HOPE IT WILL PROVIDE HELP TO THOSE WHO BLAME ISLAM FOR ACTS OF SOME INDIVIDUALS.. !!! Many political pundits, politicians and media commentators claim that terrorism is the result of a traditional or fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. However, according to Islamic sources this is plainly false. The taking of life is strictly forbidden in Islam: Take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus does He command you, that ye may learn wisdom [Quran 6:151] The verse only permits the taking of life if required by justice and law (e.g. against convicted murderers). However, when in the way of justice, such as self-defence, Islam imposes inviolable limits: Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors. [Quran 2:109] This verse is clear that Muslims who fight, must not transgress when doing so. But transgress against what? Surely, if it is true that disbelievers can be killed merely for being disbelievers (as Islamophobes like to falsely assert), where is the line drawn over which Muslims cannot transgress? This line is provided here in the narrated statements of the Prophet Muhammed: The Prophet Muhammed forbade Muslims from killing non-Muslims who have a peace treaty with the Muslims: “Whoever has killed a person having a [peace] treaty with the Muslims shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years.” The Prophet Muhammed forbade the deliberate killing of women and children on the battlefield: Narrated By Ibn ‘Umar : During some of the battles of Allah’s Apostle [Muhammed] a woman was found killed, so Allah’s Apostle forbade the killing of women and children. So, if Prophet Muhammed forbade killing women on the battlefield, it would certainly apply off the battlefield too. A companion of the Prophet Muhammed reported: “We went out for battle with the Messenger of Allah, and we came by a killed woman, and the people had gathered around her. They made way for the Prophet, who said: “This woman was not fighting amongst those who were fighting.” He then said to a man: “Go to Khalid bin al-Walid, and say to him that the Messenger of Allah orders you to say: ‘Do not kill a child, and do not kill the weak.” Another companion of Muhammed, Anas, reported that the Muhammed said: “March in the name of Allah, and with the succour of Allah and over the religion of the Messenger of Allah, kill not the emaciated old, nor the young children, nor the women and deceive not; collect your booty, do good and show kindness, because Allah loves those who do good to others” These are just some of the commandments of Prophet Muhammed which established the principle of the inviolability of non-combatants. The Prophet Muhammed also forbade the retaliation against innocent people (and living creatures) amongst those that have acted unjustly towards a Muslim: Abu Huraira reported that Muhammed said: “When an Apostle from amongst the Apostles of Allah came to sit under a tree an ant bit him. He commanded his luggage to be removed from under the tree and he commanded it to be burnt in the fire and Allah revealed to him:” Why one ant (which had bitten you) was not killed (and why did you burn the others)?” Saheeh Muslim, Book 026, Number 5569 These texts, and others besides them, have laid out the Islamic rules and limitations for warfare, which informed Islamic government policy and scholarship ever since. Caliph Umar Abdul Aziz (r.a.) said “About the saying of Allah [verse in the Quran]: “Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight you and do not trangress the limits. Indeed, Allaah does not love those who trangress”. (Qur’an 2:190). The killing of women and children is included within this, and so are those who are not involved in warfare”. (“An Nawaadir wa’z-Ziyaadaat”, Vol 3, Page 57). The famous Islamic classical scholar, Imam al-Qurtubi (d. 1273) remarks in his commentary of the Qur’an: “The fact that someone disbelieves does not prevent us from being just to him, and that our dealing with them (in a state of war) should only be restricted to fighting or capturing them if they deserve so. And it is not permissible for us to retaliate in the same manner, even if they kill our women and children and cause sorrow to befall us, it is not permissible for us to act likewise with the intention of making them feel grief and sorrow”. (“Al Jaami’ li Ahkaamil Qur’aan” 6/110) Another famous Islamic scholar, Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) re-affirmed the Islamic principle of non-retaliation upon innocents, when he commented on the understanding of the general understanding of Islamic scholars of a verse of the Qur’an: “But let him not exceed limits in the matter of taking life”. They [the scholars] said: This means the heir should not go to extremes in killing the killer, such as mutilating the body or taking revenge on persons other than the killer”. Tafsir Ibn Kathir - Abdullah Al Andalusi
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:27:16 +0000
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