Several times in the past I have had blogs deleted by wordpress and other blog sites for speaking about Islam as it was revealed and this is not something surprising as Allah says:
They want to extinguish Allah's Light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow except that His Light should be perfected even though the Kafiroon hate it. Surah At-Taubah 9:32
And He said:
“And the Jews and Christians will never be pleased with you until you follow their way…” Surah Al-Baqarah 2:120
Recently I came across a blog hosting site called muslimblogs.com and I thought that this was an excellent chance to be able to blog about real Islam without having to worry about being censored. However it turned out that this is not the case.
After posting 2 posts on the issue of Jihad, I had them and all user comments deleted (and also another article about Al Wala Wal Bara) and I received the following email from muslimblogs:
Aslaam U Alikum,
We've recieved two warning mails, one from Google and other from Hosting site. Google is saying they will block MuslimBlogs.com site in their search engines. Our hosting site is also saying that they will not continue to host our site, if we remain continue publish Jihadi material.
For that reason, we're deleting all your posts related to Jihad. There're hundred and thousands of things about Islam, you can write about. For security of our bloggers, we're deleting your posts.
In future, if we found any such posts, we'll permanently disable your blog.
I hope you understand.
Mohammad
Content Manager
MuslimBlogs.com
I agree that there are thousands of different issues related to Islam which we can write about. But it must also be noted that Jihad is one of those issues and as Muslims we do not hide any part of Islam.
The Prophet told us that Jihad is the peak of Islam and there are many other ayats and ahadith which talk about its benefits. Yet a so called Muslim hosting site refuses to let us promote this beautiful part of our dean. If we followed what the brother said in his email above then the blog would have been deleted for simply posting particular ayats or surahs from the Quran.
The religion of Islam is complete and we are proud of every part of it and we refuse to not speak about subjects such as Jihad, Al Wala Wal Bara, Enjoining good and forbidding evil or any other part of Islam just because the kuffar dont like it.
Sadly we have had to switch the blog to blogspot as despite it being kuffar owned, there is much more freedom here to talk about the religion as it was actually revealed.
To the brothers at MuslimBlogs I would say to fear Allah and accept the religion in its totality as He (SWT) said:
This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. Surah Al Maidah 5:3
And do not to hide any part of Islam in order to make it more kuffar friendly as Allah said:
'What, believe you in part of the Book and deny part thereof? And what is the reward of those who do so except ignominy in the present life, and on the Day of Resurrection to be returned unto most grievous punishment' al-Baqarah 2: 85
“Here, we are not fighting for a handful of dirt, nor for some imaginary borders drawn by Sykes-Picot; likewise, we are not fighting here to replace a Western Tāghūt, with an ‘Arab Tāghūt. Rather, our Jihād is loftier and higher. Verily, we fight to make the Word of Allāh, the Highest, and to make the Dīn entirely for Allāh.
“And fight them until there is no more fitnah (shirk), and the religion (worship) will all be for Allāh (in the whole of the world).” [Al-Anfāl: 39]
So anyone who opposes this aim, or stands in the way of this goal – then he is an enemy of ours, and a target of our swords, regardless of what his name or lineage is.
Verily, we have a Dīn which Allāh has sent down as a Scale and Judge. Its statement is decisive, and its verdict is not a joke.
This is the relationship which we have with mankind. Thus, our standards - and praise is to Allāh - are Heavenly, and our verdicts are Qur’ānic, and our decisions are based upon the Prophetic Law. The American Muslim is our brother, beloved; and the Arab apostate is our enemy, despised – even if he and we came out of the same womb.”
- The Commander of Tanthīm Al-Qā’idah Fī Bilād Ar-Rāfidayn, Shaykh Abū Mus’ab Az-Zarqāwī, may Allāh have mercy upon him. Taken from the video,“And the Dīn Will Be Entirely for Allāh”; time span 27:58-29:13.
Zakir Naik recently gave a lecture in the Maldives entitled “Jihad and Terrorism – an Islamic Perspective”. The reality however is that this lecture did not present the Islamic perspective, but rather Naik’s own misguided and distorted view of Jihad and terrorism. Sadly many people are taken in by Naik and believe what he said to be the truth, despite this not being supported by the Quran, Sunnah and the opinion of the Ulaama.
In this article I will briefly touch on some of the issues he spoke about and how they contradict what Islam actually says and also how he uses distorted logic to push his illogical positions.I would urge the Muslims to go to the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah to gain knowledge of the religion, rather than taking it from those who are not ulaama and who speak the opposite of what the scholars say, and most importantly refer every point made by anyone back to the Quran and Sunnah and only accept it if it is in agreement with the revelation.
While opposing much of what Zakir Naik promotes, I do recognise the massive achievements he has made in the field of dawah to non Muslims and I do not in any way seek to detract from that. Falsehood however must be opposed with the truth.
“9/11 was an inside job”
It was claimed by Zakir Naik that the Washington and Manhattan raids of September 11 where in fact done by the US Government and could not possibly have been done by the Mujahideen. This is a claim which many of us have heard before, but it usually comes from conspiracy theorists and not someone as well known and respected as Dr Naik.
When one examines his reasoning behind this belief then there is really no basis for it whatsoever, especially as Muslims. He claimed that something like 70 US scientists said that it was an inside job, a statement which may well be true and for some reason seemed to convince many. But this fact which was used as a “proof” is in fact a refutation of the argument he puts forward. In all there are about 480000 scientists in the United States, so saying that 70, 700 or even 7000 believe something is certainly not a proof of anything but rather a proof that they hold is a fringe belief. Also if we are to judge the truth of something based on what US scientists believe then we would have to conclude that Islam is wrong and that Darwins theory of Evolution is correct.
But more importantly than this, the Mujahideen claimed responsibility for this attack on numerous occasions and we have seen the martyrdom videos of many of the lions who carried out the blessed raids. So as Muslims we are obliged to believe our brothers in the Mujahideen rather than to believe the conspiracies of the kuffar. Allah says in the Quran:
O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done. Surah Al Hujurat 49:6
So how can we as Muslims justify believing the kuffar over the righteous Muslims who have sacrificed their lives and their wealth to make the religion of Allah supreme?
Finally in relation to these raids, it was claimed that the Mujahideen would be unable to carry out such attacks. Do those who make such claims not understand that Allah is on the side of the Mujahideen and that He is القادر The All Powerful.
And Allah repelled those who disbelieved, in their rage, not having obtained any good. And sufficient was Allah for the believers in battle, and ever is Allah Powerful and Exalted in Might.
Surah Al Ahzab 33:25
“The best jihad today is dawah”
We do not doubt the important role that dawah has in Islam and indeed we respect the dawah that Zakir Naik has given to non Muslims, May Allah Reward him for it. However his claim that dawah is the best jihad today is not only something which contradicts what the Ulaama say, but a claim which goes against the Quran itself.
Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward
Surah An Nisa 4:95
So we can see clearly that Allah tells us that those who stay at home (which includes those who do dawah) are not equal to those who go out and fight in the path of Allah, yet Zakir Naik tells us the opposite saying that in fact dawah is the greatest jihad, despite Allah making it clear that fighting is.
When asked what is the greatest Jihad, Sheikh Bin Baz (RA) gave the following answer:
There are different kinds of Jihad – with one’s self, wealth, supplication, teaching, giving guidance, or helping others in good in any form. The highest form of Jihad, however, is with one’s life; then comes Jihad with one’s wealth and Jihad with teaching and guidance, and in this way Da’wah is a form of Jihad, but Jihad with one’s life is the highest form.
Fatawa Islamiyah Vol.8, p.24, DARUSSALAM
So what should be clear to anyone is that what Zakir Naik and those of similar beliefs are promoting is in direct contradiction to what the ulaama say and what the Quran says.
“No Jihad without a Khaleefah”
During the question and answers session following the lecture,a brave sister made clear the real meaning of Jihad (see video above) and that it is wajib upon the ummah. She also pointed out the terrors being faced by our brothers and sisters in lands such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Zakir Naiks reply to this sister was not only incorrect, but arrogant and rude and he even said that he would buy her a ticket to Abu Gharib herself if she wanted to go. Is this the methodology that a Muslim should take in addressing a noble sister (May Allah reward her for speaking the truth)?
In his answer he again claimed that the best Jihad today was the media, despite this being the opposite of what the Quran says, as I have shown and he went on to slander the mujahideen by saying the majority of them bomb markets and this is nothing but a lie and slander upon our brothers on the front lines.
In his justification for his saying that we should not try to physically fight the Crusader invaders, Dr Naik claimed that there is no Jihad today as there is no Khaleefah, thus exposing his complete lack of understanding of the fiqh of Jihad.
The reality is that when a Muslim land is invaded then jihad becomes fard ayn and a Khaleefah is not one of the requirements for this. The requirement for a khaleefah is for offensive Jihad only and not the defensive Jihad which is occurring throughout the world today. This is an issue on which there is ijma (consensus) amongst the Ulaama and something which should be known to even the most uneducated of Muslims.
Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Kattani said:
“Fuqaha and ulama said: If enemy attacks a muslim country or gathers it’s army to the border in order to enter into a muslim country, then Jihad becomes fardul-ayn upon its inhabitants and leader. It’s obligatory upon every old and young, every free man and slave and even upon women it they have strenght to combat. And fighting against the enemy should not be stop for consultation with imam or for a permission from Imam, especially if imam is far away from them.” an-Nasiha, p: 77
And this is the position of all the Ulaama and something on which we could give books of rulings upon.
So in conclusion I would again appeal to the Muslims to not rely upon people such as Zakir Naik to gain their religion from, but rather go to the Scholars and read what they have to say, especially the classical scholars. Most importantly refer everything back to the Quran and Sunnah.
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