Three Decrees of Islam
Introduction
:
After the September 11, 2001, attack on
the World Trade Centre and the sequence of events that followed like war in
Afghanistan, terrorist attacks on the Parliament complex in Delhi and on the
American Centre in Kolkata and burning about 60 people alive at Godhra, people
of this country, especially the Hindus, have become a bit curious about the
religion of Islam. They are trying to know more about the faith.
But one is irked to observe that a group of motivated people, mostly the
so called secular intellectuals, have come forward to exploit the opportunity by
presenting a distorted picture of Islam, with the sinister design to confuse the
entire community of non-Muslims including the Hindus. They say that the true
meaning of Islam is ‘peace’ and it is an extremely tolerant and peace-loving
religion which has nothing to do with terrorism. They also say that no religion
teaches killing innocent people and the terrorists are killing people by
transgressing the teachings of Islam, or the terrorists have no religion and so
on and so forth. Above all, they are telling lies and say that the Koran does
not preach bloodshed or violence. It is therefore necessary to highlight the
fundamental aspects of Islam to enlighten the World Community of non-Muslims
about the aims and objectives of the faith that originated in Arabia.
The
Koran and Sunnah (Hadis or Prophet’s Tradition) are the fundamental
source books of Islamic theology. The Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad
by Allah Himself and hence it is beyond any disbelieve or dispute. Among many
compilations of Hadis, the Islamic World considers two of them, one compiled by
Bukhari and the other by Muslim, as flawless and most trustworthy (shahih
hayen or truthful twin), and are respected like the Koran. In fact, every
Muslim believes that the contents of both Koran and Hadis, are revealed by Allah
Himself and hence they are equally honourable and they differ only in the style
of revelation. The message of Koran was read to Muhammad by the angel Zibrail
(Gabriel of Bible) from the divine edition of the book which he used to carry
with him from heaven, while the message of Hadis was communicated to the Prophet
through oral transmission.
Whatever
it may be, the contents of the Koran and the Hadis form the basis of Islam and
contain three fundamental decrees of the faith. These are (1) millat and kufr, (2) dar-ul-Islam
and dar-ul-harb and (3) jihad.
The word millat stands for brotherhood and in the restricted sense,
brotherhood amongst the Muslims. So the word millat says that every Muslim in this world is a brother of every
other Muslim (kulla Muslemein ikhuatun),
irrespective of his other identities like nationality, race, mother tongue and
so on (Koran : 3/103 ; 8/62-63 ; 47/22-25 ; 49/10 etc.).
In 631 A. D., Prophet Muhammad, during his ‘Farewell Pilgrimage’ to Mecca, delivered a speech in the valley of Arafat to explain the fundamental principles of Islam. In that famous speech, known as ‘Farewell Address’, the Prophet explained the concept of millat which forms the basis of today’s international Islamic brotherhood or Islamic Umma. The word kufr, on the other hand, means to disbelieve or to oppose. In the restricted sense, a man who refuses to believe in Koran and in the Prophet-hood of Muhammad, is a doer of kufr or a kafir. The faith of Islam rests on five pillars and these are: (1) kalema, (2) namaz (prayer), (3) roja (fasting in the month of Ramadan), (4) zakat ( giving alms) and (5) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). The first pillar kalema includes six sentences of oath and out of which the first kalema, the ‘kalema taib’ is most important and may be called the soul of Islam. It reads “La Ilaha Illalla, Mohammadur Rasululla”, or there is none other than Allah to be worshipped and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. Islam bestows so importance upon this kalema that a slightest disbelief in it turns even a devout Muslim instantly into a kafir.
Millat
and Kufr :
It should be mentioned here that the real meaning of Islam is, not peace but, unconditional surrender. In the restricted sense, surrender to Allah’s Koran and Allah’s Prophet. Those who surrender to Koran and Prophet Muhammad are imandar Mussalmans and those who do not, belong to the most despicable species, the kafirs. So, according to Islamic theology, each and every non-Muslim is a kafir. Presently some Muslim authors and journalists are trying to propagate the view that the word kafir stands for an atheist and hence to mislead the non-Muslims. Had it been true, the Islamic militants in Kashmir could not have killed the innocent Hindus who are not atheists but believe in the Hindu God. The suicide bombers of Palestine could not have killed the innocent Israelis who strongly believe in their God, called Yahweh, and Osama bin Laden could not have given the call to kill American citizens who believe in the biblical God.
When
the barbaric Muslim invaders came to India, they identified the Hindus as
kafirs–not only simple kafirs but kafirs of the worst kind,
as they were idol worshippers, and hence considered killing of Hindus as their
religious duty. There are umpteen instances where hundreds of thousands of
Hindus were massacred within a single day. They were not atheists but believed
strongly in their God. Muslim invaders found them fit to be killed due to the
single fault that they did not believe in the Koran and the Prophet-hood of
Muhammad. Or in other words, they did not believe in the ‘kalema taib’.
Due to the same fault, Hindus are being identified, even today, as kafirs
and hence tortured and killed in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
So
it becomes evident that the concept of ‘millat
and kufr’, the first decree of
Islam, aims to divide the entire humanity sharply into two categories, namely
(1) Muslims or Momens and (2) non-Muslim kafirs.
In the eye of Allah, these kafirs are
no better than animals and hence He instructs the Muslims to mount any kind of
torture and atrocities on them, kill them, burn them and their houses, take
their women and children as captives, rape their women and so on.
So
the Koran says----“We have created, for
hell, many genii (races) of men, ….and they are like brute beasts”
(7.179) ; “Verily, those who disbelieve
our signs, we will surely cast them to be broiled in the hell-fire, so often as
their skins shall be well burnt, We will give them new skins in exchange, so
that they may taste the sharper torment” (4.56) ; “Whosoever followeth any religion other than Islam, it shall not be
accepted of him in this life, and in the next life he shall be of those who
perish” (3.85) ; “I will cast a dread into the hearts of the unbelievers”
(8.12) ; “Therefore cut off their
heads, and strike off all the ends of the fingers. This shall they suffer
because they have opposed Allah and His Prophet, and whosoever shall oppose Allah and His Prophet, verily Allah will be
severe in punishing them” (8.13) ; “moreover,
as for the non-believers, I will punish them with grievous punishments in this
world, and in the world is to come” (3.56) ; “Allah loves not the
unbelievers” (3.57) ; “ they
shall suffer a grievous punishment”
(3.77).
So,
it is not difficult to understand that Islam is a doctrine of intense hate.
Allah Himself hates the non-believers and hence He incites His followers to do
the same. In fact, Allah has empowered
every Muslim to mount any kind of torture and atrocities on the kafirs: to loot their riches and wealth, to occupy their land and
property, to kill them as and when situation demands, to take their women and
children as captives and rape them or sell them as slaves and so on. Allah
has commanded to strike terror in the hearts of the kafirs and to comply with His divine orders followers of Allah cut kafirs
into pieces, rape their women in front of their kin, maim kafirs,
smash the skulls of kafir children on
stones and so on.
Those
who commit such atrocities on kafirs,
will be rewarded heavily by Allah on the Day of Last Judgment (Qiyamah).
Those who are lucky enough to kill at least one kafir
will be honoured with the title of Ghazi and in Allah’s paradise they will be
treated as honoured guests and favoured with the permission to live in jannat-i-Firdause,
or the highest place in paradise forever.
In
fact, each and every Muslim, due to their merit of believing in Allah’s Koran
and accepting the true religion of Muhammad, will be favoured with various
rewards from Allah on the Day of Last Judgment. Only for believing in the ‘La
Ilaha Illalla’ kalema, Allah will pardon their
every sin and foulest deeds and hence even the most wretched and the most fallen
Mussalman will enter Allah’s paradise. It may be pointed out here
that, only the male Mussalmans will enjoy all these favours, while each and every Muslim
woman will be thrown into hell fire.
The
wisdom of Allah has made seven kinds of hells for the kafirs having fire of varying intensities to cause burns as well as
flames of varying heights. The idolatrous Hindus will be thrown into the hell
called Habhia, where the fire would be
70 times more intense than the ordinary mundane fire and the height of the
flames would touch one’s scalp. The Jews and the Christians, as they are not
idolatrous, would find shelter in less painful hells.
On
the other hand, each and every Muslim, by the grace of Allah, will find a place
in paradise, where they will be provided with every sensual pleasure for the
satiation of their lust. They will eat divine fruit and dishes. They will drink
milk from milk-canals, honey from honey-canal and best quality wine from the
wine-canal. Whatever they would eat and
drink, everything would be completely digested and hence there would be no
necessity to pass urine and stool.
Every
dweller in paradise would never be older than 33 years, or after attaining the
age of 33 years, it will not increase further. Allah will provide every dweller
of His paradise with thousands and thousands of beautiful heavenly damsels
called houris, who wear see-through garments, always remain virgins and never
get older than sixteen. At the same time, Allah will increase the sexual
capacity of every Muslim by at least million times to cope with the situation.
Allah will make every other effort to make the dwellers of paradise happy and by
His grace every coitus with a houri would last for 600 years.
Allah has made some practices unlawful for His favored people in this
world, such as wearing garments made of silk, drinking wine, wearing gold
ornaments, homo-sexuality and so on. But in the next life in paradise, He will
make profuse arrangements to fulfill their un-satiated lust. Allah will provide each and every dweller of His paradise
with at least 80,000 slave boys, who will always remain below 16, for doing
sodomy.
Every
Muslim in heaven will have nothing to wear other than garments made of finest
quality silk and have their utensils and furniture made of no other material
than pure gold. The jubilant Muslims will praise Allah for arranging so much
pleasure for them.
Here
lies the ultimate climax of this doctrine of hate–while the moments will be enjoying all possible sensual pleasure in Allah’s
paradise, the kafirs will perish in the eternal hell fire, where Allah will roast
them again and again, and every time He will replace their skins with new ones
so that they could suffer this inhuman torment without any pause. The happy
Muslims in paradise would thank Allah for not allowing any kafir to enter His paradise.
Second
Decree of Islam:
The
second decree ‘dar-ul-Islam and dar-ul-harb’
of Islam tells that all the countries on the earth can broadly be divided into
two categories. Dar-ul-Islam means
those countries which have already come under the domination of Islam. At
present, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya etc. are the
examples of dar-ul-Islam. In these
countries, Islamic governments or rule of Islam has been firmly established and
the kafirs have been turned into
second grade citizens. Can a kafir
enjoy the rights of livelihood in such a country? Islamic theologians have
divided opinions in this matter and the Islamic law (Fiq) also provides divided versions accordingly.
It
should be said at the outset that Islamic judiciary divides the non-Muslim
population in such a country into two categories – zimmis
and kafirs. The groups of people
having their own prophets and revealed books are called zimmis and the rest come under the category of kafirs. According to Islamic law, the zimmis in a dar-ul-Islam
can earn the rights of safety of their lives and properties by paying a poll tax
called zejya. Are the kafirs
entitled to enjoy such a right? Islamic law-givers are of divided opinion on
this question. The Hanifa school approves such a right and according to this
school of laws, kafirs in a dar-ul-Islam can also earn the safety of their life and property by
paying zejya. But the other schools
forbid such a right and according
to those schools of law, kafirs in a dar-ul-Islam
have only two options – either to accept Islam or death.
An instance may be cited here to
enlighten the reader in this regard. The incident is given by Zia-ud-din Barni
in his Tarikh-I-firozshahi and
narrates a dialogue between Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji and a kazi
named Mughis-ud-din. One day the kazi visited
the court of the Sultan and he asked the kazi
– “How are the Hindus designated in the Islamic law, as payers of poll
tax (kharaj dih) and the givers of
tribute (kharaz ghauzar)?” The kazi
replied, “They are called payers of tribute. When the revenue officer demands
silver from them, they should, without question and with all humility and
respect, tender gold. If the officer throws dirt in their mouth, they must,
without reluctance, open their mouth wide to receive it. The due subordination
of the zimmis (the tribute payers) is
exhibited by this throwing of dust in their mouth. The glorification of Islam is
a duty. Allah holds them in contempt, for He says, “Keep them in
subjection.” To keep the Hindus in abasement is especially a religious duty,
because they are the most inveterate enemies of the Prophet and because the
Prophet has commanded us to slay them, plunder them and make them, enslave them
and spoil their wealth and property.” The great doctor (Hanifa),
to whose school we belong, has
asserted to the imposition of zejya
and 19 other disabilities on the Hindus. Doctors of other schools allow no other
alternative but death or Islam”.
The passage vividly explains the role that Islam has played in India during the
Islamic rule that lasted for more than 700 years.
The
literal meaning of dar-ul-harb is the
land of warfare. It refers to those countries which have not yet been conquered
by Islam and where the Muslims are fighting with the kafirs to bring them under their control. That is the reason why
these countries are called land of violence and blood-shed. The ultimate aim of
Islam is to turn the entire world into a dar-ul-Islam,
or to bring the entire world under the banner of Islam. So, it becomes evident
that this goal would be reached only when each and every dar-ul-harb on the earth would be converted into a dar-ul-Islam.
Hence the Koran says, “Go on fighting
against them till the rule of Allah is not established (8.39).”
According
to Islam, so long the kafirs are not wiped out from the face of the earth, they
will have their own dar-ul-harbs and
hence war, confrontation and bloodshed (fitna-fasad)
will continue. But as soon as all the kafirs
around the world are either eliminated or converted to Islam and their countries
converted into dar-ul-Islams, then and
then only lasting peace will be established in the world. That
is the reason why some motivated and wicked people try to associate the word
peace with Islam.
But
it is evident that the path by which Islam intends to bring peace is extremely
horrifying. Before bringing that Islamic peace, the entire world is to be turned
into a killing field. Drenching the earth with the blood of kafirs
is the essential pre-requisite for setting up that worldwide peaceful Islamic
state. Any sane person would certainly disapprove such a bloody procedure.
It
should also be mentioned here that, it would not be less horrifying if such a
peaceful worldwide state controlled by Islam comes into existence. First, in such a situation, all other
wisdom except the contents of Koran and Sunnah,
would be despised and instantly destroyed. All
The collections of books in the libraries throughout the world would be
ruthlessly burnt. Most of the sports and games would be declared illegal,
every male would have to grow beards and every woman would be covered with the
head to foot garment called borqa or hijab
and forcefully confined to remain indoor. Education and participation in social
activities would be illegal for women. Any artistic pursuit like painting,
sculpting, and performing arts like singing, dancing and playing musical
instruments would also be declared unlawful. Extremely fanatic Islamic mullahs
would grab power, run the governments and would establish autocratic regimes
based on Koranic instructions. Democracy would go and people would be deprived
of their fundamental rights. Peace would
certainly prevail, but that would be the peace of a graveyard.
Jihad
the Third Decree:
How
to bring the entire world under the banner of Islam? How to convert each and dar-ul-harb
into a dar-ul-Islam? Here comes the third decree of Islam, jihad.
English authors generally translate jihad as ‘holy war’, while the Hindus
commonly use the phrase ‘dharma yuddha’
(righteous war) for jihad. But in fact, jihad
is neither holy nor righteous. The word dharma
yuddha stands for a war waged by the civilized people against uncivilized
brutes or wicked people. The Mahabharata War at Kurukshetra, which took place
nearly in 3000 B.C., is the best example of the concept of dharma yuddha.
It
is well-known that the said Mahabharata War was fought between the good force
represented by the Pandavas and the evil force represented by the Kauravas. Just
before the beginning of that war, elderly Bhishma pronounced a set of code of
conduct which every warrior had to respect. The verses from 27 to 32 of the
‘Bhishma Parva’ of Mahabharata narrate these laws, such as (1) there will be
no enmity after dusk when the day’s battle is declared over, (2) who is
engaged with oral combat should be confronted orally, (3) a charioteer should
fight with a charioteer, a horse-man with a horse-man, an elephant rider with an
elephant rider and a foot-soldier with a foot-soldier alone, (4) one should
fight with his counter-part who is equal in strength, skill, will, zeal and
competency. Before a combat starts, each warrior should make his opponent alert
and warn about the consequences.
The
said regulation contains a long list of people who, at any circumstances, are
not to be killed or injured. A few of them are (1) a soldier who has casually
gone out of the battle field, (2) a man who is unprepared and incaution, (3) who
has become overwhelmed or awestricken by observing the blood-shed, (4) who is
engaged in fighting with another man, (5) who has already surrendered, (6) who
is fleeing the battle field showing his back, (7) whose sword has been broken
and armour has been cut and so on. In addition to that, no injury was to be
inflicted to the driver of a chariot, carrier of weapons, drummers and
conch-shell blowers etc.
On
the other hand, Islamic jihad is the
most barbaric incitement, the world has ever seen, to commit indiscriminate and
large scale homicide. In plain words, jihad
means indiscriminate killing of kafirs,
plundering their wealth, occupying their land and other properties by sword,
fire and rape. In fact, Islam as a creed has nothing to do with spiritualism
and its sole intention is to create an empire throughout the world and hence it
puts greatest virtue in its military component, jihad,
or fighting against the kafirs with
the ultimate motive of eliminating them en masse. Allah has proclaimed that
whatever wealth and riches that exist on the earth belong to Allah and His
Messenger and Islam inspires its followers to wage a war against the kafirs,
the unlawful occupiers of those wealth and riches, and bring them under the
occupation of the legal owners or the Muslims. So, for a Muslim, launching a jihad
or war against the kafirs, is the
highest virtue; higher even than a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj), not to speak of lower virtues like prayer (namaz)
and fasting (roja).
So the Koran says, “Fighting against
the kafirs is beyond one’s personal
likings and dislikings as Allah has commanded to fight the pagans and all those
who ascribe partners (shirk) with
Allah” (2.216).
A
Muslim participating in Jihad is
called a mujahid (plural :mujahidin) and Allah’s ultimate intention is to raise and
establish His religion to reign supreme with the help of the mujahidin. He promises to repel the might of the enemies of Islam
and protect His faith with the help of the mujahidin.
So the Koran says, “That you
believe in Allah and His Messenger and that you strive hard and fight in the
cause of Allah with your wealth and lives” (61.11). “Jihad
is better for you than your sitting back at home and if you do so, He will
forgive you your sins, your foulest deeds and admit you into the gardens of
eternity (paradise)” (61.12).
To
inspire the Muslims for jihad, Koran continues, “There is nothing in the sight of Allah which may be equated to
jihad.” (9.19) and “No equal are
those believers who sit at home (except those who are old and disabled) and
those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in the cause of
Allah” (4.95). “That is because
they (who sit back at home) suffer neither thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger in
the cause of Allah. …Nor they raise the anger of the disbelievers or inflict
any injury (killing, robbing or taking captive) upon enemy” (9.20). “Anyone
whose feet get covered with dust in Allah’s cause will
be forbidden from the hell-fire” (Bukhari : 4.66). Allah rebukes those who
sit back at home for their cowardice and threatens them with cruel punishments
and the Koran says, “If you march not
forth (for jihad), I will punish you with painful torment and will replace you
with other people” (9.39).
Allah
loves military discipline and rank and rows (surat-us-saff) during jihad and says, “Verily, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in rows and ranks as
if they were a solid mass” (61.4). Discipline
comes only when every one serves allegiance to a single commander and hence the
Koran says, “Verily, those who are serving allegiance to you (O Mohammad),
they are in fact serving allegiance to Allah” (48.10).
Allah
promises divine assistance and guarantees victory for the Muslims and says, “As
a divine help, Allah will provide you five thousand angles as fighters and
victory for the Muslims” (3.124-125).
“So don’t become weak and be not sad and you are superior if you are indeed
believers. …Allah helps those who remain steadfast” (3.139-142). Allah
also says, “Those who believe, fight in the cause of Allah and those who
disbelieve, fight in the cause of Satan, ever feeble indeed is the plot of
Satan” (4.76). “Oh you who
believe; when you meet the enemy force, take a firm stand against them and
mention the name of Allah both with the tongue and mind, so that you may be
successful” (8.45). “If Allah
helps you, none can overcome you and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him
that can help you?” (3.160). Allah
also says, “… thousands believers will overpower two thousand
non-believers” (8.66) and if they are properly inspired “twenty
believers will overpower two hundred and a hundred believers will overpower one
thousand non-believers” (8.65).
On
the other and, fleeing from the enemy during
jihad is one of the gravest sins and Allah warns such believers with
crushing punishment and says, “O you
believers, when you meet those who disbelieve in a battle field, never turn your
back to them” (8.15). “And
whosoever is found to do so would incur wrath of Allah. His abode will be the
Hell, indeed an evil destination” (8.16).
Jihad
is beneficial for the Muslims in two ways---first, if they win a victory and
remain alive will enjoy the booty earned by doing jihad
and, secondly, if they die, they will become martyrs (shahid)
and Allah will receive them in paradise even before their death and provide them
with profuse enjoyments. Allah commanded to reserve one fifth of war booty as
the ‘holy khum’ for the Prophet during his life time and to divide the rest
equally amongst the mujahidin. So He
says, “Every soul should be paid in
full what it (jihad) has earned. And
no one shall be dealt unjustly” (3.161). Allah also says, “Invade in the name of Allah and kill them who disbelieve in Allah.
… Collect the booty and do good as Allah loves the good doers”. It may
be mentioned here that, according to the Koran,
kafir women are also war booty and Allah permits every Muslim to commit sexual assault on them (Koran : 33.50) and He
commands to massacre all the male kafir prisoners of war (ibid : 8.71).
It
has been said earlier that martyrs will be Allah’s respected guests in
paradise and in this regard He says, “Think
not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive
with their Lord and they have provisions” (3.169). “Allah will bestow on a martyr a greater reward” (4.74). this
martydom in jihad is so beneficial for
Muslims that a mujahid will say “I
would love to be martyred in Allah’s cause and then get resurrected to be a
martyr, and then resurrected to be martyred” (Bukhari : 4.54). Regarding
the benefits of martyrdom, the Prophet said that (1)
the soul of the martyrs live in bodies of green birds dwelling in paradise and
fly where they like, (2) all their sins and foul deeds are forgiven, (3) a
martyr will be able to intercede with Allah on the Day of Last Judgment for
seventy of his relatives and friends, (4) he will come secure on the day of Last
Judgment from great terror, (5) he will not feel the agony and the distress of
death, (6) he will not be horrified
by the great gathering on the Day of Resurrection and he will feel no pain for
killing kafirs except that of a pinch.
It
is needless to say that this doctrine of martyrdom is inspiring hundreds of
Palestinian, Arabian and Pakistani jihadas
to explode themselves as suicide bombers and it is the doctrine which inspired
the hijackers who crashed the airplanes on September 11. It has been said
earlier that Allah forbids Muslim women to enter the paradise. The only by-lane
open to a Muslim woman for entering the paradise is by becoming a martyr in jihad
and that is the reason for which more and more Palestinian girls are coming
today to offer themselves as suicide bombers.
It should be mentioned here that, so long the Prophet lived in Mecca,
fighting was forbidden for the Muslims. But after his migration (hijrat)
to Medina, Allah at first gave them permission to fight and subsequently made
fighting obligatory for every able Muslim (2.190 ; 22. 39). So Allah said,
“Hence when you meet them who disbelieve, smite them on their necks till when
you have killed or wounded many of them” (47.4).
It
is important to note here that Allah is capable enough to punish the
non-believers whenever He likes. But He wants to punish them with the help of
the mujahidin to test their allegiance
to Allah. So He says, “But if had
it not been Allah’s will, he certainly could have punished them. But to test
you, some with others. But those who were killed in the way of Allah, He will
never let their deeds to go waste” (47.4). So each and every Muslim should
thank Allah for providing them with such a unique opportunity to express their
allegiance to Him by killing non-Muslims, and should say, “Praise be to Allah, who has ordained ‘Al-jihad’ (to fight in
Allah’s cause), with the heart, with the hand and with the tongue, with the
reward of a place in the gardens of paradise”.
All
the Muslim religious scholars unanimously agree that jihad
is the highest virtue in Islam, and it is superior, to prayer (namaz),
fasting (roja) and even pilgrimage to
Mecca (hajj). It includes all
kinds of worships, both hidden and open. It includes great love for Allah and it
shows one’s sincerity to Him and one’s trust in Him. In fact, jihad is a very wide gate and there is no deed whose reward and
blessing is as great as that of it. And hence, it is the best thing a Muslim volunteer for. Jihad shows one’s
patience and devotion to Islam and hence it is the best form of worship in Islam.
Here,
the reader should not miss the point that the ultimate aim of Islam is to turn
the entire world into an empire of Islam, or in other words, into an empire of
Arabia, so that, “Allah’s religion reigns supreme” (8.39), and jihad is
its military component by which that goal is to be achieved. That is the reason
why Allah puts highest merit in it and incites His followers to participate in
jihad with the allurement of booty and sex with kafir
women in this world and all possible sensual pleasure and comfort of paradise in
the next. So the Koran says, “ Allah
promises to such of you who believe and do good work (jihad),
that He will cause them to succeed the non-believers in the earth. …He will
establish for them their religion. …And will change their fear into
security” (24.55), and “My
servants the righteous shall inherit the earth” (21.105) as “They
are the best”. (3.110).
Jihad
in India :
As
soon as the barbarian Muslim invaders set their foot in India, the brutality of jihad
began to take place with horrible acts of cruelty, mass massacre and bloodshed.
A few examples will be sufficient for the reader to understand the horridness of
those acts. In 1194 AD, Mohammad Ghori launched a military campaign against Raja
Jaichand of Benaras. On their way
to Benaras, they occupied the fortress at Kol and to describe the Incident,
Hassan Nizami in his Taj-ul masir writes,
“By the edge of the sword they (more
than 50,000 Hindus) were dispatched to the fire of Hell. Three bastions were
raised, as high as heaven, with their (slain) heads and their carcasses became
the food of the beasts of prey. …They destroyed nearly one thousand temples
and raised mosques on their foundations”. (1)
In
1196 AD., Kutubuddin Aibak invaded the fort at Gwalior. To describe the
incident, Minhaz-us-Siraj in his Tabakat-I-Nasiri
writes, “In compliance with the divine
(i.e. Koranic) injunction of holy war (jihad),
they drew out their blood-thirsty swords before the enemies of religion (i.e.
Hindus)”. (2) To describe the same incident, Hassan Nizami in his Taj-ul-masir
writes, “The army of Islam was completely victorious and one lakh Hindus
were swiftly dispatched to the hell of fire. … He (Kutubuddin) destroyed the
pillars and foundations of idol temples and built their stead mosques, colleges
and precepts of Islam”. (3)
In
1197, Kutubuddin invaded the fort at Naharwala in Gujrat. On the way a battle
was fought with the king Karan Singh. Describing the incident, Minhaj-us-Siraj
in his Tabakat-I-Nasiri writes, “Nearly
fifty thousand infidels (Hindus) were dispatched to the hell by the sword and
from the heaps of the slain, hills and the plain became one level”. (4)
Regarding the capture of the Kalinjar Fort by Kutubuddin in 1202, Minhaz writes,
“… fifty thousand men came under the collar of slavery and the plain became
as black as pitch with the blood of Hindus”. (5)
After
capturing the fort of Chitor, emperor Akbar ordered general massacre and Vincent
Smith, to describe the incident, writes, “The eight thousand Rajput soldiers who formed the regular garrison,
having been jealously helped, during the siege, by forty thousand peasants, the
emperor ordered general massacre, which resulted in the death of 30,000”.
(6) Abul Fazl in his Ain-I-Akbari
wrote that on that day 40,000 Hindus were
killed. But it was an impossible task to count the dead bodies and hence to
ascertain the exact number of victims. So the emperor commanded his soldiers to
collect the scared threads of the dead Hindus. When the sacred threads were
accumulated they weighed 74 and 1/2 maunds (nearly 2.8 metric tons). So
it becomes evident that more than 200,000 Hindus were massacred on that day by
Akbar.
In
1360 AD., Firoz Shah Tughlaq invaded Orissa and desecrated the temple of Lord
Jagannath and threw the idol in the Bay of Bengal. On his return journey, when
he was passing through Jajnagar, it was brought to his knowledge that nearly
120,000 Hindus had taken shelter at an offshore island. Firoz Shah then went to that island with his men and butchered those
120,000 Hindus on a single day.
Ulugh Khan (later on Sultan Ghiasuddin Balban), when he was serving
sultan Nassiruddin (brother of Sultana Rizia) as a commander, went to the
Gahrwal, on the foot hill of the Himalayas, and promised his men that he would
reward them with one rupee for bringing the head of a slain Hindu and two rupees
for bringing a Hindu alive. Like hungry dogs his army set out for the hunt of kafir
Hindus. The massacre went on for three long weeks and several
hundreds of thousands of Hindus were slain. Ulugh Khan then built high-rise
bastions with the heads of the slain Hindus.
When
Maharana Sangram Singh was defeated in the battle of Khanau, Babar ordered
general massacre, and his chief commander
Mohammadi and other commanders massacred 1,00,000 Rajput prisoners of war and
another 1,00,000 civilian Hindus. Such killings of Hindus went on unabated
during the entire period of Muslim rule that lasted for about 700 years.
Regarding
these killings of Hindus, Swami Vivekananda writes, “When the Muslims first came to India, there were, according to their
historical records, 60 crores (600 million) Hindus in India. This calculation
suffers from under estimation than exaggeration; for lots of people perished
slowly through the persecution of the Muslims. Therefore, it is obvious that the
number of Hindus was even more than 60 crores---in no account less than that.
But today the same Hindus have dwindled into 20 crores (in 1897-98)”. (7)
So, according to the estimate of Vivekananda, the barbaric Muslim invaders wiped
out 40 crore Hindus during their period of rule. Not only that, we have to add
the number of Hindus who were born within that period.
When
the Muslim invaders came to India, our Hindu rulers took into account their
military might alone. To fight this new enemy they followed the same strategy
their ancestors used to follow---the eternal rules and traditions handed down to
them from the days of Mahabharata, and they failed to discover the element of
jihad, the kafir killing motives of
theses barbaric new invaders. Being guided by their age old civilized tradition
that the prisoners of war were to be set free and not to be harmed, Hindu kings
after winning a victory over the Muslim army, used to set the soldiers free. But
on the contrary, victorious Muslim rulers, being guided by their kafir
killing doctrine of jihad, used to massacre the entire regiment of Hindu
prisoners of war.
It
was unthinkable for our Hindu kings to cause slightest harm to innocent
civilians even during a war. So they became astonished to see killings of
civilians, innocent farmers, burning of their standing crops in fields by the
Muslims and most importantly, dishonoring and harming the women and children.
There are umpteen instances where their civilized heritage was responsible for
their defeats. For example, being guided
by the civilized Hindu tradition, Prithviraj Chauhan set Mohammad Ghori, a
prisoner of war, free. But this civilized behavior later on brought his defeat
and death.
Allah
versus God Almighty
:
Besides
the three fundamental decrees of Islam, as mentioned above, a few other aspects
of the creed deserve discussion. Hindus have composed the song “Ishwara Allah
Tere Naam”, as if there is no difference between the Almighty God and Allah.
But those Hindus do not know that, Allah does not have the merit to be called
Ishwara (God Almighty) and hence the Koran is not a creation of Almighty God.
Had Allah been the Ishwara of this universe, he would have treated every human
being alike, as the Hindu God lord Krishna says, “In my eye, every human being is equal---no one is my favourite and no
one is detestable to Me”. (Bhagavad-gita : 9.29).
But
in the eye of Allah, all human beings are not equal. He is kind (Rahamanir-Rahim)
to the Muslims alone and to the non-Muslim
kafirs, he is an extremely cruel despot, an inhuman brute killer. So it
becomes evident that such a terrible Allah, who is extremely biased and partial
to His children, cannot be the God of the entire creation. So Swami Dayananda
Saraswati in his Satyartha Prakash
writes, “If the God of Quran had been
the protector of all creatures and dispenser of forgiveness and mercy to all, He
would not have commanded the Muslims to kill the people of other religions”. He
also says that due to this reason “The
Quran does not appear to have been made by God”. (Ch. XIV).
In this regard, Swami Vivekananda in his Practical Vedanta writes, “God who is partial to His children called men and cruel to His
children called brute beasts (kafirs)
is worse than a demon. I would rather die a hundred times than worship such a
God. My whole life would be a fight with such a God”. So it appears that,
Allah is a God only for the Muslims and not for the entire humanity. In this
regard, the word Allah deserves a closer look. It has been derived from two
Arabic words, ‘al’ stands for English ‘the’ and ‘ilah’ stands for a
local God in Arabia. And hence the word Allah literally does not signify the
Almighty God, the ruler of the entire creation, but it stands for a local god of
Arabia. On the other hand, from the behavioral pattern of Allah, as reflected in
the Koran, it becomes evident that Allah
is simply a mafia don or the leader of a criminal gang, who is trying to gain
control over the entire world, to establish himself as the God, by way of
bloodshed and terror.
Namaz,
a Regular Military Exercise :
There
are many non-Muslim kafirs, including
the Hindus, who admire the Muslims for their regular prayers, five times a day
in mosques. They consider this prayer (namaz)
by the Muslims as their sincere, humble and devotional submission to God. In
this context, it should be mentioned here that the ultimate spiritual attainment
for the Muslims is their entry into Allah’s paradise and it has been pointed
out earlier that for the sheer merit of taking the oath through the ‘LA
Ilaha Illallah’ kalema, i.e. for following the true religion of Mohammad,
each and every Muslim, even the most wretched and fallen one, would be allowed
to enter Allah’s paradise. Then why the Muslims throughout the entire world
pray for five times a day and observe fasting (roja)
for an entire month? To find an
answer, we have to delve into the matter a bit.
Hindus
believe that one should pray to God in an isolated solitary place, far away from
crowd and noise. But Islamic theology says that a Muslim earns little merit by
praying in isolation at home. On the contrary, if he prays in a local mosque, he
earns a merit ten times as much and if he prays in a Jam-e-masjid,
he earns merit 100 times as much and the merit of a namaz
increases by 100,000 times if it is done at the holiest mosque at Mecca (Masjid-ul-haram).
So
it becomes evident that the ultimate purpose of namaz is not a humble submission to Allah, but to gather people as
much as possible with the aim of forming a regiment. The view gains ground when
one observes the method by which a prayer is conducted in a mosque. First of all
every Muslim has to stand in perfect rows and ranks and they should stand up and
sit down at the same time according to the command of the Imam (who conducts namaz).
All these gestures show that this prayer is nothing but a military exercise. At
the same time, namaz aims to enhance
intimacy amongst the Muslims to strengthen their regimentation. That is the
reason why during the life time of the Prophet, whenever the Muslims launched an
attack on the kafirs of Arabia, they
used to do it just after the completion of a
prayer (namaz).
Usually, such raids used to take place just after the completion of the early
morning (fazar) prayer. That tradition
of the Prophet (Holy Sunnah) is still
being followed by the entire Muslim community even today. Whenever they organise
a communal riot against the kafirs,
they begin it just after the completion of a namaz, usually the mid-day (johar)
namaz on Friday (Jumma). It
may be recalled here that the communal riot, popularly known as the ‘Great
Calcutta Killing’ that took place in Friday, 16th August, 1946, and
the Muslims started massacring the Hindus just after the mid-day prayer on
Friday.
So, it does not become difficult to understand that the importance of
prayer does not lie for entering Allah’s paradise after death, but its
importance, as a regular military exercise, lies in carrying out jihad. In this
context, a few other aspects of namaz
deserve special attention. The namaz
begins when the namazis arrive at the
mosque, stand in perfect rows and ranks and the outset they have to recite the
First Chapter (Sura Fateha) from the
Koran and thereafter they have to recite three more verse from the book. It is
important to note that the Imams, who conduct the namaz,
usually choose these verses from among the terrible and violent verses of the
Koran, containing the message of jihad bearing
kafir-killing commands of Allah. One
can easily guess the effect of reciting these cruel kafir-killing
commands of Allah for five times a day and how dangerously cruel a man would
become in the matter of killing and torturing the kafirs
and how much hatred his mind would accumulate towards the kafirs.
This is then followed by the religious address (khutba)
by the Imams. Most of the non-Muslim
kafirs are ignorant of the contents such a religious address. So a portion
of the khutba which the Imams deliver
on the day of Id-ul-fitr, the holiest
day of Islam, is quoted below the convenience of the reader. “…Oh Allah, make your religion and your faithful followers always
victorious and bring defeat for the unruly, ill-behaved and disobedient kafirs.
Oh Allah, the servant who is obedient to you, whether he is a son of a king, or
slave of a slave father, or the lord of two oceans, if he is a servant of Mecca
and Medina or a warrior in the cause of Allah, if he is a Muslim king, Oh Allah,
protect his kingdom, make him and his Muslim subjects prosperous. O Allah, bring
slavery for the kafirs, ruin their states and bring disunity among their
unity”.
According to Islamic rites, a boy is to be taught how to pray when he is
seven. So one can easily imagine if a man is given such lessons of killing kafirs
and shedding their blood five times a day from his childhood through namaz,
how much communal, inhuman and cruel he would become against the non-Muslim kafirs.
In addition to that, there is another teaching - killing animals on the
day of sacrificial ceremony, Bakr-Id
(on the 10th day of the parting month Jilhajj
of the Arabic calendar). While namaz
provides psychological training, the sacrifice of animals provides practical
training for shedding the blood of the kafirs.
According to the phychologists, if a man is taught such lessons day after day,
year after year, he loses his thinking power and acts according to said
teachings instantly, which they call the ‘motor action’. That is the reason why a Muslim can kill a kafir so easily without any mental repercussion and repentance.
Moreover, it should be pointed out here that Islam was originated in
Arabia, where pastoral culture still prevails. Hence in Arabia, killing of
animals is a daily routine work and that is the reason why the people of Arabia
are generally cruel and oppressive from their childhood and do not hesitate to
shed blood for trifle matters. The aim of Islam is to instill that inhuman
cruelty in every convert, or to inculcate that pastoral cruelty and indifference
to bloodshed in the mind of each and every Muslim as it is beneficial for
carrying out jihad. That is the reason why even a timid Hindu farmer, after being converted
to Islam, turns instantly into a cruel killer.
It is interesting to note that like namaz,
the merit of fasting (roja) also lies
in carrying out jihad. It has been
told earlier that Islam was originated in Arabia where water is scarce. During
the life time of the Prophet, it happened several times that Muslims conducted a
raid in a distant locality and the jihadis
could not find a drop of water to drink, not to speak of food to eat. To tackle
such situations the Prophet made the ritual of fasting mandatory for every able
Muslim, which during the pre-Islamic days was confined only to a few pious
people. It is also a part of military
training known as ‘endurance training’.
Two
Faces of Koran:
It is a usual practice of the Muslims to befool the Hindus by various
means. They say that Islam means peace, kafir
means an atheist, jihad means a war
between good and evil forces and so on. They also deceive the kafirs
in another ingenious way. There are some verses of Koran which are not cruel but
tolerant and innocent in spirit, such as “Allah does not love the oppressors” (3.140), “Allah has prepared painful punishments for the oppressors” (14.22),
“Allah does not love them who creates indiscipline” (5.64), “
Allah does not like jealousy and aggressiveness” (57.23), “Allah
loves patience and forgiveness” (42.43), “Your religion (is dear) to
you and my religion (is dear) to me” (109.6), “ The Prophet has no other duty but to propagate the message of
Allah” (5.99) and so on and so forth. When these verses are uttered before
the Hindus, many are fooled and admit that the Koran has tolerant, human and
innocent verses too. In this context, it is very important to mention that the
Muslim make frequent use of the verse “Your
religion to you and my religion to me”, as quoted above.
The Koran contains over 6 thousands verses (ayats)
divided into 114 chapters (suras). All
these verses of the Koran can broadly be divided into two categories---Makki verses and Madani verses.
The verses of the Koran which were revealed to Mohammad when he was staying at
Mecca, are called Makki verses. And
the verses which were revealed after his migration to Medina, are called Madani
verses. Before his migration (hijrat)
to Medina, the Prophet was a humble servant of Allah and a good husband of his
only wife Khadija, without having any economic, political or military power. And
Allah also, to cope with the situation,
revealed tolerant and innocent verses alone.
But after his migration to Medina the
Prophet became the Chief administrator and, at the same time, the chief of army
and judiciary of Medina. Or in other words, he became the sole and supreme
dictator of Medina. After acquiring so much of power, the idea of spreading
Islam by sword came to his mind and invented the doctrine of jihad.
It may be recalled that so long the Prophet was in Mecca, Allah forbade war for
the Muslims. But after hijrat, Allah
could read the mind of the Prophet and gave the Muslim the permission to fight
and subsequently made fighting obligatory for every able Muslim. From
that time onwards, Allah began to reveal the terrible and violent verses of jihad,
the verses of bloodshed, and commanded the Muslims to wipe out the kafirs
by launching jihad and establish an empire of Islam throughout the Peninsula of
Arabia.
That
is the reason why the Muslims, whenever talk about Islam in a civilized forum,
they, to hide the bloody sword of Islam, always utter the Makki
verses of the Koran. It should be pointed out here that, after the September, 11
attacks, many television channels broadcast interviews with Muslim reporters,
intellectuals and religious leaders and the print-media also published similar
interviews. In all such cases, to befool the kafirs,
Muslim journalists, clerics and political leaders quoted Makki
verses alone from the Koran, especially the verse "Your
religion to you and my religion to me."
In
a country where the Muslims are still a minority, they always make use of the Makki verses, but as soon as they gain majority or become strong in
military power, they at once throw away these Makki verses in the junkyard and adopt the Madani verses for launching a jihad. In our country, when the
Muslims come to Hindu populated areas, they never utter a Madani verse. But the same Muslims in their Muslim dominated
residential areas use to propagate Madani
verses from the mosques, with the help of loud-speakers, to scare the minority
Hindus of that locality. Thus the Muslims
make use of the Makki verses of the
Koran to keep their bloody weapons concealed, and in a favourable situation they
instantly switch over to the Madani
verses and brandish their unsheathed swords.
Mandir
versus Masjid:
Most
of the Hindus, when they undertake a religious discussion, usually spell mandir
(temple) and masjid (mosque) in the same breath in such a manner as if there is
no difference between a mandir and a masjid.
Broad minded Hindus generally think that mandirs
are abodes of the Hindu God and in a likewise manner, masjids
are abodes of the Muslims' Allah, and as, according to their belief, there is no
difference between Allah and the Hindu God, both are abodes of the same God, and
hence there is no difference between a mandir
and a masjid. But a closer look
reveals that there is a gulf of difference between a mandir and a masjid. A
common difference has nowadays become very prominent. Many Islamic terrorists in
Kashmir and elsewhere take shelter in masjids
as hiding places. But the Hindus have neither a terrorist gang and nor any
necessity of hiding in a temple.
It
has been told earlier that what the Hindus consider to be a Dharma, Islam is not
a creed of that type. In fact, Islam is a political institution that aims to
establish an Islamic empire throughout the world and the masjids
are playing the role of the branch offices of that political party called Islam.
It has been said earlier that Islam wants to conquer the entire world by means
of jihad and the masjids are the
places where jihadis or mujahidin prepare blueprints for jihad. In addition to that, masjids
function as armouries or go-downs of weapons to be used in kafir-killing
raids.
During
the days of Mohammad, these weapons included swords, daggers, scimitars, spears,
shields and so on. But nowadays, there has been a vast improvement in this
weaponry and a modern jihad
involves AK-47 rifles, machine-guns, rocket launchers, grenades, dangerous
explosives like RDX and so on. According to intelligence reports, masjids
on Indian soil, along the Bangladesh and Pakistan borders as well as the
Indo-Nepal border, have, at present, been loaded with such modern weapons. Even
in Kolkata, the police reports say that there are 14 main masjids
where the automatic weapons and explosives, as mentioned above, have been dumped
in huge quantities. But there is no information in record that the Hindus
have ever used their temples for such military purposes.
It
has been said earlier that, when Mohammad migrated to Medina in 620 A.D., he
became the chief administrator, chief army commander and chief of judiciary in
Medina. He used to discharge all the above-mentioned duties at the masjid
at Medina. Thus the masjid at Medina was
used as the chief administrative office, chief military headquarters and highest
court. There is no record that Hindus have ever used any temple for all
these political purposes. The Prophet lived 10 years in Medina, after his
migration. Within these 10 years the he
organized 82 raids (jihads) and the
blueprints of all these raids were prepared in the masjid of Medina.
Mohammad
loved absolute power and could not tolerate any criticism. There were many
eminent people in Medina, mainly poets, who earned displeasure of the Prophet by
criticizing his activities. The Prophet was afraid that their murder in open day
light may lead to a revolt by the kafirs of Medina. So he decided to assassinate them in the darkness of night and, in
fact, he engaged assassins to murder the poetess Asma, poet
Adu Afak and another poet Kaab-bin-Asraf. These poets served the purpose
of journalists of today and used to write poems criticizing the activities of
the Muslims and the Prophet.
It
is important to note here that the blueprints of all these murders were prepared
in the masjid of Medina. Moreover, the
Prophet used to see his assassins off from the masjid
of Medina and greeted them at the same masjid
when they returned after committing the crime. It is also important to note that
the Muslims, still today, are using their masjids
for all such criminal activities by following the Holy Sunnah (Tradition) of the Prophet. But there is no record that a
Hindu has ever used any temple for all such mean purposes.
It
has been said earlier that the Muslims began the Great Calcutta Killing from the
masjids of Kolkata after completing
the mid-day prayer on Friday, the most holy prayer on the holy day. In Islam,
the Prophet is the supreme guide and every Muslim has to follow him without any
question. The Prophet used to lick his
fingers after taking meals and every Muslim has to lick his fingers in a
likewise manner. The Prophet disliked dogs and hence no Muslim is permitted to
have a dog as a pet. The Prophet asked his followers to shave moustaches and
keep beards so that they could be easily identified and distinguished from the kafirs
of Medina and the Muslims throughout the world are blindly following the custom.
Allah has said, “always follow the
Prophet”. So the deeds the Prophet used to do in the masjid
of Medina are also to be followed, and hence the Muslims around the world are
committing all the criminal activities, the Prophet used to commit, in their
masjids.
So
the Imams of masjids are pronouncing fatwas,
preparing plans in their masjids, how
to attack the kafirs and kill them,
how to rape kafir women, how to occupy
kafirs’ land and plunder their
wealth and other riches. Not only that, there
are umpteen instances in Bangladesh and Pakistan where Imams of masjids
bring false allegations of adultery against innocent housewives, for not
complying with their dirty proposals, accused them
and pronounced fatwas to kill
them by pelting stones (rajam).
But there is no such instance in record where a Hindu temple-priest has ever
committed such heinous crimes, not to speak of doing it within the temple
complex.
So,
it becomes evident that there is a gulf of difference between a mandir
and a masjid. During the time of the Prophet, the masjid of Medina was also used for another unique purpose. After a
raid or jihad, the war booty were used to be dumped in the lawn of the masjid
and divided it among the mujahidin. It
has been said earlier that the Prophet used to receive one-fifth of the booty as
the holy khum. As said earlier. Islam consider captured kafir women as war booty and the Prophet exercised his discretionary
power to choose the most beautiful and charming woman for him. But the
Hindus cannot even think of committing such foul deeds within a temple. They use
their temples for offering devotion and puja
to up-lift their spirituality alone
and not for criminal and foul activities.
Conclusion:
From
the afore-said discussions it becomes clear that, what the Hindus believe to be
a Dharma, Islam is not at all a Dharma
like that. On the contrary, Islam is an
antihuman political institution based on a savage, barbaric and murderous creed
that inspires criminality. And in fact, Islam is an asylum of criminals and its
divine motivations are also criminal. More
importantly, Islam is the most dreaded enemy, not only of the Hindus and
Hinduism, but also of the entire non-Muslim population around the world and
their civilization and culture. So the wicked people, who are trying to
propagate the view that Islam is a peace-loving faith and Koran does not inspire
violence, are definitely committing an
unpardonable crime against the entire humanity.
There is not an iota of doubt that, if the Muslims gain political
supremacy in India, they will instantly pull down all temples and other places
of worship, or convert them into mosques, burn each and every book that does not
agree with Koranic beliefs, humanity will evaporate from this country and it
will be turned into a killing-field of all the non-Muslim kafirs. So,
it is absolutely necessary for the Hindus to understand the fundamental aspects
of Islam, particularly its aggressive and kafir-killing
elements, and then, and then only, they will be able to build up an effective
defence against Islam and save their Dharma and culture.
At
the same time, the entire non-Muslim population of the world should understand
that the present upsurge of Islamic extremism is not only a threat to the Hindus
or Americans alone, but, in fact, it poses a threat to the entire civilized
world. And hence the war launched by America against Islamic terrorism is not
only a war of America alone and, in fact, it is war of the entire civilized
world against the uncivilized brute killers, or it is a war of humanity against
the followers of an inhuman creed. Above all, it is a war between good and evil and if the evil wins a
victory, it will be catastrophic for the entire human civilization. Hence
every sensible government and every individual who believe in humanity, should
extend his moral and material support in favour of the good force to strike a
mortal blow on that in-human creed and to wipe out all potential bin-Ladens from
the face of the earth.
Finally,
the author takes the liberty of concluding this essay with the opinions of two
of the most eminent authorities on Islam. Sir Jadunath Sarkar in his History
of Aurangzib (Orient Longman [1972), III, 168) writes, “The
murder of infidels (kafir-kushi, i.e. non-Muslims) is counted a merit in a
Muslim. It is not necessary that he should tame his own passions or mortify his
flesh ; it is not necessary for him to grow a rich growth of spirituality. He
has only to slay a certain (non-Muslim) class of his fellow beings or plunder
their lands and wealth, and that act in itself raises his soul to (Islam) whose
followers are taught to regard robbery and murder as a religious duty, is
incompatible with the progress of mankind or with the peace of the world”.
Sir William Muir in his “The Life of Mohomet’ (Voice of India, New Delhi (1992), 522) writes, “The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor’an are the most stubborn enemies of Civilization, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known”.
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