I’m writing this primarily as a historical record, because soon it will be impossible to deny the reality I’m laying out here.
Ahmad Al-Sharaa, better known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, showed up in the Oval Office. He got the MAGA hat, the cameras, the red carpet. Yet when pressed on commitments, accountability, and concrete change, Ahmed Al Sharaa offered nothing but diplomatic vapor.
This isn’t diplomacy. This is a modern hudna, a pause in hostilities, dressed in suits, paid for by American legitimacy, and steering toward a future where the real payoff is on someone else’s terms.
In classical Islamic military jurisprudence, hudna (هدنة) means a temporary truce or cease‑fire, but it carries a strategic purpose that has nothing to do with reconciliation. It is a pause for advantage, not a path to peace.
Unlike Western armistices that presume mutual goodwill, hudna exists only to buy time until conditions favor renewed conflict. When Muslims are weak, they can pause. When they are strong, they must resume jihad.
“So do not weaken and call for peace while you are superior” – Qur’an 47:35
Meaning: Peace is only permissible when Muslims are not in a position of strength. If they are superior, jihad must continue. This is the flagship verse used in jihad manuals and militant tracts to prohibit permanent peace with non-Muslims.
The classical commentaries (tafsir) of Ibn Kathir, Al‑Tabari, and Al‑Qurtubi interpret this verse as an explicit ban on peace treaties that permanently halt jihad. Peace is permissible only when it serves the interests of Islam and only for a defined period.
“Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever (of you) does that has nothing with Allah except when taking precaution against them in prudence” – Qur’an 3:28
“And whoever turns his back to them on such a day unless maneuvering for battle or joining another company has certainly drawn upon himself the wrath of Allah.” – Qur’an 8:16
Meaning: Retreat is forbidden unless it’s tactical. The same applies to ceasefires: only justified as maneuvering, not surrender or compromise.
Reliance of the Traveller, Section o9.16: “If the Muslims are weak, a truce may be made with the enemy for up to ten years. It is not permissible to exceed that unless the ruler sees benefit in renewing it.”
This became a legal doctrine embedded in Sharia warfare manuals.
That is Hudna.
It’s written into the Sharia manual used by jurists for centuries, taught in today’s Islamic law faculties from Cairo to Karachi, and echoed in modern jihadist training material. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban have all publicly invoked it when negotiating “cease‑fires.”
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