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What is Jihad
At this stage it is necessry for me to stress something else. Note that Jihad is not only that
in which battle is waged and fighting takes place, even if that is the highest rank of Jihad.
Every effort which is made for Allah’s Word and Will to be dominant and for the
supremacy of Islam and truth is included in Jihad.
Hence Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said, that the best form of Jihad is
to speak the truth in the presence of a tyrant king. For this reason every effort in political
fields (for the welfare of Islam and the Muslims) is also considered Jihad.
Having said that, I must draw attention to another point.
Undoubtedly those involved in this kind of politics are performing a very important
function. But then there are those persons among them who go to such extremes as to
criticise, denounce and abuse those who for some personal or religious reason are unable
to do the same. The result is that in the eyes of those critics and denouncers every
Ibaadah or any other righteousness become ignored.
They go so far as to denounce him as an evil and bad person, and even brand him as an
infidel. This indeed is a great wrong. Had this been a compulsory duty on every Muslim,
then jn such a case too the one who stayed aloof from it would not have been guilty of a
major sin. So how can he be called a Kaafir? Branding anyone a Kaafir without sound
proof is indeed a grievous wrong. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) is reported to
have said that the root of Islam is based on three things one of which is that a Muslim
having accepted the Kalimah should not be branded as a Kaafir because of some sin
committed by him. (See Mishkat). According to another Iladeeth: “Whosoever calls
another a faasiq or a Kaafir while that person is not so, that accusation returns to the one
who utters the word.”
“When anyone calls a person a Kaafir or an enemy of Allah, and that person is not so, the
accusation returns to the one who utters the word.” (Mishkat).
This means that this calamity will fall upon the speaker. One should be very careful of
the words one utters. Sometimes one hears a person being very angry at others saying:
“The person will never ever be forgiven” or “So- and-so will never receive pardon from
Allah.” What a great wrong. It grieves me greatly that I have heard this type of words
even coming from the tongues of educated people.
Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “A man said: ‘I swear that Allah will
never grant forgiveness to such-and-such a person. Allah replied: ‘Who is this man who
swears by Me that I will not forgive that person? I have indeed pardoned that person and
as for this man who swears thus to him I say: All your deeds are nullified and in vain.”
According to another Hadeeth there were two persons among the Bani Israel:
One was a great Allah-fearing and saintly person and the other a great sinner. The saintly
one always used to admonish the sinner. One day he saw the sinner involved in a great
sinful deed. He said to him: “I swear by Allah, there will be no pardon for you by Allah.”
Al- Eti’daal Fi Maraatibur- Rijaal 43