“Then when there came the first of the two promises (of Divine Punishment), We sent against you servants unto Us who were most powerful in warfare. Then they penetrated the homes. Indeed, it was a decree executed.”
(Surah Bani Israaeel, aayat 5)

“When the final promise (of Divine Punishment) came, (it came) so that they could (the kuffaar) disfigure your faces and enter the Musjid (i.e. Musjidul Aqsa) as they had entered the first time, and so that they could utterly destroy whatever they overran.”(Surah Bani Israaeel, aayat 8)

In these Quranic verses, Allah Ta’ala refers to His punishment which He had inflicted o­n the Muslims of former times. The specific community referred to in these verses is Bani Israel. Two occasions of punishment are mentioned here. On both occasions, Allah Ta’ala used the kuffaar to overwhelm, punish, and humiliate the Muslims. The punishments had taken the form of kuffaar atrocities-pillage, plunder, killing, and humiliating the Muslims, as well as the desecration of Musjidul Aqsa

The ayat specifically mentions the destruction that the kuffaar wrought to the Masjid Aqsa. Allah Ta’ala allowed the kuffaar to invade the Masjid Aqsa —to defile and violate its sanctity. The then Muslims were just as helpless as present-day Muslims. They had to suffer the punishment and humiliation without being able to offer any response and unable to defend either themselves or their holy places.

Allah’s Servants
It is significant that in the ayah, the Quran refers to the kuffaar who had defiled and destroyed Musjidul Aqsa and who had ravaged the Muslims of the time, as `servants unto Us’. This style of expression conveys that the kuffaar were appointed by Allah Ta’ala to inflict the punishment, atrocities, and humiliation on the Muslims who are supposed to be the true and obedient slaves and servants of Allah Ta’ala.

This style of expression implies that the domination of the kuffaar over Muslims is in fact a manifestation of Allah’s punishment. Throughout the world’s history, this has always been the case. When the Muslim Ummah had transgressed all bounds of disobedience and had firmly resolved to adopt transgression, sin, and kuffaar lifestyle as their way of life, then Allah Ta’ala unleashed His punishment, which sometimes came in the form of natural disasters and sometimes in the form of kuffaar brutality and domination.

The Cause
In this age, too, Muslims have degenerated to the lowest level of fisq and fujoor (transgression and immorality). The Sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) has been jettisoned right out of our lives, and the lifestyle and concepts of the kuffaar have become the complete culture and code of life of Muslims. It is for this reason that Allah Ta’ala has manifested His punishment o­n us in the form of kuffaar atrocities and domination over the Ummah. He has made us the slaves of the very kuffaar whom we have appointed as our intellectual masters, whose lifestyle Muslims are emulating in its entirety. Therefore, He has o­nce again sent His kuffaar `ibaad’ (servants) to punish and disgrace us, as he had done with Bani Israel when they had reached the point of no return in their transgression.
Thus, the cause of our degradation, humiliation, and of the calamities which are befalling the Ummah, is not America or the Shaitan. Rather, these events via the agency of the kuffaar are Allah’s punishment. It is He Who has chosen America to punish and humiliate the Muslims. It is He Who has chosen the Yahood to inflict such terrible acts of brutality o­n Muslims.