Islam's Reformers .pdf

If a person mixes the property he has obtained in a way thatis harâm with other property earned in a halâl or harâm way andgives alms from this mixture and expects thawâb from it, hedoes not become an unbeliever, for it becomes his own, yetfoul, property when it is mixed. He owes its owner. Though it isharâm for him to use it before paying its cost, it is not harâm forsomeone else to buy and use it.55 - Again in World’s Peace and Islam Seyyid Qutb wrote:“Muslims are revolutionists. They revolt against cruelty andinjustice.”This idea of his does not conform with what the Islamicscholars reported. Muslims do not revolt. They do not arousesedition and mischief. It is a sin to revolt against even a cruelgovernment. It is not jihâd but fitna (mischief) to violate the lawsand commands. Sayyid Qutb, Mawdûdî and those who havebeen deceived by them misinterpreted the thirty-ninth âyat ofthe sûrat al-Hajj, an offense that brought them destruction. Thisâyat states, “Jihâd against the cruel who attack Muslimshas been permitted.” When the unbelievers of Meccaoppressed, injured and killed Muslims, the Sahâba repeatedlyasked for permission to fight against them, and their requestswere turned down with a mollifying rejection. This âyat wasrevealed upon the migration to Medina, permitting the newlyfounded Islamic State to perform jihâd against the cruel inMecca. This âyat does not permit Muslims to oppose their cruelgovernment; it permits the Islamic State to make jihâd againstthe armies of cruel dictators who prevent their peoples fromhearing about Islam and becoming Muslims. The hadîthsquoted on the forty-first and seventy-first pages of thetranslation of As-siyar al-kabîr declare, “Paradise is harâmfor a person who revolts against the ruler,” and “Performjihâd under the command of every ruler, just or cruel!”Jihâd, as it is written in books means ‘war against theunbelievers of other countries’. The hadîth given in the booksRadd al-muhtâr, Kâmil and al-Baihakî’s Shâ’b al-îmân,declares, “When you cannot correct something wrong, bepatient! Allâhu ta’âlâ will correct it.” This hadîth commandsnot to oppose or revolt againt the laws but to advise throughlegitimate ways and to be patient. A hadîth quoted by al-Manâwî, at-Thirmidhî and at-Tabarânî declares, “The mostvaluable jihâd is to make a statement guiding to the right- 218 -