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Islamic Jihad1. ‘And fight them (the infidels) on until there is no more Tumult or oppression [non-Islamicfaiths], and there prevail justice and faith in Allah’ [Quran 2.193].2. ‘And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice andfaith in Allah altogether and everywhere’ [Quran 8.39].To Allah belongs the heaven and earth and everything in it, says the Quran [24:42, 34:1]. Allah holds thesupreme and absolute authority over the heaven and earth [Quran 57:5, 67:1] and has made Muslims theinheritor of the latter for establishing a global Islamic rule. The Quran says: ‘(Allah) hath made you (His)agents, inheritors of the earth’ [Quran 6:165] and that ‘has promised to… make them rulers in the earth’[Quran 24:55]. As Muslims wage Jihad against the infidels, Allah will come to their assistance to help themacquire their lands gradually and will eventually bring the whole earth under their control; Allah’s globalcaliphate will, thus, be realized:1. 'Do they not see that We are bringing destruction upon the land by curtailing it of its sides?'2. 'See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders?'Allah would help Muslims, if need be, by destroying the communities of the unyielding infidels to appropriatetheir land, of course, to hand it over to Muslims:And how many a community have We destroyed that was thankless for its means of livelihood!And yonder are their dwellings, which have not been inhabited after them save a little. And We,even We, were the inheritors. [Quran 28.58]Allah made good of these lofty promises, too. It was Allah, Who helped Muslims wrestle the lands of Jewishtribes of Medina. Allah claims that He helped Muslims acquire the lands and properties of Banu Qaynuqa andBanu Nadir by expelling them from their lands: ‘(Allah) it is Who hath caused those of the People of theScripture (Banu Nadir Jews etc.) who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile’ by castingterror in their hearts and bestowed whatever Allah had grabbed from them as spoil (the land and properties)unto His messenger [Quran 59:2–6]. As concerns the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza, ‘Allah did take themdown from their strongholds and cast terror into their hearts’ enabling Muslims slay some of them and makethe rest prisoners [Quran 33:26] and ‘made you (Muslims) heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods,and of a land which ye had not frequented (before)’ [Quran 33:27].Indeed, over the centuries since the birth of Islam, Muslims clearly believed that Allah was helpingthem achieve victory and acquire the lands of the infidels in their Jihadi conquests. Al-Biladuri, the eminentMuslim historian of the Abbasid court (mid-ninth century), asserts that it was Allah who had conquered thelands of Medina Jews for Muslims. 339 Al-Utbi notes of Sultan Mahmud’s victory of over King Jaipal atPeshawar (1001–02) that ‘God bestowed upon his friends such amount of booty as was beyond all bounds andall calculation, including five hundred thousand slaves, men and women. The sultan returned with hisfollowers to his camp, having plundered immensely, by God’s aid, having obtained victory, and thankful toGod, the lord of the universe.’ 340 In the late sixteenth century, the Ottoman archives noted of their defeat atthe battle of Lepanto (1571) that ‘‘The fleet of the divinely guided Empire encountered the fleet of thewretched infidels, and the will of Allah turned the other way.’’ 341 Such references that it was God, who wasgiving the Muslim holy warriors victory in their Jihad against the infidels, are universal in Islamic chronicles.In order to complete the inheritance of the earth, which Allah has bestowed upon Muslims, they mustkill the Polytheists wherever found and enslave their women and children (for converting to Islam) [Quran9:5]. This way, Muslim will capture their lands and clear the way for establishing Islamic rule. For acquiringthe lands under the control of the Monotheists—the Jews and Christians, for example—Muslims must fight339. Hitti PK (2002) History of the Arabs, Palgrave Macmillan, London, p. 21,33340. Elliot & Dawson, Vol. II, p. 26341. Lewis B (2002) What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, Phoenix, London, p. 12113