Suicide Attacks in Mosques
By
Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander, New Age Islam
13 February
2023
Masjids
Where These Taghoots Pray Are Also Constructed As Masjid e Zaraar That Was
Demolished By Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh).
Main
Points:
1. In many
narrations related to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), there are huge punishments
described in Hereafter for those who opt for suicide.
2. This
hara-kiri was adopted by Muslims who justified these suicide missions carried
out against enemies by invoking religious connotation.
3. Fidayeen as
these religiously motivated suicide bombers are known have been targeting the
enemies of Muslims and Islam. But now for a long time these Fedayeen are
targeting groups of Muslims too, whom they deem fit for death.
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Death Should Come Naturally To Humans Not To Be
Opted In The Form Of Suicide. In Many Narrations Related To Prophet Muhammad
(Pbuh), There Are Huge Punishments Described In Hereafter For Those Who Opt For
Suicide.
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Suicide is
illegal in Islam. Committing suicide is debarred in Islam because Islam
believes in human life, its sanctity and upholds that humans do not have the
right to take their own lives. Humans, Islam believes are put for test in this
world. So they are supposed to live according to the principles of Islam that
renders them eligible for heaven. Abusing body is not allowed, as humans have
no choice over their birth, so death too is not their prerogative or option to
be availed.
People
inspect the inside of a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province northern
Afghanistan, October 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)
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Death
should come naturally to humans not to be opted in the form of suicide. In many
narrations related to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), there are huge punishments
described in Hereafter for those who opt for suicide. They have been described
to be continuously killing themselves in Hell as a form of punishment. So when
a person opts for suicide using a medium of hanging, jumping from a building or
kills himself by using a firearm or knife, the person will find himself in
Hell, continuously enacting the same act of getting killed and being revived
again. The sanctity of life can be discerned form the Quran too as it believes
that killing a single person is synonymous with killing of whole humanity and
saving a single soul is akin to saving whole humanity (5:32). So Quran and
Hadith make it clear that killing and particularly opting for suicide is
something that should be debarred and never be an option.
But despite
this fact numerous Muslims every year commit suicide. Although many Muslims do
take pride in this fact that they have the least number of suicide rates as
compared to other non-Muslim communities. It is true but like any deviation
from Islam we have this tendency of suicide among Muslims too. But a new trend
that has gained traction among Muslims is that of suicide attacks. Suicide
attack is something where a religiously, politically or ideologically motivated
person makes a firm resolve of attacking his enemy keeping this reality in mind
that he will not return alive and do maximum damage to his enemies. It was
something that has its contemporary roots in Japan during Second World War and
was known as hara-kiri. So its aim was to inflict maximum damage to the enemies
by a volunteer suicide soldier who crossed the enemy lines, attacked the enemy
and blew himself up or died in action.
This
hara-kiri was adopted by Muslims who justified these suicide missions carried
out against enemies by invoking religious connotation. It was based on the fact
that Muslims who are being oppressed by the enemy army and are not in a
position to defend their property, land and honor. So to drive fear in the
minds of enemies, suicide attacks became inevitable. Earlier, Palestinians and
Chechens used it against Israel and Russia, then many Kashmiri and Pakistani
Muslims used it against India.
Some
scholars like late Yousuf al Qaradawi too gave a fatwa legitimizing suicide
attacks by Palestinians, although later he retracted his fatwa. But the suicide
bombings continued to take place as once something is legitimized in the name
of Islam it is very difficult to put a curb on it by retrograding from the
previous stance. Fidayeen as these religiously motivated suicide bombers are
known have been targeting the enemies of Muslims and Islam. But now for a long
time these Fedayeen are targeting groups of Muslims too, whom they deem fit for
death.
It needs a
lot of hate, anger, resentment, oppression, violation of rights for the victims
who cannot fight a decisive war, so opt for suicide to wreak havoc against the
enemies. So what hurt have the fellow Muslims caused to the other Muslims that
makes them opt for the suicide attacks. A Muslim does oppress other Muslim but
is the oppression so strong that it provokes certain Muslims to attack them
inside the religious places, shrines, hospices and masjids? To understand this
rage we need to analyse how the Muslim revivalist movements like Jamaat e
Islami and particularly Muslim Brotherhood (MB) were oppressed by the Muslim
governments. The manner in which torture was perpetuated against the cadres and
leaders of Muslim brothers by the Naseer regime of Egypt and later on in Syria
by Hafez al Assad radicalized a section of the imprisoned MB members.
The gory
details have very well been documented in prison dairies like Zainab al
Ghazali’s “My Days in Prison” and other autobiographies of MB leaders.
So we have the details where Muslim torturers uttered blasphemous statements
against Allah, making these victims believe that they have become apostate. So
a group of these radicalized people concluded that there is no difference
between them and oppressive infidels. Hence they included them too as infidels
and hypocrites, whose blood has become legal and lawful to be spilled, given
their anti-Islam and anti-Muslim stance. The first vulnerable groups among them
were the police and army men and politicians because they were the Taghoots
that needed to be destroyed. This Taghoot was the biggest impediment
towards the realization of the dream of Islamic State. The torture perpetuated
by anti-Islamic movements and criminal behaviour of army, police, politicians
and rulers had made it evident that they are the new Nimrods and Pharaohs,
hence need to be punished. So this punishment was to be carried out by these
radicalized cadres. So all the attacks against the police and army are carried
out in masjids, because they are at the forefront of perpetuating oppression
against the Islamists in their respective countries. Hence when a group is
witnessed as Taghoot, so the attacks against them get a religious
sanctity from the Muftis of the group.
Tehreek e
Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Islamic State, Khorasan and its other branches do
carry out attacks against army and police regularly and justify them as revenge
attacks. Masjids where these Taghoots pray are also constructed as Masjid
e Zaraars that was demolished by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). So where these
hypocrites pray that is not sanctified holy place but Masjid e Zaraar
that can be demolished, with impunity from the punishment of Allah.
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A New
Age Islam columnist, M.H.A. Sikander is Writer-Activist based in Srinagar, Kashmir
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