firedragon
Veteran Member
It is time that all of us who are for and against the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and Bokoharam ( Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah or Islamic State of West Africa Province) to know the reality and the truth behind them all. This writing will not cover the political aspects, history of these movements but rather discuss the theological basis they stand with and the sheer hypocrisy of it all.
Muslims world over have begun movements voicing against the tyrannical and murderous movements such as ISIS but most of them are very quick to say that their ideas don't have anything to do with Islam, me having been one. But you must understand that they call themselves Muslims, their oath or the Shahadha is most probably the same as yours, and they say Allahu Akbar (God is great) in the face of good things as well as executions, beheading's and genocide.
Islamic state is a definition of a new and emerging theocracy that’s trying to establish a Khalifate in the new world, an empire like the old, a supreme leader like the prophet and the following Khalifs and an empire that spans the world where the sun never sets. There have been many who have migrated to live and die in the name of the new empire, some just to join the army as an individual, some with their whole family. Even form a country as small and far away from all of this, an estimated 30 to 60 people have migrated to the ISIS controlled Levant. Where does the fuel for the kind of effort needed for planning and executing of the migration come from? Have you ever pondered? Do you still deny that there cannot be any substantial reasoning for this? Well, there is. This piece will try and show you the traditions that fueled it, and the hypocrisy against the true theology this theocracy has hijacked.
It has been evident that the movement is not only waging war against Armies and governments but also against people who do or seem to belong to a different faith or belief system. Be it a human who worships a different God or simply has a different oath. What do they deem this act? Cleansing? I simply deem it Tyranny.
Well wouldn't anyone wonder "where they got their war mongering ideology from"?
Its in the year 632 the prophet Muhammed died. Centuries after his death there emerged scholars who collected stories attributed to the prophet using sciences to analyse and authenticate what stories were authentic and not. When these were documented by famous scholars like Imam Bukhari, it was eight generations later taking that a generation lasts 30 years. These stories were handed down or told to one another transmitted through eight generations.
This is where they get it from.
Martyrdom
Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's Cause)."
Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "A single endeavor (of fighting) in Allah's Cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it. A place in Paradise as small as the bow or lash of one of you is better than all the world and whatever is in it. And if a houri from Paradise appeared to the people of the earth, she would fill the space between Heaven and the Earth with light and pleasant scent and her head cover is better than the world and whatever is in it." - Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:52:53
Jihad
It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihid died the death of a hypocrite. 'Abdullah b. Mubarak said: We think the hadith pertained to the time of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) - Sahih Muslim, 20:4696
Murdering those who don't follow your creed
Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah." Narrated Maimun ibn Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, "O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?" He replied, "Whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah', faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have." - Sahih al-Bukhari, 1:8:387
Though I do not wish to discuss the science of authentication etc, there is a concept called Mutawathir which means mass communicated stories. More people say it, the more authentic it is.
"I have been commanded to fight people until they say 'there is no God but Allah (the God)'"
There are many more stories like this.
But how could one not see that these contradict the book you call the "Criterion" or "Furqan"? A criterion is the yardstick, why would you measure the yardstick with the cloth? Evidence shows that all of these stories contradict the Quran and one must decide which should be taken as the measurement. But we must also understand that this is the premise most use for their agenda and as a people living in a scientific world we must read, understand and transmit what we read. These contradict your Quran and must be thrown out of the theology you believe. Islam is Peace, we Muslims are the problem.
Is Islam a religion of Tyranny? If that is the case why would the phrase Islam mean peace? The word Islam has two key meanings, Submission and Peace. Being called to be Submissive and Peaceful how could Muslims go about killing people who are assessed to speak a different creed? What is the justification? There seems to be a huge blunder someone has committed and we are all just paying lip service without digging a bit to find why. Those who call themselves Muslims must understand what it is first, also those who call themselves non-Muslims must also understand why, if not the generalisations, polarisations and the escape strategies will keep moving forward while our children and neighbours will have field days with this theocracy in the very near future.
Theology vs Theocracy
Theology in a few words is the understanding of Theos (God or Divinity in Greek) and the answers to questions like who is God, what is his nature etc while the most pertinent question being "How do we behave in life". Theocracy in a nutshell is trying to go back in time and take away the current leaderships and systems to make the world or a part of it in your ideological geographical definition a state ruled by religious law defined by your religious leaders. Theocracy maybe the most hurting problem in the world today, though they go hand in hand, theology maybe the only rescue stratagem, if understood, thus this attempt that may bring a lot of flack.
Muslims world over have begun movements voicing against the tyrannical and murderous movements such as ISIS but most of them are very quick to say that their ideas don't have anything to do with Islam, me having been one. But you must understand that they call themselves Muslims, their oath or the Shahadha is most probably the same as yours, and they say Allahu Akbar (God is great) in the face of good things as well as executions, beheading's and genocide.
Islamic state is a definition of a new and emerging theocracy that’s trying to establish a Khalifate in the new world, an empire like the old, a supreme leader like the prophet and the following Khalifs and an empire that spans the world where the sun never sets. There have been many who have migrated to live and die in the name of the new empire, some just to join the army as an individual, some with their whole family. Even form a country as small and far away from all of this, an estimated 30 to 60 people have migrated to the ISIS controlled Levant. Where does the fuel for the kind of effort needed for planning and executing of the migration come from? Have you ever pondered? Do you still deny that there cannot be any substantial reasoning for this? Well, there is. This piece will try and show you the traditions that fueled it, and the hypocrisy against the true theology this theocracy has hijacked.
It has been evident that the movement is not only waging war against Armies and governments but also against people who do or seem to belong to a different faith or belief system. Be it a human who worships a different God or simply has a different oath. What do they deem this act? Cleansing? I simply deem it Tyranny.
Well wouldn't anyone wonder "where they got their war mongering ideology from"?
Its in the year 632 the prophet Muhammed died. Centuries after his death there emerged scholars who collected stories attributed to the prophet using sciences to analyse and authenticate what stories were authentic and not. When these were documented by famous scholars like Imam Bukhari, it was eight generations later taking that a generation lasts 30 years. These stories were handed down or told to one another transmitted through eight generations.
This is where they get it from.
Martyrdom
Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's Cause)."
Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "A single endeavor (of fighting) in Allah's Cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it. A place in Paradise as small as the bow or lash of one of you is better than all the world and whatever is in it. And if a houri from Paradise appeared to the people of the earth, she would fill the space between Heaven and the Earth with light and pleasant scent and her head cover is better than the world and whatever is in it." - Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:52:53
Jihad
It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihid died the death of a hypocrite. 'Abdullah b. Mubarak said: We think the hadith pertained to the time of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) - Sahih Muslim, 20:4696
Murdering those who don't follow your creed
Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah." Narrated Maimun ibn Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, "O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?" He replied, "Whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah', faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have." - Sahih al-Bukhari, 1:8:387
Though I do not wish to discuss the science of authentication etc, there is a concept called Mutawathir which means mass communicated stories. More people say it, the more authentic it is.
"I have been commanded to fight people until they say 'there is no God but Allah (the God)'"
There are many more stories like this.
But how could one not see that these contradict the book you call the "Criterion" or "Furqan"? A criterion is the yardstick, why would you measure the yardstick with the cloth? Evidence shows that all of these stories contradict the Quran and one must decide which should be taken as the measurement. But we must also understand that this is the premise most use for their agenda and as a people living in a scientific world we must read, understand and transmit what we read. These contradict your Quran and must be thrown out of the theology you believe. Islam is Peace, we Muslims are the problem.
Is Islam a religion of Tyranny? If that is the case why would the phrase Islam mean peace? The word Islam has two key meanings, Submission and Peace. Being called to be Submissive and Peaceful how could Muslims go about killing people who are assessed to speak a different creed? What is the justification? There seems to be a huge blunder someone has committed and we are all just paying lip service without digging a bit to find why. Those who call themselves Muslims must understand what it is first, also those who call themselves non-Muslims must also understand why, if not the generalisations, polarisations and the escape strategies will keep moving forward while our children and neighbours will have field days with this theocracy in the very near future.
Theology vs Theocracy
Theology in a few words is the understanding of Theos (God or Divinity in Greek) and the answers to questions like who is God, what is his nature etc while the most pertinent question being "How do we behave in life". Theocracy in a nutshell is trying to go back in time and take away the current leaderships and systems to make the world or a part of it in your ideological geographical definition a state ruled by religious law defined by your religious leaders. Theocracy maybe the most hurting problem in the world today, though they go hand in hand, theology maybe the only rescue stratagem, if understood, thus this attempt that may bring a lot of flack.
