CONFESSIONS A BRITISH SPY - Hakikat Kitabevi

his Khalîfa instead of them. I expect that Islam will be renovated
and improved in your hands. You are the only scholar who will
spread Islam all over the world.”
Muhammad the son of Abd-ul-Wahhâb and I decided to
make a new interpretation of the Qur’ân; this new interpretation
was to reflect only our points of view and would be entirely
contrary to those explanations made by the Sahâba, by the
imâms of madh-habs and by the mufassirs (deeply learned
scholars specialized in the explanation of the Qur’ân). We were
reading the Qur’ân and talking on some of the âyats. My
purpose in doing this was to mislead Muhammad. After all, he
was trying to present himself as a revolutionist and would
therefore accept my views and ideas with pleasure so that I
should trust him all the more.
On one occasion I said to him, “Jihâd (fighting, struggling for
Islam) is not fard.”
He protested, “Why shouldn’t it be despite Allah’s
commandment, ‘Make war against unbelievers.’?” [1]
I said, “Then why didn’t the Prophet make war against the
munâfiqs despite Allah’s commandment, ‘Make Jihâd against
unbelievers and munâfiqs.’?” [2] [On the other hand, it is
written in Mawâhibu ladunniyya that twenty-seven Jihâds were
performed against unbelievers. Their swords are exhibited in
Istanbul’s museums. Munâfiqs would pretend to be Muslims.
They would perform namâz with the Messenger of Allah in the
Masjîd-i-Nabawî during the days. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi
wasallam’ knew them. Yet he did not say, “ You are a munâfiq,”
to any of them. If he had made war against them and killed
them, people would say, “Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ killed
people who believed in him.” Therefore he made verbal Jihâd
against them. For Jihâd, which is fard, is performed with one’s
body and/or with one’s property and/or with one’s speech. The
âyat-i-kerîma quoted above commands to perform Jihâd against
unbelievers. It does not define the type of the Jihâd to be
performed. For Jihâd against unbelievers must be performed by
fighting, and Jihâd against munâfiqs is to be performed by
preaching and advice. This âyat-i-kerîma covers these types of
Jihâd.]
[1] Tawba sûra, âyat: 73
[2] Tawba sûra, âyat: 73
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