Islam
and Human Rights
Chapter 2: Islamic Jihad
Anwar Shaikh
March 8, 2017
The
Prologue
People are
entitled to believe in what they like, but modern civilization,
which respects individual liberties, does not recognize one's
right to injure fellow-men to demonstrate the fervour of one's
faith.
Islam is one
faith, which has divided humanity into two permanently warring
factions: those who believe in Allah and Muhammad, are the God's
Party, and those who do not, are the Devil's Party. The former
have the most sacred duty to eliminate and subdue the latter.
So urgent is this purpose that Islam not only encourages its followers
to murder, plunder and seduce the women of the infidels but also
projects such murder, plunder and seduction as the greatest virtues.
Islam calls it "Jehad", which guarantees the Mujahid
(holy warrior) salvation i.e. seat in Paradise.
Murder, plunder,
seduction , creating widows and orphans, have been held as the
most abominable acts by all codes of morality but Islam has succeeded
in projecting them as the greatest virtues. It is this power of
propaganda, which has paralyzed the rational faculties of the
Indian people, who have embraced Islam in their hordes.
Yet this is
not the only cause of the mass conversion of the Hindus. An equally
important reason is their total ignorance of the Vedas, the fountain
of the Indian faith and culture. We plan to publish, Anwar Shaikh's
thoughts on the Vedas in one of our forthcoming issues - Publisher.
Jehad, literally
means "effort". Though the Muslim apologists will have
us believe that this is what the term Islamic Jihad implies, this
is a gross understatement because of the barbarity, brutality
and bloody mindedness that the Islamic Jihad has come to represent
in action. Just consult the pages of history to find out how the
Muslim warriors waged a Holy War against Europe for no fewer than
four hundred years to cut down half of its population. Chose Mujahedeen
(the Muslim warriors) destroyed the Egyptian and Iranian cultures
without the slightest provocation from these lands. India suffered
terrible distortion, disgrace and devastation from these booty-hunters
whose followers, even today, treat Bharat as Dar-ul-Harb (the
battlefield), and are determined to Convert it into an Islamic
state through malice, mischief and molestation.
So complex
is the doctrine of Islamic Jihad that its annotation is not possible
without d referent e to What the Prophet Muhammad stood for, and
the means he employed to achieve his purpose:
The Arabs
were pagans who indulged in idol-worship, which exhibits man's
innate fear of the Unknown and he bows before the Supernatural
to please I rim with a view to escaping his impending wrath. however,
the Hindus do not adore the statues as such; they are power-worshippers:
they revere Shakti (the Power) behind every natural phenomenon,
called a god or goddess.
The Arabian
temples were deeply influenced by the Indian principle of triad
(Trimurti), Which represents plurality of gods but Muhammad vehemently
opposed it fiend instead, preached monotheism, that is, there
is no God but Allah, meaning that all other gods are false except
the one whose cause he advocated. He emphasized that Allah has
created man as His slave whose only purpose of life is to bow,
bend and beseech Him.
To convey
his purpose with greater clarity, he claimed that he was the Messenger
of Allah and had been sent by Him to preach His name so that people
should believe in Him and worship Him exclusively. Allah, he held,
like Yahwe, the Jewish God, is a jealous Deity, who may forgive
all sins except treating anyone as His equal and lauding Him.
Thus, he laid a curse on all other gods and demanded their total
destruction.
Allah, he
stressed, is Almighty, the Creator and Absolute, that is, independent
of everything and desire. This definition of Allah does not stand
up to a rational scrutiny. How can Allah be Almighty if He depends
upon a man i.e. the prophet, to convince people of His existence
and greatness? Again, if He is the Creator, He would have created
man to believe in Him automatically. Finally, the God who ardently
desires to be deified cannot be Independent or Absolute.
From the above,
it follows that the true God neither needs a Prophet, nor prophethood
is capable of serving His object. Therefore, the Prophet Muhammad
had an aim over and above his stated purpose. This is not a far-fetched
statement look at the following verse:
"To you
your religion, and to me my religion." (The Unbelievers,
CIX: 5)
Here, Muhammad
is telling people openly that they are welcome to their religion
and he will follow his own! If this be the truth, then he has
nothing to preach, and therefore, he has no message from Allah.
Since the
Prophet Muhammad was the founder of the Arab Empire, he could
not have done so without a burning Political ambition. It is an
historical truth that some people acquire temporal power as politicians
but others realize their political dreams through the garb of
spiritual leadership. This is especially applicable to the Middle
Eastern countries where prophethood has been a cultural tradition
since time immemorial. This is the reason that ruler of every
locality ruled as the Vicar of God, that is, he asserted that
God was in direct communication with him, and he acted according
to His commands. What is called Vicar is another name for the
Messenger (i.e. Prophet). And this is what Muhammad claimed to
be. Obviously, like these Vicars of the Middle eastern countries,
Muhammad had a political ambition, and this fact is amply proven
by his immense success as the Builder of the Arab Empire.
His yearning
however, was greater than that of a mundane ruler, an ordinary
Prophet and even God. When he was weak, he declared:
"Say,
I have only been commanded to serve God, and not to associate
anyone with Him. To Him I call, and to Him I turn." (Thunder,
XIII- 35)
But when he
became powerful, he turned the tables on Allah Himself:
"God
and His angels pray peace to the Prophet, O believers, you must
also bless him, and pray him peace." (The Confederates, XXXIII:
55)
One can see
that the situation has been reversed here. First, it was Muhammad
who prayed to God but now it is God and angles, who pray to Muhammad.
The Koran goes even further to state:
"Truly
this is the word of a noble Messenger having power, with the Lord
of the Throne secure, obeyed, moreover, trusty." ( The Darkening,
LXXXI: 15-20)
The Muslims
interpret these verses to mean that on the day of Judgment the
Prophet Muhammad will sit on the right hand side of Allah to share
the Divine throne of justice, and it is his intercession which
will decide who goes to heaven or hell. Here, Muhammad excels
Allah by taking over his authority.
Now, One can
see Muhammad's plan of elevation clearly. First, he advocates
destruction of idols so that they should not rival Allah, and
then in the cloak of prophethood, he becomes the object of praise
of Allah and his angels and also makes it obligatory on all believers
to follow this pattern!
Jihad is the
means to raise Muhammad above the mark of Divinity. Having preached
in Mecca for thirteen years, he could secure just about seventy
followers. This number was too small to act as God's army. In
fact, most of the believers suffered terrible persecution for
denying and insulting pagan gods. Eventually, Muhammad, along
with his followers fled to Medina to escape the anguish. Even
there, he desperately wanted to accelerate it because the wheel
of his life was rolling on fast, indeed.
Crowning one's
greatest desire is usually a difficult task. Since founders of
the ruling dynasties had to use stratagems, practice convenient
morality and wage dreadful wars to achieve their purpose, why
should not the Prophet of Allah raise an army of holy warriors
to execute his ambition? Besides, he also had to settle old scores
with the Koresh, people of his own tribe, who had done everything
possible to destroy him and his mission.
Man is fearful
and dreads the consequences of war, but at the same time, greed
is a part of his nature, and when his lower instincts are instigated
with the promise of fulfillment, he forgets the difference between
right and wrong to secure his end, which assumes sacred proportions
to justify the means. Muhammad needed an army for the realization
of his aim but people would not imperil their lives Without a
suitable inducement. So, the Prophet conceived the Doctrine of
Jihad; it apparently, means fighting in the way of Allah irrespective
of whether the people to be fought against have done anything
wrong or not. The Allah, who claims to be the Creator of all beings,
the Most Merciful, and the Best Judge, has divided mankind into
two sections. The Koran in The Disputer, LVIII: 20, clearly lays
down that those who believe in Allah and Muhammad are God's Party
and those who disbelieve are Satan's Party; the former are destined
to be prosperous but the latter are bound to be the losers. This
is because;
"The
true religion with God is Islam." (The House of Imran, III
- 15 )
"It is
He (Allah) who has sent his Messenger with the guidance and the
religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion."
(Victory, XLVIII: 25)
Since every
religion except Islam is false, it is natural for Islam to dominate
all other faiths. What a dictatorial philosophy it is! the crowning
of this Divine attitude requires perpetual bloodshed of the non-Muslims
by the Muslims, no matter, how innocent, upright and virtuous
people the non-Muslims may be. Murdering them, plundering them,
enslaving them and seducing their women is such a great act of
piety in the Mohammedan texicon that it guarantees paradise to
the perpetrators. Such acts are universally looked upon as the
root of evil and thus denounced, deplored and deprecated by the
civilized world, but they have been admired, adored and adulated
by the Koran, which claims to be the Word of God! What is even
more stunning is the fact that warring against the unbelievers
is an endless process because a hadith (Muslim: 3) states that
the followers of Islam must continue operation of violence until
the faith of Muhammad prevails on earth.
In fact, a
powerful army cannot be raised if its members are conscious of
the demarcation between vice and virtue. Once, they are convinced
even wrongly that only their god is pure, pious and perfect, and
everything else is profane, putrid and perfidious, they become
an invincible force. Realizing this fact, Muhammad devised the
Plan of Jihad, based on Sex and Plunder:
1. SEX
Carnal gratification,
man's greatest desire, is the first temptation that the concept
of Jihad carries. A Mujahid i.e. the Islamic warrior, who at that
time suffered pangs of sexual starvation in the torrid land of
Arabia, was promised plenty of sensual enjoyment as a reward for
participating in the carnage whether or not he survived the rigors
of the battlefield. If he got killed, he was assured that the
houris waited for his glorious company in Jannnat i.e. paradise,
and if he survived, he had a share in the plunder, which included
women of the infidels. Islam has prescribed flogging, and death-by-stoning
for sexual offenses such as fornication and adultery because it
holds such acts as unlawful when committed out of wedlock but
when a Muslim "fights in the way of Allah" to murder
the infidels and plunder their property, then the Koran relaxes
this rule:
"And
anyone of you who has not the affluence to be able to marry believing
free women in wedlock, let him take believing handmaids that your
right hand owns ......So marry them, with their people's leave,
and give them their wages honorably as women in wedlock, not as
in license or taking lovers." (Women, IV: 25)
These verses
demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that the Koran forbids sexual
intercourse outside wedlock: marriage is a must for the fulfillment
of sensual desires, but this law is blown off by the wind of change
when it comes to a Muiahid (the Holy warrior):
During the
battle of Autas, the Muslims captured some women along with their
husbands. Though earlier, a Muslim had been forbidden sexual intercourse
with an unbelieving married woman, at this occasion, it was revealed
to the Prophet that Allah had relaxed this restriction and permitted
copulation to the warrior if she had fallen to his lot in the
battle and thus became his property. ( TIRMZI, vol. one, P 417
)
What a lure
for becoming a fighter! Even the institution of marriage loses
its varnish, value and validity. It must be remembered that having
carnal relationship with one's concubine in the Byzantine Empire,
was considered an offense punishable by death, but Islam, the
true religion of God, permitted it at will!
Even the Prophet
Muhammad himself indulged in this Divine Concession. Having forced
the Jewish tribe of Banu Qureza to surrender as an exercise of
Jihad, he put 800 men to death. Among the victims were the husband,
father and brothers of Rehana, a twenty-year-old Jewish beauty,
who fell into Muhammad's lot as his share of the plunder. Having
presided over the massacre of the Jews, he returned to his tent
where mournful Rehana awaited her fate. Charmed by her radiant
figure, the Prophet proposed marriage to Rehana, sobbing with
grief and utter frustration. Realizing that he was so impervious
to other peoples' bereavement and sorrow, she refused to acknowledge
him as the Prophet of God and preferred to end up as his concubine
instead of wife.
Sex was a
big bait to attract followers, and eventually, make them sincere
devotees. After the people of Taif surrendered in February, 1639
AD to escape horrors of the siege, Muhammad was presented with
three beautiful women; he gave one of them "to Ali, another
to Usman and the third to Omar." To realize the significance
of this episode, one ought to remember that both Ali and Usman
were his sons-in-law and Omar was his father-in-law.
The holy warriors
of Islam have been given an unusual privilege of sexual merriment.
If they survive the battle, they secure concubines but if they
fall, they are sure to enter paradise full of houris, living in
the most luxurious environment. See for yourself:
" For
them (the Muslims) is reserved a definite provision, fruit and
a great honor in the Gardens of bliss reclining upon couches arranged
face to face, a cup from a fountain being passed round to them,
while, a pleasure to the drinkers ..... and with them wide eyed
maidens flexing their glances as if they were slightly concealed
pearls. (The Rangers, 40-45)
"Surely
for the God-fearing awaits a place of security gardens and vineyards
and maidens with swelling bosoms." (The Tidings: 30)
The houris
are ever-young women who have wide eyes, flexing glances and swelling
bosoms. Fancy the modesty of Allah and holiness of His manners.
Can anyone honestly say that it is not a lure to attract followers?
How desperate Allah is for votaries!
To bring out
the veracity of this point, I may refer to HADITH TIRMZI, volume
two (p 35-40) which gives details of the houris:
1. A houri is a most beautiful young woman with a transparent body.
The marrow of her bones is visible like the interior lines of
pearls and rubies. She looks like red wine in a white glass.
2. She is of white color, and free from the routine physical disabilities
of an ordinary woman such as menstruation, menopause, urinal and
offal discharge, child bearing and the related pollution .
3. A
houri is a girl of tender age, having large breasts which are
round, and not inclined to dangle. Houris dwell in palaces of
splendid surroundings.
Now add to
this description of houris what MISHKAT, volume three Says on
pages 83-97:
4. If a houri looks down from her abode in heaven onto the earth,
the whole distance shall be filled with light and fragrance .....
5. A
houri's face is more radiant than a mirror, and one can see one's
image in her cheek. The marrow of her shins is visible tothe eyes.
6. Every man who enters paradise shall be given seventy-two houris;
no matter at what age he had died, when he is admitted into paradise,
he will become a thirty-year-old, and shall not age any further.
7. TIRMZI, vol. 2 states on page 138:
A man in paradise
shall be given virility equal to that of one hundred men.
Need I add
more to the sexual temptation that Islam offers to turn its followers
into warriors?
2. PLUNDER
In fact, the
word: "plunder" refers to sex as well, because amongst
other things it also includes women. I have divided it into sex
and booty to facilitate a better understanding of Jihad.
A plunderer
has got to be ruthless, and must have no sympathy for the victim.
Nor must the rebuke of conscience mean anything to him. In fact,
the more evil the cause the more righteous he must think of it.
This is the reason that the Koran legitimizes booty:
"Eat
of what you have taken as booty, such is lawful and good. "
(The Spoils, VIII: 70)
To make his
followers, the merciless looters, he thoroughly drilled them in
hatred of non-Muslims, the potential victims:
1. "Surely the worst of beasts in God's sight are
the unbelievers." (The Spoils: VIII: 55)
2. "
Certainly, God is an enemy to the unbelievers . " (The Cow:
II: 90)
3. "Oh ye who believe! fight those of the unbelievers and let
them find in you harshness." (Repentance: IX: 123)
4. "Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender
and pay tribute." ( Repentance IX: 29 )
Since it was
plunder that paved the way to spread Islam, even those things
that the Prophet himself had declared sacred, lost their sanctity
when they proved inconvenient. For example, the Koran says:
"Then,
when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters (The
non-Muslims) wherever you find them, and take them, and confine
them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush"
(Repentance, IX: 5)
Rajab was
one of the sacred months during which fighting is forbidden by
the Koran. It happened that at Nakhla, the followers of Muhammad
ambushed a caravan of the Koresh on the last day of Rajab. Had
they not done so, the caravan laden with merchandise would have
safely passed them under the protection of the Divine rules. Two
of the guards, namely Othman Ibn Abdullah Ibn Al- Moghira and
Al-Hakim Ibn Keisan were also carried off by them and were presented
to the Prophet along with the booty. The Prophet did not look
pleased, and said: "I never commanded thee to fight in the
Sacred month." There is no doubt that the leader of the booty-hunters,
namely, Abdullah Ibn Jahsh, who had been sent by the Prophet himself
along with seven other men, was reproached by him, but there is
no record that he ever returned the looted goods to their lawful
owners. He did nothing to discourage this practice during the
Sacred months; instead the Almighty himself suggested a way round
it:
"They
(people) will ask thee (Muhammad) concerning the Sacred months,
if they may fight therein. Say: fighting therein is a heinous
thing but to bar from the way of God and to deny Him, to hinder
men from the Holy Mosque, and to expel His people therefrom, is
more grievous to God. Tempting (idolatry is more hurtful than
slaughter." (The Cow, ii: 214)
The concepts
of sanctity and profanity mean nothing in themselves: what suits
the purpose of Islam is a blessing but the opposite is a blight.
Booty was undoubtedly the greatest attraction to the converts,
though one must exclude the seventy odd refugees who accompanied
Muhammad and the one hundred or so locals (ansaars), who had embraced
Islam before his arrival in Medina.
It was the
Muslim love of booty that precipitated the first armed calamity
in January, 624 AD known as the Battle of Badr. Not to speak of
the believers, even the heathens of Medina, envied their converted
fellow-citizens and wanted to take part in the battle. As the
Prophet noticed them among his troops, he summoned them to his
camel, and asked them what they were doing there: "Thou art
our kinsman, " they replied, "to whom our city hath
given protection; and we go forth with our people in the hope
of plunder."
"None
shall go forth with me," said the Prophet, "but he who
is of our Faith."
Saying that
they were great warriors, and would fight bravely on his side,
and wanted nothing but plunder, they tried to proceed further
but were stopped by the Prophet, who said, "ye shall not
go thus. Believe and fight."
Seeing no
way out of the dilemma, "they believed and confessed that
Muhammad was the Prophet of God." "Now," said Muhammad,
"go forth and fight."
"As they
returned with booty, one of the Citizens (ansaar) exclaimed, "would
that I had gone forth with the Prophet! Then I would have surely
secured the large booty.
This episode
narrated by Sir William Muir on page 215 of The Life of Mahomet,
explains the significance of plunder in the Islamic doctrine and
hardly needs any comments from me. It is Muhammad's victory in
this battle, facilitated by the lust of loot, which made him what
he became thereafter. One should also remember that the greed
for booty kindled their hatred of non-Muslims, who happened to
be their own kith and kin. The Koresh, who were the victims, held
a meeting before the battle, where it was openly asserted: "When
we have fought, and spilled the blood of our brethren and kinsmen,
what use will life be to us any longer? Let us now go back "
Eventually, it was the eloquence of Abu Jahl and his companions,
which turned the tables .
On the contrary,
the Muslims who wanted to act as the warriors of Allah to secure
booty, no longer I acknowledged their blood ties with their kinsmen,
find craved for fighting The Prophet said, "0 Lord! let not
Abu Jahl, the Pharaoh of his people, escape."
As the Battle
was about to commence, the Prophet raised his hands and prayed:
"0 Lord! I beseech thee, forget not Thy promise of. assistance
and victory. O Lord, if this little band be vanquished, idolatry
will prevail, and the pure worship of Thee shall cease from the
earth.
Allah, who
is, obviously, liable to forgetfulness, and did not know what
would happen if Muhammad was defeated, remembered his promise
just in time and sent an army of angels to thrash the infidels
so that the believers could reap the reward of booty.
The Prophet
Muhammad knew the significance of booty in relation to his followers.
At the battle of Ohad, as a part of his strategy, which was, indeed,
wise, he posted archers to guard the opening caused by the receding
hills so that the enemy could not attack his army from behind.
He emphatically told his men, "Guard our rear and budge not
from this spot; if ye see us pursuing and plundering the enemy,
join not with us; if we be pursued and even worsted, do not venture
to our aid."
No command
has ever been given more clearly and intelligently. It shows the
military wisdom of the Prophet, which required total compliance
but was flouted by the archers, who deserted their position to
chase booty when they saw the infidels routed. Khalid, as he noticed
the rear unguarded, swooped down on the army of Allah, and dispersed
it with the might of his sword. Thinking that the Prophet himself
lay dead, the Koresh did not pursue the matter further and returned
to Mecca victoriously.
This episode
clearly elucidates the significance of booty to these warriors
of Allah: they fought for booty and lost for booty.
What happened
at the surrender of At- Taif in February, 630 AD clearly demonstrates
that most of his followers revered him for his martial skill,
which secured them booty. At this occasion, the Prophet took no
prisoners for personal reasons. Of course, his followers from
Medina and Mecca adopted the same attitude towards their captives
but people of the Fezara tribe refused to accept the lead and
had to be persuaded to act likewise.
Having arranged
restoration of the prisoners, as Muhammad mounted his camel to
leave, he was mobbed by his own followers for not distributing
the booty amongst them. They were afraid of forfeiting their share
of the loot as they had been deprived of their prisoners. They
crowded around him, and shouted: Distribute to us the spoil -
the camels and the flocks." Rudely, they jostled him, and
he was obliged to "seek refuge under a tree with his mantle
torn from his shoulders . "
"Return
to me my mantle, O man- for I swear by the Lord that if the sheep
and camels were as many as the trees of the forest in number,
I would divide them all amongst you. Ye have not heretofore found
me niggardly or false."
The size of
the booty was really large and The Prophet lived up to his promise.
To powerful men like Abu Sufyan, his sons, and many others, he
gave one hundred camels each; the lesser chiefs got fifty camels
each, and even the share of those who had expressed discontent,
was doubled.
When a Bedouin
complained that the true faithful like Joeil got nothing at all
while the new converts had the most, the Prophet said: "
.....I wanted to win over the hearts of these men to Islam, while
Joeil has no need of any such inducement. "
It certainly
shows the purpose of the Islamic Jihad, that is, plundering the
non Muslims with a view to gaining converts and gratifying them.
One must also
note that, as fame of the Prophet's arms rang throughout Arabia,
the Arab pagan tribes turned to him in hordes. All this happened
to secure protection against any surprise Islamic raid, which
had become the destiny of the infidels for not accepting Islam.
An element of surprise, marvel and curiosity also formed a part
of this submission. Arabia had not seen a man of Muhammad's stature
before. However, this all took place during the last few years
of the Prophet's life. Thus, the new converts had no experiential
loyalty for the new religion. Possibly, the greater factor of
their disappointment was the fact that the chances of further
booty were practically nil because almost entire Arabia had come
under the grip of Islam. What proved even more devastating was
the fact that now the Muslims had to pay religious taxes such
as Zukaat (the tithe). Thus, it is not surprising that, at the
death of the Prophet, there was a terrible explosion against Islam,
which curbed human freedom through restraints of faith and rituals.
Most tribes of the Arabian desert rebelled against Islam to display
their apostasy .
Abu Bakr,
The First Caliph of Islam, following example of the Prophet, made
plunder the pillar of his foreign policy and unleashed the Arabian
booty-hunters on Egypt and Iran. This is how the Arab Empire was
founded, leading to the spread of Islam.
During the
20th century, Islam has lost its luster as the projected ambassador
of peace, compassion and humanity in the face of the rising tide
of human rights and the instinctive demand of justice for all.
It has caused a lot of embarrassment to the Muslim propagandists.
Therefore, to pull wool over the eyes of the non-Muslims, some
Muslim scholars say that the Islamic Jihad is a defensive war
against the aggressors:
" Permission
is given to those who fight because they have been wronged "
(The Pilgrimage, XXII: 40)
Again:
"And
fight in the way of God with those who fight with you, but aggress
not: God loves not the aggressors. And slay them wherever you
come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you. (The
Cow, II: 185)
If the meanings of these verses were really what they appear to
be, Jihad would be a blessing as being the guardian of one's rights
and honor. in fact, they represent a tactful persuasion to take
revenge from the infidels of Mecca, who had persecuted the Prophet
and his followers in the beginning. These verses have nothing
whatever to do with self-defense:
Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and purposed
to expel the Messenger, beginning the first time against you.
Are you afraid of them? You would do better to be afraid of God,
if you are believers. Fight them and God will chastise them at
your hands and degrade them, and He will help you against them,
and bring healing to the breasts of a people who believe "
(Repentance IX: 10)
"O Prophet,
urge on the believers to fight, if there be twenty of you, patient
men, they will overcome two hundred; if there be a hundred of
you, they will overcome a thousand unbelievers " (The Spoils
VIII: 65)
One wonders that why Allah, who is Almighty, cannot thrash the
unbelievers Himself, and incites the ordinary mortals to do His
will? Is it not an insult to the Almighty? These are obviously
not the commands of Allah but of Muhammad in the guise of Prophethood.
Look at the
following to realize the revengeful nature of Jihad:
"it is
not for any Prophet to have prisoners until he make wide slaughter
in the land." (The Spoils: VIII: 65)
Jihad is simply
an exercise in bloodshed for the sake of booty and subduing the
non Muslims to pay tribute as a mark of self humiliation. One
should bear in mind that it is considered a proof of aggression
on the part of non Muslims not to embrace Islam when invited to
do so; The Jews of Khaiber were subjected to surprise attack and
destroyed on this pretext.
This truth
is fully borne out by the following hadith:
"I have
been commanded to fight against (the Unbelieving) people, till
they testify to the fact that there is no God but Allah, and believe
in me (Muhammad) as the Messenger from the Lord ..... and when
they do it, their blood and riches are guaranteed protection on
my behalf except where it is justified by law." ( Muslim:
3 )
Besides those
who think of the Jihad as a defensive war, there are new sects
of Islam which declare that it is a calumniation to say that Jihad
is an Islamic doctrine. What a pious denunciation of the basic
Koranic tenet it is! Look at the following:
"God
has bought from the faithful theirselves and their belongings
against the gift of paradise; they fight in the way of God; they
kill and get killed; that is a promise binding on God " (Repentance
, IX : 110 )
It simply
means that a true Muslim has sold himself to God in return for
paradise; he has become his paid soldier whose only aim of life
is to kill infidels or get killed! No wonder a hadith from Al
Bokhari: 4, says that "Paradise lies under the shade of swords."
The Prophet
also said:
"Acting
as Allah's soldier for one night in a battlefield is superior
to saying prayers at home for 1000 years." (Ibne Majah, vol.
2, P 166)
Now, one can
see for one's self the violent nature of Islam, its purpose and
the methods of securing it.
The Epilogue
The Publisher
advises all non-Muslims to read up Anwar Shaikh's treatise on
Jehad. When tracts prepared by men like Asghar Ali Engineer, Rafiq
Zakaria, Noorani, M.J. Akbar et al, are presented for your consumption,
please take a big grain of salt while reading the concocted material
designed to confuse and mislead the Hindus. That way, the two-faced
ones would not be able to fool you so easily!) Next
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