Unlike President Obama, this Egyptian scholar, author, practicing Muslim and Canadian resident says that ISIS is a legitimate son of Islam. The same goes for other groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb ut-Tahrir. They are not, as many Muslims wish to claim, the offspring of a deviant or misguided school of thought.
The author also suggests that Muslims need to waive the bloody side of their prevailing religious culture, disown their crimes of history and reconcile with the modern world and its life.
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Why do Muslims “frankly” tell themselves that many of them are potential terrorists?
Yes that question was absolutely correct. It’s painful for me as a religious Muslim, as I know that it is painful for a lot of other Muslims. But that’s the truth that we should face:
ISIS and Al-Qaeda and other extremist and terrorist organizations are legitimate sons, not illegitimate as many Muslims claim.
ISIS actions are based on verses from Holy Quran, Hadith (Sayings of Prophet Muhammad), Sirah (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) and Islamic history. They are not based on wrongful interpretations, but on direct and explicit texts, facts and events of Prophet Muhammad, Sahabah (prophet Muhammad companions) and Islamic history. It’s the traditional religious culture of Muslims – especially Sunni – that makes many of them potential terrorists, potential sons of ISIS. And if it doesn’t happen for a Muslim to turn to be an extremist r terrorist, that means that he chose to ignore this culture, or he settled on reconcile with himself as an” uncommitted Muslim”.
It’s not only the matter of Middle East region, although it’s the region where all these extreme and terroristic thoughts came to light and then exported to the rest of the world. But after the communication and internet revolution you can find that culture everywhere, east and west, in Canada, Germany, Australia, Nigeria, Philippines, etc.
I’ve even heard this culture’s manifestations in a mosque in Canada, as I heard it in mosques in Egypt, as you can hear it on Youtube by Sheikhs and Imams from all around the world. So it’s not weird for this culture to produce terrorists of different nationalities and from all over the world.
This traditional religious Sunni culture has the ability to transform the normal Muslim into a time bomb that may explode at any moment, anywhere, just if the circumstances and incubator environment allowed that, chances of that may increase or decrease depending on each country’s nature and circumstances, but it’s definitely exist. This is the solid base that produced an organization such as Muslim Brotherhood which in turn produced Al-Qaeda, Jehad, ISIS and others. The religious intellectual basis of all that organizations is the same; there are no differences in core, only in degree and class but not in kind and type. As while ISIS establishs the Caliphate State in a cruelly and bloody way, the Muslim Brotherhood want a religious dictatorship with a nice democratic appearance which would not be that much different than the Mullahs regime in Iran.
It’s true that there are tolerant Islamic views, and it’s true that there are great efforts to achieve reconciliation between Muslims and world, but the other fact that we “as Muslims” have to admit: is that this tolerant culture isn’t prevalent between Sunni Muslims in general.
We also have to admit that the most prevailing religious discourse between Sunni Muslims all around the world is mostly hostile, racist and bloody; can explode when the opportunity arises. So terrorists now aren’t only coming from the Middle East, but coming from everywhere in the world, because of the spread of communications revolution that facilitated dealing with this terroristic religious discourse.
From where does this terroristic religious culture come?
It came from the Quran itself. The truth is that the Holy Quran is full of lots and lots of tolerance, freedom of faith, respect of difference and many other great humanitarian values. But it’s also full of verses that incite for killing and hatred. So it’s normal to find many Muslims and lots and lots of Imams and sheikhs telling you that ISIS actions don’t represent the real Islam. The reason is that they are relying on verses that call for tolerance, peace, love and many other great humanitarian values, while they don’t deny that there’re contrary verses, which call for hatred and killing, those verses that have been taken by ISIS as main reference.
The same thing in Hadith and Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) Sirah. As there are very humanitarian Hadith, there are many others that incite for killing and abusing antagonists like infidels, Jews, Christians and others. Prophet Muhammad was not only God’s messenger, but also – For reasons related to the nature of the Bedouin community in which the message of Islam arose – he had to fight all forms of armed battles against antagonists. So which one we should take from, the messenger of peace or the fighter and warrior?
The biographies of Sahaba and Caliphs tell us about a lot of tolerance, and also about a lot of bloodshed, spreading Islam by force and occupation of other countries, and the subsequent war crimes and crimes against humanity. They even fought themselves in “the struggle for the throne” bloody wars, and three of them were murdered (Omar bin al-Khattab – Othman bin Affan – Ali bin Abi Talib).
There is a bloody side in the Islamic history, as there’re many great values and great civilization that contributed to humanity progress.
Let me tell you that Islam isn’t an exception in this bloody history; it includes all religions, including Christianity. Also Islam clerics aren’t exception, killing and bloodshed in the name of God occurred by all religions. Also eastern and western ancient empires committed a lot of heinous crimes during their colonial expansions, and Islamic empire isn’t an exception. We also must remember that the western colonization in modern era was coupled with blood, and that happened in many events under the cross flag.
But all those religions including Judaism and Christianity have been developed for many reasons and waived their bloody side, reconciled with world and life. And I think that this is exactly what Muslims need. Unfortunately they revere the bloody side of their prevailing religious culture, but that’s the time to get rid of all of those bloody texts, and to disown all those bloody crimes in their history. All of that was related to its time and circumstances and we don’t have to follow it. We need to stop following the political performance of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He had to fight these battles in his time to protect the new message of Islam, and I think that we don’t have to do the same. As an example: he fought a bloody conflict with some of the Jews in his time, this does not mean that we are in conflict with Judaism or Jews in every time and place. We have to follow Prophet Muhammad as a messenger of great humanitarian values, while we have to waive everything else against humanity in Islamic jurisprudence “Fiqh” and Islamic history. Keeping the great values in this history, that values that protect our humanity, and disown – like others – the invasions, violence and blood. Move from being enemies of humanity to become part of it, effective part of its progress, we are humans just like others.
Saied Shoaaib
Egyptian Writer
لماذا لا يصارح المسلمون انفسهم بأن معظمهم ارهابيون محتملون؟
نعم السؤال صحيح تماماً . مؤلم لي كمسلم متدين، اعرف أنه مؤلم لكثيرين غيري من المسلمين. لكنها الحقيقة التي يجب أن نصارح انفسنا بها. فداعش والقاعدة وغيرها من التنظيمات المتطرفة والإرهابية هم ابناء شرعيين، وليس نشاذ كما يدعي كثير من المسلمين. داعش تستند الى آيات في القرآن الكريم وفي الأحاديث والسيرة النبوية والتاريخ الإسلامي. استناد داعش وغيرها لا يعتمد على تأويل خاطئ، ولكن على نصوص مباشرة صريحة ووقائع واحداث واضحة وصريحة للنبي محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام وللصحابة وللتاريخ الإسلامي. إنها الثقافة الدينية التقليدية لدى المسلمين، السنة على وجه الخصوص، والتي تجعل كثيراً منهم ارهابيون محتملون، تجعلهم ابناء لداعش . واذا لم يحدث أن صار المسلم متطرف أو ارهابي، فهذا معناه أنه تجاهل هذه الثقافة ، أو أنه استقر على أن يتصالح مع نفسه باعتباره “مسلم غير ملتزم”.
الأمر هنا لا يتعلق بمنطقة الشرق الأوسط فقط، رغم أنها المنطقة التي ظهرت فيها معظم الأفكار المتطرفة والإرهابية وصدرته الى كل مكان في العالم. فهذه الثقافة ستجدها بعد ثورة الإتصالات والإنترنت في كل مكان ، في الشرق وفي الغرب، في كندا والمانيا واستراليا ونيجيريا والفلبين وغيرها وغيرها. لقد سمعت تجليات هذه الثقافة في مساجد بكندا، مثلما سمعتها في مساجد مصر، مثلما يمكن أن تسمعها على اليويتويب لمشايخ وائمة في كل بلاد الله. لذلك ليس غريباً أن تنتج هذه الثقافة ارهابيين من جنسيات مختلفة ومن كل مكان في العالم.
هذه الثقافة الدينية التقليدية السنية تحول المسلم العادي الى قنبلة موقوتة يمكن أن تنفجر في أي لحظة، في أي مكان.اذا سنحت الظروف والبيئة الحاضنة لها. تزيد أو تقل حسب طبيعة وظروف كل بلد. لكنها حتماً موجودة. فهي الأرضية الصلبة التي انتجت تنظيمات مثل الإخوان المسلمين والتي منها خرجت القاعدة والجهاد وداعش وغيرها. فالأساس الفكري الديني لكل ذلك مشترك. لا فارق في الجوهر، الإختلاف في الدرجة وليس النوع. داعش تؤسس دولة الخلافة بقسوة ودموية. الإخوان المسلمون يريدونها ديكتاورية دينية بطلاء ديمقراطي لطيف لا يختلف كثيراً عن نظام الملالي في ايران.
صحيح أن هناك رؤي اسلامية متسامحة، وصحيح أن هناك اجتهادات عظيمة تصالح بين المسلم وبين العالم ، لكن الصحيح الذي نحتاج الى الإعتراف به كمسلمين، وأنا أولهم ، هو أن هذه ليست الثقافة الدينية السائدة في اوساط عموم المسلمين السنة. ولابد أن نصارح انفسنا كمسلمين بأن الخطاب الديني السائد في اوساط المسلمين السنة في أي مكان في العالم، هو خطاب في معظمه عدائي عنصري دموي، قابل للإنفجار عندما تسنح الفرصة. لذلك لم يعد الإرهابيون فقط هم القادمون من الشرق الأوسط، بل القادمون من كل مكان في العالم، بسبب انتشار ثورة الإتصالات التي سهلت التعاطي مع هذا الخطاب الديني الإرهابي.
من اين تأتي هذه الثقافة الدينية الإرهابي؟
- من النص القرآني ذاته. فالحقيقة هي أن القرآن الكريم مليئ بالعديد والعديد من آيات التسامح وحرية التدين واحترام الإختلاف .. الى اخر القيم الإنسانية العظيمة. لكنه ايضاً مليئ بآيات تحرض على القتل والكراهية . لذلك من الطبيعي ان تجد الكثير والكثير من المسلمين والكثير والكثير من الأئمة والمشايخ يقولون لك وهم صادقين أن ما تفعله داعش ليس هو الإسلام. السبب أنهم يستندون الى آيات كثيرة تدعو للتسامح والمحبة وغيرها من القيم الإنسانية الرفيعة ، لكنهم لا ينفون الآيات المعاكسة، التي تدعو للكراهية والقتل ، وهي التي تستند اليها داعش.
- ذات الأمر ستجده في الأحاديث والسيرة النبوية التي نُقلت عن النبي العظيم محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم. فهناك احاديث غاية في الإنسانية وهناك غيرها يحرض على القتل والتنكيل بالخصوم من الكفار واليهود والمسيحيين وغيرهم. فالنبي لم يكن مجرد رسول ولكنه في ذات الوقت ولأسباب متعلقة بطبيعة المجتمع البدوي الذي ظهرت فيه رسالة الإسلام، كان مضطراً لخوض المعارك المسلحة بكافة اشكالها ضد الخصوم، وهم الكفار واليهود وغيرهم. فمن أين نأخد عنه، هل الرسول صاحب الرسالة السامية أم الرسول المحارب والمقاتل.
- صحابة النبي والخلفاء الراشدين في السير المنقولة عنهم الكثير من التسامح، ولكن هناك ايضاً الكثير من الدم، والكثير من نشر الإسلام بقوة السلاح وباحتلال بلاد اخرى، وما يتبع ذلك من جرائم حرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية. بل وخلفاء النبي صلي الله عليه وسلم خاضوا حروباً دموية ضد بعضهم البعض في صراع محموم على الحكم . وثلاثة منهم قتلوا بالسلاح ( عمر بن الخطاب وعلي بن ابي طالب وعثمان بن عفان).
- عموم التاريخ الإسلامي فيه جانب دموي، مثلما هو مليئ بالقيم العظيمة ومليئ بالحضارة التي ساهمت في التقدم الإنساني.
دعني اقول لك إن الإسلام ليس استثناءً في هذا التاريخ الدموي. فهكذا كل الديانات، بما فيها المسيحية. ورجال الدين الإسلامي ليسوا استثناء، فالقتل والدم تم باسم الله بواسطة كل الأديان. ثم أن الإمبرطوريات القديمة شرقية وغربية ارتكبت في توسعاتها الإستعمارية الجرائم البشعة. والإمبراطورية الإسلامية ليست استثناءً في ذلك. ولابد أن نتذكر أن الإستعمار الغربي للعالم في العصر الحديث كان مقروناً بالدماء، وكان في كثير من الأحيان يفعل ذلك تحت راية الصليب.
لكن هذه الأديان ومنها اليهودية والمسيحية تطورت لأسباب كثيرة وتنازلت عن الجانب الدموي فيها. وتصالحت مع العالم ومع الحياة. اظن أن هذا ما يحتاج اليه المسلمين. فللأسف هم يقدسون الجانب الدموي في ثقافتهم الدينية السائدة، وحان الوقت للتخلص نهائياً من النصوص الدموية. والتبرؤ من الجرائم الدموية في تاريخهم. فقد كان كل ذلك مرتبط بزمانه وظروفه و لسنا مضطرين للإقتداء به. اعتقد أننا نحتاج الى التخلي عن الإقتداء بالأداء السياسي للرسول محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم. فقد خاض معارك في زمانه كان مضطراً لها لحماية الدعوة الوليدة، واظن أننا لسنا مضطرين لذلك. لقد خاض مثلاً صراعاً دموياً مع بعض اليهود في زمنه ، فهذا لا يعني اننا في صراع مع اليهودية أو اليهود في كل زمان ومكان. نقتدي بأدء النبي العظيم كرسول للقيم الإنسانية العظيمة. كما نحتاج لأن نتخلى عن كل ما هو ضد الإنسانية في الفقه الإسلامي وفي التاريخ الإسلامي . نبقي على القيم العظيمة في هذا التاريخ، هذه القيم التي تحمي انسانيتنا ، ونتبرأ كما فعل غيرنا من الغزوات والعنف والدم. ننتقل من خانة العداء للإنسانية الى خانة أننا جزءً منها، جزء من تقدمها ، نحن بشر مثل الآخرين.
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Unfortunately for Muslims like Saied Shoaaib the quaran covers the subject of contradictory verses. (Most Muslims will say contradictions don’t even exist in the quaran because Allah cannot make mistakes) Therefore there must be some other explanations for what are outright contradictions. These two verses (there are others) help provide the solution.
None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things?
— Qur’an 2:106
When We substitute one revelation for another, – and Allah knows best what He reveals (in stages),– they say, “Thou art but a forger”: but most of them understand not.
— Qur’an 16:101
Note this wording…”He reveals (in stages)”
So on Monday Allah told Mohammed “water is wet” but, on Friday Allah told Mohammed “water is dry” Only one of these is true…which
The one that came last is true, the other cancelled according to almost all relevant Islamic schools and scholars.
Almost every peaceful verse written early in Mohammeds life in Mecca was cancelled by later violent verses written later when he became a warlord in Medina. These are the verses IS and other terrorist commonly quote, while moderates try to use the older cancelled verses. When push comes to shove the moderates come out the losers because they are in the minority. Contradictions cannot exist in Islam and the moderate view puts such verses back into the mix and necessitates another explanation. This generally takes the form of Allah meant them only for a particular time and space but he forgot to tell us that.
Thank you for providing such important information