Ghazwa-e-Hind, Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind and Hafiz Saeed
Terrorist
Organisations of Pakistan Have Used A Hadith For Their Own Agenda
Main
Points:
1. Hadith about
Ghazwa-Hind is not included in authenticated hadith collections.
2. It is
included in the unauthenticated hadith collection of Imam Nisai.
3. Imam Nisai
died in 915.
4. Shah
Waliullah never mentioned this hadith.
5. Jamiat-e-Ulema
Hind considers it a weak hadith.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
17 February
2023
Jamiat
scholar Maulana Mufti Salman Mansoorpuri | Photo: YouTube
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The
terrorist organisations like Al Qaida, Lashkar-e Taiba, Tehrrek -e-Taliban
Pakistan, Jaish-e- Mohammad and ISIS have a common strategy and modus operandi.
They exploit emotional issues to garner support and funds and to recruit
Muslims from Islamic countries. During the 90s, the Al Qaida exploited the
Muslims' hatred of the US and even attacked the twin towers and other US
establishments in different Islamic countries. After it was decimated following
the US crackdown on it, the terrorists associated with it reorganised
themselves under the ISIS with a new slogan : the establishment of caliphate.
The Muslims across the world have been made to believe that only Caliphate was
the cure of all the maladies of Muslims and so the Muslims should strive to
establish caliphate. Therefore, the ISIS got the support of a large section of
ulema right from Qaradawi to Maulana Salman Nadvi. The ISIS destroyed large
swathes of Iraq and Syria and killed Muslims and non- Muslims alike. Hundreds
of thousands of Muslims were internally and externally displaced.
Another
emotional issue, the hadith of Gazwa-e- Hind has been used by Pakistan's
terrorist organisations like Jaish -e- Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba to present
India as an enemy country against which even prophet Mohammad has mandated war
by Muslims.
In
Pakistan, not only terrorist organisations but pseudo intellectuals like Oriya
Maqbool Jan, Zaid Hamid and Veena Malik talk of Ghazwa-e-Hind to highten
anti-India sentiments among Muslims. Oriya Maqbool Jan interprets each
political event in India and Pakistan as a run up to Ghazwa-e-Hind.
Ghazwa-e-Hind is a holy war that will be fought against Hind according to a
hadith. But the hadith is a weak hadith with a weak chain of narrators. This
hadith does not figure in six authenticated collections of hadith called Sihah-e-Sittah.
It is only included in an unauthenticated hadith collection of Imam Nisai.
Interestingly, Imam Nisai died in 915 A.D. many centuries after the collection
of hadiths. The hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah says, "The prophet of
Allah said, Allah has saved two groups of my Ummah from the hellfire the group
that will invade al Hind and the group that will be with Isa, the son of
Maryam. The messenger of Allah promised us the conquest of al Hind; If I am
able to it, I will spend my wealth and my life. If I am killed, I will be the
best of martyrs and if I return, I will be Abu Hurairah, the freed one."
This hadith
predicts two events. One the conquest of Hind and the battle against Dajjal (
anti - Christ) which will be led by Hadhrat Isa a.s. ( Jesus) and Imam Mahdi.
Muslims and Christians will fight Dajjal's army.
In 2014,
Hafiz Saeed invoked Ghazwa-e-Hind saying that "it was inevitable. Kashmir
will be freed, 1971 will be avenged and the victims of Gujarat will get
justice."
It was
clear that the political agenda of Pakistan government was being promoted under
the Ghazwa-e-Hind theory. Pakistan's defeat in 1971 war was a political event
which was launched by Pakistan's army against its own people who demanded
autonomy. India had come to the rescue of the people of East Pakistan.
Bangladesh came into existence. Kashmir issue is also a political issue created
by Pakistan in 1947 when it invaded Kashmir, an independent state to annexe it.
Kashmir sought military help from India to protect its sovereignty. If Pakistan
had not invaded Kashmir, the Kashmir issue would not have merged. Moreover,
Pakistan time and again raises the issue of persecution of Kashmiris and Indian
Muslims but not of Uyghur Muslims. This clearly shows that its sympathy for
Muslims of India and Kashmir is only a political stunt to get the support of
Islamic countries in its tirade against India.
The hadith
about Ghazwa-e-Hind predicts a battle against Hind. During the period of the
prophet of Islam, Sindh was known as Hind. Sindh is a part of modern day
Pakistan. The entire region of undivided India, upto Afghanistan was called
Hind. The hadith does not mention a specific time. So the scholars of hadith
are of the view that the Ghazwa-e- Hind might have already been fought.
Mohammad bin Qasim's conquest of Sindh may have been Ghazwa-e-Hind.
In 2018,
the Indian cleric associated with Jamiat-e- Ulema Hind issued a clarification
on the hadith clearing the confusion created by Pakistani pseudo intellectuals.
He said that the hadith has weak isnad, chain of narrators. He said that by
Hind the holy companions meant Basrah and so it may mean a war against Iran. It
may also mean Mohammad bin Qasim 's conquest of Sindh.
The Islamic
scholars are of the view that the hadith about Ghazwa-e-Hind is of a later day
origin and may be a concocted hadith like thousands of concocted hadiths. And
this hadith has become a tool at the hands of Pakistan's paranoid
intelligentsia. This hadith has been largely circulated and publicised in order
to heighten anti-India sentiments among the people of Pakistan. Pakistan wanted
to annexe Kashmir y force ut failed because of India's intervention. It wanted
to supress the uprising in East Pakistan by force but lost it due to the
intervention of India. The two major political and military defeats of Pakistan
at the hands of India keep it baying for India's blood. It has been exhausting
its funds and resources to avenge its defeat and in this process, it has
brought its own doom. It harboured and sheltered terrorist organisations and
provided training and logistics to terrorists only to avenge its humiliation.
It promoted terrorism on its soil to get funds from the US in the name of war
on terror and used the funds to support terrorism against India. But Pakistan
was caught in its own vicious cycle. Today it has gone bankrupt and s at the
verge of another division. People of POK, Sindh and Balochistan want to be
free. Terrorist organisation TTP has wreaked havoc in the country and it does
not have the strength to fight terrorists on its own soil but dreams of
Ghazwa-e-Hind. What a pity!
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Everyone Misinterprets
Ghazwa-E-Hind, But A Jamiat Scholar Explains What It Really Means
By
Rasheed Kidwai
7 October,
2019
There’s a
phrase that Pakistani militant leaders have used against India for decades –
Ghazwa-e-Hind or a holy raid of India. Ghazwa in Arabic implies a war that is
guided by faith rather than materialistic or territorial gains and is widely
attributed to an Islamic concept derived from the hadiths — a set of sayings by
Prophet Mohammad. The phrase is used refer to Muslim warriors conquering the
Indian subcontinent.
Both radical Islamists in
Pakistan and
Islam-haters like Tarek Fateh have
propagated this meaning. It is also frequently used as a trope to put devout
Indian Muslims on the defensive. Their loyalty is questioned – will they put
religion first or India?
Now, ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’
has made a noisy return among scholars, security analysts and rabble-rousers,
especially after the Narendra Modi government’s action on Article 370 and
Pakistan’s isolation in the international theatre.
But what
has gone largely unnoticed is that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, a leading body of
Muslims in India, has already called out the error in this popular
interpretation. The group has supported the government’s decision on Kashmir.
Maulana
Mufti Salman Mansoorpuri, a Jamiat scholar, insisted late last year that
Pakistan has been erroneously and mischievously linking the term to their rift
with India. Mahmood Madani revealed this at an Observer Research
Foundation (ORF) conference last month, sparking renewed interest in the
theological interpretation of the phrase.
Pakistan-based
terror groups, notably Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), have been using Ghazwa-e-Hind as
a Hadith to recruit, fund and justify its audacious terror strikes as a
religious holy war against India. The Jaish and others falsely propagate that
Jihad against India is considered holy in Islam and that those participating in
it [the battle against “infidels”] will be granted an easy entry into paradise.
In a
widely-circulated note by Jamia Qasmia Shahi of Moradabad, Maulana Mufti Salman
Mansoorpuri had debunked the Jaish’s assertions and argued that prophecies and
sayings of Prophet Mohammad should not be used for political or material gains.
Declaring
War and Claiming Virat Kohli
In a video
posted on Facebook on 31 August by Zaid Hamid of Pakistan, a radical who
fancies himself as a security analyst, said: “We are
entering Ghazwa-e-Hind, the war which was prophesied by Prophet Muhammad.” The
video shows him brandishing a Kalashnikov, as if ready to march off to the
“Great War between believers and non-believers”.
He then
added: “After what Narendra Modi and the infidels of India have done to
Kashmir, no one should have any doubt that in the coming times. The final
battle of the Ghazwa-e-Hind will soon be fought between Muslims and infidels.”
Zaid Hamid
may be from the fringe, but his video has been watched by over 13 lakh viewers.
More mainstream Pakistani individuals like minister of state for parliamentary
affairs Ali Muhammad Khan, made a reference to Ghazwa-e-Hind while speaking in
parliament and thundered: “Pakistan didn’t make an atom bomb for fun and games
[khel tamasha]. We will show you if it becomes necessary.”
Zaid
Hamid’s Twitter, Facebook and other social media contents are blocked in India.
Not to be
left behind, actress Veena Malik also tweeted a Hadith on Ghazwa-e-Hind on 1
September. In a recent interview to Samaa TV she
said: “If you look at history, Ghazwa-e-Hind is mentioned…. It is also true
that there comes a point when Muslims had to raise their swords and had to
fight.” After famously posing with a grenade and an ISI tattoo for an Indian
magazine, Veena Malik is now a born-again Muslim.
Amir Rana,
director of Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, told Samaa TV: “It has been
going on for years… whenever things get bad in Kashmir you will hear it.”
Closer to
home, our own TV studio warriors have been raising the bogey of Ghazwa-e-Hind.
On 26 September, Times Now declared: “Ghazwa-e-Hind a new enemy of India, will
Lutyens believe now?” In India Upfront, Times Now editor-anchor Rahul
Shivshankar spent 34 minutes and eight seconds trying to prove #ModiRightOnIslamicTerror. The channel said: “Times Now has accessed a
top-secret report that reveals that a new uncompromising hardline Islamic
radical terror group has been founded in Pakistan with a specific aim of
targeting India. The Ghazwa-e-Hind will be launched with immediate effect on
India soil…”
On 5
September, Swarajya magazine ran a story on a propaganda video reportedly released by a Pakistani agency in which the
filmmakers had preposterously predicted that the Islamist dream of
Ghazwa-e-Hind will be realised by 2025. It even claimed that Virat Kolhi will
then be a part of the Pakistani cricket team in World Cup matches against
England.
Jamiat
scholar Mansoorpuri has questioned these facile interpretations.
The
Jamiat
The Jamiat
Ulema-e-Hind, firmly rooted in Islam, is a leading body of nationalist Muslims
and clergy in India. It had opposed the Muslim League’s demand for Pakistan,
and since 2001, is effectively using renowned Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom,
Deoband to issue comprehensive fatwas declaring terrorism as un-Islamic. Last
month, it had adopted a resolution backing
Narendra Modi government’s decision to abrogate the special status given to the
state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Hadiths
on Ghazwa-e-Hind, according to Mansurpoori, reads: “The Prophet of Allah (peace
be upon him) said – ‘Allah has saved two groups of my Ummah from the hellfire;
the group that will invade Al-Hind (the subcontinent) and the group that will
be with Eesa (Jesus), the son of Mariam.’ Quoting the narration of Abu Hurairah
[the narrator of over 5,000 hadiths] – ‘The Messenger of Allah promised us the
conquest of Al-Hind (the subcontinent). If I am able to join it, I will spend
on it my wealth and my life. If I am killed, I will be the best of martyrs and
if I return, I will be Abu Hurairah, the freed one (i.e. from hellfire).’”
The Hadiths
are a primary source of guidance in Islam. It is unanimously agreed by Muslims
that the authority of the Hadith is second only to that of the Qur’an.
According
to Mansoorpuri, there are several Hadiths mentioning Ghazwa-e-Hind and its
virtues, but the chain of narrators is weak, confusing and relies upon persons
who are little known in the authentic collection of Hadith.
The role of
the narrator is key in how the Hadiths travelled down the centuries.
It is
important to understand how Hadiths were collected and preserved. A Hadith
consists of two parts – the matn (text) and the Isnad (chain of the
narrator). A text may seem logical and reasonable, but it needs an authentic
isnad with reliable narrators to be acceptable. During the lifetime of the
Prophet and after his death, his Companions used to refer to him when quoting
his sayings. The Successors (Tabi’un) followed suit; some of them used to quote
the Prophet through the Companions, while others would omit the intermediate
authority – such a Hadith was known as mursal (loose).
Mansoorpuri’s
Rebuttal to Propaganda
Mansoorpuri
argues that apart from the faulty chain of narrators of the Ghazwa-e-Hind
Hadith, it is also spoken in absolute form without any indication of specific
timing for its occurrence. He says, there are three possibilities as to which
war is being referred to:
(1) The
battle that took place in the Indian sub-continent in the early and middle ages
of Islam, which led Muslims to take hold of the country for a long time. Like
the battles fought by Muhammad Bin Qasim and Mahmud Ghaznawi. This view is also
supported by the narrations which, apart from Hindustan, also mentions the
Sindh. One Hadith mentions the conquest of Sindh, which took place under the
command of Muhammad Bin Qasim.
(2) The
second possibility is that the word ‘Hind’ mentioned in the Hadith may not be a
reference to India specifically. Instead, it may refer to the Indian region and
surrounding areas, especially the Basrah and its neighbouring places, currently
in Iraq. This view is supported by some statements of the blessed Companions
who used to say: “We interpret Hind as Basrah.”
According
to this explanation, Mansoorpuri adds, these Hadiths may be referring to the
battles fought against Iran in the early periods of Islam.
(3) The
third possibility is that the war to which these Hadiths refer to have not yet
taken place. Instead, it will take place during the period of re-emergence of
Isa and Mehdi as mentioned in Islamic traditions.
The return
of Isa (Jesus) is a core Islamic belief. Mansoorpuri relies on several
authentic narrations to reiterate some of the conditions that are mentioned,
such as Muslims being restricted in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the appearance
of Dajjal (anti-Christ). When these happen, Muslims will get involved in a war
and Isa will descend.
“The above
detail makes it amply clear that encouraging the present-day Muslims in the
Indian sub-continent for Jihad on the basis of the Hadiths concerning Ghazwa
al-Hind is completely wrong. That is because the first two interpretation of
these Hadiths do not leave any further possibility (of war) for them. The third
interpretation is doubtful. But if we accept it, even then the signs of the
Dooms Day after which Isa (as) will descend have not so far appeared,”
concludes Mansoorpuri.
Mansoorpuri’s
work offers a blunt rebuttal to Pakistan’s propaganda literature that urges
Muslims to pick up arms to counter riots and discrimination.
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Rasheed
Kidwai is a visiting fellow at ORF and working on a book on Islam and Indian
Nationalism. Views are personal.
Source: Everyone Misinterprets
Ghazwa-E-Hind, But A Jamiat Scholar Explains What It Really Means
URL: https://newageislam.com/radical-islamism-jihad/ghazwa-hind-jamiat-ulema-hafiz-saeed/d/129130
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