kind comment about the truth of the matter

Submitted by Unknown (United States), Aug 9, 2005 at 23:59

Hello.
The issue of Jihad is very misunderstood by many since it is a foreign term which recently caused much controversy with no one to clear up its true meaning.

People hearing comments by Saddam Hussein or his "religious advisers" that They will declare Jihad on "wicked Americans"

First of all it is not at all possible that Saddam Hussein had religious advisers who had the least bit of understanding of islam or even sanity for the matter. As a MUSLIM i completely denounce all of Saddam's actions of oppression to innocent people and so does Islam. Islam doesnt permiss dictatorships to be formed. The reason why you see all of these things happening today from dictatorship or acts of oppression are because of 2 things:

1. Many Muslims today are very far from the truth of Islam. You cannot blame the religion itself for some people who claim to be followers are trying to twist it around to attain some worldly gain that they are in seek of

2. The ignorance of some muslims to matters of islam and them acting upon this understanding

No one person has the right to say that they are doing these acts in the name of Islam when their claims have no proof from the religion itself but actually it has things opposing their teachings

One can look at islamic history and say that there have been many islamic wars and that islam has been spread by the sword which is completely wrong

Islam has ordered muslims to fight in situations where the people are being oppressed in their land or denied ability to practice religion freely

the proof of this is chapter 4 verse 75:
And how do you not fight in the sake of Allah when the oppressed ones from the men, women, and children who say O our lord take us out of this land whos people are oppressors and give us from your aid a victor)

When islam entered any land they would help the people and give them justice and freedom of worship.
As the prophet(PBUH) said " whoever has oppressed one who is at peace with us, or made fun of him, or put more pressure on him then he can withstand or has taken anything from him without his permission and I will argue for the sake of one who is at peace with us on the day of judgement"

One historian by the name of Gustov Leubon said " History has never known a more just conquerer nor more merciful then the arabs"

And that is why when the Muslims came to conquer jerusalem towards the end of the 600s, as mentioned in the book The Call to Islam by Arnold, the ones who lived in the city sent a letter to the muslims saying," O Muslims, you are more beloved to us then the Romans(they controlled that area befor Islam came to it) even if the Romans were on the same religion as us, you keep your promises more and you have more mercy, and forgive our oppression and are a better leadership for us but they (Romans) have forced us against our will"

WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WOULD SAY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO "CONQUER "THEIR LAND PLEASE COME CONQUER US IF THE MUSLIMS REALLY WERE LOOKING TO CONQUER AND RULE PEOPLE

A person can make a comment about a group of "muslims" doing so and so of an act and they will probably even say it is in the name of islam but they will never be able to make a bad comment about what the actual religion of islam

For ANY ONE WHO WAS REALLY OPEN MINDED AND SEEKING TO FIND THE TRUTH THEN HE WILL BRING ME ONE THING OF OPPRESSION THAT ISLAM HAS ORDERED MUSLIMS TO DO

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