Islamic Jehad: Anwar Shaikh
Islamic Jehad
(Anwar Shaikh)
(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
fervor 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 forhtcoming issues - Truth Detector)
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Jehad, liteally means "effort". Thus the Muslim
apologists will have us believe that this is what the term Islamic
Jehad implies, this is a gross understatement because of the
barbarity, brutality and bloody-mindedness that the Islamic Jehad
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 hudred years to cut down half of its
population. Those 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 Jehad that its annotation is
not possible without a reference 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 Him 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 wre deeply influenced by the Indian principle
of Triad (Trimurti), which represents plurality of gods but
Muhammad vehemently opposed it and 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 the 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 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 the 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 angels, 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 self-elevation, clearly.
First, he advocates the destruction of idols so that they should
not rival Allah, and then in the cloak of prophethood, he becomes
the object of the praise of Allah and His angels and also makes it
obligatory on all believers to follow this pattern!
Jehad 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. Some
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 fulfilment, 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 Jehad; 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 Muhammadan lexicon that
it guarantees paradise to the perpetrator. 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 Jehad, based on Sex and Plunder:
SEX
Carnal gratification, man's greatest desire, is the first
temptation that the concept of Jehad 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 houries waited for his
glorious company in Jannat 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 becasue 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 freewomen in wedlock, let him take believing
handmaids that your rigtht hand owns... So marry them, with their
people's leave, and give them their wages honorably as women in
wedlock, not as in licence 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 fulfilment of sensual desires, but this law is blown off by
the wind of change when it comes to a Mujahid (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 Jehad, 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 frustation. Realizing that
he was so impervious to other people's 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 A.D. 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 houries, living in the most luxurious environment. See for
yourself:
"...For them (the Muslims) is reserved a definite provision,
fruit and 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 houries 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 the Hadith
Tirmzi, volume two (p. 35-40) which gives details of the houries:
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.
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.
A houri is a girl of tender age, having large breasts which are
round, and not inclined to dangle. Houries dwell in palaces of
splendid surroundings.
Now add to this description of houries what Mishkat, volume three
says on pages 83-97:
If a houri looks down from her abode in heaven on to the earth,
the whole distance shall be filled with light and fragrance...
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 to
the eyes.
Every man who enters paradise shall be given seventy-two houries;
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.
TIRMZI, vol. 2 states on page 138:
A man in paradise shall be given virility eqaul to that of one
hundred men.
Need I add more to the sexual temptation that Islam offers to turn
its followers into warriors?
(However, how can seventy-two houries satisfy a warrior with a
hundred men's virility? Elsewhere, one will find that in Islamic
heaven, along with the houries, there are many young handsome boys
in store for the warriors. Obviously, once seventy-two men's
virility had been spent on the houries, the young boys come in
handy. Child molesting and sodomy seem to be rampant in Jannat!
There is no room for married Mohammedan women in Islamic paradise,
even if they happen to be good women of piety. Thus the wives,
sisters and daughters of warriors, even though they are good
women, cannot get inside Islamic paradise! No one tells us where
they will end up? - The Truth Detector.)
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 Jehad.
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:
"Surely the worst of beasts in God's sight are the
unbelievers." (The Spoils, VIII: 55)
"Certainly, God is an enemy to the unbelievers." (The
Cow, ii: 90)
"Oh ye who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers and let
them find in you harshness." (Repentance, IX: 123)
"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 mechandize
would have safely passed them under the protection of the Divine
rules. Two of the gurads, namely Othman 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 have 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 the 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 A.D. 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 the 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 comapnions,
which turned the tables.
On the contrary, the Muslims who wanted to act as the warriors of
Allah to secure booty, no longer acknowledged their blood ties
with their kinsmen, and craved for fighting. The Prophet said,
"O 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: "O 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.
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 A.D.
clearly demonstrates that most of his followers revered him for
his martial skill, which secured them booty. At this occasion, the
pophet took no prisoners for personal reasons. Of course, his
followers from Medina and Mecca adopted the same attitude toward
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, 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 Jehad, 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 experiencial 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 apostacy.
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 ambassdor 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 embarrssment to the Muslim
propagandists. Therefore, to pull wool over the eyes of the
non-Muslims, some Muslim scholars say that Islamic Jehad is a
defensive war against the aggressors:
"...Permission is given to those who fight because they have
been wronged..." (The Pilgimage, XXII: 40)
Again:
"And fight in he 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, Jehad 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 oath 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 chastize 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)
(The Truth Detector believes that to be all hogwash. This is not
how the war ended in Bangladesh or all other wars with perfidious
Pakistan! Who is bluffing who!)
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 Jehad:
"It is not for any Prophet to have prisoners until he make
wide slaughter in the land." (The Spoils, VIII: 65)
Jehad 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 do: The Jews of Khaiber were subjected to
a surprise attack, and destroyed on this pretext.
The 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."
Besides those who think of the Jehad as a defensive war, there are
new sects of Islam which declare that it is a calumniation to say
that Jehad 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 1,000 years." (Ibne
Majah, Vol. 2, page 166)
Now, one can see for one's self the violent nature of Islam, its
purpose and the methods of securing it.
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(The Epilogue: The Truth Detector 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!)
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