without hesitation or apology:
The Abraham Accords are not pacts of peace — they are devices of division, crafted to fracture the unity of the Muslim world. They are not bridges — they are Trojan horses through which the agenda of Zion and Hindutva seeks to enthrone itself in our midst.

Are we so blind as to need further signs? Does not the Qur’an speak with thunderous clarity?
وَلَا تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا فَتَمَسَّكُمُ النَّارُ
“And incline not towards those who do wrong, lest the Fire should touch you…”(Surah Hud, 11:113)

No, it is not necessary — it is not fard — to recognise Israel.
On the contrary, it is a sacred obligation that we do not.
The conscience of history, the command of the Qur’an, and the honour of the ummah decree:
To recognise Israel is to endorse injustice, to legitimise occupation, and to desecrate the blood of martyrs.

Let no one forget:
The hearts of the Pakistani people beat in the alleys of Al-Quds.
The faces of Gaza’s children haunt our dreams and stir our prayers.
If any government, under foreign pressure, dares to take the ignoble step of recognising Israel — then a tempest of popular awakening shall rise, not in rage alone, but in righteous resistance.
Let us view this matter in the light of the Qur’an — politically, morally, and spiritually:
لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَىٰ أَوْلِيَاءَ
“O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as allies.” (Surah Al-Ma’idah, 5:51)

This verse is not a historical footnote; it is a civilisational principle.
How can we ally with those who occupy our first Qiblah?

From a political vantage, Israel is a state that has violated dozens of United Nations resolutions.
It is guilty of war crimes, child killings, ethnic cleansing, and institutionalised apartheid.
It is the manifestation of racial supremacy, religious fascism, and systemic violence.

Now, the question remains:
Can the Government of Pakistan withstand the will of its own people?
A people who see the liberation of Al-Quds not as a diplomatic footnote, but as a pillar of faith?
A nation that nourishes an unbroken spiritual bond with the people of Palestine?

Should the government so much as gesture toward recognising Israel, a tidal wave of resistance shall rise —
Movements, protests, demonstrations.
Religious scholars, seminaries, and faith groups shall flood the streets.
Political parties will seize the cause as an electoral banner.
And that is precisely what our enemies seek — to stoke civil unrest, to fracture our national unity, and under that pretext, to declare Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal unsafe, thereby justifying “international intervention.”

And we ask — with clear eyes and firm hearts:
Who, indeed, is a greater threat to Pakistan than those who plot thus in the name of order?
“A Covenant of Honour: In Defence of Al-Quds and the Soul of a Nation”

Let us never forget — just as we have not forgotten the martyrdom of over one hundred thousand Kashmiris, just as we have not lapsed into silence over their sacrifice, so too shall we never barter away the cause of Palestine.
We are a people of conviction — a nation that the Qur’an itself honoured:
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ
“You are the best of nations, raised for the benefit of mankind: you enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong.” (Surah Aal-e-Imran, 3:110)

O people of faith! Do you no longer remember the dust of Bayt al-Maqdis — that sanctified earth imprinted with the footprints of Prophets?
Have you forgotten those sacred walls that once echoed with the Adhān of ‘Umar (RA)?
Do you no longer recall that first Qiblah, to which our beloved Prophet ﷺ turned in prayer after Hijrah?

Tell me — is that very land not today being trampled beneath the boots of Zionist oppression?
Have we not seen the corpses of Gaza’s innocent children strewn in the rubble?
Have we not seen a father cradling the severed limb of his own child?
Have we not seen blood-stained bodies in their hands, wrapped in shrouds of silence?
Have we not heard the weeping mothers kiss the faces of their fallen sons, whispering:
“O my beloved, I had raised you as a Hafidh of Qur’an… You were to be the imam of Al-Aqsa.”
Tell me then — shall we call Israel a friend?

Is there peace in the so-called Abraham Accords, or is it a mercantile assassination of Palestine’s very soul?
Let it be remembered: Pakistan stands as a beacon of honour for the entire Muslim world — like a steadfast lighthouse that guides mighty ships through storm-ridden seas.

This is the country whose very map was drawn with the cause of Al-Quds in mind.
This is the nation that cast the first vote against Israel at the United Nations.
Pakistan is the land that carries three sacred trusts: faith, nuclear strength, and the hope of the ummah.
If Pakistan should ever bow, it would not be the fall of a single nation — it would be the collapse of the entire Islamic world.
Now, history demands of us a final clarity —
We must stand firm at the boundary between truth and falsehood.
We must expose the Zionist deception concealed behind the veil of the Abrahamic Accords.
We must become the lanterns of faith, honour, and fraternity that can withstand every storm of tyranny.

For if we choose silence now, the pages of history shall be stained with the corpse of our conscience.
وَمَن يَبْتَغِ غَيْرَ الْإِسْلَامِ دِينًا فَلَن يُقْبَلَ مِنْهُ وَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam — it will never be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be among the losers.” (Surah Aal-e-Imran, 3:85)

To recognise Israel, then, is not a political strategy — it is a loss in this world and the next.
It would be a betrayal of faith, a violation of history, and a political suicide of the first order.
Today, we stand at a fateful juncture —
Where silence shall be tantamount to treachery,
Where compromise shall be known as cowardice,
And where political pressure shall reveal itself as the executioner of our conscience.
Now you must decide:
Shall we recognise Israel?
Shall we clasp the hand of those who trample upon the sanctity of Al-Aqsa?
Shall we lay at the feet of Zion the legacy of Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal, and over a million martyrs?
Shall we auction the honour of the first Qiblah?

Then know this: what we declare today is not mere rhetoric — it is the solemn vow of a nation.
Until the liberation of Palestine, we shall not sit still. We shall not be silent. We shall never recognise Israel.

We shall raise our children with the love of Kashmir and Palestine burning in their hearts.
This is the vow of Lā ilāha illā Allāh.
This is the cry of the heirs of Karbala.
We shall neither forget Al-Quds nor forsake Palestine.
We shall neither recognise Israel nor abandon Kashmir.
We shall not trade faith for debt.
Today, from this pulpit, we proclaim a cry —
A cry with the honour of ‘Ali,
The valour of Khalid,
The justice of ‘Umar.

And that cry resounds across the ages:
We shall not bow. We shall not sell.
We shall not recognise Israel.
We shall not forget Palestine.
For the Qur’an has taught us:
وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
“Do not lose heart, nor fall into despair; for you shall indeed be superior — if you are true believers.” (Surah Aal-e-Imran, 3:139)