Quran Chapter
8 – Intro (Pt-9, Stg-2) (L-1080) - درس قرآن
The
life, Islam and Jihad are different names of the same thing
Chapter ‘Anfaal (Spoils
of War) – Surah – 8)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in Allaah from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of Allaah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
(I seek refuge in Allaah from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of Allaah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
Substance of human life is
struggle and endeavor. His nature is to fulfill own desires, bruise and
tyrannize them who come in the way of fulfilling his wishes. Similarly, we
observe the same thing in animals, and this is the reason that we determine the
human being as (social) animal. Sign of animal’s life in the world is a
struggle and the sign of its death is the end of that struggle. Islam does not
desire to remove the life, but it wishes to keep it up. Therefore, it supports
to struggle against the opponents, and it considers honor if overcame upon them
but disgrace if subdued by them. Struggle to Conquer these opponents is called
Jihad in Arabic language.
After that, it is easy to
understand that the life, Islam and Jihad are different names of the same
thing. Islam has emphasized the “Jihad” because it wants to preserve the life,
but along with it, it has been caused to understand clearly that “there is a
difference in the Jihad (struggle) of humankind and the struggle of an animal
as the difference between heaven and the earth, because animal life is
different from human life. So, there must be a difference between the struggles
(Jihad) of the both.
The struggle of the animal is
only for the purpose that if any other of its kind; wants to snatch its
necessities of this world, it should drive that animal off by striking so that
it may live itself easily. Therefore, it has to fight against other individuals
usually of its kind. Islam teaches the mankind: Your Jihad (struggle) must be
for the purpose that you yourself and other people of your kind may acquire the
rest of actual life i.e. the life of the Hereafter. So, your fight should be
against the people of your kind, only in that condition; when they raise any
hindrance against fulfilling this cause and are prepared to fight.
A human being cannot fight with
the people of his kind for the purpose that he may snatch the worldly and
luxurious goods, wealth and property from others and fill own house with them.
This way is specified with the animals. If the humankind adopts the same way,
then, he is at a great distance from the humanity and still he is mere an
animal, a worst kind of animal which is called a ravenous.
A mankind will fight against
the other at that time only when he will try to prevent him by violence from
the effort to gain the perpetual life. Islam elevates the platform of human
struggle much high and teaches him to face the enemies of eternal life.
Therefore; the name of his struggle is “Jihaad Fii SabiiLIllaah (The
Struggle, try and strive in the Path of God, for the sake of God). And if any
mankind opposes it himself and wants to stop it, then it is the Jihad that one
must fight against him and that kind of Jihad is called Qataal fii
SabiiLIllaah (killing for the sake of God). Fighting against those who
prevent the people from making their Hereafter good, is Islamic life, and
fighting for worldly goods, honor and sovereignty is the animal life, and there
is much difference in both.
Those people
who have recited the Chapters of Holy Qur’an, revealed in Makkah with
attention and observed thirteen years’ life of God’s last Messenger (grace,
glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) and the Muslims in Makkah,
they understand easily that Islam wished to teach the
mankind formulas of peaceful life. But quarrelsome and arrogant
people of Makkah got ready to oppose Islam, Muslims and the
Preacher of Islam Muhammad (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) for
the sake of their worldly interests and tyrannized in such a way that; hearing
them is confounded. So the Muslims had to girt their loins for fighting
against them by compulsion. And finally, the Muslims and the truth were conquerors.
There is a specific law for such fighting and such victory. But if the Muslims
fight for the world and conquest, and in this form, they put the same law
(of Qataal Fii SabiiLillaah) into execution, then it would be a
fight only, result of which would be not other than that, which we have been
observing nowadays.
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