incites wars in the name of Islam and that encourages killing and
bloodshed leads some Christians and Jews to form an incorrect opinion
regarding Islam.They imagine that the BIGOTED mindset that emerges in
the name of Islam is true Islam. They do not know that this
bloodthirsty system has nothing to do with the real Islam and is even
a lifestyle diametrically opposed to it.
Some people imagine that various types who appear to be Muslims but
who carry out actions that have no place in Islam and live within a
mindset that totally conflicts with the spirit of the Qur'an are
genuine representatives of Islam. As a result of that erroneous
opinion, some of our Christian brothers in particular strongly oppose
Islam and Muslims, regard them as a grave threat and prepare to fight
against them. They attempt to equate the bloodthirstiness,
enmity,cruelty, lovelessness, ruthlessness, lack of conscience and
lack of affection they see in such people with the Qur'an. The fact
is, however, that those who espouse a bloodthirsty system havenothing
to do with true Islam. They do that out of a nonsensical faith they
invent out of their own ignorance. Otherwise, there is no such mindset
in the Qur'an. Our Lord describes people with a mindset that espouses
bigotry, seeks to mix religion with nonsense and make it impossible to
live by and to deceive people in the name of Allah as follows in the
Qur'an:
Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so that
you think it is from the Book when it is not from the Book. They say,
'It is from Allah,' but it is not from Allah. They tell a lie against
Allah and they know it. (Surah Al 'Imran, 78)
True Islam is the Islam revealed by Allah in the Qur'an and manifested
by our Prophet (saas). In other words, Muslims have a responsibility
to live by the Qur'an and the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas), not by the
nonsense and invented interpretationsof bigots. Their measure must be
the Qur'an and the Sunnah, not nonsense. True Islam is the Islam of
the Age of Felicity, in which people follow the Qur'an and the life of
our Prophet (saas). The affectionate and loving, protective and noble
life of our Prophet (saas), who attached great value to art, beauty,
cleanliness and kindness is the most perfect role-model for Muslims.
In the same way that examples not from the life of our Prophet (saas)
are not esteemed by Muslims, so non-Muslims must not think of Islam in
terms ofthe dark lifestyles of certain bigots.
On this subject, our Christian brothers need to bear in mind the
following statements:
The bigoted mindset is as hostile toward Muslims as it is toward
Christians and Jews
This sinister mindset people try to ascribe to Islam is BIGOTRY, not
realIslam at all. The bigot claims to act in the nameof Islam. But he
is loveless, with a dark soul, fanatical and without understanding. He
is the enemy of all beauty, art and science. He is even the inimical
tolife itself; and to joy and happiness.
The bigot regards all kinds of beauty with hatred. He hates
flowers,and children, and cats, and dogs and rabbits. His spirit and
soul are empty. As revealed in one verse of the Qur'an, such people
are, "like propped-up planks of wood" (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4). There
is nothing even resembling love in their souls. They attach no value
to human beings and no importance to any living thing. There isno room
for consideration, love or compassion in their hearts.
As a result of all this, the bigot also hates women. One of the main
featuresof bigots is their enmity toward womankind. Treating woman as
third-class citizens is a fundamental characteristic of the bigot.
Communists, Darwinists and those who to date have regarded Islam with
a hostile eye have made verbal assaults against Islam, accusing it of
a supposed hatred of women. But this enmity toward women that
theyoppose is a characteristic of fanatical and backward bigots, not
of Islam, which attaches the greatest value to womenand praises and
protects them. (You can find more information about the importance
attachedto women in the Qur'an from here .)
In the same way that thebigot loves nobody, so nobody loves him.
Everyone detests the presence, logic, lifestyle and way of thinking of
the bigot. Even bigots detest bigots. That is why there is constant
division and rancor among them. They can never live in peace and
happiness together. Liketheir souls, their lives arein utter darkness.
The bigot may be found in all faiths and sections of society. There
are people in Christian and Jewish communities, as well, not just
among Muslims, who seek to turn religion away from its true essence,
and to inflict a dark and bloodthirsty state of mind instead of the
joy and love bestowed by faith in Allah. What we are discussing here
is people who try to infiltrate themselves among Muslims. But the fact
is that the bigot represents a polluted and perverse idea, no matter
from what faith or section of society he comes from.
As a result of this frightening state of mind, the bigot desires
bloodshed. He wants bloodshed everywhere. He can only find peace with
blood and oppression. He can only express the hatred within him by
causing blood to be shed and speaking with hostility. These people,
who espouse bloodshed in the name of Islam, spread hatred of and
rancor toward Christians, Jews and even Muslims, and who drip hatred
and loathingfrom their lips, are very definitely NOT MUSLIMS, but
bigots under the influence of the way of the antichrist.
For these reasons, our Christian brothers must properly distinguish
between genuine Muslims and bigots, between true Islam and the bigoted
mindset. Only then will they be able to see that the lifestyle they
are opposed to is bigotry, not Islam.
Bigots are the army of the antichrist; they neither apply the
Qur'an,nor let others apply it.
Backwardness, fanaticism and bigotry ISTHE GREATEST ARMY OF THE
ANTICHRIST OPPOSED TO ISLAM. Our Prophet Muhammad (saas) reveals this
in a hadith:
"Seventy thousand scholars from my community, all wearing turbans,
will follow the dajjal [antichrist]." (Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Musnad,
p. 796)
In referring to the people who will follow the antichrist in the
hadith, our Prophet (saas) speaks in particular of THOSE WHO EMERGE
FROM WITHIN THE UMMAH (COMMUNITY) OF ISLAM AND REGARD THEMSELVES AS
SCHOLARS.Through this hadith, our Prophet (saas) indicates that it is
bigots who are the main group who, as supporters of the antichrist,
will act against all the friends of Allah and do the worst damage to
religion.
In another hadith our Prophet (saas) says:
"People will spring up inthe End Times: but their brains will not
function. They will speak fine words when they. The will read the
Qur'an, but their faith will go no further than their throats..."
(Buhari, 3611, 5057, 6930, Muslim, 1066, Abu Dawud 4767, Ahmed ibn
Hanbal, Musnad 1, 81, 113, 131, 289; Al-Tayalisi, al-Musnad, no.
1984.)
As set out in the hadith, these people will speak very finely and read
the Qur'an; but 'their faith will go no further than their throats.'
In other words, they will not basethemselves on the Qur'an. These
people willspeak of the Qur'an but will not be devoted to it and will
rule by mixing nonsense up with it. They will regard the provisions of
the Qur'an as inadequate and will implement a faith they invent
themselves under the name of Islam. There, a significant proportion of
the army of the antichrist will emerge from every religion, and they
will constitute bigots who seek to damage their own faiths and the
world.
Bigots' aim is to stop people applying the Qur'an. In adding things to
Islam that have nothing to do with it, they reject those parts ofthe
Qur'an that are incompatible with their own foolish ideas. For them,
it is a cause for tremendous rage the way that the Qur'an recommends
love, peace, affection, brotherhood and unity and encourages beauty,
art and science. The quality and depth of soulresulting from living by
the moral values of the Qur'an, a Muslim model that is rational,
esthetic, modern and full of love, is incompatible with their own
nonsensical religions. That is why theantichrist uses bigotry and
fanaticism to strike at Islam and seek to do away with it.
This point now needs to be made clear; there may be honest people who
genuinely love Allah but who espouse ideas that actually have no place
in true Islam, either from lack of knowledge or inaccurate education.
We need to differentiatebetween these people and bigots who
deliberately try to add nonsense to religion. The former are people
who will accept the truth once they have been enlightened by
theluminosity of the Qur'an.Almighty Allah is He Who always shows His
genuine servants the true path.
The Qur'an has declared war on bigotry
THE QUR'AN HAS DECLAREDWAR ON ALL SCOURGES RESULTING FROM BIGOTRY,ON
UNHAPPINESS, OPPRESSION, LOVELESSNESS, FANATICISM, ANGER AND
BLOODSHED. The Islam based on the Qur'an IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF
BIGOTRY. Islam teaches peace, love and friendship. It encouragesunity,
the praising of thename of Allah all together, brotherhood and world
peace and security. People who ignore the verses of the Qur'an and
others who distort the verses in the light of their own foolishminds
and purport to use them as evidence and thus claim that
Islamencourages war, are making a serious error. As our Lord reveals
in verse 25 of Surah Yunus,"Allah calls to the abode of peace."
According to the Qur'an, active war is only permissible for defensive
purposes. The condition is imposed that a Muslim can only wage war in
the event of an attack, to defend his life. Our Prophet (saas) is the
person who applied this in the clearest way. All three wars fought in
the time of our Prophet (saas) were waged for defensive purposes, and
forgiveness was always advised. During the Battle of the Trench, for
example, our Prophet (saas) had a rampart erected to protect Muslims
from attacks by the other side.
In the Qur'an, Almighty Allah makes war lawful for Muslims only under
specific circumstances:
Fight in the Way of Allah against those who fight you , but do not go
beyond the limits . Allah does not love those who go beyond the
limits. (Surat al-Baqara, 190)
But if they cease [fighting], Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(Surat al-Baqara, 192)
In order for Muslims to go to war, the other sidehas to go on the
offensive. War can neverbe resorted to in order to protect a cruel
societythat is aggressive and does not listen to reason. In such a
case, Muslims have a duty not to go to extremes; in other words, they
may only fight defensively. Moreover, according to Islam, no harm must
befall women, children or the elderly. As our Lord reveals in verse
192of Surat al-Baqara, Muslims are also advised to stop fighting once
theother side does.
Again in the Qur'an, it is clearly stated that killingis a sin:
"...if someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for
someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he
had murdered all mankind . And if anyone gives life to another person,
it is as if he had given life to all mankind.Our Messengers came to
them with Clear Signs but even after that manyof them committed
outrages in the earth." (Surat al-Ma'ida, 32)
Those who do not call onany other god together with Allah and do not
killanyone Allah has made inviolate, except with the right to do so ,
and do not fornicate; anyonewho does that will receive an evil
punishment (Surat al-Furqan, 68)
As is clear from these verses, it is a sin in the Qur'an for a Muslim
to kill. In Surat al-Ma'ida, Allah reveals that although the envoys He
sent warned people of that sin, many of them still overstepped the
bounds. In other words, although this is set out in the Qur'an, there
are still people who find the Qur'an inadequate and go beyond proper
bounds and engage in unjust oppression and bloodshed. These peopleare
the fanatics and bigots who claim to act in the name of Islam but are
in fact under the influence of the way of the antichrist.
Declaring war on Islam isnot how to get rid of bigotry
Those who ascribe bigotry to Islam in an ill-informed manner andseek
to eliminate that bigoted system generallyfall into the error of
adopting a hostile attitude toward Islam. Deliberate efforts have been
made to spread theperspective toward Islam in question, especially by
the atheist and Darwinist press, intellectual organizations and
influential circles. These circles deliberately misrepresent Islam,
engaging in incitement using conditioning techniques such as saying,
"This is what Muslims are like, they will not let you live, so you had
better annihilate them before they annihilate you." They have been
charged with doing this by various sinister forces. Under the
influence of that conditioning, some Christians maintain that the
Qur'an and Islam have to be eradicated if the oppressive and unjust
system created bybigotry is to be done away with (Surely Islam and the
Qur'an are beyond that). But this policy, a violation of reason and
good conscience, merely leads to the feeding of bigotryand
backwardness, contrary to expectations.Attacks on the Qur'an and true
Islam further strengthen the bigoted system that espouses bloodshed
and violence and desires lovelessness. This means being angered by the
bigot but declaring war on Allah (Surely Allah is beyond that) and is
an exceedingly foolish way of behaving. The way to eliminate bigots
and the bloodthirsty system espoused by them is to emphasize the
Qur'an and true Islam and bringabout the Islamic Age of Felicity.
Muslims living joyful, outward-looking lives based on love, affection,
friendship andbrotherhood and sharing a mindset that espouses
democracy andfreedom and is modern and progressive will burn bigots to
dust. Therefore, our Christian brothers must support true Muslims
against the bigoted mindset that is inimical to both Muslims and to
Christians and Jews; they must encourage people to liveby true Islamic
moral values.
Combating bigotry is a religious observance for Muslims. Because
opposing hypocrisy is one of the commandments of the Qur'an. 'Bigot'
is anotherway of describing the 'hypocrites' referred to in the
Qur'an. Almighty Allah refers to hypocrites, and unbelievers and those
with sickness in their hearts, and they all ascribe equals to Him.
They are the enemies of the Age of Felicity, THEY DECLARE WAR ON THE
QUR'AN IN THE NAME OF THE QUR'AN. The perverseway of thinking that is
loveless, devoid of compassion, uncultured and ill-educated, that
dislikes art and science, that does not think deeply and seeks to make
religion something complicated, a matter of showing-off, and that
develops a religion constantly equated with prohibitions and
inventions is 'backwardness,' in other words 'polytheism.' THE BIGOTED
SYSTEM DEVELOPED IN TOTAL OPPOSITION TO THE QUR'AN, THAT REGARDS THE
QUR'AN AS INADEQUATE AND APPLIES THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE
COMMANDMENTS IN THE QUR'AN IS A PERVERSE SYSTEM THAT NEEDS TO BE
CRUSHED BY MUSLIMS. For that reason, the most effective intellectual
campaign against it comes from the Muslims of the Qur'an, in other
words, from us.
The solution to bigotry comes from espousing the Islam of the Age of
Felicity and the true moral values of the Qur'an. Hazrat Mahdi
(as)will do that in our day. For that reason, it is most important
that the way of the Mahdi be supported. The way of the Mahdi contains
love, peace, brotherhood, security, peace and friendship. It contains
joy, happiness, art and beauty. It means freedom, liberty and
democracy. It is modern and progressive. It is terribly dangerous to
support the bigoted system that represents a scourge on the whole
world by attacking true Islam. The bigoted system that constitutes a
threat to the three great faiths will come to an end only when the
Qur'an is fully applied and the way of the Mahdi (as) is strengthened
and supported. The Islam of the Qur'an will leave neither shamanists,
nor atheists, nor satanists nor Darwinists behind. This is the sole
and definitive solution.
Christians and Jews will also be at peace when people live by true
Islamic moral values
It is very important for our Christian and Jewish brothers to
interpret what we have described in reference to such concepts as
love, peace, democracy, liberty, happiness and modernity as a
"well-intentioned analysis." These are not our personal opinions. THEY
ARE FOUNDED IN THE QUR'AN. They are in agreement with the spirit of
the Qur'an, all the examples we see in the Prophet Muhammed (saas) and
the approval of Allah, the Rahman andRahim. That is how the Qur'an was
implementedin the time of our Prophet (saas). Bloodshed exists only in
the nonsensical ideas of the bigots. Bigots controlled by the
antichrist have depicted bloodshed as true Islam, misleading vast
masses of people, and have sought to spread it across the world.
It is essential that our Christian brothers shouldsee the true Qur'an
and its great message. The Qur'an is a ray of light for anyone looking
at it with good conscience. Everything that makes people happy and
enlightens the world is in the Qur'an. Living by the Qur'an as people
did in the Age of Felicity will bring total well-being and beauty to
the world.For Muslims to apply the Qur'an in that way will be a source
of peace, happiness and clam for Christians and Jews, as well. The
young people that emerge as a result will enjoy exceedingly happy
lives. The joy that is part of human nature but that has vanished
under the influence of the system of the antichrist will return to
society. Art will develop, and artists making real art will appear.
The architecture that disappeared under the influence of the system of
the antichrist will be restored to life. Because security, peace,
happiness, friendship, brotherhood and, most important of all, love of
Allah will spread widely. When love comes, art will come to
everything, too, and beauty, joy, happiness and science. The
perspective of the Islam of the Qur'an is founded upon affection,
compassion, love, reason, consistency, behaving in a balanced way,
thinking logically, looking at events in a positive manner,
makingsacrifices and seeing the best in everything. A world in which
people apply Islam in that way will thus be one of extraordinary
beauty forChristians and Muslims, too.
What Christians must oppose and wage an intellectual campaign against
is bigotry, Darwinism and materialism, the foe of all three faiths.
What they must support and espouse is people living by Islam as set
out in the Qur'an and the way of the Mahdi that will bringthat about
in our day. When they support that, bigotry, fanaticism, backwardness,
Darwinism and materialism will disappear, an air of festive rejoicing
will enfold the world and everything and everywhere will be
enlightened. When they support that, the corruption of bigotry will
enjoy no success whatsoever. Churches and synagogues are under the
protection of Almighty Allah, as revealed in verses of the Qur'an. Our
Christian andJewish brothers will worship as they please and attain
the ease and beauty they desire. Muslims will live in a state of love
and brotherhood with Christians and Muslims, wars will come to an
endand the world will become a place of well-being, peace and
