Refutation of Taliban Magazine Nawa-e-Afghan Jihad’s Article titled 'Kufr and Apostasy united against Islamic Mujahedeen' - Part 4: Summing up
By Ghulam Ghaus,
New Age Islam
22nd October, 2014
Part 1 of the article
refutes Takfiri ideology of Taliban ideologue, Kashif Ali al-Kheri. It opines
that Jihad according to Taliban terrorists means to kill all those who are
non-Wahhabi/Sufi-minded/Sunni/Barelvi/mainstream Muslims. Salafi-Wahhabi
Taliban ideologues believe these Muslims to be polytheists (Mushrikeen) and
apostates. Describing Sufi Muslims “as group of polytheists” and Pakistani
Shiites as “productions of Mu’ta and bastards”, the Taliban ideologue proudly
said that Taliban terrorists had defeated all polytheists of the world,
therefore Fatiha reciters, Halwa eaters, practitioners of Teejah and Chaleeswan
(Conveying reward of virtues to the dead) could not withstand these terrorists.
Having quoted the
Qur’anic verse (4:94), the article moves on to explain that a person who greets
“Assalam u Alaikum” to show that he is a Muslim cannot be called kafir
(unbeliever). During the era of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, when
some Muslims suspected that such a person who greeted was not sincere, our holy
Prophet said to them: Did you tear his heart in order to find out whether it
had professed or not?” (Muslim Shareef) It also quoted a Hadees from Sahih
Bukhari to refute Takfiri ideology of Taliban-Wahhabi ideologue: “The messenger
of Allah Almighty, Muhammad (God’s blessing and peace be upon him) said: If a
person says to his brother, O’ Kafir (disbeliever)! Then surely one of them is
such. (i.e.; Kafir)” (Sahih Bukhari Volume 8 Book 73 Number 125)
It puts forward views
of various classical Islamic Jurists and scholars like Imam Azam Abu Hanafi RA,
Allama Mulla Ali Quari, Allama Jalaluddin RA and others who unanimously agree
that none of the people of the Qibla can and should be called a Kaafir.
The article sumps up,
quoting Sufi saint, Khawajah Mir Dard RA (1785), one of the three major poets
of the Delhi School who said: “We do not call the people of the Qibla Kaafir,
even though they may be following false and different beliefs in most matters.
This is because of the very fact that faith in oneness of Allah Almighty, the
prophet-hood of Muhammad (God’s blessing and peace be upon him) and turning to
towards the Qibla do not drive them out of their faith. Thus, they would be
among such Muslims who follow later inventions (evil inventions) and falsehood.
The holy prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him said), “hold back in the matter of
the Qibla people that you do not call them Kafir”. Ilm al-Kitab, p.75)
Part 2 refutes the
Wahhabi/Taliban idea of killing Sufi-minded Sunni Muslims. It specifically
focused on the primary sources of Islam, the Qur’an and Ahadith, which strictly
forbid killing Muslims. Though there are scores of Qur’anic verses and sayings
of the prophet (God’s blessing and peace be upon him), the article quoted only
three Qur’anic verses (6:151), (33:58), (49:11) and six Ahadith from Sahih
Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nasai, Abu Daud etc.
Part 3 exclusively
covers immutable divine verses and Ahadith from which great jurists (Fuqaha) of
Islamic Shari’a bring rights of non-Muslims to light. It discusses the unlawfulness
of killing non-Muslims and their rights in Islam, quoting the third chapter of
the book “Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings” authored by highly renowned
Sufi-Minded Islamic Scholar Shaykhul Islam Dr. Tahirul Qadri.
This third chapter of
the book holds the classical views of Islamic Jurists and scholars based upon
the holy Qur’an and Ahadith. Urging Muslim community to behave moderate,
flexible and stable, to shun rigidity, irrationality, and all kinds of
terrorism, extremism, Dr. Tahir ul Qadri designed his scholastic and exegetic
works in the following nine points in detail:
• No discrimination between the killings
of Muslim and Non-Muslim Citizens
• The Massacre of Civilian population and
considering it lawful is an act of disbelief
• The killing of Non-Muslim citizens makes
Paradise forbidden for the Killer
• The Unlawfulness of Killing foreign
Delegates and religious Leaders
• The Retribution [Qisas] of Muslims and
Non-Muslims is the same
• The Unlawfulness of Harming a Non-Muslim
citizen out of Revenge
• The Unlawfulness of Usurping the Wealth
of Non-Muslims
• Humiliating Non-Muslim Citizens is
Forbidden
• The Protection of Non-Muslim Citizens
form Internal and External Aggression
All these parts of the
article clearly refute Taliban-Wahhabi agenda of labelling Muslims with Kufr,
killing Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of eliminating kufr or shirk.
To sum up, It would be
of great value to quote here the concluding remarks of the Islamic scholar, Mr.
Muhammad Yunus from his article “Summing Up: Refutation of Sheikh
Yousuf Al-Abeeri's Fatwa Supporting Wanton Killing of Innocent Civilians under
Special Circumstances and Thus Justifying the 9/11 Attacks – Part 8”:
“1. The Taliban
ideologue's Fatwa is targeted at the oppressed, dispossessed, bereaved and
marginalized segment of the global Muslim community. These are the people who
never hit the media and are largely forgotten by the world or blamed for their
misfortunes and seldom if ever compensated for their losses. They do not belong
to al-Qaida or the Taliban. They are the unfortunate civilians – the underdogs
of the global society who have borne the brunt of the recent allegedly just
invasions of Muslim lands (Afghanistan, Iraq), the war on terror by any country - non-Muslim
(America, France, Britain) or Muslim (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria), Israel’s
occupation of Muslim lands and allegedly defensive military operations, India’s
counter-terror activities in Kashmir, repressive actions and marginalization in
any Muslim minority country from China in the East to Spain in the West.
“2. Violence is
contagious and breeds violence. Despite the escalating human and material cost
of violence - whether of terror or counter-terror nature including just wars,
the sceptre of terror continues to haunt the world and threaten its peace and
stability. Hence, a peaceful path must be explored to tackle the growing menace
of Kharjiite brand of Islam as appropriated in the preservationist, puritanical
Salafi/Jihadist ideology.
“3. From a purely
political and secular perspective, if those in power in the democratic and self
proclaimed just and civilized world can redefine civilians caught in some
military operations as terrorist and remain mute witnesses to the colossal loss
of civilian life in modern high tech wars, the terror ideologues, groomed in
the atavistic theology of early terror outfits of Islam (the Kharijies) can do
likewise by drawing on their theological archives, and this refutation on
religious ground may fall on deaf ears, and this entire exercise beguiles
like mirage on the compassionless
terrain of 21st century civilization – an era when greed, glory, power, bigotry
and overt or covert hatred occupy human mind and justice, compassion and
neutrality are mere rhetoric for public consumption.
“4. This Refutation can have no, or at best a
marginal impact in stemming the rising trend of militant jihad unless:
“•General Muslim public
as well as target readers of the Fatwa are counter-indoctrinated against
jihadist-Kharjiite ideology through exposure to Qur’anic message on the
“universal brotherhood of humanity that allows people of diverse faith,
culture, colour and language to live together, to know each other and to assist
each other to make life easy and peaceful for all human beings.” [4]
“•The profoundly
humanitarian crisis of the Palestinians is resolved and Injustice and excessive
use of violence against Muslim civilians such as in wars and counter-terror
measures is mitigated.
“•All kind of violence
- riots, ethnic cleansing against the Muslims in Muslim minority countries is
curbed.
“•The mainstream
Muslim people are exempted from any blame for the terror-crime of a lone or a
handful of ideological terrorists, for they may be as unconnected with a terror
attack as any non-Muslim citizen.
“•The Muslim majority
countries treat the non-Muslim minority as their co-equal, effectively ban any
form of mob violence against them and extend them all the rights and privileges
they expect for themselves in Muslim minority countries.
“•The Muslims in
Muslim minority countries take active part in pursuit of universal knowledge
and all forms of sports and cultural activities to gain equitable
representation in professions, academy, corporate business and all lawful
sectors of society and appropriate the cultural paradigms of the mainstream
societies within the inclusive framework of the Qur’an”.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Ghulam Ghaus is
an Alim and Fazil (Classical Islamic scholar) with a Sufi background. He has
completed the classical Islamic sciences from a Delhi-based Sufi Islamic seminary
Jamia Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Zakir Nagar, New Delhi with specialization in
Tafseer, Hadith and Arabic. He completed his Alimiat and Fazilat respectively
from Jamia Warsia Arabic College, Lucknow and Jamia Manzar- e- Islam, Bareilly,
U.P. He has graduated in Arabic (Hons) and is pursuing his M.A in Arabic from
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
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