Islam's Reformers .pdf

“Islam is not a religion to be imposed upon people by force.It does not urge anybody to accept the religion by force.”On the contrary, jihâd is intended to make Allâhu ta’âlâ’shuman creatures accept Islam by annihilating cruel dictatorswho prevent them from becoming Muslims. Those who believebecome real Muslims and those who do not become Muslimsbut surrender become dhimmîs. Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded thejihâd in order to force His human creatures to accept Islam andin order to rescue them from Hell by force. It is declared in the94th âyat of the sûrat an-Nisâ’, “Those who perform jihâdagainst the enemies of the religion by sacrificing theirwealth and lives in order to spread Allâhu ta’âlâ’s religionare higher than those who sit and worship.” Jihâd andghazâ are the two forms of al-amru bi’l-ma’rûf by using forceagainst unbelievers. Jihâd is performed not by individuals but bythe State.Again, in the book World’s Peace and Islam, Sayyid Qutbwrote:“In no period has Islam’s aim in war been to force people toadmit Islam. It is impossible to see such a compulsion either inIslam’s theoretical principles or in its historical process. Unlikewhat the ignorant who do not know Islam and the enemies ofIslam suppose, Islam has never been disseminated throughsword. War, which is not within the religion’s nature, has neverbeen used as a means for invitation to the religion.”Sayyid Qutb reversed the meaning of jihâd, which is openlyordered in the Qur’ân and Hadîth and unanimously defined inmillions of books and countlessly exemplified in every Muslimnation’s history. His description is as surprising as saying whiteto be black and is never believable to any Muslim or to anyeducated person. It is said either by an uneducated, ignorantperson, an idiot or by the persons of the false religion calledQadîânism (Ahmadiyya), which has been founded by theBritish in India and which has nothing to do with Islam [1] .When explaining the seventy-third and following âyats of thesûrat an-Nisâ’, he, too, had to write the truth as communicatedby the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. He wrote: “A Muslim goes to war[1] Please see Endless Bliss, II, 36 for detailed information about theAhmadiyya Movement and other heresies.- 198 -