Like the cosmic
structure, man's societal make-up is also hierarchical: it is well represented
by a pyramid, which is broadest at the base and narrowest at the top. Take a
democratic government, for instance: at the bottom stand millions of voters, but
as the political Organization rises higher, on the top is found a small cabinet
headed by one person known as the President or Prime Minister. There may be
countless individuals in political parties, competing for power. This results
from man's Dominance-Urge, which makes a person power-hungry and he wants to
command others by gaining ascendancy over them. History is the manifestation of
this urge (drive): without it, there will be no
Alexander's, Chengiz Khans or
Napoleons. These remarks equally apply to the administrative, judicial and
social hierarchies. However, intensity of the Dominance-Urge varies in different
people. Its highest expression is not to be found amongst conquerors and rulers
but the category of men, who distinguish themselves as Prophets. The reason is
that when a ruler dies, with him perishes his Dominance-Urge because he cannot
tell people what to do and what not to do, but this fact is reversed in the case
of a Prophet, who commands his people from beyond the grave through the Law,
which he leaves behind as the Divine Guidance or Word of God: the Koran is one
such code of law, which its followers believe, shall last forever irrespective
of its relevance to the changed times.
Prophet Muhammad, who
presented the Koran to mankind was a wise man, and possessed an unusually acute
Urge of Dominance. He aspired to be acknowledged, not as God, but God's
Superior, and he wanted to deify himself through national dignity. In simple
language, it means that he wanted to weld his fellow Arabs into a strong
fighting force, which should rule the world but in his name so that he could act
as the head of the Arab imperialism. This type of scheme could not have been
imagined by the Indian leaders such as Gandhi, who sought Godhead through the
degradation of his people by addicting them to the opium of
Ahimsa.
Muhammad's
wisdom lay in realizing the value of culture: he seems to have known that man is
basically endowed with a potential of development, and he becomes according to
how he cultivates his potential; if he is trained to be brave and fearless, he
becomes a warrior, a conqueror and honorable, but if he is taught cowardice in
the guise of non-violence, he grows up as a mouse, which knows nothing about
self-respect, honor and high morality. Thus, culture represents the refinement
which results from the cultivation of one's potential. Therefore, culture is the
ambassador of man's destiny. Whether he becomes a saint or Satan, depends upon
the magnitude of his cultural achievement.
Culture is not just an individual concept, it equally applies to a nation. The Arabs of that time were an inferior race for practicing principles and traditions, which led to social discord and national degradation. The only way Prophet Muhammad could raise their stature was, by accustoming them to superior cultural values, having the power to unite them into a proud nation. Since the Arab psyche had been adversely affected by the Jewish claims of racial superiority and mundane prosperity, he asserted: "Of the two tribes that God chose as the best were the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac. God preferred the children of Ishmael (the Arabs) to the children of Isaac (the Jews). Then God created Muhammad in the chosen tribe of Quresh (the descendants of Ishmael ) and then He chose Muhammad as the best of ad men." (Jame Tirmze, Vol: 2)
One can clearly see here the following facts:
1. Both the Jews and Arabs are chosen people but the Arabs are superior
to the Jews.
2. Muhammad is the best of all men.
These two points
indicate their mutual relationship, that is, superiority of the Arabs as a race
and that of Muhammad are co- dependent. This proves my view that Muhammad wanted
to deify himself through Arab Imperialism i e. by raising a great Arab nation
capable of spreading his reverence through sustained ascendancy. Muhammad's
sagacity is vouched for by the fact that he did not rely just on the force of
national arms but turned the Arab culture itself into the dominant culture,
which once established, should be self-perpetuating without any external aid.
India provides evincing evidence to this fact: Muhammad Bin Qasim
and his likes
used torture, tyranny and torment to introduce Islam to the Land of the Vedas
but long after the demise of the Muslim rule, the Islamic culture was able to
achieve what the ferocity of the combined Muslim reign of centuries had failed
to accomplish. In 1947, the Muslims declared that their Islamic culture did not
permit them to live with the Kafirs
(the Hindus), and thus they were able to
make a successful demand to partition India. It was the greatest tragedy that
could have befallen any country but such a grievous loss can be felt by the
patriots only, and not by the practitioners of Ahimsa, who will suffer any
indignity to breathe a little longer.
What
are the fundamentals of the Islamic culture and how does it work? Here is a
brief sketch of Muhammad's plan:
1. Muhammad, had
idolatrous parentage. Prior to declaring Islam, he was known to have been a
regular visitor to the Kaaba,
the chief Arab temple, organized on the Vedic
principle of Triad. The history also testifies to the fact that he was confirmed
in his ancestral faith in the Kaaba by his grandfather
Abdul Muttalib according
to the pagan rites of the time. He must have practiced his ancestral religion
until he was forty years old when Gabriel brought him a written message from
Allah and commanded him to read it. At that time, Muhammad was meditating in a
cave called "Hera." When he expressed his inability to read Allah's
message, Gabriel (Jibrail Farista) became aggressive and tried to strangle him
three times, that is, each time Muhammad expressed his inability to read. This
episode clearly expresses Allah's desperation for finding a Prophet and Muhammad's reluctance to act as one. In fact, this is the starting point for
exhibiting his superiority over Allah, who is determined to persuade him through
all means, including violence.
What is a prophet?
In
the Semitic culture, a Prophet is God's appointee through whom He reveals
Himself. It is because God wants to guide mankind to save them from hell-fire,
and thus needs a Prophet (also known as Messenger), who can give people His
message. This makes Prophet hood a very subtle device to make God as an
incompetent Creator
because He relies
on a man (Prophet) for the conveyance of His message. If God is really Absolute,
Omniscient and the most competent Creator, as Islam repeatedly declares, He
could have created a self-guided man to avoid embarrassment of depending on a
Prophet to do His work. This is what makes Prophet hood a supplement to God,
reducing His Divine splendor, solemnity and supremacy. What makes things even
more derogatory to God is the fact that the Prophet
is just a human: he is born
in the normal process, eats, drinks, walks, talks, eats, etc., and eventually
dies. These remarks, which apply to a Prophet physically, equally hold good
morally, too, though the Muslims believe that a Prophet is innocent and cannot
commit a sin. This is a mistaken belief and collides with the Koran: " God may forgive thee
(Muhammad) thy former
and thy latter sins, and complete His blessings upon thee, and guide thee on a
straight path" ( XLV lil - Victory: 1) It means that a Prophet
commits sin like ordinary people and requires constant guidance from Allah to
walk on the straight path. In other words, a Prophet is fallible. The God who
relies on such a person so completely and needs him so desperately that Gabriel
uses violence to enroll him as a Prophet, is Himself fallible, to say the least.
Such a God cannot be the true God.
Again,
I may also make it clear that Muhammad was not born guided because firstly, he
did not declare his Prophet hood until he was forty years old; secondly, his
wife Khadija converted to Islam when he broke the news to her about what had
happened in the cave. One must remember that they had been married long before
this event, and Islam does not allow a Muslim man to marry a non- Muslim woman.
Evidently, Muhammad himself was not a Muslim prior to this episode, and
practiced his ancestral faith. Since this is a very important issue, it cannot
be left to interpretation. In fact, this is not necessary because the Koran
itself confirms this truth: "And thus have we (Allah)
inspired in thee (Muhammad) a spirit of Our command. Thou knewest not what the
Scripture (Divine guidance) was, nor what the Faith (Islam)."
(XLIII -
Ornaments of Gold: 52)
It shows that Prophet
hood being a highly defective device, cannot represent the dignity of God. In
fact, it is a gross insult to God and serves as the medium for man to present
himself as God's superior. It is the most powerful and compulsive form of
dominance
urge
that makes man feel greater than God and he acts accordingly to prepare
religious system to brainwash people. The
central point of Prophet hood is that the Prophet declares himself to be a man
who has been chosen by God to disseminate His message. Thus, the Prophet is
God's agent, but this agency is absolutely exclusive to him: God speaks only
through him and cannot be approached without him. Thus, whatever he says becomes
the Word of God. This is a very sharp and subtle form of idolatry because as God
cannot be seen or contacted, the Prophet begins to rank as the Symbol of God
exactly the same way as an ordinary statue is regarded the token of a deity.
To
my mind, Muhammad is the most prominent figure in the world of Prophet hood.
Moses, certainly, raised the Jewish nation on the same principle but his people
though materially well off, have been the target of world's slight, subjugation
and slaughter but Muhammad prepared such a culture based on the doctrine of
Prophet hood that the Arabs now, despite being a backward nation, as well as the
source of regression for all the Muslim world, hold a position of respect,
repute and resplendence. This is the true miracle of Muhammad, and it is unique.
Why? Men of other races have claimed to be gods but it remained an individual
affair and they were, chiefly, worshipped by their own nations only; names of
the Egyptian Pharaohs
and
Roman Emperors are some of the examples.
But Muhammad
proclaimed his Godhead through the glory of his nation. This is the cornerstone
of the Arab culture; he prepared a strong and unified nation inspired by the
ideal of self- significance and imperial dreams, but dedicated to projecting'
Muhammad as the "Best of Mankind"
and God's Superior. Thus Muhammad
made the success of his own nation as the mark of his victory. How did he do it?
He declared:
"There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His
Rasool." (Messenger
i .e. Prophet). Though the Koran repeatedly says that
mentioning someone else's
name with the name of Allah is the only unpardonable sin, we can see that
Muhammad has his name incorporated with the name of Allah. The purpose of this
device is to indicate the parity of Muhammad with that of Allah. This is called Shahadat
i.e. the basic confession, which makes a person Muslim. Just belief in Allah
does not render a person Muslim. Obviously, Allah is nothing on His own though
He may claim to be the Creator, all-powerful, Omniscient, and so on.
When Muhammad was
politically weak, he emphasized his humility as a human and glorified Allah but
when he became powerful, he reversed the relationship between him and Allah
because he himself became the object of worship by Allah:
"Lo! Allah and His angels pray peace to the
Prophet ( Muhammad ) O ye who also pray peace to him and salute him with a
worthy salutation." (XXX - The Clans: 56) Simply stated, this verse
means that Allah and His angels worship Muhammad because when the Muslims
(apparently) worship God, they actually pray peace to Him. Is it not strange
that in every religion, it is man who worships God but in Islam, it is God,
who
along with his angels, worships Muhammad? This is an extreme case of
Dominance-Urge, which incites man to be even God's Superior, and it is the
device of Prophet hood that enables him to achieve this goal.
Now, one can see that
in fact, Muhammad is Allah, who tolerates no peer, and declares that there is no
God but He. This necessitates the elimination of all other Gods. To achieve this
end, he laid down the cardinal rule, Which has become a fountain of Islamic
culture:
Thus the Cardinal
rule of the Islamic Culture is:
1. All Gods are false
except Allah (who prays peace to Muhammad along with His angels).
2. Islam is the only
true religion and it is the duty of all Muslims to make it
3. The method of
making it dominant over other faith is that the Muslims must be kind to one
another but harsh to the unbelievers.
The last i.e. no. 3
serves as the Divine wrath on mankind and therefore deserves further
explanation: Islam, in fact, is a
perpetual declaration of war against all those, who do not believe in Muhammad.
This war is not confined to words but it is really brutish, barbaric and
bewildering. It makes society a hot bed of mutual hatred based on discrimination
of Momeen
(Muslim) and Kafir
(non-Muslim). Thus, it ignites the flame of eternal conflict far more dangerous,
debilitating and devastating than Karl-Marx could ever visualize: "They
(unbelievers) are Satan's party they are the losers.... Those (the Muslims) are
God's party....they are the prosperers."
The Muslims are commanded to wage an everlasting war against the unbelievers and are assured victory in the struggle. Surely, the Marxist social philosophy is an extension of the Koranic doctrine.
To realize the significance of this statement, one ought
to read the following:
1. On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. (The Cow: 161 )
2. Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. ( The Cow: 15 )
3. The worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the ungrateful, who will not
believe. (Spoils of War: 55)
4. Oh ye who believe! the non-Muslims are unclean. (Repentance:17)
5. Oh ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers and let them find
6. Oh believers, do not treat your fathers and mothers as your friends,
if
7. Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and
pay tribute.
(Repentance: 29 )
Through the doctrine
of hatred, Islam incites Muslims against non-Muslims and proposes Jihad as the
solution to make Islam the dominant faith. What is
Jihad?
With a view to making
sure that Muslims follow the Prophet blindly, he claimed that he had
Intercessory Powers, which will enable him to decide on the Day of Judgment as
who will go to paradise. It is only his followers who will qualify for this
treat, and it matters not if they were murderers, thieves, rapists, liars. or
traitors. Look at the following:
This is interpreted
by the Muslims to mean that on the Day of Judgment, the Prophet Muhammad will
share the Throne of Justice with Allah, and will sit on His right hand side; it
is he who will make recommendations as who should enter paradise, and his
recommendations are binding on Allah!
1. First, he created
the fundamental distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims and prescribed a
society in which the Muslims are permanently at war with the non-Muslims.
2. With a view to
making his own country i.e. Arabia the beneficiary of this
For example, he
declared Kaaba, the central Arab shrine, as the House of Allah, and asserted
that Allah Himself had ordered Adam, the progenitor of mankind, to build this
house for Him. (The faithful do not realize that if Allah is dependent on Adam
for housing Him, how can He be the Creator of the universe? But in faith,
reasoning has no place; the darker it is, the greater protection it provides
against the harshness of real life.)
3. Kaaba is also the
Kibla i.e. the direction of worship. This has created
4. A Muslim's grave
must be dug in a way that his body when buried, faces Kaaba (Mecca). Looking
towards Arabia even after one's death shows one's total subordination to Arabia
and betrays one's sense of self- humiliation to Mecca, the birth place of
Muhammad .
5. So sacred is Mecca
that nobody must defecate himself facing this city. He who does so, is a Kafir (
faithless ) .
6. Every Muslim, no
matter where he lives, must come to Mecca for pilgrimage, provided he has the
means to do so. This is a pre-Islamic custom of Arabia, which the Prophet
Muhammad incorporated in Islam for its economic benefits to his country.
7. Allah speaks
Arabic, and the Koran is also in Arabic, which is a difficult
8. Kaaba is the
center of God's blessings because it is here that one-hundred-and-twenty Divine
Benedictions descend every day, and are there from
9. Even the Arabian
graveyards known as "Jannat-ul-Mualla" and
10. Ibne Majah
reports in Hadith no. 1463, page 404, that a Namaz i.e., prayer
Man is born with a
moral sense which enables him to differentiate between right and wrong. Without
subjecting behavior to a common standard of vice and virtue, social evolution
is not possible. This is the reason that even the primitive societies had words
which denoted difference between good and bad. All societies did not practice universal standards of vice and virtue, yet it is well known that almost all
communities knew what was good and bad. For example, mutual fidelity of
consorts, speaking the truth, keeping promises, respecting family ties, helping
the poor and weak, were considered signs of good morality. Of course, morality
cannot be coded but its rules are well understood. From this attitude arose the
famous maxim: "Do
not do to others what you do not want to be done to yourself."
It means that you
must wish others what you wish for yourself. Since every one desires security of
person and property, liberty to worship, fair trial, freedom of speech etc.,
these facts, over a period of time, rose to become what is called Human Rights.
He who violates these rights is held the enemy of humankind. When Islamic
morality is judged by universal standards, this Arabian religion fails to
qualify as the friend and guide of humanity. In fact, it constitutes a major
threat to the survival of human race. I have no doubt that the Muslims will
protest against this point of view, and as usual, will produce far- fetched and
irrational evidence to prove that Islam advocates love and brotherhood of
mankind. This type of sorcery has worked wonders for Muslim fundamentalists in
the past, but with the dissemination of knowledge, it is difficult to cloud the
truth with the magic of misinterpretation, marvel of memorization and mysticism
of meaning-less ness.
Islam has become a
set of fundamentals which preach social segregation, hatred of non-Muslims and
elimination of dissenters through dominance, death and destruction. These
conclusions, no matter how true, cannot be palatable to the Muslims and
therefore rank as fabrications, from their standpoint. I can do no better than
quote from the Koran to decide the issue. Examine the following for yourself:
1. "Do not let non-Muslims enter mosques. They will go to
hell." ( Repentance: 17 )
2. "O ye who believe! The non-Muslims are unclean. So let them not
come near the Inviolable Place of Worship." (Repentance: 28)
3. "O ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers .... and let
them find harshness
in you." (Repentance: 123)
4. "Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender
and pay tribute."
(Repentance: 29)
5. "O believers, do not treat your fathers and brothers as your
friends, if they
prefer unbelief to belief, whosoever of you takes them for friends, they
are evil-doers."
(Repentance: 20)
6. "Certainly, God is an enemy to the unbelievers."
( The Cow:
90 )
7. "God has cursed the unbelievers, and prepared for them a blazing
hell."
( The
Confederates 60 )
8. "Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends.... whoso
does that belongs
not to God." (The House of Imram: 60)
9. "O believers, do not make friends with the Jews and Christians;
..whoso of you makes them his friend is one of them."
(The Table: 55)
10. "The believers indeed are brothers." ( Apartments: 10 )
11. "Muslims are hard against the unbelievers, merciful to one
another." (Victory:
25)
A Muslim naturally
believes in all such Koranic verses, which determine his
1. "Muslims are the best of all nations." (House
of Imran: 110). Obviously, the best nation is superior to other people, who must wear the yoke of
2. The prophet Muhammad has been sent by God with "the religion of
Truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religions.." (Private
Apartments: 28)
Simply stated it
means that Muslims are superior to non- Muslims and have the birth-right to
dominate them. This is why Islam calls itself Din-e-Ghalib,
the religion of dominance. As every student of psychology knows, the purpose of
any fundamentalism is to secure blind following from its adherents. This is
possible only when they are conditioned to a certain object or goal which begins
to rank as the sole purpose of their lives. As a result, the purpose begins to
overrule the method of acquisition; whatever secures it is good and whatever
obstructs it is bad. In a nutshell, people must stop thinking for themselves,
especially in terms of morality. As the Marxists brainwashed people in the name
of proletarianism and what it stood for, the Muslims have been conditioned to
the person of the prophet Muhammad, who is projected as the savior
of his followers, having complete power to find them permanent residence in
paradise, which is the abode of luxury, love making and lasciviousness. Since
Muslims, in most countries are deprived, depressed and desolated, they are
prepared to do anything to uphold the honor of the Prophet. For total obedience,
they are at liberty to indulge in the most convenient morality such as
mendacity,
rape, murder, theft and treason without losing their chance of entering the
paradise which has been absolutely guaranteed by their faith in the prophet
Muhammad.
Since Islam is the Din-e-Ghalib
i.e. the religion of dominance by God's will, Muslim minorities in non-Islamic countries do everything possible to harass,
1. secular laws which are made in the name of Islam, and
2. the laws which Allah has framed and require no legislative authority
and
Now, let us ponder
over these two points:
Islam declares
Muhammad the greatest of all prophets and therefore reserves the highest
reverence for him. This has become an article of faith. A Muslim, unwilling to
force it on others, is considered deficient in belief. As a result, every Muslim
looks for an opportunity to demonstrate the magnitude of his faith by molesting
non-Muslims, and even fellow- believers
who express less bigotry
in this field. Politicians (Jinnah, Zia, Ershad,
Golam Azam, Nizami) have seized upon this emotional condition of the Muslim mind
to enhance their grip on power. For example, Pakistan has passed
This Islamic
exploitation of the believers has led to their moral bankruptcy,
This
type of Islamic morality is rampant, not only in the Islamic countries, but also
in the lands where the Muslims have settled in sufficient numbers. To explain
this point, I may quote Britain where I live. I wrote and published a book:
"Eternity" in 1990. It challenges the basic concept of revelation, the
Now, I may briefly
touch upon the second part of the issue i.e. the direct commands of Allah which
are so evident that they need not be legislated:
Instead of delving
into this mystery, I hasten to add that Jihad or violence is
This is the reason
that the Koran explains it well. Paradise is the description
Jihad, literally means
"effort". Though the Muslim apologists will have us believe that this
is what the term Islamic Jihad implies, this is a gross understatement because
of the barbarity, brutality and bloody mindedness that the Islamic Jihad has
come to represent in action. Just consult the pages of history to find out how
the Muslim warriors waged a Holy War against Europe for no fewer than four
hundred years to cut down half of its population. Chose Mujahedeen
(the Muslim
warriors) destroyed the Egyptian and Iranian cultures without the slightest
provocation from these lands. India suffered terrible distortion, disgrace and
devastation from these booty-hunters whose followers, even today, treat Bharat
as
Dar-ul-Harb (the battlefield), and are determined to convert
it into an Islamic state through malice, mischief and molestation.
So complex is the doctrine of
Islamic Jihad that its annotation is not possible without referring to what the
Prophet Muhammad stood for, and the means he employed to achieve his purpose. The
Arabs were pagans who indulged in idol-worship, which exhibits man's innate fear
of the unknown and he bows before the supernatural to please him with a view to
escaping his impending wrath. However, the Hindus do not adore the statues as
such; they are power-worshippers: they revere Shakti
(the Power) behind every
natural phenomenon, called a god or goddess. The Arabian temples were deeply
influenced by the Indian principle of triad (Trimurti), which represents
plurality of gods but Muhammad vehemently opposed it and instead, preached
monotheism, that is, there is no God but Allah, meaning that all other gods are
false except the one whose cause he advocated. He emphasized that Allah has
created man as His slave whose only purpose of life is to bow, bend and beseech
Him.
To convey his purpose with greater
clarity, he claimed that he was the Messenger of Allah and had been sent by Him
to preach His name so that people should believe in Him and worship Him
exclusively. Allah, he held, like Yahwe, the Jewish God, is a jealous Deity, who
may forgive all sins except treating anyone as His equal and lauding Him. Thus,
he laid a curse on all other gods and demanded their total destruction. Allah,
he stressed, is Almighty, the Creator and Absolute, that is, independent of
everything and desire. This definition of Allah does not stand up to a rational
scrutiny. How can Allah be Almighty if He depends upon a man i.e. the prophet,
to convince people of His existence and greatness?
Again, if He is the Creator,
He would have created man to believe in Him automatically. Finally, the God who
ardently desires to be deified cannot be Independent or Absolute. From the
above, it follows that the true God neither needs a prophet, nor prophet-hood is
capable of serving His object. Therefore, the prophet Muhammad had an aim over
and above his stated purpose. This is not a far-fetched statement look at the
following verse:
"To you your religion, and to me my
religion." (The Unbelievers, CIX: 5). Here, Muhammad is telling
people openly that they are welcome to their religion and he will follow his
own! If this be the truth, then he has nothing to preach, and therefore, he has
no message from Allah. Since the prophet Muhammad was the founder of the Arab
Empire, he could not have done so without a burning Political ambition. It is a
historical truth that some people acquire temporal power as politicians but
others realize their political dreams through the garb of spiritual leadership.
This is especially applicable to the Middle Eastern countries where prophet-hood
has been a cultural tradition since time immemorial. This is the reason that
ruler of every locality ruled as the Vicar of God, that is, he asserted that God
was in direct communication with him, and he acted according to His commands.
What is called Vicar is another name for the Messenger (i.e. Prophet). And this
is what Muhammad claimed to be. Obviously, like these Vicars of the Middle
Eastern countries, Muhammad had
a political ambition, and this fact is amply
proven by
His yearning however, was greater
than that of a mundane ruler, an ordinary prophet and even God. When he was
weak, he declared: "Say, I have only been commanded to serve God, and not to associate
anyone with Him. To Him I call, and to Him I turn." (Thunder, XIII- 35).
But
when he became powerful, he turned the tables on Allah Himself: "God
and His angels pray peace to the Prophet, O believers, you must also bless him,
and pray him peace." (The Confederates,
XXXIII: 55).One can see that
the situation has been reversed here. First, it was Muhammad who prayed to God
but now it is God and angles, who pray to Muhammad. The Koran goes even further
to state: "Truly this is the word of
a noble Messenger having power, with the Lord of the Throne secure, obeyed,
moreover, trusty." ( The Darkening,
LXXXI: 15-20). The Muslims
interpret these verses to mean that on the day of Judgment prophet Muhammad will
sit on the right hand side of Allah to share the Divine throne of justice, and
it is his intercession which will decide who goes to heaven or hell. Here,
Muhammad excels Allah by taking over his authority. Now, One can see Muhammad's
plan of elevation clearly. First, he advocates destruction of idols so that they
should not rival Allah, and then in the cloak of prophet
hood, he becomes the
object of praise of Allah and his angels and also makes it obligatory on all
believers to follow this pattern! Jihad is
the means to raise Muhammad above the mark of Divinity.
Having preached in
Mecca for thirteen years, he could secure just about seventy followers. This number was too small to act as God's
army. In fact, most of the believers suffered terrible persecution for denying
and insulting pagan gods. Eventually, Muhammad, along with his followers fled to
Medina to escape the anguish. Even there, he desperately wanted to accelerate it
because the wheel of his life was rolling on fast, indeed.
Crowning one's greatest desire is
usually a difficult task. Since founders of the ruling dynasties had to use
stratagems, practice convenient morality and wage dreadful wars to achieve their
purpose, why should not the prophet of Allah raise an army of holy warriors to
execute his ambition? Besides, he also had to
"The true religion with God is Islam." (The House of Imran, III
- 15 ).
"It is He (Allah) who has sent his Messenger with the guidance and
the religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion."
(Victory,
Since every religion except Islam is
false, it is natural for Islam to dominate
In fact, a powerful army cannot be
raised if its members are conscious of the
SEX :
Carnal gratification, man's greatest
desire, is the first temptation that the concept of Jihad carries. A Mujahid
i.e. the Islamic warrior, who at that time suffered pangs of sexual starvation
in the torrid land of Arabia, was promised
During the battle of
Autas, the
Muslims captured some women along with their husbands. Though earlier, a Muslim
had been forbidden sexual intercourse with an
Even the Prophet Muhammad himself
indulged in this Divine Concession. Having
Sex was a big bait to attract
followers, and eventually, make them sincere
To bring out the veracity of this
point, I may refer to HADITH TIRMZI, volume two (p 35-40) which gives details of
the houris:
1. A houri is a most beautiful young
woman with a transparent body. The marrow of her bones is visible like the
interior lines of pearls and rubies. She looks like red wine in a white glass.
2 She is of white color, and free
from the routine physical disabilities of an ordinary woman such as menstruation,
menopause, urinal and offal discharge,
3. A houri is a girl of tender age,
having large breasts which are round, and
Now add to this description of
houris what MISHKAT, volume three Says on pages 83-97:
4. If a houri looks down from her
abode in heaven onto the earth, the whole distance shall be filled with light
and fragrance .....
5. A houri's face is more radiant
than a mirror, and one can see one's image in
6. Every man who enters paradise
shall be given seventy-two houris; no matter at what age he had died, when he is
admitted into paradise, he will become a
7. TIRMZI, vol. 2 states on page
138:
2. PLUNDER
In fact, the word:
"plunder" refers to sex as well, because amongst other things
1. "Surely the worst of beasts in God's sight are the
unbelievers." (The Spoils: VIII: 55)
2. " Certainly, God is an enemy to the unbelievers . "
(The
Cow: II: 90)
3. "Oh ye who believe! fight those of the unbelievers and let them
find in you harshness."
(Repentance: IX: 123)
4. "Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender
and pay
Since it was plunder that paved the
way to spread Islam, even those things that
This episode narrated by Sir William
Muir on page 215 of The Life of Mahomet, explains the significance of plunder
in the Islamic doctrine and hardly needs
The Prophet Muhammad knew the
significance of booty in relation to his followers. At the battle of Ohad, as
a part of his strategy, which was, indeed,
This episode clearly elucidates the
significance of booty to these warriors of
they fought for booty and
lost for booty.
It certainly shows the purpose of
the Islamic Jihad, that is, plundering the non
During the 20th century, Islam has
lost its luster as the projected ambassador
defensive war against the
aggressors:
One wonders that why Allah, who is
Almighty, cannot thrash the unbelievers
This truth is fully borne out by the
following hadith:
Besides those who think of the Jihad
as a defensive war, there are new sects of
The Prophet also said:
"Acting as Allah's soldier for one night in a battlefield is
superior to saying prayers at home for 1000 years." (Ibne
Majah, vol. 2, P 166).
Now, one can see for one's self the
violent nature of Islam, its purpose and the
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