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Terrorism Is Not ISLAM 2ND EDITION ISLAM The Religion of Peace TERRORISM IS NOT ISLAM 2ND EDITION Birmingham (UK) Mosques response to ISIS 1 Is Islam a religion of Peace? and subsequently massacre them ruthlessly. They must know the sanctity and honour of a believer’s life in the sight of God and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is greater Islam than the sanctity of the kaba. Abdullah is the most misinterpreted bin Umar (may God be pleased with religion of him) said, the world. ‘Once, I saw the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) circumambulating the Ka’ba and he Islam is a religion of peace and security, was addressing it, “How excellent and it urges others to pursue the path you are and how sweet your smell is! of peace and protection. The most How grand you are and how grand significant proof of this is that God has your sacredness is! By the One in named it as Islam. The word Islam is Whose Hand is Muhammad’s soul, the derived from the Arabic word salama inviolability of a believer’s property or salima. It means peace, security, and blood is greater in the sight of God safety and protection. As for its literal than your sacredness. We must think meaning, Islam denotes absolute peace. only well of a believer”.’ As a religion, it is peace incarnate. It It is a grave sin to even point a weapon encourages humankind to be moderate, towards a believer, what to talk of peaceful, kind, balanced, tolerant, killing people with explosives or other patient and forbearing. weapons, and the one who does it If we look for the definition of a Muslim is cursed. Abu Hurayra (may God be or mu’min [believer] mentioned in pleased with him) reported that the the Qur’an and hadith, it will become Messenger of God (peace and blessings evident that, in the sight of God and be upon him) said, His Messenger (peace and blessings ‘None of you should point a weapon at be upon him), a Muslim is someone his brother, for he does not know, for who embodies peace and security, and perhaps the devil may draw it out while a mu’min is the one who is endowed it is in his hand, resulting in his falling with love, affection, peace, tranquillity, into a pit of Hell.’ tolerance and coexistence, and upholds the cause of human dignity. Everyone Islam not only outlaws the mass is protected and safe from him at all killing of Muslims but the whole of levels, individually and collectively. Abu humanity, without any discrimination Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) on the basis of caste, colour, race or reported that the Messenger of God religion. One can appreciate the value (peace and blessings be upon him) said, and inviolability of human life in Islam by realising that the act of killing a ‘The Muslim is he from whose tongue human being has been equated with and hand all people are safe’. slaughtering the entire human race. In The Messenger (peace and blessings be connection with human dignity, God upon him also said, says in the Qur’an, ‘The best of the believers is he from ‘Whoever kills a person [unjustly], it is whose tongue and whose hand the as if he killed all of humanity’. Muslims are safe’. This verse highlights the sanctity of He (peace and blessings be upon him) human life in general. The sanctity also said, of a man or woman, the old or the young, the rich or the poor has not “The true believer [mu’min] is he been specified. The point being that whom people trust with regard to their the Qur’an has not only prohibited lives and their properties’. killing man without any justification, but has also declared that it is akin to the murder of humanity in its entirety. What does Islam say on the As for the law of retribution, which sanctity of the lives of Muslims & authorizes capital punishment for a non Muslims? murderer, or indeed those who ‘spread disorder’ i.e. commit terrorism, it has There are some people who would been legislated for safeguarding the target Muslims on account of political, sanctity of human life. ideological or religious differences, 2 The Messenger of God (peace and thirteen years of his stay in Makkah, the blessings be upon him) also said, discussion will be limited to the period which commenced with the migration of ‘Killing a believer is a more serious the Prophet to Madina, and specifically matter in the sight of God than the once the constitution was set. destruction of the entire world’. The best example of the tolerance The humiliating punishment of a shown by the Prophet to other religions murderer who intentionally kills a may be the constitution itself, called believer can be understood from the the by early historians. When verses wherein God mentions the ‘Saheefah’ the Prophet migrated to Madina, his punishment of Hell for these sinners role as a mere religious leader ended; with phrases such as ‘abide for ages’, he was now the political leader of a ‘His wrath’, ‘curse him’ and ‘dreadful state, governed by the precepts of torment’. God says, Islam, which demanded that clear laws ‘But he who kills a Muslim deliberately, of governance be laid out to ensure his recompense will be Hell, wherein harmony and stability in a society which will he shall abide for forever. God will once had been distraught by decades afflict him with His wrath and will curse of war, one which must ensure the him. And He has prepared for him a peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Jews, dreadful torment’. Christians and polytheists. Due to this, the Prophet laid down a ‘constitution’ which detailed the responsibilities of all The Tolerance of the Prophet parties which resided in Medina, their P.B.U.H towards other Religions - obligations towards each other, and certain restrictions which were placed Religious Autonomy and Politics. on each. All parties were to obey what was mentioned therein, and any breach of its articles was regarded as an act of treachery. The first article of the constitution was that all the inhabitants of Medina, the Muslims as well as those who had entered the pact from the Jews, Christian, and idolaters, were “one nation to the exclusion of all others.” All were considered members and citizens of Medina society regardless of religion, race, or ancestry. People of The dealings of the Prophet, may the other faiths were protected from harm mercy and blessings of God be upon as much as the Muslims, as is stated in him, with other religions can best be another article, “To the Jews who follow described in the verse of the Quran: us belong help and equity. He shall not “To you be your religion, to me be be harmed nor his enemies be aided.” mine.” Previously, each tribe had their alliances and enemies within and without Medina. The Arabian Peninsula during the time The Prophet gathered these different of the Prophet was a region in which tribes under one system of governance various faiths were present. There which upheld pacts of alliances were Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, previously in existence between those polytheists, and others not affiliated individual tribes. All tribes had to act with any religion. When one looks into as a whole with disregard to individual the life of the Prophet, one may draw on alliances. Any attack on other religion or many examples to portray the high level tribe was considered an attack on the of tolerance shown to people of other state and upon the Muslims as well. faiths. The lives of the practitioners of other In order to understand and judge religions in the Muslim society was also this tolerance, one must look into the given protective status. The Prophet period in which Islam was a formal said: state, with the specific laws laid down by the Prophet in accordance with “Whoever kills a person who has a the tenets of religion. Even though truce with the Muslims will never smell one can observe many examples of the fragrance of Paradise.” (Saheeh tolerance shown by the Prophet in the Muslim) 3 Since the upper hand was with the articles of the constitution, a pact which Muslims, the Prophet strictly warned took into account the greater benefit of against any maltreatment of people of the peaceful coexistence of the society. other faiths. He said: There are many other examples during “Beware! Whoever is cruel and hard on the lifetime of the Prophet, may the a non- Muslim minority, or curtails their mercy and blessings of God be upon rights, or burdens them with more than him, in addition to the Saheefah that they can bear, or takes anything from practically portray the tolerance Islam them against their free will; I (Prophet shows for other religions. Muhammad) will complain against the Given consent by the constitution, person on the Day of Judgment.” the Jews had the complete freedom (Abu Dawud) to practice their religion. The Jews in In another article, it states, “the Jews Medina at the time of the Prophet had have their religion and the Muslims their own school of learning, named have theirs.” In this, it is clear that Baitul- Midras, where they would anything other than tolerance would recite the Torah, worship and educate not be tolerated, and that, although themselves. all were members of a society, each The Prophet emphasized in many had their separate religion which could letters to his emissaries that religious not be violated.
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