Reply To: Christian Ross Violence in the Hadith

Submitted by Sohail (United Kingdom), Jul 16, 2006 at 10:59

Christian Ross you said: "Any reply from any muslim in this forum ! No Reply will be considered as confession of the fact that "Islam is Terrorism."

Well I am going to reply to your comment that you made that Islam is Terrorism. Well Islam is not the cause of terrorism. It is stupid Muslims who use sayings from the Quran and Hadiths to kill people. The big problem is most of them don't understand what they mean. They are also no contradictions in the Noble Quran like you said. Now the Jihad verses in the Quran were revealed at time where the Prophet was fighting the pagans of Arabia and the Jihad verses cannot be used to kill innocent people like women, children, ill people or old people or blow up buildings or to destroy they crops or kill they animals. The Jihads verses were only used by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the battlefield not in cities. The following Hadiths proves of my saying.

Book 021, Hadith Number 010.

Section : Prohibition against Killing Women and Children in Military Expeditions.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was sending armies to ash-Sham. He went for a walk with Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan who was the commander of one of the battalions. It is claimed that Yazid said to Abu Bakr, "Will you ride or shall I get down?" Abu Bakrsaid, "I will not ride and you will not get down. I intend these steps of mine to be in the way of Allah."

Then Abu Bakr advised Yazid, "You will find a people who claim to have totally given themselves to Allah. Leave them to what they claim to have given themselves. You will find a people who have shaved the middle of their heads, strike what they have shaved with the sword.

"I advise you ten things| Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty, and do not be cowardly."

Maliks Muwatta

Book 021, Hadith Number 008.

Section: Prohibition against Killing Women and Children in Military Expeditions.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that a son of Kab ibn Malik (Malik believed that ibn Shihab said it was Abd ar-Rahman ibn Kab) said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade those who fought ibn Abi Huqayq (a treacherous Jew from Madina) to kill women and children. He said that one of the men fighting had said, 'The wife of ibn Abi Huqayq began screaming and I repeatedly raised my sword against her. Then I would remember the prohibition of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, so I would stop. Had it not been for that, we would have been rid of her.'"

Allah Almighty will admit to Paradise those whom He loves because of their righteous work and belief:

"O mankind! [This includes all races and all nations] We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each...

Sohail

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