Q. What is your views on that hadith .......... where Muhammad saw said every Jew will be killed ....... even the rock will tell the Muslim, O Muslim , a Jew is hiding behind me etc... A.There is no ahadith that says Muhammad saw said every Jew will be killed. There is a well-known hadith that some people use to say that Jews and Muslims are eternal enemies. The last hour would not come until the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. To quote one scholar, To use this specific hadith as a propaganda tool, or as a general “permit” to kill Jews conflicts with the Qur’an in an obvious and blatant manner. Some attempts to interpret this as an excuse or a call to make war against the Jews can never give any kind of legitimacy whatsoever to wage war against Jews. Secondly, if somebody turns up one day and claims that stones and trees spoke to him, and thus he went off and started killing Jewish people, one can safely presume that he is suffering from an hallucination, perhaps some psychotic episode, or else that person would thus be committing murder; he would be an assassin. This would be haram (unlawful), and it is definitely unacceptable. In addition, I would add, using this ahadith as an excuse for war, it is quoted completely out of context. Muslims and Jews have already made war against each other several times in the last century alone. In the hadith collections, many events regarding the End Times have been explained in great detail which have been realized in the past decades; however none of them were interpreted as events to be provoked/encouraged or intentionally imposed. For instance, in one of them the Prophet (pbuh) foretells that blood will be shed in the Kaaba (and this has happened in the recent past, in 1979 to be specific, during the siege of the Masjid al-Haraam), but it has never been interpreted as a call to shed blood in the Kaaba. The Prophet (pbuh) informs us that there will be a great war between Iran and Iraq (the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988), and this has never been interpreted to mean that Muslims should fight each other. There are many hadiths that take the form “The last hour would not come until…”: “The Hour will not come until wealth increases so much that a wealthy man will be worried lest no-one accept his Sadaqah: tribulations will appear; and there will be much Harj.’ The people asked, ‘What is Harj, O Messenger of Allah?’ He said, ‘Killing, killing’.” (Ahmad) “The Hour will not come until the following events have come to pass: people will compete with one another in constructing high buildings; two big groups will fight one another, and there will be many casualties - they will both be following the same religious teaching; earthquakes will increase; time will pass quickly; afflictions and killing will increase; nearly thirty dajjals will appear, each of them claiming to be a messenger from Allah; a man will pass by a grave and say, Would that I were in your place; the sun will rise from the West; when it rises and the people see it, they will all believe, but that will be the time when ‘No good will it do to a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before...’ (al-An’am 6:158); and a wealthy man will worry lest no-one accept his Zakat.” (al-Bukhârî, Muslim) They simply state an event will happen, without saying if it is a good or bad thing. It is related to the general decline of society, including Islamic society and its scholars, during the End Times. In the hadith above, within the context of all others of this category, it is said that there will be a battle between some Muslims and some Jews, but it is never said that this is a good thing and certainly not something that should be proactively sought. IMHO, These interpretations that represent Jews as the eternal enemies of Muslims and call for war against them have no theological or doctrinal basis, and they are an apparent misuse of this form of ahadith.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:16:05 +0000
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