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In the name of All\u0101h,
\n<\/span>the Beneficent, the Merciful.
\n<\/span>Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.
\n<\/span>DEDICATED TO
\n<\/span>All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,
\n<\/span>Lord of the worlds
\n<\/span>AND TO
\n<\/span>Mohammad\u2013who brought the world
\n<\/span>to our feet and eternity to our arms.
\n<\/span>*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ISLAM ALLOWS TORTURE
\n<\/span>Contrary to views expressed on the Internet<\/i>, Islam does not sanction torture. There is no torture in Islam. The punishments in Islam are not torture. They are retribution for transgressing the law. Transgressors are aware of the consequences for violation. If they are brazen enough to transgress then the punishment they receive was shapened by their own hearts and heads and hands. In fact, it may be submitted that one who deliberately transgresses the law wants to be punished. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 People have their limbs amputated for one reason or another to preserve the well-being of their other parts; is this torture? Likewise to preserve the moral and social health of society incorrigible offenders are to be punished; and given a punishment that serves as a deterrent as well as a warning to other would-be violators. As All\u0101h tells us in His Qur\u2019an, there is security in retaliation: \u201cAnd there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves\u201d<\/span>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:179). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Interestingly, while Islam is criticized for practicing capital punishment, Malik Ghulam Farid points out that \u201cEven the most enthusiastic protagonists of the abolition of Capital Punishment have not yet been able to suggest a suitable alternative to it. They have had to admit that a long term of imprisonment as an alternative is \u201chorrible\u201d and \u201cis not an ideal substitute.\u201d (Capital Punishment in the Twentieth Century by E. Roy Calvert, G.P. Putnam, London, 1930).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 While Islam requires that murderers be permanently removed from society so that society may be safe, it requires that other criminals be punished only to the degree of the crime and that in some cases it is better to forgive: \u201c<\/span>And the recompense of evil is punishment like it; but whoever forgives and amends, his reward is with All\u0101h. Surely He loves not the wrongdoers\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 42:40). <\/span>To which Muhammad Ali comments: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA golden rule relating to forgiveness of evil is given here. The rule laid down is that evil must be requited by punishment proportionate thereto. Note that punishment which is meted out for an evil is called a sayyi\u2018ah <\/i>or an evil<\/i>, because the Arabs speak of the requital of an evil in terms of that evil; see 2:15a<\/i>. Also note that the punishment must be proportionate to the evil. A very just and necessary restriction. And this beautiful maxim is given by a man whose people were in the habit of slaughtering whole tribes for the most trifling fault of one member. Again, forgiveness is not neglected, nor preached in such a manner as to make it impracticable. There is in Islam neither the one extreme of tooth for tooth <\/i>or the opposite one of turning the left cheek when the right is smitten <\/i>or giving away the cloak to one who has already wrongfully taken the coat <\/i>of his brother; it is the golden and beautiful mean that forgiveness may be exercised, if forgiveness will mend the matter and do good to the wrongdoer himself. The object to be kept in view is to amend<\/i>, whether it is attained by giving proportionate punishment or by exercising forgiveness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If it is better for a man to dismember his \u201coffensive\u201d limb (as Christ says\u2013Matt. 18:8) to preserve the health of his other parts, how much more appropriate it is that the cancer of society be excised to maintain the moral and social health of society. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What individual is there who would not amputate a limb of his body that is afflicted with cancer so as to prevent the cancer from infecting his or her entire body? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What law-abiding citizens, men and women are there, toiling honestly and tiringly for their livelihood would take kindly to thieves to come and plunder their belongings; how many such men and women are there who, after a day of toiling, would prefer to keep vigil at night against thieves, in sympathy for them, to spare their hands from being chopped off? <\/span><\/p>\n

What honest person is there who would not like to sleep with windows open on sweltering summer nights, without having to fear about thieves and robbers coming into their homes?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It would seem to be \u201ctorture\u201d to have victims and\/or their family circles live with the mental torture of fear, dreading if or when the murderer, rapist, or thief might return to plague them. And even to commit crimes against others, and even worse crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 While it may be argued that a transgressor who inflicts pain on anyone, even on one who retaliates against him, to glean information is torture; a victim of aggression who inflicts pain on the transgressor to glean information to ensure his safety is not torture but self-preservation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The transgressor has no \u201cright\u201d to retaliation; and is open subject to whatever action(s) his intended victim should deem necessary to secure his welfare. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If one would give to others the right(s) he exacts for himself there will be no transgression and no retaliation and no need to torture. Islam teaches that the exacting of one\u2019s right(s) is diametrically equal to the instituting of the right(s) of others. And to give to others the right(s) one exacts for himself is the intelligent and the civilized and the democratic approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h, the God Who created out of love; has decreed mercy onto us; sent Messengers to guide us; requites evil with its like and rewards good up to seven-hundred-fold; and implores us in loving, compassionate terms to forgive us our sins as He instructed the Prophet Mohammad to convey to us:\u201cSay, O My servants who have sinned against their souls, despair not of the mercy of All\u0101h; surely All\u0101h forgives all sins. Verily, He is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 39:53); <\/span>could not be the God that \u201ctortures.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The site TheReligionofPeace.com Home Page<\/span><\/a> notes that in the Qur\u2019an there is torture in this world and torture in the next world:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (1) The critic: <\/i>\u201cTorture in this<\/span> world:<\/strong> Qur’an (5:33)<\/a><\/span> – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides<\/strong>…”<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong> The varying degree of punishment depends on the crime committed. If mischief-makers are not dealt with severely, which should serve as a deterrent to others, then society would be at the mercy of marauders. (There are places where people live in gated communities to be safe from criminals: honest people suffer imprisonment while criminals roam free). However, while the above verse requires harsh punishment, the next verse (Qur\u2019an 5:34) holds out the hand of mercy to the \u201cmischief-makers\u201d who repent before they are apprehended.Here are the two verses together: \u201c<\/span>The only punishment of those who wage war against All\u0101h and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>is that they should be murdered, or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>This shall be a disgrace for them in this world, and in the Hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement. Except those who repent before you overpower them;<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/i>so know that All\u0101h is Forgiving, Merciful.\u201d<\/span>Such is the magnitude and the magnificence of the mercy of All\u0101h\/Islam.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Notably. The Bible \u2013Judaism and Christianity\u2013 also requires dismemberment, and for the simple act of a woman trying to save her husband: \u201cWhen men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets (genitals): Then thou shalt cut off her hand<\/i>, thine eye shall not pity her<\/i>\u201d<\/strong>\u2013(Deut. 25:11-12). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Interestingly, regarding the \u201cFlame virus\u201d which was let loose on computers in 2012 it is stated that \u201cThe U.S. explicitly stated for the first time last year that it reserved the right to retaliate with force against a cyber attack\u201d\u2013(Toronto Star<\/i>, Wednesday, May 30, 2012; Data-stealing virus puts UN on alert<\/i>, p. A 13). If this means that the US does not, and\/or will not, send virus on others and\/or is not complicit in other(s) doing so, and gives other nations the same right of retaliation, then this is commendable of the US. If not, it is arrogance and bullying. While such a state-sponsored crime would be difficult to retaliate against without killing perhaps thousands of innocents; in the case of individual-committed crime it would be more prudent, to have an International treaty whereby such an individual have his hand cut-off. And if it is acceptable to even kill for such a crime as sending viruses, where is the difficulty in cutting off the hand of the hacker(s) who is not only a nuisance but can cause people loss of money and even their jobs\/businesses?). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (2) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cQur’an (8:12)<\/a><\/span> – “Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them<\/strong>.”<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Response:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>If you smite those who transgress against you at the necks they will never return to fight you. And if you smite them at the fingertips they will not be able to take up arms against you again. So where will you smite those who (and without justification) come to kill you? Perhaps you will let them slaughter you (and family).
\nIsn\u2019t this what America and Allies have done\/are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen? Though the Talibans and Yemenites (and the innocents killed along with them) did not take up arms to \u201csmite\u201d America and Allies, and neither did Saddam Hussein. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Christian\u2019s God (\u201cJesus\u201d) not only gave orders to \u201cStrike off their heads\u201d but also to \u201ccut off \u201c \u201cfingers and toes\u201d: (The Israelites asked who would go up and fight): \u201cAnd the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand\u2026and they slew of them in Bezek <\/span>TEN THOUSAND MEN <\/span>\u2026and they pursued after him (Adonibezek), and caught him and cut off his <\/span>THUMBS<\/span> and his <\/span>GREAT TOES<\/span>. And Adonibezek said, <\/span>THREE SCORE AND TEN<\/span> kings, having their <\/span>THUMBS<\/span> and their <\/span>GREAT TOES CUT OFF<\/span>\u2026\u201d\u2013(Judges 1:1-7). <\/span>This is more blood and gore than all the battles fought by the Prophet Mohammad. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (3) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cQur’an (48:29)<\/a> <\/span>– “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong> (Were the disbelievers not \u201chard against\u201d Mohammad and Muslims and \u201cmerciful among themselves\u201d?)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Muhammad Ali explains: \u201cAshidda\u2019 <\/i>is plural of shadid<\/i>, which means firm, strong, powerful, <\/i>as well as brave, firm of heart <\/i>(LA, Q, LL). Shiddat<\/i>, the root word, also signifies fi<\/i>rmness of heart <\/i>(T). The translation fi<\/i>erce<\/i>,<\/i> or vehement<\/i>, adopted in English translations, is not correct here. The Muslims stood firm against the disbelievers but they were never fierce or hard in their treatment towards them.\u201d<\/span> (Muhammad Ali\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an, highly recommended, can be viewed\/downloaded online: <\/span>www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>All\u0101h instructs the Prophet Mohammad in His Qur\u2019an 9:6:\u201cAnd if anyone of the idolaters seek thy protection, protect him till he hears the word of Allah, then convey him to his place of safety. This is because they are a people who know not.\u201d<\/span> To which Muhammad Ali comments: \u201cThis verse leaves no doubt that the Prophet was never ordered to kill anyone on account of his religion. \u201cYou shall give him a safe conduct that he may return home again securely in case he shall not think fit to embrace Muhammadanism\u201d (Sale).\u201d Clearly, it is not \u201chard\u201dness to protect and teach the idolater and return him home safely; it is \u201cmercy.\u201d Again, All\u0101h instructs the Prophet in Qur\u2019an 39:53: to convey to us: \u201cSay, O My servants who have sinned against their souls, despair not of the mercy of All\u0101h; surely All\u0101h forgives all sins. Verily, He is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful\u201d <\/span>(notably, believers as well as disbelievers are servants of Allah). It is not \u201chard\u201dness to implore sinners to forgiveness of all of their sins, and moreover to implore sinners in loving, compassionate terms; it is \u201cmercy.\u201d In fact, it is not only \u201cmercy\u201d but also love. (All\u0101h loves us. All\u0101h wants to guide us. All\u0101h wants us to be pure. All\u0101h wants us to have a life in Paradise).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Verses of the Qur\u2019an are to be taken in their perspective. Like other prophets who were a mercy to their people, the Prophet Mohammad was a mercy to his people, Arabs \u2013who were the last people to receive a prophet\u2013 as well as a mercy to the entire world\u2013(Qur\u2019an 29:46; 32:3; 36:6; 7:158; 21:107; 34:28). Part of the Prophet\u2019s mission was to enlighten the people to the futility and degradation of idolatry and the irrationality of polytheism. (See\u00a0<\/span>Polytheism and Monotheism<\/a><\/span>). <\/span>The Prophet\u2019s mission was only to preach the Divine Message\u2013(Qur\u2019an 3:20; 10:99; 64:12); the people were free to accept or reject this Message\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:256; 6:107; 9:6; 10:99-100; 17:7; 18:6, 29; 42:15; 50:45; 76:3; 109:1-6). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Arabs not only rejected the Divine Message, they perse-cuted Mohammad, besieged him, tried to assassinate him, forced him into exile, pursued him, and made war on him. Thus, they became \u201chard\u201d on Mohammad. In consequence, the Believers became \u201chard\u201d against the \u201cdisbelievers\u201d because the disbeliev-ers were \u201chard\u201der against the Believers \u2013they are the ones who first took up the sword, and without justification, to annihilate the Believers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What would you do if someone comes to kill you, would you let him kill you, or be \u201chard\u201d against him? Are you not \u201cmerciful\u201d to your brothers\/family and \u201chard\u201d on your enemies? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Notably, Muslims were \u201chard\u201d only against those who wanted to annihilate them. All\u0101h requires Muslims to not even let hatred cause us to transgress; and for us to give justice even if it is against our own selves:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -\u201c<\/span>And let not hatred of a people \u2014 because they hindered you from the Sacred Mosque \u2014 incite you to transgress. And help one another in righteousness and piety, and help not one another in sin and aggression,<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>and keep your duty to All\u0101h. Surely All\u0101h is Severe in requiting (evil)\u201d (Qur\u2019an 5:3) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -\u201cO you who believe, be upright for All\u0101h, bearers of witness with justice; and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably. Be just; that is nearer to observance of duty. And keep your duty to All\u0101h. Surely All\u0101h is Aware of what you do\u201d (5:8)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -\u201cO you who believe, be maintainers of justice, bearers of witness for All\u0101h, even though it be against your own selves or (your) parents or near relatives \u2014 whether he be rich or poor, All\u0101h has a better right over them both.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>So follow not (your) low desires, lest you deviate. And if you distort or turn away from (truth), surely All\u0101h is ever Aware of what you do\u201d\u2013(4:135).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That Mohammad was \u201chard\u201d on the disbelievers only in repelling their wars and was \u201cnever fierce or hard\u201d in his treat-ment of them is evidenced from the fact that he prayed for his dead enemy, saying: \u201cif I knew that if I asked forgiveness for him more than seventy times, he would be forgiven, I would ask it for more times than that\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:84, 113. Bokhari Vol. 6, #193, 194). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And upon his triumph at Makkah he forgave his rabid enemies of twenty-three grueling years: \u201cIt is related that the Prophet took hold of the two sides of the gate of the Ka’ba on the day of the conquest of Makkah and said to the Quraish: How do you think I should treat you? They said: We hope for good, a noble brother and the son of a noble brother. Then he said: I say as my brother Joseph said: \u201cNo reproof be against you this day\u201d<\/span> (Rz)\u201d No inquisition. No incrimination. No confession. No rancor. Only lofty words of benevolence and nobility<\/span> -“No reproof be against you this day”! <\/i>Such was the expanse of the mercy and benevolence of this wonderful man, Mohammad. (See Qur\u2019an 12:92 for this saying of the prophet Joseph. Quote taken from Muhammad Ali). <\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad even forgave the horrid Hind. The woman who is said to have cut open the body of his uncle, Hamza, as he lay dying on the battlefield and ripped out his liver and chewed it.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(That four persons were executed upon the Prophet\u2019s triumph at Makkah compared to the thousands that were forgiven is hardly any blot on Mohammad\u2019s mercy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of these four individuals, as M.H. Haykal notes in his The Life of Muhammad<\/i>, p; 411, two were Muslims guilty of murder before apostatizing; al Huwayrith for tempting the Prophet\u2019s daughter, Zaynab; and a slave woman of Ibn Khatal for castigating the Prophet in song [which castigating may have inspired or encouraged others to militate against the Prophet]. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you believe that this slave woman should not have been executed; even in modern times people are imprisoned for way less than incitement; just ask world-famous peace activist Jaggie Singh, and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and his late brother-in-cause Steve Biko; as well as those Muslims jailed or held under detention under mere suspicion or without any kind of charge. <\/span><\/p>\n

And these Twentieth-century jailers crown themselves as \u201ccivilized\u201d and \u201cdemocratic.\u201d Imagine then the punishment[s] that would have been meted out to peace-activists and freedom-fighters if they had castigated or incited against their leaders, as was done against Mohammad. <\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, Palestinian author and writer, whose lands were stolen, have been assassinated by their occupiers merely for writing about the injustice committed against them. <\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, America is travelling thousands of miles to Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan to kill \u201cenemies\u201d and even those who incite \u201cterrorism\u201d against her [compared to Mohammad whose enemies were on his own soil]; China sent combat tanks against demonstrators at Tiananmen Square; in 1992 demonstrators in Los Angeles were \u201cbeaten\u201d just for protesting the building of a roadway; and people can be charged\/jailed merely for uttering death threats. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever measures Mohammad took to secure the welfare of himself and followers Mohammad was fully justified. The critics of Mohammad would do the same and perhaps even more). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Strikingly, God and the Biblical prophets were also \u201chard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Biblical God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, Jesus) was \u201chard\u201d on Pharaoh and his entourage and \u201cmerciful\u201d to the Israelites. (God was also \u201chard on the Israelites, and even onto the innocent<\/i> fourth generation<\/span>, when they became rebellious and provocative against Him \u2013much as the idolatrous Arabs became rebellious and provocative against Him through Mohammad\u2013<\/span> having them wander in the wilderness for forty years till their carcasses were wasted\u2013(Num. 14:1-35).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Biblical God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, Jesus) was \u201chard\u201d on more than three dozen mischievous children, sending bears to tear them: \u201cAnd he (Elisha) went up from thence to Bethel\u2026there came forth <\/span>LITTLE<\/span>CHILDREN<\/span>\u2026and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up thou <\/span>BALD HEAD<\/span>\u2026And he (Elisha) turned back, and looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth <\/span>TWO SHE BEARS<\/span> out of the wood, and <\/span>TARE FORTY AND TWO CHILDREN <\/span>of them\u201d\u2013(2 Kings 2:22-24).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Biblical God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, Jesus) was \u201chard\u201d on Jeshurun and his children for going after false gods: \u201cBut Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked\u2026They provoked him (God) to jealousy with strange gods\u2026And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he (God) said\u2026I will heap <\/span>MISCHIEFS<\/span> upon them; I will spend my <\/span>ARROWS<\/span> upon them\u2026.I will also send the <\/span>TEETH OF BEASTS<\/span> upon them, with the <\/span>POISON OF SERPENTS<\/span> of the dust. The <\/span>SWORD<\/span> without, and <\/span>TERROR<\/span> within, shall destroy both the <\/span>YOUNG MAN<\/span> and the <\/span>VIRGIN<\/span>, the <\/span>SUCKLING<\/span> also with the <\/span>MAN OF GRAY HAIRS<\/span>\u201d\u2013(Deut. 32:15-25.<\/span> This must the mother of all terrorism!).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>-The Biblical God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, Jesus) was \u201chard against the disbelievers and merciful\u201d to the Israelites; fighting for them; commanding the Israelites to do to the people whose land they were going to possess: \u201cthou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, <\/span><\/span>NOR SHEW MERCY UNTO THEM<\/span><\/span>\u201d\u2013(Deut. 7:1-2. See Josh. 12:1-6). \u201cAnd stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and <\/span><\/span>SMITE<\/span><\/span> the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the <\/span><\/span>LORD YOUR GOD<\/span><\/span> hath delivered them into your hand;\u201d \u201cAnd afterward Joshua <\/span><\/span>SMOTE <\/span><\/span>them\u201d \u201cSo Joshua <\/span><\/span>SMOTE<\/span><\/span> all the country\u2026.as the <\/span><\/span>LORD GOD<\/span><\/span> of Israel commanded….because the <\/span><\/span>LORD GOD<\/span><\/span> of Israel <\/span><\/span>FOUGHT<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>FOR ISRAEL<\/span><\/span>\u201d\u2013(Josh. 10:19, 24, 26, 40-42; 6:21. Read Josh. chs. 10-12; Num. 21:24, 35; 31:17-18; Deut. 20:16-17; 1 Sam. 15:2-3, for slaughters by Joshua, Moses, and Saul). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Biblical God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, Jesus) was \u201chard\u201d even on the infant and fetus: \u201cSamaria shall become desolate; for she hath <\/span>REBELLED<\/span> against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their <\/span>INFANTS SHALL BE DASHED IN PIECES<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>and their <\/span>WOMEN WITH CHILD SHALL BE RIPPED UP<\/span>\u201d\u2013(Hosea 13:16) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Moses and Joshua were \u201chard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves\u201d \u2013\u201chard\u201d against the some thirty \u201cites\u201d kingdoms they invaded, and against the little males and matron females and cattle that they slaughtered, as well as \u201chard\u201d on the little virgin girls the Israelites were given as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>sex slaves<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen the Lord spake unto Moses, saying\u2026And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew <\/span>ALL THE MALES<\/span>\u2026.And they brought the <\/span>CAPTIVES<\/span> and the prey and the <\/span>SPOIL<\/span> to Moses, and Eleazar\u2026 And Moses said unto them\u2026Now therefore <\/span>KILL EVERY MALE<\/span> among the <\/span>LITTLE ONES<\/span> (of the captives), and <\/span>KILL EVERY WOMAN<\/span> who hath known man by lying with him, but <\/span>ALL THE WOMEN CHILDREN<\/span>, that have not known a man by lying with him (virgin girls) <\/span>KEEP ALIVE FOR YOURSELVES<\/span>\u2026.And the Lord spake unto to Moses, saying, Take the sum of the <\/span>PREY (BOOTY)<\/span> that was taken, both of MAN and of beast, thou and Eleazar\u2026And divide the <\/span>PREY <\/span>into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation And <\/span>LEVY A TRIBUTE UNTO THE LORD<\/span>\u2026.And the <\/span>BOOTY<\/span>, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, and 61,000 asses, and of <\/span>WOMEN<\/span> that had not known man by lying with him (virgin girls), were 32,000. And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was 337,500 sheep; 36,000 cattle, 30,500 asses, and 16,000 persons (virgin girls. And of the congregation\u2019s half portion of these 16.000 virgin girls, 320 were given to the Levite priests, as \u201cthe Lord commanded Moses.\u201d And the <\/span>LORD\u2019S TRIBUTE<\/span> (of the (booty) was 675 sheep; 72 cattle; 61 donkeys; and 32 persons \u2026.the <\/span>MEN OF WAR<\/span> had taken <\/span>SPOIL (BOOTY), EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhen the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it<\/i>\u2026thou shalt <\/span><\/span>SMITE THEM<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/i><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>UTTERLY DESTROY THEM<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/i><\/span>thou shalt <\/span><\/span>MAKE NO COVENANT<\/span><\/span> with them, <\/span><\/span>NOR SHOW MERCY UNTO THEM<\/span><\/span>\u201d\u2013(Deut. 7:1-2. See Josh. 12:1-6).\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd stay ye not,<\/i> but <\/span><\/span>PURSUE AFTER YOUR ENEMIES, and SMITE THE HINDMOST OF THEM; <\/i>SUFFER THEM NOT TO ENTER INTO THEIR CITIES<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/i><\/span> for the <\/span><\/span>LORD YOUR GOD<\/span><\/span> hath delivered them into your hand;\u201d \u201cand Joshua called for all the men of Israel\u2026Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings\u2026And afterward <\/span><\/span>JOSHUA SMOTE THEM,<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>SLEW THEM<\/span><\/span>, and <\/span><\/span>HANGED THEM<\/span><\/span> on five trees.\u201d \u201cSo Joshua <\/span><\/span>SMOTE ALL THE COUNTRY<\/span><\/span> of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and <\/span><\/span>ALL THEIR KINGS<\/span><\/span>: <\/span><\/span>HE LEFT NONE<\/span><\/span> remaining, but <\/span><\/span>UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THAT BREATHED<\/span><\/span>, as the <\/span><\/span>LORD GOD<\/span><\/span> of Israel commanded…And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the <\/span><\/span>LORD GOD<\/span><\/span> of Israel fought for Israel;\u201d \u201cAnd they <\/span><\/span>UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL<\/span><\/span> that was in the city, both <\/span><\/span>MAN AND WOMAN, YOUNG AND OLD, AND OX, AND SHEEP, AND ASS<\/span><\/span>, with the <\/span><\/span>EDGE OF THE SWORD<\/span><\/span>\u201d\u2013(Joshua 10:19, 24, 26, 40-42; 6:21. Read Joshua chs. 10-12; Numbers 21:24, 35; 31:17-18; Deut. 20:16-17; 1 Sam. 15:2-3, for slaughters by Joshua, Moses, and Saul). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Notably, unlike the Arab idolaters who persecuted Mohammad, tried to assassinate him, forced him into exile, pursued him and warred against him, these little males and matrons and virgin girls and cattle did not take up arms against Moses and Joshua for Moses and Joshua to be \u201chard\u201d on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -Jesus (the Christian\u2019s son of God and even God as Christians say Jesus is God) was \u201c<\/span>hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves.\u201d Labeling non-Jews \u201cdogs\u201d and \u201cswine\u201d and preaching in parables so these \u201cdogs\u201d and \u201cswine\u201d would not understand and be saved: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -\u201cGive not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine\u201d\u2013(Matt. 7:6; 15:26); <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -And after relating the parable of the sower to the people Jesus said to them: \u201cHe that hath ears to hear, let him hear;\u201d and, afterwards, when he (Jesus) was alone with the Israelites they asked him about the meaning of the parable: \u201cAnd he said unto them, Unto you (who have God) it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them (non-Jews) that are without (God), all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and <\/span><\/span>NOT PERCEIVE<\/span><\/span>; and hearing they may hear, and <\/span><\/span>NOT UNDERSTAND; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND THEIR SINS SHOULD BE FORGIVEN THEM<\/span><\/span>\u201d\u2013(Mark 4:9-12)<\/span><\/span> \u2013the Good News<\/i> Bible put it even more clearly: \u201cYou have been given the secret of the Kingdom of God,\u201d Jesus answered. \u201cBut the others, who are on the outside, hear all things by means of parables, so that, \u2018They may look and look, yet <\/span><\/span>NOT SEE<\/span><\/span>; they may listen and listen, yet <\/span><\/span>NOT UNDERSTAND. FOR IF THEY DID, THEY WOULD TURN TO GOD, AND HE WOULD FORGIVE THEM<\/span><\/span>.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/span>In other words though the non-Jews (who may be sincere seekers of God) have the faculties of sight and hearing and can see and hear, he (Jesus) spoke in parables so that they would not understand his words \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because he did not want them to accept God and have their sins forgiven.What a ghastly horribly sickening thing to do.<\/span> As prophet, Jesus could not turn away anyone; this is why he indulged non-Jews; but he could avoid them, which he did, as is evident from his admonition to his disciples not to preach to non-Jews, and from his speaking in parables so that they would not \u00a0 understand. This statement by Jesus also proves that Jesus did <\/span><\/span>NOT<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>come to save sinners. Jesus\u2019 mission was wholly and solely to the Jews. (See\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Jesus-only for Jews<\/a><\/span>). <\/span>Please note: This is the Biblical (Christian\u2019s) Jesus For the Muslim\u2019s Jesus read the Qur\u2019an.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Jesus was \u201chard\u201d on the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum for not heeding him\u2013(<\/span>Matt, 11:20-24. And these people were not \u201chard\u201d on Jesus; they only did not believe in him).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Jesus was even \u201chard\u201d on the stubborn Jews, labeling them as \u201cserpents\u201d and \u201cvipers,\u201d \u201cevil and adulterous,\u201d and consigning them to the greater damnation of hell\u2013(<\/span>Matt. 12:34, 39; 23:33).<\/span><\/p>\n

-Jesus was \u201chard\u201d on the bird-sellers and moneychangers: booting them out of the temple\u2013(Matt. 21:12).<\/span><\/p>\n

-Jesus was also \u201chard\u201d on people who was not with him: \u201cHe that is not with me is against me\u201d;<\/span> (and a person can be neutral)\u2013(Matt. 12:30. Again, these people was\/is not \u201chard\u201d on Jesus; they only did\/do not believe in him).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Jesus was \u201chard\u201d against those against his rule, and all the way to the Resurrection, commanding that they all be slain: \u201cBut those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me\u201d <\/span>(and a person can be against Jesus\u2019 rule and yet not militate against him; and thus they would not be \u201chard\u201d against him)\u2013(Luke 19:27. Perhaps these are the verses from which the Popes took their inspiration for their murderous crusades. If these two last declarations of Jesus were to be enforced some six billion people of the world who does not accept Jesus as Divine or as vicarious atoner would have to be slaughtered. Non-Christians, and even some Christians, need to go down on their hands and knees and foreheads and thank All\u0101h God, that Jesus\/Christianity is not over them or lording any place. For a comparison between Jesus\/Christian rule and Islamic rule see \u201cAppendix\u201d). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad was\/is a \u201cmercy\u201d to the entire world\u2013(Qur\u2019an 7:158; 21:107; 34:28).
\n<\/span>\u00a0 And though Mohammad was \u201chard\u201d on the disbelievers that does not mean he was devoid of mercy for them. When the disbelievers gave up their \u201chardness\u201d against Mohammad mercy was extended to them \u2013much like parents giving \u201ctough love\u201d to a destructive child to reform him; when the child reforms his behavior he is again given \u201csoft love;\u201d the parents have both qualities of mercy and sternness; exercising either as the situation necessitates, (the Bible\/God even sanctions employing whatever methods are necessary to bring children and wife into obedience and even God scourges His sons.A <\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/span>However,as shown, the Prophet Mohammad and Muslims \u201cwere <\/span><\/span>never fierce or hard in their treatment towards\u201d the disbelievers.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad being \u201chard\u201d against the disbelievers was the direct result of the disbelievers being \u201chard\u201der on Mohammad.\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad was fully justified for being \u201chard\u201d against the disbelievers who wanted to annihilate him. No honest individual and critic would state otherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (4) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cQur’an (24:2)<\/a><\/span> – “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you<\/strong>.” \u00a0Not only is the punishment for moral crime between consenting adults to be physical torture, but believers are told to suppress their natural urge for human compassion.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Response:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>Muhammad Ali wrote:\u201cChastity, as a virtue, is not given the first place in\u00a0modern civilized society, and hence adultery is not considered a sufficiently serious offence to subject the guilty party to any punishment except the payment of damages to the injured husband. The breach of the greatest trust which can be imposed in a man or a woman, the breach which ruins families, destroys household peace, and deprives innocent children of their loving mothers, is not looked upon even as seriously as the breach of trust of a few pounds. Hence the Islamic law seems to be too severe to a Westerner.\u201d1<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Bible requires stoning to death for\u00a0<\/span>adultery<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and for fornication in the case of a virginal damsel\u2013(Lev. 20:10-12; Deut. 22:22-24; John 8:3-5. The Bible also requires death for apostasy, blasphemy, homosexuality, witchcraft, etc). Adultery is a moral crime not only between consenting adults; it has far reaching consequences in society. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Most, if not all, secular laws do nothing to those guilty of adultery (and fornication) which could not only \u201cruin families, destroys household peace,\u201d and deprives children of their need for parental togetherness, and contribute to the moral decay of society; but which could multiply sexually transmitted diseases, genital warts, gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS \u2013which may even become epidemic and even threaten chaste individuals (we\u2019ve heard of people contracting AIDS through tainted blood and infected needles), diseases which may affect the unborn who doubtlessly has the right to protection from diseases\u2013<\/span> may create unwed moms and dads; and perhaps abandoned children; traumatized individuals (traumatized by not knowing the identity of their biological parents); and which could perhaps cost millions of dollars to society to stem these diseases and to provide for pre and post-natal care for unwed mothers and children, and to provide for the welfare of these hapless children and even for unwed mothers; and if the adulterating\/fornicating couples have multiple sex-partners they may end up not knowing whose baby they are having, or who is having their baby, and if such babies are given up for adoption or abandoned then, depending on the age of these couples, a mother may end up having sex with her son, and a father with his daughter when these children are grown. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, adultery and fornication, seemingly a personal affair, can and do have far-reaching effects in society. Should fornication and adultery then not be forcibly deterred? Islam allows that such persons be disgraced and identified. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Adultery and fornication need to be forcefully deterred. And as the adulterers showed no compassion for those whose lives they have disrupted, why should compassion be shown to them in their punishment? <\/span><\/p>\n

(Recently, I came upon a television show by chance and learnt one of the fallouts of adultery. A man denied his son for twenty-three years, believing that his wife had cheated on him, resulting in the birth of the son [who was raised by his sister]. It was unsettling to listen to the son\u2019s anguish at the rejection [even though in such a situation the child is blameless]. As it turned out, DNA evidence showed that the man was the boy\u2019s father.\u00a0 I do not recall if it was stated that the mother was alive or not; but imagine her heartaches at her innocence and her son being denied love by his father.\u00a0 This father and son [and sister and mother] might have gone to their graves with bitterness and pain and hurt if there was no DNA science or if no DNA test was done). <\/span><\/p>\n

Islam is very strict where chastity of women is concerned; requiring four witness to the act; and those who bear false witnesses are to be flogged and their testimony not to be accepted again, unless they repent and act uprightly\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:4-5). This requirement provides \u201can effectual restraint against slander and gossip, which so often bring disaster upon the heads of innocent women. Unless there is the clearest evidence of adultery against a woman, the slanderer is himself to be punished.\u201d2<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 However, since Islam requires four eye-witnesses to the act it would seem almost impossible to effect this charge of adultery\/ fornication. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (5) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cTorture in the next<\/span> <\/strong>(world):<\/strong> Qur’an (22:19-22)<\/a><\/span> – “These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads.\u00a0\u00a0 Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning.” \u00a0The punishment of those who merely disbelieve in Muhammad’s claims about himself is described as being horrifically brutal in many other places as well, such as Qur’an 4:56<\/a>, which says that they will face a continuous cycle of torture in which their skin will be burned off only to be replaced by new skin. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>Contrary to popular perception, Hell is not a torture chamber of a vengeful God. The suffering in hell are from two causes (1) injustice to others<\/i>, e.g. oppression, robbery, murder, aggression (2) injustice to self<\/i>, e.g. disbelief in Allah God, joining partners with God, illicit relations even though of mutual consent, hypocrisy and evil plots. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Hell, in Islam, is a reformatory for the sinners to condition them for suitability into the higher plane of life. If earthly man in order to survive on distant planets must equip himself with specialized equipment, then similarly, man, to exist in the spiritual realm must possess certain spiritual qualities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 To live in a cold climate we need a certain kind of clothing; to live in a hot climate we need another kind of garment; space-travellers require special clothing to function in space; likewise, to live in the Hereafter \u2013the spiritual world\u2013 we need spiritual clothing. When we prepare to go to a cold or hot climate we can either take these protective garments with us, or we can acquire them when we reach these destinations. However, we already possess this spiritual garment that is needed for the Hereafter \u2013this spiritual garment is the soul. Since the Hereafter is a place of purity, we need to purify this garment\/soul. We can purify our soul in this world or we can do so when we get to the Hereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The soul is purified in this world through belief in Allah God, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage to Makkah. (Those who died before Islam and those who died without knowing about Islam and followed their respective prophets\/ Scriptures have purified their souls).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If we refuse to, or neglect to purify our soul in this world, it becomes inevitable that we must undergo the process of purifying it in the Hereafter. This cleansing process is called Hell. The suffering we go through during this purifying process in Hell is not<\/i> punishment from God. It is rather suffering resulting from the cleansing process \u2013like the pain suffered from the injection to cure rabies or from undergoing chemotherapy. It is not the specialist who inflicts the pain. The specialist only applies the remedy. The suffering is the result of the healing process. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The sins of atheism and joining partners with God are not forgiven: they must be cleansed in hell. Sins committed by an atheist or believer in God against others may or may not be forgiven, if All\u0101h, God, pleases.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (6) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cHow Allah feels about non-Muslims naturally determines the attitude of devout Muslims.\u00a0 In the Qur’an, Muhammad explicitly uses Allah’s hatred of unbelievers to motivate his people to Jihad: Qur’an (9:73)<\/a>:\u00a0 “O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey’s end.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>Are parents who are \u201charsh\u201d with recalcitrant children have \u201chatred\u201d for such children? Or are their \u201charsh\u201d methods to mold those children uprightly an act of \u201ctough love\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h created man because \u201cI loved to be known,\u201d as the Prophet Mohammad taught us; has decreed that His mercy precedes His anger; sent Messengers to guide us; requites evil with its like and rewards good up to seven-hundred-fold; and He implores us in loving compassionate terms to forgive us our sins, as He revealed to the Prophet Mohammad to convey to us:\u201cSay, O My servants who have sinned against their souls, despair not of the mercy of All\u0101h; surely All\u0101h forgives all sins. Verily, He is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 39:53). <\/span>Thus it is only foolhardiness to charge that All\u0101h has \u201chatred of unbelievers.\u201d As stated, All\u0101h loves us. All\u0101h wants to guide us. All\u0101h wants us to be pure. All\u0101h wants us to have a life in Paradise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i> Mohammad\u2019s duty was only to teach the Divine Message of the Qur\u2019an; not enforce it: \u201c<\/span>And if thy Lord had pleased, all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them. Wilt thou then force men till they are believers?\u201d \u201cThen maybe thou wilt kill thyself with grief, sorrowing after them, if they believe not in this announcement;\u201d \u201cSay: Obey All\u0101h and obey the Messenger. But if you turn away, he is responsible for the duty imposed on him, and you are responsible for the duty imposed on you. And if you obey him, you go aright. And the Messenger\u2019s duty is only to deliver (the message) plainly\u201d<\/span>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 10:99; 18:6; 24:54). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding Qur\u2019an 18:6 in the above quote, Muhammad Ali points out: \u201cThis verse gives us an insight into the anxiety which the Holy Prophet had on account of a fallen humanity, an anxiety so great that he is spoken of here as almost killing himself with grief<\/i>. His was a life of absolute devotion to the cause of humanity, his only concern being that man should rise to the true dignity for which God had made him. This anxiety was not only for those who were directly addressed by him, but, as the context<\/span><\/p>\n

shows, it was as deep for another people, who attributed a son to the Divine Being, and whom outward finery was to mislead to such an extent as to make them strangers to spiritual truth. Reading the next verse along with this, no doubt is left that the Prophet was shown the earthly embellishments which are so great a trial for Christendom today.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Had the unbelievers not taken up the sword to extirpate Mohammad, Mohammad would not have had to subject them to \u201ctough love.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Jihad<\/i> does not <\/i><\/strong>mean \u201creligious war\u201d or \u201choly war\u201d in the sense of taking up arms and killing non-Muslims; it is \u201choly war\u201d in the sense of striving against all forms of evil. Jihad <\/i>is the noble struggle against all forms of injustice. Jihad<\/i><\/span> means to \u201cstrive\u201d or exert one\u2019s self in the way of freedom, truth, and justice: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. to strive against our low desires (such as greed, selfishness, covetousness, jealousy, vanity, pride)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. to strive against evil temptations (such as to commit a sin or a wrong against someone)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. to speak out against an injustice<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. to finance or take up arms against occupation, oppression\/ persecution, exploitation, and usurpation (Muslims are allowed to fight only in self-defense; when he is not the aggressor. In Islam, to defend one’s self, property, and family, and even others who are wronged, is a God-given right)<\/i> <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. to strive with the Qur’an against false worship. This form of Jihad is known as “Jihad kabiran”<\/i>\u2013the mighty striving\u2013(Qur\u2019an 25:52); perhaps because the worst form of bondage is bondage of the intellect. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The lesser Jihad<\/i>, which is the armed struggle, liberates man physically; and the greater Jihad<\/i>, which is the ideological struggle\u2013propagating the Qur\u2019anic Message of Allah God\u2013liberates man morally, intellectually and spiritually. Islam strives to liberate man physically, morally, intellectually and spiritually. Islam liberates man:<\/span><\/p>\n

    (a) physically<\/i>\u2013in that it gives one freedom of religion, movement and expression. <\/span><\/p>\n

    (b) morally\u2013<\/i>in that it impresses on us to be modest and moderate; and that the exacting of one\u2019s rights is governed by the instituting of the rights of others<\/span><\/p>\n

    (c) intellectually<\/i>\u2013in that it frees man from the degradation of worship of other humans and of nature and idols; and makes man the equal of man, and the master of nature; and instills in man that the only existence greater than himself is All\u0101h God; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    (d) spiritually<\/i>\u2013in that it enjoins man to entomb his lower desires; and to robe himself in the garments of prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage and Divine Attributes\u2013which will give him success in this life and in the life to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Islam strives to both liberate and captivate the mind of man\u2013it strives to liberate us from the base and ephemeral, and to captivate us with the virtuous and eternal. There is no better source to be held captive by than All\u0101h, God, and His everlasting grandeur.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 It would be unreasonable to cerebrate that the God Who enjoined His believers to swing the steel against the aggressor, oppressor, occupier, usurper, and the destroyers of shrines would condone such actions by His believers themselves. The permission to use the sword is limited to against those who first take up the sword to fight Muslims: \u201cPermission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed\u201d \u201cAnd fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you but be not aggressive. Surely Allah loves not the aggressors\u201d\u2013(Qur’an 22:39; 2:190).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Fighting for the propagation of Islam is no where mentioned in the Qur\u2019an: \u201cAnd fight them until there is no persecution, and religion is only for Allah. But if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors\u201d \u201cThose who are driven from their homes without a just cause except that they say: Our Lord is Allah. And if Allah did not repel some people by others, cloisters and churches, and synagogues and mosques in which Allah’s name is much remembered, would have been pulled down. And surely Allah will help him who helps Him. Surely Allah is Strong, Mighty\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:193; 22:40).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cThe religious freedom which was established by Islam thirteen hundred years ago has not yet been surpassed by the most civilized and tolerant of nations. It deserves to be noted that the lives of Muslims are to be sacrificed not only to stop their own persecution by their opponents and to save their own mosques, but to save churches, synagogues and cloisters as well\u2013in fact, to establish perfect religious freedom. The mosques, though they are the places where the name of Allah is remembered most of all, come in for their share of protection even after the churches and the synagogues. Early Muslims closely followed these direc-tions, and every commander of an army had express orders to respect all houses of worship, and even the cloisters of monks, along with their inmates.\u201d(M. Ali, comm. #1698). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 While there is no injunction in the Qur\u2019an or in the Tradition of the Prophet to spread Islam by the sword, there is a clear injunction to propagate Islam with the Qur\u2019an: \u201cSo obey not the disbelievers, and strive against them a mighty striving with it (the Qur\u2019an)\u201d\u2013(Qur’an 25:52). Muslims are also required to undertake jihad on behalf of non-Muslims who are oppressed\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:75).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    (Critics of Islam are notorious for using not only parts of Qur\u2019anic verses to libel Islam they also use part(s) of hadith to denigrate the Prophet and Islam. For twenty-three grueling years Mohammad was persecuted, besieged, threatened with assassination exiled, pursued, and warred on; and all in his own land; and all because of his peaceful call to wisdom and reason. Given this virulently rabid environment in which Mohammad lived and its lethal dedication to extirpate him and his small band of followers, whatever measures Mohammad took to preserve himself and believers against such monumental and grotesque injustice Mohammad was fully justified). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    (7) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>(Torture) \u201cFrom the Hadith: <\/strong>Muslim (16:4131)<\/a> <\/span>– They were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died<\/strong>.<\/i>\u00a0 Muhammad had two killers put to death, not in the way of “an eye-for-an-eye,” but in a more agonizing manner.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i><\/span>There are variations to this hadith, one states the eyes were \u201cgouged\u201d another states the eyes were \u201cpierced\u201d and Bokhari states \u201ctheir eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron\u201d (perhaps the heated metals were held over their eyes to effect blindness). Whichever entry is correct, the critic does not mention that \u201cThey\u201d<\/i> \u2013some people from the tribe of \u2018Ukl or \u2018Uraina\u2013 violated the Prophet\u2019s benevolence and hospitality, murdered the Muslim shepherd and drove away the camels. (See Bokhari Vol. 1, #234). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Those who meditate on murder and banditry are to be prepared to suffer consequences when caught. As stated, Mohammad and his peaceful tribe of Muslims lived in a sea of rabid hatred dedicated to their annihilation. Whatever methods Mohammad employed as punishment, and warning to the transgressors to not violate them, Mohammad was fully justified. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Regarding the Biblical teaching \u201can eye for an eye.\u201d One critic of Islam on the Internet<\/i> claims that Jesus Christ abrogated this law by stating: \u201cYou have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye <\/span>RESIST NOT<\/span> evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also\u201d\u2013(Matt. 5:39. <\/span>The chronic criminal would love such individuals (any wonder some people in America and elsewhere imprison themselves in gated communities while criminals roam free and ransack society). America and her Allies should follow this dictum of Jesus and let al-Qaeda have a \u201cblast\u201d all over their lands). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 First, Jesus was trying to reform the\u00a0Jews<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(to whom he was wholly and solely sent) from their mutual enmity. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Second, Jesus was saying that if you try to \u201cresist evil,\u201d the evil-doer being more powerful might kill you. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Third, Jesus could not abrogate any law of the Bible, he came to uphold the law and even to the point of heaven and earth passing away as he himself declared: \u201cThink not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled;\u201d <\/span>and he commanded his followers to do what the Scribes and Pharisees bid them do: \u201cThen spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses\u2019 seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do.\u201d <\/span>And the Scribes and Pharisees followed the Mosaic law which requires an \u201ceye for an eye\u201d and a \u201ctooth for a tooth\u201d (as well as stone the adulterers, etc). (Matt. 5:17; 23:1-3). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Other thoughtless trumpetings of Christians are Jesus\u2019 love your enemies and forgive seventy times seven (though he ordered that his enemies be brought to him and slain and he booted his compellers \u2013the bird sellers and money changers\u2013 out of the temple) and his \u201cJudge not, that ye be not judged\u201d<\/span> (though he judged the Jews: ridiculed them as \u201cgeneration of vipers;\u201d \u201cevil and adulterous generation;\u201d \u201cfools\u201d and \u201cblind guides,\u201d and poured the righteous blood from Abel to Barachias onto their heads and consigned them to the greater damnation of hell, and lambasted the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum for not accepting his miracles and reforming). Please note: this is the Christian\u2019s Jesus. For the Muslim Jesus read the Qur\u2019an. <\/span>(The claim that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jesus loves us<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is colossal Christian crock. Moreover, God did not send Jesus to the White and the Black and the Brown and the Red and the Yellow: God sent Jesus only to the Jews \u2013the \u201clost sheep of the House of Israel. Regarding Christian\u2019s claim that after the make-believe resurrection Jesus changed his mind and said to preach the Gospels to the world, Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din exposes in his Open Letters To The Bishops of Salisbury & London<\/i><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe concluding eleven verses of St. Mark-(16:9-20) and the well-known verse of St. Matthew-(28:19), speaking of the Son and the Father and the Holy Ghost, are forgeries, an admitted addition to the ancient MSS<\/span> (manuscripts). The fact was discovered by the first translator of the Bible into English and they made a marginal note in their version of the Bible which continued for some time. But we do not find the said note in any of the copies now published by the said society <\/span>(Foreign Mission Society). Is it fair and honest to keep others in darkness as to the true value of the contents of the Bible? <\/span>The reader must know thatconcluding portion of St. Mark and the verse in St. Matthew are spurious and a subsequent addition. But I am afraid the Foreign Mission would not allow the correction. It would tell against their very Mission, if they eliminate the verse from St. Matthew; they lose the only pillar that supports the structure of the Trinity.<\/span> No other verse in the whole Scripture speaks of it. The said eleven verses of St. Mark are the only justification for the existence of the Foreign Mission. You, as well as I, know, my Lord, that the call to Jesus came solely and wholly from Judaism. He came only to gather the scattered sheep and would not give the children\u2019s bread to the dogs, the world beyond the Israelites. The Foreign Mission is a mere trespass on lands forbidden by the Master. It transcends the limit marked by Jesus.<\/span>Throughout his life the Gentiles and others did not concern him: they were the swine. Then came the make-believe Resurrection,<\/span> and they say the Master changed his mind as to his mission and ordered it to be carried to the four corners of the world (indicating that he was unsure of his mission)<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> but this all depends upon the questionable verses of St. Mark, and hence their retention in the Bible.<\/span> St. Matthew is no authority on this point. The word \u201cnations\u201d there is a mistranslation and a wrong substitute for \u201cthe tribes\u201d\u2013the rest of the Jewish tribes scattered all over the world. This being the case, the Mission cannot afford to eliminate the verses from their version, nor will they put marginal notes, as did the old versions, to show the true nature of the verses.a<\/span><\/sup> It would weaken the cause and show the futility of their status, since in carrying on evangelical work in the non-Christian world (in the non-Jewish world, the Bible\/Christ is only for Jews)<\/span><\/i> b<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<\/i>they are acting against the express admonition of the Master. It may that reasons other than religion are at the back of it all, and goading their activities, but decency, if not religion, assuredly demands the publishing of things as they are.\u201d<\/span>(pp. 31-32). Such is Christian\u2019s deception and desperation to snare the unschooled and the unthinking into drinking the mythical blood of Jesus Christ. Utterly disgraceful and unGodly! <\/span>It is doubtful that a man of God would make forgeries in a Book of God, and even yet proclaim it to be Book of God. Christians adulterate their Word of God and then have the arrogance and the audacity to turn around and ask this very God to give them their daily bread. In fact, they not only turn around and ask God to give them their daily bread, they even pray to him to have Muslims (and others) follow them in their wickedness and blasphemy. Sadly, some Muslims do apostatize and follow them. And Only the peripheral Muslim and the unthinking would embrace the useless and unGodly crucifix). (a<\/span><\/sup><\/span> Encyclopaedia Biblica<\/i>, p. 1880, Section G., Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek,<\/i> Appendix).
    \n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>b<\/span><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The Bible\/Christ is for Jews only until the coming of the\u00a0<\/span>    Comforter<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>at which time Jews are to follow this Comforter who will guide them into \u201call truth\u201d\u2013(John 14:16; 16:13). <\/span>Previous to this teaching of Jesus, God had decreed that kingship and prophethood would depart from the Jewish people at the advent of Shiloh\u2013(Gen. 49:10); Moses foretold that God will raise up a prophet like him (Moses) whom the Israelites are to follow\u2013(Deut. 18:15, 18); and Jesus further said that the kingdom of God shall be taken from the Israelites and given to another people\u2013(Matt. 21:43). And this Shiloh, prophet like Moses and the Comforter have been shown to be the Prophet Mohammad. (See Prof. Abdul Ahad Dawud \u2013the former Reverend David Benjamin Keldani\u2013 Muhammad in the Bible,<\/i> and Abdul Haque Vidyarthi, Muhammad in World Scriptures<\/i>, Vol. 1). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 In Deut. 18:18 of the Bible Moses made it clear that God says all those who do not follow this prophet like him that, \u201cwhosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/span> (i.e. they will have to answer to God for not following this prophet\u2013Mohammad). And in what seems to be a reflection of this decree of God, the Prophet Mohammad is reported as having said: \u201che who amongst the community of Jews or Christians hears about me, but does not affirm his belief in that which I have been sent and dies in this state (of disbelief), he shall be but one of the denizens of Hell\u201d\u2013(Muslim Vol. 1, #284).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 While all prophets of God taught Islam \u2013peace and submission to God\u2013 Islam was perfected only through the Prophet Mohammad: \u201c<\/span><\/span>This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour to you and chosen for you Islam as a religion<\/span>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:3).<\/span><\/span> Thus, as Islam (as taught by the Prophet Mohammad) is superior to all religions, whoever needs another religion it will not be accepted: <\/span>Surely the (true) religion with All\u0101h is Islam;\u201d \u201cSeek they then other than All\u0101h\u2019s religion? And to Him submits whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him they will be returned.\u201d \u201cAnd whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an <\/span>3:19<\/span><\/span>, 83, 85).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The Qur\u2019an comprises of the best teachings given to other prophets as well as teachings not given to other prophets: <\/span>\u201cWe narrate to thee the best of narratives,<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>in that We have revealed to thee this Qur\u2019an, though before this thou wast of those unaware;\u201d \u201cAnd certainly We have set forth for men in this Qur\u2019an similitudes of every sort that they may mind;\u201d \u201cWe have not neglected anything in the Book;\u201d \u201cA Messenger from All\u0101h, reciting pure pages, Wherein are (all) right books\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an <\/span>(12:3; 39:27; 6:38; 98:2-3).<\/span> Thus, the Qur\u2019an comprises of, exceeds, and supersedes all other Scrip-tures.There is no wisdom in following a man who did not give \u2018all truth\u201d or in following a Book that is devoid of \u201call truth.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (8) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cMuslim (17:4196)<\/a><\/span> – A married man confesses that he has adultery (four times, as required).\u00a0 Muhammad orders him planted in the ground and pelted with stones.\u00a0 According to the passage, the first several stones caused such pain that he tried to escape and was dragged back<\/strong>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>As the hadith shows the Prophet tried to ignore the man\u2019s confession. And even gave him the opportunity to leave by asking him if he was \u201cinsane\u201d (as it is not allowed to punish an insane person). What is an official of the law to do if a self-confessed criminal should come demanding punishment for his transgression? let him go free? What message would such action by the official be sending to society? Do secular authorities release prisoners because they wail from mental anguish caused by confinement; or from being attacked by other inmates?<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (9) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cBukhari (11:626)<\/a><\/span> – “The Prophet said, ‘No prayer is harder for the hypocrites than the Fajr and the ‘Isha’ prayers and if they knew the reward for these prayers at their respective times, they would certainly present themselves (in the mosques) even if they had to crawl.’ The Prophet added, ‘Certainly I decided to order the Mu’adh-dhin (call-maker) to pronounce Iqama and order a man to lead the prayer and then take a fire flame to burn all those who had not left their houses so far for the prayer along with their houses.<\/strong>‘”<\/i>\u00a0 Muhammad orders his men to burn alive those who do not present themselves at the mosque for prayer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong> If Mohammad had given this command who could have prevented it from being executed? No one! And there would have been several dutiful Muslims to carry out his order. The question is how many houses were burnt? Not a single one! Moreover, it is hardly believable that Mohammad would have burned any house (which might have killed innocent children) seeing that he taught that a Muslim is not to burn his enemy and not even an ant, that fire is the punishment of All\u0101h\u2013(Abu Dawud, Vol. 2, #2667-2669). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Clearly, this thought which the Prophet expressed was only to communicate the importance and benefit of the congregational prayer: that if Muslims knew the benefit they would even crawl to get to the Mosque\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 1, #\u2019s 589; 626; Vol. 3, #854). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The Fajr <\/i>(dawn) prayer especially is the acid test for a Believer in All\u0101h. As Salahhuddin Ayube (Saladin) the majestic is said to have stated, in gathering soldiers to liberate the Holy Land, that when the Mosques are filled for the morning prayer his army will be ready. It is not an easy undertaking for one to kill the sweet sleep of dawn to pray, and pray to a Master he does not and cannot see. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Salah<\/i> \u2013the formatted Muslim five daily prayer\u2013 not only distinguishes Muslims from other religionists. This prayer is a constant reminder that All\u0101h is One and Only, on Whom all depend, without mother and father and son and daughter and partner and associate and does not incarnate, and is the only Presence worthy of worship \u2013that to bow to or worship any other human or creation is to disgrace and degrade one\u2019s self\u2013 it reminds us of our duty to be truthful and just and to keep away from shameful deeds, and that success lies in prayer to Allah. <\/span><\/p>\n

    In our bending posture (ruku<\/i>) we proclaim subhana-rabbiyal-\u2018Azeem (Glory be to You All\u0101h, the Magnificent; <\/i>though the English equivalent \u201cGlory\u201d for the Arabic \u201cSubhan<\/i>\u201d is inadequate, as Subhan<\/i> conveys the quality of perfection and free of all defects and free of all needs and wants; qualities which no human can possess) and in our prostration (sijda<\/i>, the lowest position that that one can position himself\/herself) we extol Suhana-rabbiyal- \u2018Alaa<\/i> (Glory be to You All\u0101h, the Most High<\/i>). In effect we are declaring, respectively: \u201cAll\u0101h, You alone is perfect and free of all needs and wants; You are the Magnificent;\u201d and \u201cAll\u0101h, You alone is perfect and free of all needs and wants; You are the Most High\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Even in the midst of our social intercourse when we may tend to lapse or be distracted from our duty we are called to this remembrance and declaration. And, depending on how long we make our recitation, these five prayers basically take only about an hour a day or less. (We perhaps goof off for longer than an hour). There is no better way to spend our time than in the glorification of our Creator to Whom is our eventual return.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but God (\u201cJesus,\u201d as Christians say) can put Adam\/Eve\u2019s sin onto every person then put every person\u2019s sin onto Jesus and then have this innocent Jesus killed for everybody\u2019s sin.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but God (\u201cJesus,\u201d as Christians say) can have bears \u201ctare\u201d forty-two children for being mischievous\u2013(2 Kings 2:22-24).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but God ((\u201cJesus,\u201d as Christians say) can terrorized Jeshurun\u2019s children and the virgin and old man and have them eaten by beasts\u2013(Deut. 32:15-25). This must the mother of all terrorism!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but God ((\u201cJesus,\u201d as Christians say) can consign Jews to the greater damnation of Hell\u2013(Matt. 23:14, 33). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but Jesus (the Christians God) can command that all his enemies who are against his rule be slaughtered\u2013(Luke 19:27). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but Jesus (the Christian\u2019s God) can send fire and sword and division into the world\u2013(Luke 12:49, 51-53; Matt. 10:34).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but God (\u201cJesus,\u201d as Christians say) can allow selling defenseless daughters into slavery and enslaving peaceful \u201cheathen\u201d neighbors\u2013(Ex. 21:7; Lev. 25:44). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 -So Mohammad cannot think about burning the houses of those who do not come to pray; but Jesus (the Christian\u2019s God) can counsel his followers to lie through their nose and agree with their adversary and send innocent people to the gallows\u2013(Matt. 5:25). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 And clearly, to have Mohammad thinking about burning you and your house is hardly any suffering compared to be killed for someone else\u2019s sin; to be torn by bears; to be terrorized then eaten by beasts; to be consigned to hell, be it lesser or greater; and be slain just because you are against a certain ruler; to be sent fire and sword; to be sold into slavery and enslaved; and to be railroaded into jail or to the gallows.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (10)\u00a0The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cIbn Ishaq 436<\/span> – When Muhammad wished to attack the Meccan army at Badr, his men captured two slaves who were carrying water for the caravans and brought them into his presence. They were interrogated under torture as Muhammad stood praying:\u00a0 \u201c\u2026they brought them along and questioned them while the apostle was standing praying\u2026 The people were dismayed at their report\u2026and so they beat them. When they were beaten soundly<\/strong>\u2026” <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>It is unfortunate that details are not given as to why Muslims were \u201cdismayed\u201d at the slaves report and if the slaves changed their story and what was the result of their story. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Were these slaves spies? Even if they were not spies it is without doubt they would have sided with their masters who were all bent to annihilate Mohammad and his followers. The mere fact that they had to be \u201cbeaten soundly\u201d is proof that they would have sided (and even as warriors) with their masters. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you abduct any member of the enemy camp (even if you were the aggressor) for information; as well as take what-ever measures you deem necessary to glean information from him? (Unlike the enemy and modern nations who transgress and yet torture and kill their victims, Mohammad was no trans-gressor, and he lived in a virulent society that was dedicated to crushing him and his small and peaceful band of followers).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Muhammad Husayn Haykal notes about the capture of these slaves, that the Prophet had sent some men \u201cto the well of Badr to seek out fresh news\u201d and <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cThe little group returned with two boys who, upon interrogation by Muhammad, revealed that the Quraysh army stood behind the hill on the further side. When they could not answer his questions regarding the strength of the Quraysh army, Muhammad asked how many animals they killed for food every day. The boys answered, \u201cNine on one day and ten on the other.\u201d The Prophet concluded from this that their number must be between nine hundred and one thousand\u201d\u2013(The Life of Muhammad, <\/i>p. 221).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 It is doubtful the Prophet would have two boys, and slave boys besides, who would hardly have had any confidential infor-mation \u201cbeaten soundly.\u201d<\/i><\/strong> Or that the slave boys, who had nothing to gain in allowing themselves to be punished, would have waited till they were \u201cbeaten soundly\u201d<\/i><\/strong> to divulge infor-mation. The boys may have been slaves but that would not make them stupid. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (11)The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cIbn Ishaq 734<\/span> – When Muhammad\u2019s favorite wife Aisha was accused of adultery, he launched an investigation that included the brutal interrogation of a female slave:\u00a0 “So the apostle called Burayra to ask her, and Ali got up and gave her a violent beating<\/strong>, saying \u201c’Tell the Apostle the truth.’\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>Ibn Ishaq may have said that \u201cAli got up and gave her a violent beating,\u201d<\/strong><\/i>but the hadith did not say that.
    \n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 As Burayra was not\u00a0<\/i>present with \u2018Aishah during the trip when this \u201cadultery\u201d was alleged to have been committed, perhaps she was interrogated because it may have been believed that \u2018Aishah confided her private matters to her.
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Bokhari, the most authentic collector of hadith, does not mention any beating of \u2018Aishah\u2019s maidservant by \u2018Ali.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Before entering the relative material of this lengthy narration, an insight into the background of this incident is probably helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In brief. It was nighttime. \u2018Aishah left the army camp to answer the call of nature. On her way back to camp she realized her necklace had broken and missing. She retraced her steps to where she had gone, looking for it. Meanwhile, at the camp, the people, thinking \u2018Aishah was in her \u201chowdah\u201d \u2013covered carrier\u2013 placed the seat onto her camel and left. Upon her return to camp \u2018Aishah decided to wait, hoping her people would miss her and return for her. A Muslim traveling behind the army escorted \u2018Aishah to their people, who were resting from the midday heat. Aishah\u2019s and the man\u2019s togetherness and in the night gave rise to the slander that \u2018Aishah had intimate relations with the man. When the news reached the Prophet he became greatly troubled. The gossip placed a strain between the Prophet and the grieving \u2018Aishah. Here now is the relevant portion of the hadith, narrated by \u2018Aishah: <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cAll\u0101h\u2019s Apostle (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) called \u2018Ali bin Abi Talib and Usama bin Zaid (All\u0101h be pleased with them)\u2026.in order to consult with them as to the idea of divorcing his wife. Usama bin Zaid told All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) of what he knew about the innocence of his wife and of his affection he kept for her. He said, \u201cO All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle! She is your wife, and we do not know anything about her except good.\u201d But \u2018Ali bin Abi Talib said, \u201cO All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle! All\u0101h does not impose restrictions on you; and there are plenty of women other than her. If you however, ask (her) slave girl, she will tell you the truth.\u201d \u2018Aisha added: So All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) called for Barira and said, \u201cO Barira! Did you ever see anything which might have aroused your suspicion? (as regards \u2018Aisha). Barira said, \u201cBy All\u0101h Who has sent you with the truth, I have never seen anything regarding \u2018Aisha which I would blame her for except that she is a girl of immature age who sometimes sleeps and leaves the dough of her family unprotected so that the domestic goats come and eat it.\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 6, #274). <\/span><\/p>\n

    As the hadith shows there was no \u201cviolent beating\u201d <\/i>or any \u201cbeating.\u201d
    \n<\/i><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i>All\u0101h sent revelation confirming \u2018Aishah\u2019s innocence \u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:11-20).<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (12) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cIbn Ishaq 595<\/span> – Muhammad orders that a man have his tongue cut out. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>(I could not find the hadith regarding this). As noted this claim is made by Ibn Ishaq. No reason is given as to why the Prophet ordered that a man have his \u201ctongue cut out.\u201d (Perhaps the man was suffering from gross habitual \u201cliar-itis\u201d or \u201cslander-itis\u201d). The question is was the person\u2019s \u201ctongue cut out\u201d? There does not seem to be any evidence that it was. If there was, for certain the critic(s) would have referenced it. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 What is to be borne in mind is that even in his life-time sayings were forged in the Prophet\u2019s name (much like the \u201cfables invented by Christian writers who seek to vilify Islam\u201d such as the\u00a0<\/span>Hafsa scandal<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>. Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam, is noted as saying: \u201cDuring the very lifetime of the Holy Prophet (AS) many a false tradition was attributed to him. This continued till the apostle of God got so vexed that he stood up and declared, \u2018Whoever deliberately and purposely tells a lie against me or attributes lies to me shall make a place for himself in the Hell\u2019\u201d\u2013(Nahjul Balagha<\/i>, sermon 215, p. 386. See also Bokhari Vol. 1, # 106-109; Vol. 4, # 667, 712). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And as noted further on, there was especially one person, Waqidi, who was regarded \u201cas unreliable and even as a fabriccator of reports.\u201d
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Whatever saying of the Prophet contradicts with the teachings of the Qur\u2019an is to be discarded: The Prophet taught only according to the Qur\u2019an: <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Say: I warn you only by revelation;\u201d \u201cSay:\u2026I follow naught but that which is revealed to me, and I am but a plain warner;\u201d \u201cYour companion errs not, nor does he deviate.<\/span>Nor does he speak out of desire. It is naught but revelation that is revealed\u201d\u2013(21:45; 46:9; 53:3-4).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (13) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cIbn Ishaq 764<\/span> – After amassing a powerful army, Muhammad sent his forces to take the peaceful farming community of Khaybar by surprise.\u00a0 In the aftermath, he was dissatisfied with the amount of plunder and felt that the town\u2019s treasurer, Kinana, might be holding out on him. He had the man brought to him: When he <\/i>[Muhammad] asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam, \u201cTorture him until you extract what he has.<\/strong>\u201d So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead.<\/strong> Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad bin Maslama and he struck off his head.\u201d
    \n<\/i><\/span>(As a happy side note to the story \u2013 Kinana’s untimely death left a beautiful young widow named Saffiya, whom Muhammad was then able to \u201cmarry\u201d).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>This is probably the most ridiculous account regarding the Jews of Khaibar that is being bandied about. These Jews were not a \u201cpeaceful farming community.\u201d
    \n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Safiyyah was the \u201cdaughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab of Banu al Nadir\u201d and was honored as \u201cthe lady of Banu Qurayzah and Banu al Nadir,\u201d3<\/span><\/sup> Mohammad did not raid the Banu Nadir tribe. Safiyyah\u2019s husband, Kinana was executed as per his own agree-ment with Mohammad.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Jews of Khaybar had proven themselves untrustworthy. While Muslims had the peace treaty of Hudaybiyah with others in the South, \u201cBut what about the north, where both Heraclius (of Rome) and Chosroes (of Persia) might attack Madinah in cooperation with the Jews of Khaybar who were anxious for an opportunity to take revenge upon Muhammad?\u201d as M.H. Haykal explained, \u201cIt would be relatively easy for either emperor to remind the Jews of the fate of their co-religionists, the Banu Qurayzah, Banu al Nadir, and Banu Qaynuqa, who had previously been expelled from their dwellings after blockade, fighting, and war, and to incite them to new ventures against Muhammad. For their enmity and bitterness surpassed that of Quraysh\u2026.it was not possible to reconcile them with a peace treaty like that of Hudaybiyah since the covenant of Madinah had been violated by them much to their own detriment. Were help to come to them from the side of Byzantium, their natural inclination to rise again against Muhammad could not be contained. Hence it was thought necessary to put a final end to their influence in the Arabian Peninsula, and to do so quickly without giving them the time to forge any new alliances with Ghatafan or any of the other tribe hostile to Muhammad.\u201d4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The Jews fought strongly against the Muslims. After their defeat and surrender Jews of Khaybar \u2013unlike the Banu Qaynuqa and Banu al Nadir who were forced to evacuate their lands altogether\u2013 \u201cMuhammad accepted their plea and permitted them to stay on their land whose title now passed to him by right of conquest. The terms of their surrender provided that they would be given half their crops in compensation for their labor.\u201d5<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Safiyyah\u2019s husband, Kinanah ibn al Rabi, was executed as per his own agreement with Mohammad. M. H. Haykal relates: \u201cKinanah al Rabi was known by the Muslims to have been the guardian of the wealth of Banu al Nadir. When the Prophet had asked Kinanah about his treasure, the latter solemnly declared that he did not know where it was hidden. Muhammad threatened him that in case the treasure was found hidden in his place he would be put to death. Kinanah agreed.\u201d Later, Kinanah was seen in an \u201cuninhabited house in the outskirts\u201d where part of the treasure was discovered. He was executed as per his own words.6<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Being of noble birth and to be reduced as wife of an ordinary man would have been a most humiliating experience for Safiyyah. \u201cThe Prophet granted her freedom and then married her.\u201d7<\/span> <\/sup>By taking Safiyyah over to himself the Prophet, and King of Arabia, not only elevated her status by making her his wife but also rendered to her the supreme and invaluable service of robing her a Muslim. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 There could hardly be any doubt that Safiyyah was joyed to be in Muhammad\u2019s arms; and welcomed it whole-heartedly. After all, the Hebraic law had sentenced her to a living hell: con-demned her to a life of \u201csorrow,\u201d and subjection to her husband; and sold her daughter into bondage\u2013(Gen. 3:16; Ex. 21:7). Whereas Mohammad liberated her and gave her rights that left her nothing to strive for all the way to Jannah<\/i>; and immortalized her as a \u201cmother\u201d of the Believers \u2013honored now by some one-and-a-half billion Muslims. And counting, as Islam, in the face of all the vociferous clamoring against it, continues inexorably to its destiny as decreed by His Highest Majesty: \u201cThey desire to put out the light of All\u0101h with their mouths, but All\u0101h will perfect His light, though the disbelievers May be averse\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 61:8). \u201cHe (All\u0101h) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Mohammad) with the guidance and the religion of Truth that He may make it prevail over all religions. And All\u0101h is enough for a witness\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 48:28; 9:33; 61:9).
    \n<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Talk about Safiyyah being the envy of women!<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>That Safiyyah \u201cdoes not have the right to accept or refuse what he (Mohammad) decides to do with her,\u201d as Wafa Sultan charged in her book\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(Allah) A God who hates<\/a><\/span>,<\/span> is \u201cinfluential\u201d hooey! (For marriage and divorce and women\u2019s rights see\u00a0<\/span>Islam-women<\/a><\/span>).
    \n<\/span><\/span>Safiyyah, without doubt, found comfort and joy in Mohammad. As M.H. Haykal notes: \u201cSafiyyah remained loyal to Mohammad throughout his life. In his last illness, when the Prophet was surrounded by his wives, Safiyyah came forward and said: \u201cO Prophet of God, I surely wish that that from which you suffer might be in me rather than in you.\u201d Muhammad\u2019s wives winked at one another and the Prophet observing their reaction, said: \u201cGo on and wink at one another! By God, I know that Safiyyah is truthful and loyal!\u201d Safiyyah, who survived Muhammad, lived until the time of the caliphate of Mu\u2019awiyah. She was buried at al Baqi\u201d<\/span>8<\/span><\/sup> in Madinah. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (14) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cAbu Dawud (10:294)<\/a> <\/span>– In addition to the right of men to beat their wives over disobedience, children are to be beaten as well if they don’t pray.\u00a0 “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Command a boy to pray when he reaches the age of seven years. When he becomes ten years old, then beat him for prayer.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>The significance and purpose of salah<\/i> is noted in item #9. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Wife-beating:\u00a0<\/i>The wife has rights upon the husband and the husband has rights upon the wife. The wife has the right that the husband feed, clothe and house her, and treats her kindly. The husband has the right that the wife protects his property, preserves her chastity, and raise children in the best manners and education. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 That husbands and wives are garments to the other\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:187) to beautify, protect, comfort, and conceal each other\u2019s faults, this alone shows that there is no indiscriminate beating of the wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h says, \u201cAs to those women on whose part you fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoy-ance)\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:34.Fear of \u201cdisloyalty\u201d would stem from an act contrary to mutual agreement, as marriage is).<\/span><\/p>\n

    (A child who is more prone to forgetfulness, is not an example of role model, and not \u201ccontracted\u201d to moral behavior is spanked for misdemeanor, made to stand in a corner, or\/ and sent to bed without supper; if a woman reports, truthfully or not, that she was assaulted, her male partner is thrown in jail; if one commits an offence he\/ she is fined or thrown into prison. So where is the problem if Islam imposes corporal discipline for the wife who is required to be a role model and is obligated to moral conduct?<\/span><\/p>\n

    Partners in a business are required to fulfill their obli-gations. If one party lacks in his responsibility\/duty or does not wish to fulfill it he is to sever his partnership; he cannot expect to abdicate his role and yet receive the rewards of the business. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Marriage is a sacred covenant. The wife (or husband) that does not fulfill her responsibility cannot expect to receive the benefit from the marriage. Such a wife is to leave the marriage. In requiring the man to be patient and continue supporting her \u2013and to even seek arbitra-tion\u2013 while she abdicates her duty Islam is being tolerant with her, giving her time to reform, and trying to save the marriage. <\/span><\/p>\n

    These three steps required by Islam \u2013admonishing her; avoiding her bed; and lightly beating her\u2013 which is a drawn-out process, high-lights the wife\u2019s stubbornness in reforming and observing her part of the marriage con-tract; all the while receiving the benefit of the contract. Under such a strain to the man this light chastisement can hardly be deemed un-just or severe to the woman. She brought it onto herself. And to avoid it she could leave before it reaches the final stage). <\/span><\/p>\n

    Chastisement is only for the wayward wife,\u00a0<\/i>and only as a last resort (and only if the husband is not himself wayward, for women have rights similar to those against them\u2013Qur\u2019an 2:228). <\/span><\/p>\n

    (That a wife, who is able to, can \u201cbeat\u201d the wayward husband, the Prophet advises against this8A<\/span> <\/sup>\u2013perhaps be-cause it may lead to ridicule from his male counterpart; which might lead him to become criminal against his wife. While a \u201cbeaten\u201d wife can also become criminal she may less likely be so on account of women being softer at heart, less likely to be ridiculed by her counter-part, and have greater concern and care for her family). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 This chastisement is not to be of a brutal nature. Muhammad Ali has noted, \u201cThe Prophet is reported to have said: \u201cYou have a right in the matter of your wives that they do not allow any-one whom you do not like to come into your houses; if they do this, chastise them in such a manner that it should not leave an impression. (Tirmidhi 10:11).\u201d Thus very light chastisement was allowed only in extreme cases.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    The wife has the right to leave the husband if she fears cruelty from him\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:128).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 That the Prophet never beat any of his wives is evidenced from this hadith in which Bokhari re-cords a long narration in which \u2018Umar\u2019s wife told him that his daughter, Hafsa, \u201cargues with All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) so much that he remains angry for a full day.\u201d Whereupon \u2018Umar went to Hafsa who admitted, \u201cwe argue with him.\u201d To which her father advised her \u201cDon\u2019t be betrayed by the one who is proud of her beauty because of the love of Allah\u2019s Apostle (peace be on him) for her (i.e. \u2018Aisha).\u201d(Bokhari, Vol. 6, # 435). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 It is doubtful \u2018Aisha and Hafsa would have \u201cargued\u201d with the Prophet and to the extent that \u201che remains angry for a full day\u201d if he was beating them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Significantly, chastisement of the wayward wife would seem almost impossible to be carried out. For, if the wife fears cruelty from her husband and\/or if she is wont to be out of the marriage she can leave before the situation reaches the third stage of chas-tisement. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Regarding this wife-beating of the Qur\u2019an one Christian quarter on the Internet<\/i> tries to use it to denigrate Islam.
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0While Islam allows this light chastisement of the\u00a0wayward wife (and, as shown, only if the husband is not\u00a0himself wayward, and the wife has rights as that against\u00a0her) what does the Bible say about wives (good and\u00a0wayward)?<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The Biblical God (and Jesus as Christians say Jesus is God) decreed: \u201cUnto the woman (Eve), he (God) said: \u2026and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee<\/i>\u201d\u2013(Gen. 3:16).
    \n<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And while \u00a0<\/span>    Paul<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>commands husbands to love their wives, he demands that wives \u201csubmit\u201d themselves to their husbands \u201cas it is fit in the Lord\u201d\u2013(Col. 3:19, 18); and \u201c<\/i>As the Church is subject unto Christ,<\/i><\/span>SO LET THE WIVES BE TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS IN EVERY THING<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u2013 \u201cAnd the wife see that <\/span>SHE REVERENCE<\/span> HER HUSBAND\u201d<\/span>\u2013(Ephesians 5:22-23, 33.<\/span>The man being told to love his wife does not mean she is free from bondage. People also \u201clove\u201d their dogs and other pets and even bequeath fortunes to them. And Paul also instructs masters to be kind to their slaves\u2013Eph. 6:9; Col. 4:1). \u201cLet the woman learn in <\/span>SILENCE<\/span> with <\/span>ALL<\/span><\/span> SUBJECTION.<\/span> But <\/span>I SUFFER NOT A WOMAN TO TEACH, NOR TO USURP AUTHORITY OVER THE MAN\u00a0<\/span>but to be\u00a0<\/span>IN SILENCE<\/span>\u2013(<\/span>1Tim.2:11-12).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Clearly, the permission to employ whatever methods are necessary to \u201crule\u201d over the wife and to bring\/keep her in \u201csilence and in \u201call subjection\u2019 are inherent and enshrined in these words of God and Paul.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 To take the matter further, authority for employing corporal punishment to discipline the rebellious wife who does not \u201cdesire\u201d to be \u201cruled\u201d over in \u201csilence\u201d and with \u201call subjection\u201d may be gleaned from the Biblical verses on child-rearing, God (and as Christians say Jesus is God, then Jesus) says: \u201cHe that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes;\u201d \u201cChasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying;\u201d \u201cWithhold not cor-rection from the child: for if you beatest him with the rod, he shall not die, Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell\u201d<\/span>(and without doubt every \u201cChristian\u201d husband wants to deliver his stubborn\/ rebellious wife\u2019s \u201csoul from hell\u201d)\u2013(Proverbs 13:24; 19:18; 23:13-14).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps a survey of Christian women\/wives of all Christian denominations can be conducted to find out how many were \u201cbeaten\u201d into \u201csilence\u201d and \u201call subjection.\u201d
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Surely, not all the \u201cbattered\u201d wives in Western countries are non-Christians.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 As for Mohammad ordering beating the child to pray. <\/span>This beating is not to be of a brutal nature. During school days children can be exempt from the dawn prayer, (on week-ends they can return to sleep. During this teaching period, the dawn prayer can be offered at the latter point of the schedule). Also, children should only be required to offer the obligatory\/fard<\/em> portion of the prayer, (and with a short recitation). This should not take more than about seven minutes. Which is hardly any suffering to the child \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 For followers of the Bible\u00a0\u00a0 As God (and as Christians say that Jesus is God, then as Jesus) can have Jeshurun\u2019s children eaten by beasts and bitten by poisonous serpents for going after false gods;9<\/span> <\/sup>can have mischievous children eaten by bears;10<\/span><\/sup> and can have children beaten to bring them into obedience and as He Himself beats and scourges His sons into obedience and those who are not beaten are regarded as \u201cbastards\u201d (as noted above), why carp at Mohammad for training children to worship All\u0101h \u2013the God Who is One and Only, the Eternal, Absolute, on Whom all depend; Who begets not; nor is begotten; the Incomparable; Who incarnates not; the Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, and the Creator and Vanquisher of all, to Whom is our eventual return. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Clearly, by having this child worship only All\u0101h, Mohammad is saving him\/her from Hell; which, as Jesus says, is an \u201ceverlasting fire\u201d that \u201cnever shall be quenched\u201d\u2013(Matt. 18:8; Mark 9:43); and that in this \u201cfurnace of fire\u201d there shall be \u201cwailing and gnashing of teeth\u201d\u2013(Matt. 23:14, 33; 13:42). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 And, admittedly, a few whacks on the bottom (for your own benefit) is better than an eternity of \u201cwailing and gnashing of teeth\u201d in this \u201ceverlasting\u201d \u201cfurnace of fire\u201d that \u201cnever shall be quenched.\u201d A few whacks in the ephemeral is no price to pay for the joy in the Eternal Splendor of Paradise. (May be when this \u201cbeaten\u201d child gets into Paradise he would offer a special gratitude to Allah and the Prophet and his parents for straightening him as a kid. Especially when he sees those in Hell wailing and gnashing teeth<\/i>)<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 For atheists. Atheists can deny the existence of God; atheists cannot disprove the existence of God. All\u0101h, God, has proven His existence through the Qur\u2019an \u2013its prophecies (that have already manifested), its scientific pronouncements (which have been verified), and its inimitability, are proofs of its Divineness). <\/span><\/p>\n

    Regarding the Muslim Heaven\/paradise<\/span>.<\/span> What is to be remembered is that the verses of the Qur\u2019an are of literal and allegorical meanings\u2013(3:7). The descriptions of the \u201cGarden(s)\u201d in the Qur\u2019an are not to be taken literally. All\u0101h says in Qur\u2019an 32:17: \u201cAnd no soul knows what delights of the eyes is kept hidden for them, as a reward for their (good) deeds.\u201d<\/span> The Prophet Mohammad is reported to have said: Allah says, I have prepared for My righteous servants that which no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and which the heart of man cannot conceive\u2013(Bokhari Vol\u2019s. 4:467; 6:302-303; 9:589).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 However, as sex in marriage is Divinely lawful on the earthly plain there is no difficulty if it should be allowed in the spiritual plain. <\/span><\/span>Carnal pleasure in the conjugal bed is<\/i> a form of worship of God\u2013(Genesis 1:28. Qur\u2019an 25:54; 16:72; 24:32).<\/span><\/span> Only the ignorant revile this blessed union as vulgar. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Whereas t<\/span><\/span>he Muslim\u00a0<\/span>Heaven\/Paradise<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is criticized as one of sensuality, what is the Christian\u2019s heaven like? Christians depict heaven as a picturesque landscape of people laxing, and reading, with the lamb and wolf nesting together (Isaiah 11:6-7, \u201cthe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb\u2026and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.<\/i>\u201d This must be a cruel joke on the lions or they would have to be outfitted with dentures of incisors and molars for stripping and grinding hay, and have their systems redesigned to process and evacuate hay). In other words, the Christian\u2019s heaven is <\/span>B-O-R-I-N-G.<\/span>Small wonder the Christian is obsessed with Mohammad\u2019s \u201cparticularly active sex life,\u201d and the gardens of \u201cvirgins\u201d Muslims will have. The Christian is jealous to boot. <\/span><\/p>\n

    (A survey should be done among Christians \u2013male and female\u2013 to find out how many prefer to lax in heaven reading past-time stories and watching lions stripping hay instead of being in the Muslim Paradise of joys beyond human comprehension, lounging on couches of velvet savoring \u201cwine\u201d from goblets of gold and silver and enjoying \u201can eternity\u201d of \u201csex\u201d. And don\u2019t forget the priests. <\/span><\/p>\n

    That Jesus says he is going to prepare a place and come back, see\u00a0<\/span>Jesus-second coming<\/a><\/span>. <\/span>According to\u00a0<\/span>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jesus already came, but was invisible; though Jesus said the people he was speaking to would see him. It must be the miracle of creation that some of those people to whom Jesus spoke are still alive and standing there waiting to see him).<\/span><\/p>\n

    In the Hindu\u00a0<\/span>Heaven<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the \u201cemancipated<\/i> soul\u201d roams the heavens, meeting other souls and sees \u201call the laws of nature in operation\u201d and \u201cacquires perfect knowledge of all hidden things\u201d (only to forget them afterwards). Imagine this soul \u2013this \u201cone ten thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size\u201d\u2013 \u2018roaming\u2019 the vast galaxies for some 3.11 trillion years. And what becomes of this soul after roaming? No one seems to know. While some say the soul returns to earth (to spend 4.<\/strong>32 billion years, perhaps some as sub-humans, to again \u2018roam\u2019 in heaven for another 3.11 trillion years, receiving the same knowledge, and forgetting. Repeating this cycle again and again. Ad infinitum<\/i>), \u201cAll other writers teach and all the world believes that the Emancipation<\/i> is that condition from which no soul returns to this world<\/i><\/strong> and becomes subject to births and deaths.\u201d In the Gita 10:28, Krishna declares, \u201camong cows I am the surabhi.\u201d<\/span> And Swami Prabhupada explains: \u201cIn Krsnaloka in the spiritual sky there are cows which can be milked at any time, and they give as much milk as one likes. Of course such cows do not exist in this material world, but there is mention of them in Krsnaloka. The Lord keeps many such cows, which are called surabhi.<\/i> It is stated that the Lord is engaged in herding the surabhi<\/i> cows.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    If man should live to be a million years, it is doubtful that he would tire of a life of affluence and would deem it \u201cinfinite misery;\u201d when in fact his rat race in this world is, without doubt, driven by his desire for a life of ease and luxury. <\/span><\/p>\n

    (A survey should be carried out to determine how many individuals would prefer the Hindu heaven\u2013 to be with Krishna \u201cherding the surabhi<\/i> cows;\u201d and to roam the heavens for 3.11 trillion years, gathering knowledge, and forgetting it\u2013 and to return to earth, possibly as sub-humans, for some four billion years dwelling in sub-standard conditions; and how many Hindus, affluent and destitute, would prefer a life in the Hindu heaven instead of life in the Muslim paradise \u2013of splendorous Gardens, fine garments and fruits, and magnificent companions for eternity). <\/span>(See also <\/span>Karma & Reincarnation<\/a><\/span>\u00a0which are not clearly stated in the Rig Veda \u2013and cardinal doctrines, as they delineate between Hell and Heaven, are to be clearly expressed\u2013 but whose origins are \u201c<\/i>very obscure\u201d and \u201cappear to have been new and strange ones, circulating among small groups of ascetics who were disinclined to make them public.\u201d (See\u00a0<\/span>Heaven\/Paradise<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (15) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cAbu Dawud (38:4477)<\/a><\/span> – Muhammad orders that a man be beaten with “whips, sticks and sandals” merely for being drunk.\u00a0 He threw dust into the face of the victim during his ordeal. \u00a0“A man who had drunk wine was brought (before him) and he ordered them (to beat him).\u00a0 So they beat him with what they had in their hands.\u00a0 Some struck him with whips, some with sticks and some with sandals.\u00a0 The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) threw some dust on his face.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>(In secular countries drunks are liable to end up in jail and perhaps fined. People who get drunk should be asked which they would prefer, to be beaten or jailed and\/or fined?)<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Every country and organization has laws that followers are required to abide by. Failure to do so results in some form of discipline. Islam allows that the drunk be beaten (not brutalized) perhaps to shame him\/her. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h, the All-knowing and the Wise, alarms us about the perils of intoxicants and gambling: \u201cIn both of them is a great sin and (some) advantage for men, and their sin is greater than their advantage;\u201d\u201cintoxicants and gambling\u2026are only an uncleanness, the devil\u2019s work; so shun it that you may succeed\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:219; 5:90).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Alcohol may gladden the heart as the Psalmist says\u2013Psalm 104:15. Alcohol also saddens the liver and loins, and dulls the head. And many have lost loved ones to this \u201cDevil\u2019s brew\u201d \u2013through drinking and drunk driving.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 While the grapes (and other fruits) in its natural form is wholesome to us \u2013a goodly provision\u2013 when we ferment it into intoxicants it becomes mostly harmful to us. (Apart from the fact that alcohol is beneficial as an antiseptic and preservative)<\/i> it has some benefits for human consumption; but as a regular drink its harm to man way outstrips its benefit \u2013its indulgence can lead to addiction, temporary loss of clear thinking and judgment, and various diseases. It may also lead to thievery (to support the habit). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Alcohol does not <\/i><\/strong>give a \u201cgood time\u201d!<\/span>Alcohol causes loss of mind, money, and manhood. <\/span>Alcohol thrusted Lot into incest with his daughters and waylaid Jesus \u2013who Christians say is \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cson of God\u201d\u2013 as \u201cwine-bibber,\u201d as the Bible says\u2013(Gen. 19:30-38; Matt. 11:19); causes cirrhosis of the liver and a host of other problems as medical research has shown. (<\/span>Sadly, some Muslims, against the clear injunctions of All\u0101h, also swallow this \u201ccorrosive\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Seemingly, women who drank \u201ceven a little alcohol while pregnant had a higher chance of their child having conduct disorder symptoms (aggressiveness, delinquency) as a teen.\u201d11<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 People may drink to escape reality. Being intoxicated: <\/span>-not knowing what you are doing or what is being done to you is not a \u201cgood time;\u201d
    \n<\/span>-vomiting, and saying thing(s) you would not normally say is not a \u201cgood time;\u2019
    \n<\/span>-doing thing(s) you would not normally do, and getting into situation(s) you would not normally get into is not a \u201cgood time\u201d\u2013there are stories of women having compromised themselves while drunk and later regretting it; not knowing whose baby you are carrying and who is carrying your baby is not a \u201cgood time\u201d
    \n<\/span><\/span>-in a drunken or drugged state, a woman may not know if she was violated or by whom or by how many, only realizing a few weeks afterwards that she was violated upon discovering being pregnant: this is perhaps the paramount reason young girls and women should avoid environments of drugs and alcohol
    \n<\/span>-waking up and feeling as if a brick wall was slammed into your head, and with your mouth tasting like sewer is not a \u201cgood time;\u201d
    \n<\/span>-children may make fun of the drunk, and dogs are known to have sprayed on the drunk as he lay senseless at the side of the street, these are not \u201cgood\u201d times.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 People would not spend precious hours and even days or weeks or months in Alcoholics Anonymous<\/i> to be rid of a \u201cgood time.\u201d As stated, alcohol may also lead to theft to support the habit. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Contrary to some opinions, this world is not a prison to Muslims. The regimentation of five daily prayers, yearly fasting for a month, restriction from intoxicants, gambling and non-marital sex is not a \u201cstrait-jacket\u201d for Muslims. Engaging in non-marital sex \u2013with the possibility of your partner having another or multiple partners, and running the risk of contracting dreaded diseases such as AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea\u2013 could not be a \u201cgood time.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Gambling away your wallet, and perhaps your dependent(s) livelihood, and ending up broke and penniless, could not be a \u201cgood time\u201d, (there are the occasional winners, but the ratio of losers to winners is staggering). <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>Intoxication, gambling and non-marital sex could not then be said to be a \u201cgood time.\u201d
    \n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 One does not need intoxicants to have a \u201cgood time.\u201d The best of times are had in sobriety. \u201cEverything is better sober.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 To those who have lost a precious member to this \u201cDevil\u2019s brew,\u201d may All\u0101h God give you patience and comfort in your loss.\u00a0It is not the \u201clast\u201d drink that is the danger. It is the \u201cfirst\u201d drink that is the danger: the \u201cfirst\u201d drink leads to another, and to another, and to\u2026\u2026. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>We have \u201calcohol free\u201d beer, \u201calcohol free\u201d champagne and \u201calcohol free\u201d wine; let us also strive to make our millennium \u201calcohol free\u201d driving.Or best yet, heed the wisdom of All\u0101h and live our lives alcohol and gambling \u201cfree.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (16) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cAdditional Notes: <\/strong>The life of Muhammad teaches that torture is sanctioned in cases of interrogation.\u00a0 The prophet of Islam did not stop his people from beating and abusing individuals in his presence when information was needed, whether it concerned a matter of sexual impropriety or the location of wealth that could be looted.\u00a0 In at least one case of the latter, he is noted to have directly ordered the torture.
    \n<\/span>Torture is also allowed when putting people to death.\u00a0 Rather than prescribing quick execution of captives, there were times in which Muhammad ordered his men to make a victim’s death as slow and agonizing as possible. In one case, Muhammad’s men literally pulled apart the body of an elderly woman named Umm Qirfa by tying her limbs to camels then sent in opposite directions (Ibn Ishaq 980<\/span>).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>As shown, there is no torture in Islam. Whatever punishment \u2013which is clearly stated for infractions\u2013 a person receives is the result of his\/her own action: he\/she invites punishment on himself\/ herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Regarding Umm Qirfa. There are materials showing that Umm Qirfa warred against the Prophet. Her followers engaged in \u201cterror\u201d against Muslims. The Prophet did not order this killing.<\/strong> She was killed then news was brought to the Prophet. And if the Prophet was pleased she was killed what is the problem? It is yet to be known that soldiers\/generals at war feeling remorse for those who had donned the garb of battle with the sole intention to annihilate them. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The manner in which Umm Qirfa was killed was the method used, seemingly, by her own people. Muhammad Ali (commenting on Qur\u2019an 16:106, speaking about Muslims accepting Islam and being tortured to recant) notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cYasir and Sumayyah, husband and wife, suffered death at the hands of the disbelievers because they would not recant, the latter being put to death most cruelly, her legs being tied to two camels which were made to run in opposite directions.<\/span><\/strong> Their son \u2018Ammar, however, was not so resolute. The cruellest persecutions were inflicted on those slaves who had become converts to Islam. Muir says: \u201cThese were seized and imprisoned, or they were exposed upon the scorching gravel of the valley to the intense glare of the midday sun. The torment was enhanced by intolerable thirst, until the wretched sufferers hardly knew what they said.\u201d Yet even under these trying circumstances, which would have maddened even the most resolute man, there were those among these slave-converts who were as firm as a mountain; as in the case of Bilal, of whom it is recorded that \u201cin the depth of his anguish the persecutors could force from him but one expression, Ahad! Ahad! <\/i>(One! One! God)\u201d (Muir).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Equally significant, (according to one source I consulted) this story about the killing of Umm Qirfa was reported by Waqidi. And Muhammad Ali notes about Waqidi: <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cAs regards Waqidi, all competent authorities entertain a very low opinion of his trustworthiness. The Mizan al-I\u2018tidal<\/i>, a critical work on the lives and characters of the reporters of hadith, speaks of Waqidi as unreliable and even as a fabricator of reports\u201d\u2013(comm. 2382, to Qur\u2019an 53:21). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (17) The critic: <\/i><\/strong>\u201cOne of the most influential Shi’a religious leaders in Iran recently<\/a><\/span> extended the validity of torture to the practice of rape of prisoners, as long as it is in defense of Islam.\u00a0 Mesbah-Yazdi said that it was advisable for the rapist to “perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner.”
    \n<\/span>Mesbah-Yazdi went on to add that “If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward <\/span>equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage<\/i> [to Mecca], but if there is no execution decreed, then the reward would be equivalent to making a pilgrimage to [the Shi’ite holy city of] Karbala.”
    \n<\/span>According to the cleric, “If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus.” When asked if the rape of men and young boy was considered sodomy, he said, “No, because it is not consensual.”\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Response: <\/i><\/span><\/strong>Islam has punishment for sodomy\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:16).
    \n<\/span>Non-consensual sex is rape!
    \n<\/span>Rape which is illegal can not give one a \u201cspiritual reward\u201d (and a Muslim is not even licensed to rape his wife, as All\u0101h created her to be mate, has put between man and woman love and compassion, and that she is a source of peace and comfort\u2013Qur\u2019an 7:189; 30:21; which condemns the act of marital rape, for the man who forces himself upon his wife, abuses her, causes her distress, or places her under duress, can not find peace and comfort in her; it is not love and compassion to force one\u2019s self onto his wife). Not even consensual illegal sex gives \u201cspiritual reward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 This Shi\u2019ah Imam can say whatever he likes. Not only is there no torture in Islam, All\u0101h tells us to \u201cGo not near to zina<\/i>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:32;<\/span> and zina <\/i>means sexual relations between people who are not married to each other); adultery\/fornication carries the penalty of maximum a hundred lashes\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:2-3); and rape is mischief in the land, which can carry the maximum penalty of death\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:33).<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h does not require Muslims to violate or compel others to accept Islam, or to \u201ctorture\u201d and \u201crape\u201d \u201cin defense of Islam;\u201d All\u0101h calls man through wisdom, reason, argument and examples: \u201cCall to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner. Surely thy Lord knows best him who strays from His path, and He knows best those who go aright\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:125).
    \n<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Islam does not seek to silence voices; Islam -the religion of wisdom, argument and example-<\/span> seeks to enhance mentality,\u00a0
    \n<\/span>This, \u201cOne of the most influential Shi’a religious leaders in Iran\u201d needs to revisit Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 (18) The critic: <\/i><\/strong> \u201cMuslim apologists often tell a different story in the West, where general phrases are designed to strategically project the impression that they oppose torture in and of itself, thus attracting the support of a broader coalition.\u00a0 (CAIR’s short-lived 2006 “Campaign against Torture” is one of the best examples of this).\u00a0 The scope of their efforts, however, rarely extend beyond condemning Western countries in general (and the US in particular).
    \n<\/span>Sympathies are also tellingly limited to the alleged treatment of Muslim terror detainees.
    \n<\/span>In fact, these organizations have very little to say about ending the less ambiguous and far more brutal human rights violations practiced by Muslim governments, even though the victims there are usually Muslim as well (such as the cleric Mesbah-Yazdi’s unfortunate victims of rape).\u00a0 The goal of these “anti-torture” campaigns is not an end to torture, but rather an attempt to capture the moral high ground on a controversial issue by exploiting Western attitudes – with no regard for the victims of true torture.
    \n<\/span>In summary, Islam is not fundamentally opposed to torture in certain circumstances, as long as it is the Muslim party applying it.\u00a0This is a good example of the many common double standards within the religion that must be recognized and brought out in the open to facilitate an honest dialogue with Islam.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/i><\/strong> <\/span>The scholars of history would submit that Muslim governments that are guilty of \u201cbrutal human rights violations\u201d are\/were propped up by foreign nations.
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0There are no \u201cdouble standards\u201d in Islam.So long as Muslims (as well as any other) are not the aggressor\/transgressor, they have every right and all rights to take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard themselves. And whereas the transgressed have the \u201cright\u201d to retaliate the transgressor has NO \u201cright\u201d to retaliate. In torturing his victim the transgressor is doubly unjust. No court of justice would give one the right to subject his victim to punishment when the victim turns on him.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 CAIR\u2019s \u201cCampaign against Torture\u201d of Muslim detainees was fully justified; and should not have been \u201cshort-lived.\u201d Injustice is the incubator of \u201cterrorism.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Islam does not need \u201capologists.\u201d There is nothing in Islam for which Muslims need to apologize. Islam needs to be explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 The comparison between Mohammad and his enemies and modern nations and their enemies is as wide apart as the earth and the heavens.
    \n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0As stated, for twenty-three grueling years Mohammad was persecuted, besieged, threatened with assassination, exiled, pursued, and warred on; and all in his own land. Given this virulently rabid environment in which Mohammad lived and its lethal dedication to extirpate him and his small band of peaceful followers, whatever measures Mohammad took to preserve himself and followers Mohammad was fully justified. And so would any individual apply himself. No honest individual would state otherwise<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Unlike Mohammad who was no transgressor, no occupier, no oppressor, no compeller; no exploiter; in contrast, there are modern nations that transgress, occupy, oppress, subvert governments, and who yet torture and kill their victims and even go beyond their borders and kill\/assassinate mere suspects and (perceived) enemies (killing innocents in their aggressions). <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 While there is no terrorism in Islam and this is not in support of terrorism, had modern nations not transgressed against Muslims \u2013stole\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Palestine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>and gave it to Jews and trying to control Muslim lands and oil (there is also Russia\u2019s massacre and occupation of Chechnya and Dagestan, and China\u2019s occupation of East Turkistan\/Uighuristan)\u2013 <\/span>there would be no Muslim retaliation. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 No \u201cWestern\u201d country would tolerate Muslims stealing their land and giving it to another and\/or allow Muslims to control their lands and\/or resources. How then can they expect Muslims to allow such travesties against us? Why should Muslims allow this? Would the West not retaliate against Muslims? Why then balk when Muslims do exactly what you would do? <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 No King or Queen or President or Prime Minister or Immigration Minister or American or English or French or Canadian or Judge or doctor or lawyer or man or woman or prince or peasant would accept for himself and herself the monumental and grotesque obscenity perpetrated \u2013and continues to be perpetrated for more than six torturous decades now\u2013<\/span> against the fearless and forbearing Palestinians.
    \n<\/span>    Palestine<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is the moral, social, historical, and spiritual heritage of Palestinians and all Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Palestine
    \n<\/span>~ <\/span>Timeless<\/span>~
    \nCelestially Ours!
    \n<\/span><\/span>Vive le Palestine libre!
    \n<\/span><\/i><\/span>Ashat Philistine Hurra!
    \n<\/span><\/i><\/span>Azaad Philistine Zindabad!
    \n<\/span><\/i><\/span>Long live free Palestine!
    \n<\/span><\/i>Who will be the next Saladin?<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 And Muslims have every right and all rights and the Highest Authority \u2013the Divine Authority: Qur\u2019an 2:190; 60:8-9\u2013 to undertake the noble armed Jihad to liberate and control our lands and affairs and resources. All the way to the Resurrection if need be. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 And Muslims will prevail. Muslims are destined to be success-ful, victorious, and triumphant: \u201cO man, We have not revealed the Qur\u2019an to thee that thou mayest be unsuccessful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 20:1-2); \u201cAll\u0101h has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will surely make them rulers\u201d \u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:55). \u201cSurely All\u0101h will not fail in (His) promise;\u201d \u201cAll\u0101h is the Friend of the dutiful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 13:31; 45:19). <\/span><\/span>Muslim history is testimony to this Divine truth. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/span>Those who pride themselves on military might for aggression, subjugation and exploitation need to spade through the rubble of time and dialogue with the Caesars and the Chosroes and the Pharaohs. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>As stated at the beginning, if one would give to others the right(s) he exacts for himself there will be no transgression, no retaliation, no torture, and no \u201cterrorism.\u201d Billions will not be blown battling \u201cterrorism!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 Had the enemies of Mohammad\/Islam not resorted to the sword against Mohammad, Mohammad would have had no need or justification in taking up the sword in self-defense: \u201c<\/span>And fight in the way of All\u0101h against those who fight against you but be not <\/i>aggressive. Surely All\u0101h loves not the aggressors\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:190). \u201cPermission (to fight) is given to those on whom war is made, because they are oppressed. And surely All\u0101h is Able to assist them\u201d\u2014<\/span>Those who are driven from their homes without a just cause except that they say: Our Lord is All\u0101h. And if All\u0101h did not repel some people by others, cloisters, and churches, and synagogues, and mosques in which All\u0101h\u2019s name is much remembered, would have been pulled down. And surely All\u0101h will help him who helps Him. Surely All\u0101h is Strong, Mighty\u2013(Qur\u2019an 22:39-40).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 This fighting is to cease if the aggressors seek peace: \u201cAnd if All\u0101h had pleased, He would have given them power over you, so that they would have fought you. So if they withdraw from you and fight you not and offer you peace, then All\u0101h allows you no way against them<\/i>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:90). \u201cAnd if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it<\/i>, and trust in All\u0101h. Surely He is the Hearer, the Knower\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 8:61).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h requires that men be given their dues and that justice be given to all: \u201cAnd, O my people, give full measure and weight justly, and defraud not men of their things, and act not corruptly\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in the land, making mischief\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 11:85; 17:35).
    \n\u201cO you who believe, be maintainers of justice, bearers of witness for All\u0101h, even though it be against your own selves or (your) parents or near relatives \u2014 whether he be rich or poor, All\u0101h has a better right over them both.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>So follow not (your) low desires, lest you deviate. And if you distort or turn away from (truth), surely All\u0101h is ever Aware of what you do\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:135; 4:58; 5:8).
    \n\u201cSurely All\u0101h enjoins justice and the doing of good (to others) and the giving to the kindred, and He forbids indecency and evil and rebellion. He admonishes you that you may be mindful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:90).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 There is no system on the face of this earth that is more equitable and just than\u00a0<\/span>Shari\u2019ah<\/a><\/span>.
    \n<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Islam, which prohibits aggression, transgression, occupation, compulsion, and exploitation <\/span>\u2013lofty precepts which seem alien to modern nations or which they seem incapable of honoring\u2013<\/span> is<\/i> the <\/span>RELIGION OF PEACE!<\/span><\/p>\n

    *<\/span><\/p>\n

    APPENDIX<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    As Jesus came to uphold the law of the Old Testament so much so that heaven and earth shall pass, as he declared, but not one jot or title shall not pass till they all be fulfilled\u2013(Matt. 5:17-18). Thus, if Jesus\/Christianity was lording America or Europe or any place else. And as Christians say that Jesus is God. Thus,<\/span>\u00a0 if Jesus\/Christianity was lording America (or any place)<\/span><\/p>\n

    -men would be able to commit incest with their daughters, as Lot\u2013(Gen. 20:11-12; Gen. 19:30-37); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -slavery will be revived\u2013(Lev. 25:44); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -children will be punished for their parents \u201cwhoredoms\u201d\u2013(Num. 14:33-34. Also Rev. 2:20-23); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -decapitation will be allowed: \u201cAnd the Lord said unto Moses, take ALL THE HEADS of the people and HANG THEM UP before the Lord against the sun\u201d\u2013(Num. 25:4); <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    –<\/span>disbelievers will be killed\u2013(Deut. 13:12-16); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -the wife who tried to defend her husband by grabbing the testicles of her husband\u2019s opponent will lose her hand\u2013(Deut. 25:11-12); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -cannibalism will be legal\u2013(Deut. 28:53, 57; 2 Kings 6:28-29);\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    -It would be legal to terrorized, slay, poison and feed worship-pers of false gods to beasts: \u201cThey (Jeshurun and his children) have moved me (God) to jealousy with that which is not God\u2026I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them\u2026I will also send the teeth of beasts<\/i> upon them, with the poison of serpents<\/i> of the dust. The sword<\/i> without, and terror <\/i>within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs\u201d\u2013(Deut. 32: 15-25); <\/span>it will be legal to mutilate enemies: (The Israelites asked God \u201cWho shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them\u201d to occupy their land) \u201cAnd the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand\u2026and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men\u2026and they pursued after him (Adonibezek), and caught him and CUT OFF HIS THUMBS and his GREAT TOES. And Adonibezek said, THREE SCORE AND TEN kings, having their THUMBS and their GREAT TOES CUT OFF\u201d\u2013(Judges 1:1-7. Islam only allows a defensive fighting and certainly not to \u201cgo up\u201d and kill people to occupy their lands); <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be legal to slay even the \u201cinfant and suckling\u201d in war\u2013(1 Samuel 15:2-3); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be legal to take men\u2019s wives and give them in adult-ery because of their husband\u2019s infidelity\u2013(2 Samuel 12:7-11);
    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be legal to cut prisoners with \u201csaws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes\u201d\u2013(2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chron. 20:3); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be legal to expose one\u2019s self to others\u2013(2 Samuel 6:14-22); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -as Solomon had \u201cseven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines\u201d there will be unbridled polygamy and concubinage\u2013(1 Kings 11:3); <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    -Christians would be allowed to feed mischievous children to bears: \u201cthere came forth little children\u2026and mocked him (Elisha). And he\u2026cursed them in the name of the Lord, and there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them\u201d\u2013(2 Kings 2:22-24);<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

    –<\/span>Christians would be allowed to wash their feet in the blood of the wicked\u2013(Psalms 58:10); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be happiness to mutilate \u201clittle ones\u201d and ravish the wives of others\u2013(Psalm 137:9; Isaiah 13:16);<\/span><\/p>\n

    -it would be legal to kill fetus during war\u2013(Isaiah 13:15, 18; Hosea 13:16); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Woman would be seen and not heard and her daughter bondaged\u2013(Gen. 3:16; Ex. 21:7; Ephesians 5:22-23, 33); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -wives will have to learn in silence and subjection, and to not \u201cusurp authority over the man\u201d\u2013(1 Tim. 2:11-12); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -women and children will be beaten with \u201call gravity\u201d to bring them into obedience and into silence and subjection\u2013(Prov. 13:24; 19:18; 23:13-14. 1 Tim. 3:4; Heb. 12:6-8. And without doubt every \u201cChristian\u201d husband wants to deliver his stubborn and rebellious wife\u2019s \u201csoul from hell\u201d); <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    –<\/span>daughters who commit \u201cwhoredom\u201d will be burned\u2013(Gen 38:24; Lev. 21:9); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -blasphemers, apostates, married damsel without the \u201ctoken of virginity,\u201d and the virginal damsel who lies with a man other than her \u201cbetrothed,\u201d stubborn and rebellious sons, and the adulteress would all be stoned to death\u2013(Lev. 24:11-16, 23; Deut; 13:5-16; 17:2-5; Deut. 22:20-21; 22:23-24; 21:18-21; John 8:3-5); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -the witch, one who curses his father or mother, the adulterer, homosexuals, and the man who commits bestiality would be put to death\u2013(Ex. 22:18; Lev. 20:9; 10-12; Deut. 22:22; Lev. 20:13; 15-16); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -a man who takes a \u201cwife and her mother\u201d both would be torched\u2013(Lev. 20:14); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -(as only Christians honor Christ as God\/son of God) Christi-ans are to bondage their fellow Christians\u2013Ephesians 6:5; Colos-sians 3:22); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -their prophets can walk \u201cnaked and barefoot\u201d and can lead prisoners and captives, \u201cyoung and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered\u2013(Isaiah 20:2-4); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Christians would agree with their adversaries which would include agreeing with all kinds of injustices\u2013(Matt. 5:25; perhaps this is what the Church and Christian Europe were doing when the Nazis were holocausting Jews); <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    –<\/span>those who do not share the Christians\u2019 views would be labeled as being \u201cagainst\u201d them, and enemies opposed to rule would be slaughtered\u2013(Matt. 12:30; Luke 19:27; the Crusades will now be rolling out of America to secure Jerusalem for Christ\u2019s landing; we might even get an American \u201cHitler\u201d to avenge the killing of the Christian\u2019s God\/son of God);<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    -men and women would have to remain in their marriage regardless of how loveless and miserable or risk being guilty of \u201cadultery;\u201d and the divorced woman would have to wilt her (youthful and beautiful) self in single-hood or her new husband will be charged with \u201cadultery\u201d\u2013(Matt. 5:32; Luke 16:18); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -woman would be reduced as an object for sex, good only \u201cto avoid fornication\u2013(1 Cor 7:1-2); viewed as inferior to man\u2013(1 Cor. 11:7-9); as the transgressor and betrayer of man\u2013(1 Tim. 2:14; Gen. 3:4-12; Ezek. 16:44); as \u201cdefiler\u201d of man\u2013(Rev. 7:4-8; 14:3-4); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -as no one would be allowed to shovel treasures into earthly storehouses and would have to depend on God as he sends to the birds and flowers and thus no need for knowledge America will plummet like a lead-ball from the pinnacle of progress into the black-hole of backwardness\u2013(Matt. 6:19, 25-26); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -the Geneva convention on war would have to be re-written, for it would be legal to slay all the soldiers of war as well as slay all the male and matron women and take the virgin girls as sex slaves (and as Christians say Jesus is God this is what Jesus commanded): \u201cAnd they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses\u2026And Moses said unto them\u2026Now therefore kill every MALE among the LITTLE ONES (of the captives), and kill EVERY WOMAN who hath known man by lying with him, but ALL THE WOMEN CHILDREN, that have not known a man by lying with him (virgin girls) KEEP ALIVE FOR YOURSELVES<\/strong>\u2026.and of WOMEN that had not known man by lying with him (virgin girls), were 32,000\u201d<\/strong>\u2013(Numbers 31:1-53). (See\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Christianity-sex slaves & prepubescent girls<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

    (Non-Christians should go down on their hands and knees and forehead and thank All\u0101h, God, that America, and nowhere else, is governed by Jesus\/Christianity. They would have to high-tail it out of America or kiss the useless and unGodly crucifix or have their heads lopped off, or in the case of Jews in 1400\u2019s Vienna face the furnace: <\/span>In Vienna \u201chundreds of Jews were burned alive in 1421 for refusing to convert to Christianity,\u201d Toronto Star,<\/i> Sat;\u00a0<\/i>Sept; 8, 2007; p. AA2; Pontiff shows\u2026<\/i>by Tracy Wilkinson).<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    If Judaism\/Moses was lording America or any place else he would do everything that Jesus would have done, as noted above, except that of the Gospels. <\/span><\/p>\n

    If Islam\/Mohammad (not to be confused with Muslims though Muslims are to reflect the teachings of Islam) was lording America or any place else: <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 –<\/span><\/span>women<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and men would be observing a dress code (which probably all disciplined organizations have) \u2013women, the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hijab<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and jalaba and men, (the minimum) the area between, and including, the navel and the knees and half of the chest;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    –<\/span>women<\/a><\/span>\u00a0will be given all the rights due to her and leave her nothing for which to strive; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -there would be limited\u00a0<\/span>polygamy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to alleviate female preponderancy; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -non-Muslims would be governed by the laws of their scripture (to an extent); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -there would be no\u00a0<\/span>Alcohol<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(one does not need intoxicants to have a good time; in fact intoxicants do not <\/i>give a \u201cgood time\u201d: the best of times are had in sobriety); <\/span><\/p>\n

    -there will be no \u00a0<\/span>Gambling<\/a><\/span>; no pornography; no prostitution and thus no pimping; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -thieves (depending on the reason for theft and cost of item) will lose their hands (law-abiding citizens will be much safer and secure, and wouldn\u2019t need to imprison themselves in gated communities) (see\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Islam-amputation, dismemberment<\/a><\/span>). <\/span><\/p>\n

    -drug-lords and pushers and rapists and other \u201cdead-weight\u201d of society who strive to make mischief in the land and prey on the vulnerable of society run the risk of getting the maximum sentence of crucifixion; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -men will NOT be saddled with alimony payments for his ex-wife\u2019s unmarried life; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -there will be one law for the commoner as well as for the elite (there will be no diplomatic immunity)<\/span>; <\/span><\/p>\n

    -adulterers and fornicators will be publicly flogged (there is no death for adultery, apostasy and blasphemy, and no honor killing in Islam. See\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Islam-Shari\u2019ah<\/a><\/span>). (For a woman\u2019s testimony being half of a man\u2019s, wife-beating, women\u2019s movement restricted, woman\u2019s inheritance half of a man\u2019s see\u00a0<\/span>Islam-women<\/a><\/span>). <\/span>(For a refutation of charges against the Qur\u2019an see <\/span>Qur\u2019an<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Qur\u2019an-comments & errors<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Christian-critics<\/a>; <\/span>Qur\u2019an-Satanic verses<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Qur\u2019an-evil verses<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Unlike the Christians\u2019 Jesus who would have man in regress and dependency \u2013as no one would be allowed to shovel treasures into earthly storehouses and would have to depend on God as he sends to the birds and flowers and thus no need for knowledge\u2013(Matt. 6:19, 25-26)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad,<\/span><\/i> through the Blessed\u00a0<\/span>Qur\u2019an<\/a><\/span>, brought the world to our feet and eternity to our arms, and gave us to drink of the fountain of knowledge and truth and wisdom and reason, of peace and love and hope and mercy and forgiveness, and he sent man soaring from the belly of ignorance and backwardness into the mouth of quest and progress. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>liberated man from the irrationality of polytheism, the futility and degradation of idolatry, the humiliation of superstition, the phantasm of paganism \u2013of Gods of the womb and dying Gods and sons of God\u2013and took God from the bosom of nationalism and sat Him aloft on the Mount of Universalism; extols that everything in the heavens and the earth were created for our use and that the only presence greater than us is God and thus the only One worthy of worship; that one is better only by faith and deeds; to fulfill covenants and to keep oaths and not to be deceptive; to give justice even if it be against one\u2019s self or parents or kins or whether he be poor or rich; not to act corruptly in the earth or to make mischief; not to be transgressors; not to help one another in sin and aggression; to restrain anger and forgive others; to fight on behalf of the oppressed; to be merciful and forgiving; to fight only as long as there is persecution and oppression and to make peace when the enemy desires peace; to return evil with that which is better; gives freedom of conscience; rescues the orphan, ennobles the slave, extricated\u00a0<\/span>woman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from the grave of infanticide and unchained her from the shackles of marital chatteldom and enthrones her alongside man from the cradle to paradise; instills in man morality, sobriety, and chastity, and impels him to personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual excellence. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>embraced all the prophets of all the nations and removed the cloak of \u201csinfulness\u201d hurled upon them. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>not only preached forgiveness but he forgave his most horrid enemies. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>not only preached love of enemies and loved his enemies, but also made them beneficiaries in his kingdom. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>not only preached the giving of charity and gave charity, but also bought slaves their freedom, and assigned a portion of the States\u2019 funds for the poor. <\/span><\/p>\n

    -Mohammad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>\u201cdisabused our minds\u201d: he made us too cultured to deliver our souls into the hands of gods born of the womb \u2013helpless, defenceless gods; gods who themselves sought nourishment and protection\u2013<\/span> and he hung the millstone of responsibility for our actions snugly around our own necks \u2013that there is no \u201cscape-goat\u201d on which to cruise on into heaven: every person must pave his own pathway into Paradise.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

    –Mohammad<\/i><\/span> freed us from stone-worship, star-worship, sun-worship, spirit-worship, nature-worship, hum-an-worship, and sat us high on the pinnacle of pure worship (that the only presence greater than ourselves is God; the worship) of the One True God \u2013Who has no partner or parent, nor son or daughter; Who was not in the womb of a woman, Who was not born, nor ate, slept, drank, nor answered the calls of nature, nor died or was killed\u2013 the God Who is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omni-present, the God Who is the Ultimate in Purity and Perfection and Who never dies\u2013 <\/span>All\u0101h! <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Only the occupier\/usurper, the oppressor, the exploiter, the transgressor, those ignorant of Islam, those dedicated to falsehood and those dedicated to living off the blood of others are terrified of Islam. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 If Europe (and elsewhere) is Islamized it will be doing Europe an invaluable service, foremost by freeing \u201cChristians\u201d of their paganism<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cTHEY <\/span>(Muhummed\u2019s critics)<\/span> SEE FIRE INSTEAD OF LIGHT, UGLINESS INSTEAD OF GOOD. THEY DISTORT AND PRESENT EVERY GOOD QUALITY AS A GREAT VICE. IT REFLECTS THEIR OWN DEPRAVITY\u2026THE CRITICS ARE BLIND. THEY CANNOT SEE THAT THE ONLY \u2018SWORD\u2019 MUHAMMAD WIELDED WAS THE SWORD OF MERCY, COMPASSION, FRIENDSHIP AND FORGIVENESS\u2013THE SWORD THAT CONQUERS ENEMIES AND PURIFIES THEIR HEARTS<\/span>. HIS SWORD WAS SHARPER THAN THE SWORD OF STEEL.\u201d<\/span> <\/span>12<\/span><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    If\u00a0 TheReligionofPeace<\/span><\/a> is looking for a cause on which to immortalize his name, demonizing All\u0101h\/Mohammad\/Islam will not accomplish it for him; he will fail miserably. <\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h \u2013the God Who creates out of love; has inscribed mercy on Himself; Whose mercy precedes His anger; Who forgives all sins altogether; invites us in loving, compassionate terms to forgive us our sins; Who exalts man not by his nationality but by his faith in Him and good deeds and rewards each good deed up to seven-hundred fold and requites evil with just its like; Who admonishes against corruption, mischief, aggression, treachery and transgression; allows defensive fighting only to stem aggression and persecution; gives man freedom of conscience; counsels forgiveness rather than retaliation; to make peace even in the face of possible deception by the enemy; admonishes us to let not hatred incite us to transgress; and requires the administering of justice even if it be against one\u2019s own self\u2013<\/span>is demon-proof. <\/span><\/p>\n

    In fact, (unless TheReligionofPeace<\/span><\/a> is a bigger \u201cdevil\u201d) All\u0101h is of such Purity \u201cthe devils also believe (in God), and tremble\u201d13<\/span><\/sup> at His Majesty and Magnificence: \u201cLike the devil when he says to man: Disbelieve. But when he disbelieves, he (the devil) says: I am free of thee: surely I fear All\u0101h, the Lord of the worlds\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 59:16). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    In the annals of modern history there is no people who have suffered more and for so long as the fearless and forbearing\u00a0<\/span>Palestinians<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>have suffered and for more than six torturous decades now \u2013which no King or Queen or Prime Minister or President or Immigration minister or MP or MPP or peasant or critic or columnist or author would accept for himself and herself.
    \n<\/span><\/span>If there is any cause on which to immortalize our names it is the cause of the\u00a0<\/span>    Palestinians<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Those who endeavor to demonize All\u0101h\/Mohammad\/ Islam are only impaling their souls on the flames of <\/span>Hell<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

    *<\/span><\/p>\n

    NOTES<\/span><\/p>\n

    A.<\/span> <\/span>\u201cLet your women keep silence in the churches: for it is NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK; but they are COMMANDED to be under obedience, as also saith the LAW. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at HOME: FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH\u201d\u2013(1 Cor. 14:34-35. Today this law is violated and women are preachers in the Church).<\/span> Clearly, permission to employ whatever methods are necessary to \u201crule\u201d over the wife and to bring\/keep her in \u201csilence and in \u201call subjection\u2019 are inherent and enshrined in these words of God and Paul.
    \nTo take the matter further, authority for employing corporal punishment to discipline the rebellious wife who does not desire to be \u201cruled\u201d over in \u201csilence\u201d and \u201call subjection\u201d may be gleaned from the Biblical verses on child-rearing. God (and as Christians say Jesus is God, then Jesus) says: \u201cHe that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes;\u201d \u201cChasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying;\u201d \u201cWithhold not correction from the child: for if you beatest him with the rod, he shall not die, Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell\u201d (and without doubt every \u201cChristian\u201d husband wants to deliver his stubborn\/rebellious wife\u2019s \u201csoul from hell\u201d)\u2013(Proverbs 13:24; 19:18; 23:13-14).
    \nA Bishop is to be \u201cOne that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with ALL GRAVITY\u201d\u2013(1 Tim. 3:4).
    \nEven God beats and scourges His sons into obedience and those who are not are \u201cbastards\u201d: \u201cFor whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are partakers, then are ye BASTARDS, and NOT SONS\u201d\u2013(Hebrews 12:6-8).
    \nThus one can imagine what latitude the Christian husband is allowed to bring\/keep his wayward wife in all subjection and for him to become a \u201cBishop\u201d and even to get into heaven to sit \u201con the right hand of God.\u201d A survey of wives of all Christian sects can be conducted to find out how many were \u201cbeaten\u201d into \u201csilence\u201d and \u201call subjection.\u201d Surely, not all the \u201cbattered\u201d wives in Western countries are non-Christians.<\/p>\n

    1. Muhammad Ali, Qur\u2019anic comm. 1736 (Qur\u2019an 24:2).<\/p>\n

    2. Ibid; comm. 1738 (Qur\u2019an 24:4).<\/p>\n

    3. Muhammad Husayn Haykal, The Life of Muhammad, p. 373.<\/p>\n

    4. Ibid; pp. 366-367.<\/p>\n

    5. Ibid; pp. 370-371.<\/p>\n

    6. Ibid; p. 373.<\/p>\n

    7. Ibid; p. 373.<\/p>\n

    8. Ibid; p. 374.<\/p>\n

    8A. Al-Hakim, cited in, Mubarak Ali, The Muslim Handbook, p. 288.<\/p>\n

    9. \u201cBut Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked\u2026They provoked him (God) to jealousy with strange gods\u2026he (God) abhorred them, because of the provoking of his (Jeshurun\u2019s) sons, and of his daughters\u2026I will heap mischief upon them\u2026I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust\u201d\u2013(Deut. 32:15-25).<\/p>\n

    10. \u201cthere came forth little children\u2026and mocked him (Elisha). And he\u2026cursed them in the name of the Lord, and there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them\u201d\u2013(2 Kings 2:22-24).<\/p>\n

    11. Jennifer Walker, Best Health, magazine, March\/April 2009; p. 23. Ms. Walker cites a \u201crecent study.\u201d<\/p>\n

    12. Pandit Gyanandra Dev Sharma Shastri, at a meeting in Gorakhpur, [India]. 1928. Quoted in Ahmed Deedat, Muhummed The Greatest, p. 37.<\/p>\n

    13. The Bible, James 2:19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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