Terroism

[Muslimah]

Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed, his household and companions


In this post we are going to examine an important issue that has been bothering all of us lately, which is the definition of terrorism. Taking in consideration that what actually bothers us is that it became a synonym to Muslims in a sense of incriminating us as a nation.


Insh a Allah I seek Allah’s close guidance to assist me in presenting how I think about this issue and allow me to produce the correct points.


Let us start with looking into the pattern of several wars, for example what happened during the 1991 war between Iraq and Kuwait, 1991 Operation Desert Shield between the USA and Iraq in Kuwait, 1967 between Israel and Egypt, 1976 between Egypt and Israel, and many other examples.


All these wars share a common characteristic which is depending mainly on the factor of sudden surprise on the first strike in order to unstabilize the other party (enemy of course). So the objective is to cause the enemy loose focus, capability and stability in order to be easily defeated. Part of the aim also is to send terrifying messages to the enemy so as to defeat its resistance and moral capability.


We may conclude that any military strategic tactic depends on a strong, sudden, and terrifying act towards the target to ensure a full loss of control, defense, focus, unity and more. Again to terrorize the target.


Therefore, if the manmade military strategies legitimize terrorism in cases of war in order for the attacking party (regardless of whether or not that party owns the right to do so, this is not my core of interest in this discussion, if u observe I gave various war examples without an emphasis on Islam or Muslims) to ensure winning the war.


Let us get to Quran and how it deals with this point, since our manual (the Quran did not and I emphasis did not overlook any aspect of our life without producing the proper regulation).


“And make ready against them all you can of power, <b>including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) </b><b>to hreaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides whom
</b>, you may not know but whom Allah does know. And whatever you shall spend in the Cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you, and you shall not be treated unjustly” (Quran 8:60).


With all due respect to the translator, but he modified the word into modern war machines. The Ayah precisely say prepare for them all what u can of power and the tie of horses with which u may terrorize and threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy. I found myself responsible with all my Arabic native speakers on this board to help our fellow Muslims who are not Arabic native speakers gain better understanding of the Quran specially after looking into this Ayah. The word in the red font in Arabic which is translated as threaten is “Turhibun” derived from urhib which is literally to terrorize.


Please examine the noble Ayah carefully before jumping into any conclusion or feeling a deep need to defend the image of your religion. Our religion does not need to. We are commanded to prepare every possible means that terrorize and threaten the enemy of Allah and others known only to Him. Only the enemy of Allah and us.


If we don’t how will we win a battle can u tell me?, by pushing the shoulder of the enemy telling him how bad he is and that he must reconsider fighting Allah, or by telling him O please go away and leave us alone don’t kill us please. No we must act harsh and strong just as appropriate to our religion. But again this is only legitimate during war. Thus, we can not really make haphazard decisions on any Muslim launching an aggression or an attack against a group of people, since they we are not aware of full details of the situation. Again the situation is what makes it legitimate or not. Please just consider this point. The given situation on which the attach was launched is what makes it legitimate or not.


I recall reading about a companion can not remember his name, who decided on a battle to take a risk by penetrating all of a sudden into the lines of the other party in a move that will certainly result into confusion and instability. Brothers and sisters we must be aware of what is a military tactic all about.


This terrorism issue is carefully engineered by the Western media to trap us into a pitch of how to defend our image and to do that we even sometime go to the extreme of being unjust to our brothers and sisterS.


Brothers and sisters, we all agree that killing armless civilians, children, women and elderly is not allowed in an Islamic context of war. We are also aware of the incident when Zaid Ibn Haretha killed a Mushrik during a battle after pronouncing the Shahada and was seriously blamed by the Messenger for doing so till he said I wished I did not embrace Islam before that day. The Messenger told him did u slit his heart to be sure that he did not mean it.


But again and again, we are dealing with issues in which we depend on media as source of information. For a change let the Quran and Sunnah be our guide when it comes to the global war being aggressively launched against us.


Alhamdulelah who guided us for this and if it was not for Him we would not have been guided. Whatever is correct in this post is from Allah, and whatever is wrong is from me and shaytan


Prayer and peace be on our leader and teacher and Messenger Mohamed, his household and companions

[Qutuz]

mashllah Excellent post sister Muslimah...just two points


1- there is little typo you made...the war between Egypt and Israel was in 1973 not 1976


2-

I recall reading about a companion can not remember his name, who decided on a battle to take a risk by penetrating all of a sudden into the lines of the other party in a move that will certainly result into confusion and instability

i think it's Ikrma ibn Anu Jahl in Yermuk Battle....he and the 500 men who accompnied them in this mission changed the battle course.


now here is an excellent artilce by Dr Zakir Naik about terrorism where he reached the conclusion that every Muslim must be a terrorist....i agree!..just read the article before you disagree


http://www.drzakirnaik.com/pages/qanda/5.php

[Ibn_Kumuna35]

Salaam Alaikum!


I would like to toot my horn if I may.


Terrorism is a nihilistic approach/response to the dynamic and changing world. The overall objective is to send a chilling blade through the conscious of the enemy camp while advancing some submarine agenda. Hence, terror can be carried out through the conscious: intellectual terrorism (i.e. labeling someone a racist simply to smear their reputation). Sadly, such happend here recently.


I would also like to concede that terrorism is by no means confined to the Islamic world. Prior to 9/11, terrorism was practiced to science in South America unabated. If terror is our antithesis, and is to be combated, we must shake loose the insular belief that terrorism is essentially Islamic, or isolated in the Islamic world.


--Ibn

[abeer]

assalum alykum wa rahmut allah wa baraktoh


dearest Muslimah this is a vital issue that we need to discuss by details.


barak allah feki wa jazaki allah khairan katheeran.


i have a Quik argument for you all to consider and debate about:-


the word TERRORIMS is not the proper translation of " turhiboun" in the ayah.


terror means : R3B رعب


THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WORD THAT IS MORE FITTING!!


WA ALLAH A3LAM

[Muslimah]

as salam alykom brothers and sisters


brother Qutuz Jazakum Allah khairan katheeran for the correction, we are all here to learn and help each other learn and when brothers and sisters contribute that how we gain the reward Insh a Allah and Alhamdulelah if the post is informative, I claim no credit, all Praise is to Allah and credit is only to Him.


Abeer I do agree with u somehow, but isnt urhib is to terror, let us try and find out, it is just that we became so afraid of using this word although it is well contained in our manual.


Ibn, can u pls try to be more specific and direct in your post may be this will get us closer. But as far as i understood, unfortunately and I am so disappointed u did not get the message in the post. Ibn, again I am just concerned about u as a Muslim brother, dont get your wish to use your elquent writing style and intellect superceed Quran. Just ponder on the post again pls. and what intellectual terrorism u r talking about, u ve been posting your opinion through the board freely, only when we as Muslims grow concerned, we talk to u, unless u dont need anyone to disagree with, then that is different. I fully understand and respect u as one who came to Islam 6 years ago as I recall, decided to wear Sunnah to proudly represent himself as a Muslim, But brother, dressing Sunnah is not the only issue, u must look at things from the Islamic source, u still say


"If terror is our antithesis, and is to be combated, we must shake loose the insular belief that terrorism is essentially Islamic, or isolated in the Islamic world. "



U r still insisting to consider what the Ayah explains as a shamful act that we must detach from. Brother look at the ayah again, examine the difference, if u r examining an incident per se (11/9), that is different, I am trying to help u get out of the generalizing behaviour u r doing calling everybody blood thirst. I gave u an example about Tunis, I dont want to put u in tears telling u about the situation where we live here.


The main point I grow concerned about is that u dont judge people act or call them blood thirt, dont judge brother, dont let your wish to defend Islam turn into a negative attitude.


Just look at the Ayah, the other Ayahs I posted to u and ponder on them

[Shereen]

I personally don't think that killing innocent ppl is justified........Allah have asked Muslims to fight against those who fight them............not their kids & other families

[lifutushi]

Assaalamu'alaykum...


i'm agree with you sister...

[Muslimah]

I personally don't think that killing innocent ppl is justified........Allah have asked Muslims to fight against those who fight them............not their kids & other families

Exactly Shereen this what we have been trying to say, but the problem is that sometimes even Muslims just put every thing in the same pot and make decision, my whole point is not to judge any act labelling it as terrorism. The Ayah is very clear, we must prepare all what we can to instill fear and threaten the enemy during war. But we also has to come out of this dilemma of wanting to detach from the term terrorists. There are times when we must use threat and terro, I am explaining the difference well. I feel I am not making the point clear, since the replies are still coming in such sense.


For example, many Muslim scholars declared that if 11/9 is done by Muslims, this is not jihad, I go for this opinion. I can not believe sitting on my desk with an aircraft passing by. If this was done by Muslims, I dont agree with it. I just hope Mujahedeen do cause the required and hoped damaged among the lines of the enemy.


Plus brothers and sister, please be aware that the modern war takes multifacted styles not like before.


So the whole difference is that first we dont have to judge every act that is claimed to be by Muslims because we are not sure.


At times, Muslims must use terror. No one answered a point.


Shereen and Arif, do u see Palestineans and Iraqis as terrorists in the incriminating sense. I mean bad guys..?

[Muslimah]

As Salam Alykom


May be I can explain more, what we need to understand is that lately the term terrorism is being globaly used to refer to immoral acts of violence. As Muslims we must be careful of not falling into a defense position when we are fighting the enemy of Allah. Let us not put all cases in the same basket and judge. Just be careful about this point. When we have to threaten we will.

[lifutushi]

Assalamualaykum....


they are the ones who invented such words... in Islam, there's only ONE deen called Islam. there is no Fundamentalist Islam, no orthodox Islam, no moderate Islam, no modern Islam.... Islam is one, the one revealed by Allah to prophet Muhammad (pbuh)....


Wallahu 'alam...