Islam under attack? Or under a debate?

[Peace]

There is some reason for people to commit suicide bombings - and it’s most probably political. However, that encouragement to suicide bomb is the religious sanction. Islam tells disaffected/disgruntled Muslims that it is okay, nay a religious duty, to solve their problem by killing innocent people in suicide bombings.

Islam tells what? Produce evidence from authentic source of Islam please.

If all of your family members are brutally killed when Israeli cluster bomb was dropped on your home when you all were sleeping, and somehow only you survived and you were only 13 years old…then what would you do? Would you say to Israelis “hello, O peace-loving sons of God, please crucify me the way your ancestors cruxified and killed my God on cross and I know how much you loved (Jesus) Barabbas but there was no love for my peaceful God, Jesus Christ”?

 

[Peace]

Not on this issue where he told his followers to convert by the sword (surah 9:29).

How do you know he was not lying even in Surah 9:29?

 

[pro_universal]

The Tamil Tigers are Marxists - they suicide bomb because of their Marxist struggles not because they are Hindus.

Okay, so now marxism has a reward for suicide bombing?

The problem for you is that you can never get around the fact that only Islam gives the suicide bomber the theological comfort of everlasting rewards in Jannah for their evil act.

Garbage. You spent an hour researching and didn’t even list one source that uses the word “suicide”. And your sources that do discuss the issue do not discuss it in any context other than foreign occupation, something that Pape says is the main cause.

Christianity does not reward the suicide bombings of Christians in Heaven.

Yet there are Christian suicide bombers.

Neither does Hinduism, and certainly not Communism/Marxism/Socialism and other isms.

Yet there are suicide bombers from these groups.

That’s proof that just because a religion/ideology doesn’t permit a thing doesn’t mean it won’t be done.

“An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.”

That supports Pape’s thesis, and doesn’t say anything about suicide bombing.

“Allah Almighty is just; through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do”.

And the sad thing is that we regard Qaradawi as one of the more ‘moderate’ Muslim leaders.

Yeah, note the context of his comments:

Recently he told Al-Jazeera that he was not alone in believing that suicide bombings in Palestinian territories were a legitimate form of self defence for people who have no aircraft or tanks.

It is not about religion, but about occupation.

This is a good example of the problem in the OP. Here I posted a guy who studied every single suicide attack since 1980, and concludes that the solution has nothing to do with criticizing a religion and that the cause isn’t religious.

Yet people want to continue to bash Islam, ignore the problem (which transcends religious bounds), and ignore any evidence that contradicts their bigoted views.

It’s about bashing Islam (almost admittedly-“but yeah, Muslim theology condones this!” is the only answer to pointing out that the most prolific suicide bombers aren’t Muslims), not about discussing the religion or solving a problem.

 

[Rodrigo_Bivar]

For pro’s education - eminent Muslim leaders okaying martyrdom (shahadat)

militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-20803.html
Former President of Al-Azhar University, Ahmad 'Omar Hashem
On Channel 1 of Egyptian TV, April 23, 2004, Sheikh Ahmad 'Omar Hashem, the former President of Al-Azhar University delivered a Friday sermon. The following is an excerpt from the sermon:

Dr. Ahmad 'Omar Hashem:“We ask of our believing brothers not to forsake Jerusalem. We want our believing brothers to see their brothers in the occupied land, who have no support and no weapons, no money, and no [assistance] in the struggle. They have nothing except for their souls and their bodies, which they turn into a weapon and blow themselves up before the enemy in defense of their honor and their stolen land. Shall we not stand by them as Mujaheedin ?”

Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis

“Oh Brothers in the land of missions and the cradle of valor, Oh Sons of brave Mujaheedin, Oh descendents of conquering heroes… You have revived the hopes of this nation through your blessed Jihad. By Allah, be patient until, with Allah’s help, one of two good things will be awarded you: either victory or martyrdom. Our hearts are with you; our prayers are dedicated to you. The Islamic nation will not spare money or effort in support of your cause, which is the supreme Muslim cause, until the promise made by Allah, who never breaks a promise, is fulfilled.”

Sunni Iraqi Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Qubeisi
Sheikh Al-Qubeisi: “The nation is unstable?! This Nation that begets courageous and brave girls, this amazing steadfastness, this commendable return to this great religion and this awareness the like of which you cannot find anywhere in the world. An unstable nation?! How could this nation be unstable when it has a girl who, in the spring of her life, with two children blows herself up, and she is in the height of her happiness. The nation is not unstable. It is the regime that is unstable.”

Lebanese Preacher, Sheik Ahmad Al-Zein
Sheik Al-Zein: "I call to our brothers, the Intifada youths, whether from Hamas, [Islamic] Jihad, or Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades to rise above internal conflict and raise the banner of Jihad and martyrdom for the sake of Allah in order to contend with the Israeli enemy…

“We cannot confront this entity in familiar ways of politics and negotiation, calling for peace and other conventional ways. The struggle should be … through resistance and martyrdom, by which we can achieve balance with the Zionist entity…”

Member of the Palestine Religious Association, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Bajirmi
Sheikh Bajirmi: “The Jews or the Zionists are the people who preserve life the most. The Koran uses the word ‘life’ negatively, meaning ‘any life.’ This, while our Islamic principle, as the Prophet Muhammad has taught us, yearn for death and you will be given life. As much as the Muslim yearns for death for Allah, he will be awarded life. Not any life, but a life of dignity.”

nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp
Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, “We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom.”

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah revealed in an interview after the recent prisoner swap between Israel and his group: “We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death.”

So Muslims love death eh?

 

[pro_universal]

For pro’s education - eminent Muslim leaders okaying martyrdom (shahadat)

Martyrdom is an honor in Christianity also.

The question is: what constitutes a martyr?

That’s what you’re not answering, and that’s why you’re presenting such a grossly misinformed and uneducated view.

You can’t address the fundamental point: In places where there is warfare, and no occupation by different religious groups, there isn’t any Islamic suicide bombing. None.

So it’s a fact, the only time this becomes an issue, is the same time it becomes an issue for non-Muslims: Under foreign occupation by different religious groups.

You just don’t want to read any evidence that disrupts your bigoted worldview. Here’s the proof.

 

[Rodrigo_Bivar]

Pro,
The concept of martyrdom in Christianity is totally different from that in Islam. Look at the Christian martyrs - they died for their faith - without killing anyone else in the process.

In contrast, Islamic martyrs are out to kill other people. There is a difference between killing soldiers and non-combatants - this distinction seems to be missing among the shahids.

 

[Peace]

The problem for you is that you can never get around the fact that **only Islam gives the suicide bomber **the theological comfort of everlasting rewards in Jannah for their evil act. .

Islam gives the suicide bomber what? Where in the Islamic scriptures there is mention of suicide bomber?

Christianity does not reward the suicide bombings of Christians in Heaven. .

But the very God of Christianity, as portrayed by most Christians, was ready to die by being totally defenseless and helpless. Why he hated so much his own life? Is it not a prime example of committing suicide? The whole structure of todays Christianity stand upon a suicidal death of Christian God.

What if he had fought his case by producing proof of his innocence and showing some miracles right in the Jewish/Roman court to prove his Kingship/Messiahship, then would you think Romans and Jews still would have killed your God? What example Christian God set for his Jewish followers and disciples?

Why he chose to die at the very young age of merely 33? Could he not have lived more atleast upto the age of 60 or 70 and by performing more miracles save more Jewish people from dying and healing atleast millions of sick Jewish people if not gentiles? How a Christian can follow such suicidal behaviour in order to be called a follower of Christ?

 

[Peace]

In contrast, Islamic martyrs are out to kill other people.

lol

Then no non muslim would have been alive in any Muslim-ruled land where they ruled for centuries.

Do you know how many centuries Muslims ruled in Indian subcontinent and Spain?

How about Americans and Britishers who were working for more than 25 years in Saudi Arabia in companies like ARAMCO in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s? Did Muslims kill them all?Do you know Maimonides? He worked for who and what was his profession and job?

Here is a hint for you: There are wives in every culture/faith who kill their husbands. Why?

 

[Charlie_Zeaiter]

Why is suicide more evil than burning people alive and blowing up pubs, or kidnapping them and sending their body parts to relatives?

Hi again pro_universal,

I am yet to be convinced that these terrorists are suicidal for the honour of their country/politics/whatever. They are suicidal for a very selfish reason; paradise and ever-virgins.

A suicidal terrorist is most evil because it is hopelessly selfish. The suicidal will never recover from it.

 

[Peace]

During the Jihad against Communist Russian invaders, did Afghan Mujahideen kill themselves to get their country back from Russian Communist army or they waged a full scale Jihad (struggle) for freedom, dignity and honour and their rights?

Do you know, in the West, why and who supported these Afghan Warriors and gave them/accepted their title of Mujahideen?

 

[Charlie_Zeaiter]

No they’re not. There is not a single major Islamic leader who says that suicide bombings are commanded or rewarded by Islam. Not one.

You’re kidding, right? If there was such an Islamic leader, he’d be assassinated by the coalition already.

Even terrorists are smart enough to keep their heads down.

 

[Peace]

A suicidal terrorist is most evil because it is hopelessly selfish. The suicidal will never recover from it.

When Jesus committed suicide, he was expecting to burn in Hell forever or sitting on the right hand of his God?

Why he was circumcised if he was not supposed to have a wife at all?

 

[Peace]

Pro,
The concept of martyrdom in Christianity is totally different from that in Islam. Look at the Christian martyrs - they died for their faith - without killing anyone else in the process.

If Christian martyrs died for their faith then how did they save their faith? Have you forgot Crusades?

In those days of your so called Christian martyrs, were there Hydrogen, cluster and daisy cutter bombs? Who invented /produced these horrible bombs for the first time in World history?

 

[Peace]

The following NEWS is from:

news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1221649.ece

‘I can’t go to Iraq. I can’t kill those children’ - Suicide soldier’s dying words to his mother

Cahal Milmo, Independent

25 August 2006

While his peers from St Augustine’s Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of duty in Iraq.

The 19-year-old infantryman, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, was tormented by concern about what awaited him when the King’s Lancaster Regiment reached Iraq, where 115 British soldiers have been killed since 2003.

He had even told his parents that he had been warned by his commanders that he could be ordered to fire on child suicide bombers.

It was a fear that he never confronted. Within 48 hours of confessing his concerns to his family, Pte Chelsea was dead after taking an overdose of painkillers and slashing his wrists.

On his death bed, he told his mother, Kerry: **“I can’t go out there and shoot at young children. I just can’t go to Iraq. I don’t care what side they are on. I can’t do it.” **

Today, mourners including comrades from his unit will attend Pte Chelsea’s funeral, wearing the colours of his two favourite football teams, Chelsea and Wigan. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to begin an investigation into his death, including allegations that the teenager was bullied. In a suicide note, the young soldier had said that he was **“just a waste”. **

His parents said yesterday that their son’s ordeal had convinced them of the need for an urgent review of the pre-deployment training given to British soldiers bound for Iraq.

Tony Chelsea, 58, a factory production supervisor, said: "My son was made very, very lonely by what was happening to him. He was very sad inside and he bottled up what was causing it. It was only after the overdose that he told us about his fears over what might happen in Iraq.

"In training, they were made to wrestle with dummies. Jason said they were also told they might have to fight kids and that they might have to shoot them because they were carrying suicide bombs. He said the policy [where there was a suspected suicide bomber] was to shoot first and ask questions later."

His mother added: **“Jason said that during the training for Iraq he had been told that children as young as two carry bombs and the time may come when he would have to shoot one to save himself and his friends. I think they need to think again about the training they give to young soldiers before Iraq.” **

It is understood guidelines on training for British troops heading for Iraq offer no warning on child suicide bombers. But defence sources confirmed that the details of the advice given to soldiers are decided by each regiment. There have been no known cases of suicide attacks in Iraq committed by young children.

The death of Pte Chelsea, who had served in Germany and Cyprus, will renew concern about the psychological pressures faced by British troops as they deal with deployment to Iraq. Four days before the infantryman attempted to take his life, the MoD released figures showing that 1,541 soldiers who served in Iraq are suffering from psychiatric illness. Last year, 727 cases were recorded, amounting to nearly 10 per cent of the British deployment. Special units have now been set up in the country to help soldiers deal with combat stress. While services were also available in Britain to Pte Chelsea to discuss his concerns within the Army, it seems he felt unable to disclose them.

He had joined the Army at 16 after a visit to his school, St Augustine’s, telling his family the Army was to be his life. He was at home on leave when his fears came to a head this month…

Five other suicides since Iraq invasion

• JULY 2004

Pte Gary Boswell, 20, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, hanged himselfnear his home in Milford Haven. He was on leave from Iraq

• 31 OCTOBER 2004

Staff Sgt Denise Rose, 34, who served in the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police, was found dead from a gunshot wound at a British Army base in Basra

• 26 DECEMBER 2004

Sgt Paul Connolly, 33, of the 21st Engineer Regiment of the Royal Engineers was found dead from a gunshot wound at Shaibah Logistic Base, south-west of Basra

• 15 OCTOBER 2005

Capt Ken Masters, 40, of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police, hanged himself in his office in Basra, just five days before the end of a tour

• 22 MARCH 2006

Cpl Mark Cridge, 25, of 7 Signal Regiment, shot himself at Camp Bastion in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

Courtesy:news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1221649.ece

 

[pro_universal]

Hi again pro_universal,

I am yet to be convinced that these terrorists are suicidal for the honour of their country/politics/whatever. They are suicidal for a very selfish reason; paradise and ever-virgins.

A suicidal terrorist is most evil because it is hopelessly selfish. The suicidal will never recover from it.

So you think that murder and torture that doesn’t involve killing oneself is actually less selfish than a suicide attack?

I posted an interview with the author of that study on suicide attacks, you might want to have a read. How do you account for the fact that the most prolific suicide bombers aren’t Muslims, or even religious at all?

 

[pro_universal]

You’re kidding, right? If there was such an Islamic leader, he’d be assassinated by the coalition already.

Even terrorists are smart enough to keep their heads down.

Well, then you agree there’s no evidence that Islam condones this behavior or even rewards it, right?

Giving reasons for a lack of evidence of a practice does not constitute evidence of the practice.

 

[Montalban]

This is from a Muslim site called Islam Q&A I have included some comments in brackets e.g. (M:…)
Question : Why do Muslims wage jihad?.

Answer : Praise be to Allaah.
Allaah has enjoined jihad for His sake upon the Muslims, for the great benefits that result from that and because of the harm caused by abandoning jihad, some of which are mentioned in Question no. 34830.
Some of the reasons why jihad for the sake of Allaah is prescribed in Islam are as follows:
1 – The main goal of jihad is to make the people worship Allaah alone and to bring them forth from servitude to people to servitude to the Lord of people. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allaah) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allaah (Alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az‑Zaalimoon (the polytheists, and wrong-doers)”

[al-Baqarah 2:193]

“And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism, i.e. worshipping others besides Allaah), and the religion (worship) will all be for Allaah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allaah), then certainly, Allaah is All-Seer of what they do”
[al-Anfaal 8:39]
Ibn Jareer said:
So fight them until there is no more shirk, and none is worshipped except Allaah alone with no partner or associate, and trials and calamities, which are disbelief and polytheism, are lifted from the slaves of Allaah on earth, and religion is all for Allaah alone, and so that obedience and worship will be devoted to Him alone and none else.
Ibn Katheer said: Allaah commands us to fight the kuffaar (M: this means non-Moslem) so that there will be no fitnah, i.e., shirk, and the religion will all be for Allaah alone, i.e., the religion of Allaah will prevail over all other religions.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "I have been commanded (by Allaah) to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but Allaah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah, and they establish regular prayer and pay zakaah, then if they do that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning will be with Allaah." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (24), Muslim (33).
And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I have been sent just before the Hour with the sword, so that Allaah will be worshipped alone with no partner or associate.” (this means the Trinity)
Narrated by Ahmad, 4869; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 2831.
This purpose of jihad was present in the minds of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) during their battles with the enemies of Allaah. Al-Bukhaari (2925) narrated that Jubayr ibn Hayyah said: ‘Umar sent people to all the regions to fight the mushrikeen… so ‘Umar recruited us and appointed al-Nu’maan ibn Muqarrin to lead us. When we were in the land of the enemy, the representative of Chosroes came out to us with forty thousand troops. An interpreter stood up and said: “Let one of you speak to me.” Al-Mugheerah said: “Ask whatever you want.” He asked, “Who are you?” He (al-Mugheerah) said: “We are some people from among the Arabs. We used to lead a harsh and miserable life, sucking on animal skins and date stones because of hunger, wearing clothes made of camel and goat hair, worshipping trees and rocks. While we were in this state, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, exalted be His name and glorified be His greatness, sent to us a Prophet from amongst ourselves, whose father and mother we know. Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), commanded us to fight you until you worship Allaah alone or pay the jizyah. Our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us the message from our Lord, that whoever among us is killed will go to Paradise to enjoy delights such as no one has ever seen, and whoever among us is left will become your master.”

This is the truth that the Sahaabah and leaders of the Muslims proclaimed in their military campaigns.

Rab’i ibn ‘Aamir said, when Rustam the commander of the Persian armies asked him, “Why have you come?”: “Allaah has sent us to bring forth whomsoever He wills from the worship of man to the worship of Allaah.
When ‘Uqbah ibn Naafi’ reached Tangiers, he rode his horse into the water until the water was up to its chest, then he said: “O Allaah, bear witness that I have done my utmost, and were it not for this sea I would have travelled throughout the land fighting those who disbelieve in You, until none is worshipped except You.”
con’t…

 

[Montalban]

2 – Repelling the aggression of those who attack the Muslims.

The scholars are unanimously agreed that repelling the aggression of those who attack the Muslims is fard ‘ayn (an individual obligation) upon those who are able to do that.

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And fight in the way of Allaah those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly, Allaah likes not the transgressors”

[al-Baqarah 2:190]

“Will you not fight a people who have violated their oaths (pagans of Makkah) and intended to expel the Messenger while they did attack you first? Do you fear them? Allaah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers”

[al-Tawbah 9:13]

3 – Removing fitnah (tribulation)

Fitnah is of different types:

(i) That which is caused by the kuffaar who persecute the Muslims or apply pressure to them to make them give up their religion. Allaah has commanded the Muslims to fight in jihad in order to save those who are weak and oppressed. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, ill‑treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help”

[al-Nisa’ 4:75]

(ii) The fitnah of the kuffaar themselves and their preventing others from hearing and accepting the truth. That is because the kaafir systems corrupt the innate nature and reason of people, and make them get used to worshipping and submitting to things other than Allaah, getting addicted to alcohol, wallowing in the mire of sexual licence, and losing all characteristics of virtue. Whoever is like that can rarely tell truth from falsehood, good from evil, right from wrong. So jihad is prescribed in order to remove those obstacles that prevent people from hearing and accepting the truth and getting to know it.

4 – Protecting the Islamic state from the evil of the kuffaar.

Hence the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ordered that the leaders of the kuffaar be killed, those who incited the enemies against the Muslims, such as the Jews Ka’b ibn al-Ashraf and Ibn Abi’l-Haqeeq.

Another aspect of jihad is to protect the borders against the kuffaar. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) encouraged that as he said: “Guarding the border for one day for the sake of Allaah is better than this world and everything in it.” Al-Bukhaari, 2678.

**5 – Frightening the kuffaar, humiliating them and putting them to shame. **

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Fight against them so that Allaah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people,

And remove the anger of their (believers’) hearts. Allaah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allaah is All-Knowing, All-Wise”

[al-Tawbah 9:14-15]

“And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery) to threaten the enemy of Allaah and your enemy”
[al-Anfaal 8:60]

Hence it is prescribed to fight in a manner that will strike terror into the heart of the enemy.

Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah – may Allaah have mercy on him] was asked whether it is permissible for a soldier to wear silk or gold or silver when fighting or when the envoys of the enemy come to the Muslims.

He replied:

Praise be to Allaah. With regard to wearing silk in order to frighten the enemy, there are two scholarly views, the more correct of which is that it is allowed. The soldiers of Syria wrote to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab saying: “When we met the enemy we saw that they had covered their weapons with silk and we found that this struck terror in our hearts.” ‘Umar wrote back to them saying: “You should cover your weapons as they do.” And wearing silk is a kind of showing off, and Allaah likes showing off at the time of fighting, as it is narrated in al-Sunan that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There is a kind of showing off that Allaah likes, and a kind of showing off that Allaah hates. The showing off that Allaah likes is when a man shows off at the time of war. The kind of showing off that Allaah hates is showing off for the purpose of pride and boasting.” On the day of Uhud, Abu Dujaanah al-Ansaari showed off among the ranks, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “This is a kind of walking that Allaah hates except in this situation.” Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 28/17

con’t…

 

[Montalban]

6 – Exposing the hypocrites

Allaah says (Interpretation of the meaning):

“But when a decisive Soorah (explaining and ordering things) is sent down, and fighting (Jihaad — holy fighting in Allaah’s Cause) is mentioned (i.e. ordained) therein, you will see those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) looking at you with a look of one fainting to death”

[Muhammad 47:20]

At times of ease and plenty, the Muslims may be joined by those who seek to make worldly gains, and they do not want to make the word of Allaah prevail over the word of kufr. These people may conceal their real nature from many of the Muslims, and the most effective means of exposing them is jihad, because jihad means sacrificing oneself but these hypocrites are only indulging in hypocrisy in order to save themselves.

Exposing the hypocrites was one of the major purposes that Allaah wanted the believers to achieve on the day of Uhud.

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Allaah will not leave the believers in the state in which you are now, until He distinguishes the wicked from the good”

[Aal ‘Imraan 3:179]

Ibn al-Qayyim said:

This means: Allaah will not leave you in the state in which you are, where the believers are indistinguishable from the hypocrites, until the believers are made distinct from the hypocrites, as they were distinguished by the test on the day of Uhud, and Allaah will not disclose to you the unseen matters by which the one group is distinguished from the other, for they are distinguished from one another in the knowledge of the unseen that He has, but He wants to distinguish them from one another in a clear and visible manner, so that His unseen knowledge will become known and visible.

7 – Purifying the believers of their sins and ridding them thereof

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And so are the days (good and not so good), that We give to men by turns, that Allaah may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allaah likes not the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers).

And that Allaah may test (or purify) the believers (from sins) and destroy the disbelievers.

Do you think that you will enter Paradise before Allaah tests those of you who fought (in His Cause) and (also) tests those who are As‑Saabiroon (the patient)?”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:140-142]

8 – Acquiring booty

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I have been sent ahead of the Hour with the sword so that Allaah will be worshipped alone, and my provision has been placed in the shade of my spear, and humiliation has been decreed for those who go against my command, and whoever imitates a people is one of them.” Narrated by Ahmad, 4869; Saheeh al-Jaami’, 2831.

Al-Haafiz said:

This hadeeth indicates that war booty is permissible for this ummah, and that the provision of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) has been placed in war booty and not in other kinds of earnings. Hence some of the scholars said that it is the best kind of earnings.

Al-Qurtubi said:

Allaah sent provision to His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) by means of his striving and He made it by means of the best kind of striving which is earning it by means of force and strength.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) went out for the battle of Badr to meet the caravan of Abu Sufyaan.

Al-Qurtubi said: The fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) went out to meet the caravan indicates that it is permissible to take booty because it is a halaal source of income. This refutes Maalik’s view that this is makrooh, when he said that this was fighting for worldly gains.

Al-Shawkaani said: Ibn Abi Jamrah said: The scholars of hadeeth are of the view that if the primary motive is to make the word of Allaah supreme, it does not matter what else is also achieved.

con’t…

 

[Montalban]

9 – Taking martyrs.

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“If a wound (and killing) has touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others. (M: so much for 'turn the other cheek )And so are the days (good and not so good), that We give to men by turns, that Allaah may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allaah likes not the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers).

And that Allaah may test (or purify) the believers (from sins) and destroy the disbelievers”

[Aal ‘Imraan 3:140-141]

Martyrdom is one of the highest statuses before Allaah, and the martyrs are the closest of His slaves to Him. There is no status higher than that of siddeeq apart from martyrdom. Allaah loves to take martyrs from among His slaves, who shed their blood for His love and to earn His pleasure, preferring His pleasure and His love above themselves. There is no way to attain this status except by circumstances that may lead to it such as enemies coming against the Muslims.

This was said by Ibn al-Qayyim in Zaad al-Ma’aad.

This is the great wisdom and those who try to put the Muslims off jihad and make them fear it, and say that jihad is no more than death, and making women widows and children orphans, pale into insignificance.
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10 – Ridding the world of corruption.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“For had it not been that Allaah checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of Allaah is mentioned much would surely, have been pulled down. Verily, Allaah will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allaah is All‑Strong, All‑Mighty”
[al-Hajj 22:40]
“And if Allaah did not check one set of people by means of another, the earth would indeed be full of mischief. But Allaah is full of bounty to the ‘Aalameen (mankind, jinn and all that exists)”
[al-Baqarah 2:251]
Muqaatil said:
Were it not that Allaah checked the mushriks by means of the Muslims, the mushriks would have overrun the earth and killed the Muslims and destroyed the mosques.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said in al-Jawaab al-Saheeh, 2/216:
So the kuffar are repelled by means of the Muslims and the worse of the two parties is repelled by the better, just as the Magians (Persians) were repelled by the Christian Byzantines, then the Christians were repelled by the believers of the ummah of Muhammad.
Al-Sa’di said: The world would be corrupted if the kuffaar and evildoers were to prevail.
These are some of the reasons why jihad is prescribed.
We ask Allaah to bring the Muslims back to their religion. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.

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