1. Islām Condemns Terrorism
All praise is due to Almighty God (Allah) who
sent his Prophet Muhammad as a mercy to the
creation. He is the same God that sent Noah,
Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all the Prophets –
may the peace and blessings of God be upon all
of them, for they are brothers to one another,
their mothers may be different, but their
religion is one.
That which has taken place in Kenya of mass
killing of students in the name of Islam is the
end result of being deceived by Satan who has
beautified terrorism and mindless killing in the
minds of those who perpetrated these crimes.
We announce without any reservation that the
Islam that our Prophet Muhammad (may the
peace and blessings of God be upon him) came
with is completely innocent of the deeds of the
terrorists and their wicked ideology that makes
permissible the killing of innocent people.
Those who perpetrated these acts have no
share of the knowledge, kindness and mercy
that was a hallmark of our noble Prophet and
of the Prophets who came before him. When
the Prophet Muhammad migrated to the city of
Medina after being expelled from his home in
Mecca, one of the Jewish Rabbis of Medina,
Abdullah Ibn Salam, said:
“The Prophet came to Medina and the
Jews were apprehensive so I went to see
him and when I saw him, I knew straight
away that was not the face of a liar. I
heard him say: ‘Keep the family ties, pray
to your Lord whilst the rest of the people
sleep and spread the salaam
(salutations).”
It was after this that Abdullah Ibn Salam
became a Muslim.
The Prophet Muhammad foretold the rise of a
terrorist sect at the end of time in his saying:
“There will appear a people at the end of
time, young in age and foolish in
thought. They will speak with the best of
speech amongst the creation, yet faith
will not sink beyond their collarbones.
They will exit the religion just as an
arrow goes through it target.” (Collected
by Bukhari and Muslim)
This sect is known for its ignorance, foolishness,
haste and violence. They describe their actions
as Jihad, but in reality nothing could be further
from the truth. What they engage in is murder,
destruction and mass killing.
The great Salafi scholar and former Mufti of
Saudi Arabia, Ibn Baz stated in the 1990’s
concerning terrorism and those perpetrate it:
“And there is no doubt that this act can
only be undertaken by one who does not
believe in Almighty God or the Last Day.
You will not find anyone who believes in
God, or the Last Day with correct and
sound belief performing this criminal and
vile act due to which great harm and
corruption has occurred. Only vile souls,
which are filled with enmity, jealousy,
evil, corruption and absence of faith in
God and His Messenger, can perform the
likes of these acts. We ask God for
wellbeing and safety.”
He also said,
“And there is no doubt that this is from
the greatest of crimes and from the
greatest types of corruption in the earth.
And those who perform the likes of this
are more deserving of being killed and
being restrained on account of what they
have committed of great sin. We ask God
that He makes them lose their efforts
and shackles them and their likes and
that He saves us from their evil and the
evil of those like them, and that He
utterly destroys their plots, indeed He is
Lofty and Majestic, and Generous and
Kind.” (Majmu Fatawa Ibn Baz 9/253-255).
The Salafi Scholar of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Dr.
Salih Al-Fawzan stated (slightly abridged):
“So there are extremists who obligate
Jihād in any and every situation without
applying any pre-conditions or principles.
They do so even if the Muslims are weak
and powerless, and even if they do not
have a Ruler over them. So each one
fights the “enemy” and engages in
battles and skirmishes without a
legitimate rulership, and they kill the
non-Muslims whom it is not permissible
to kill. They kill people who have a treaty
with the Muslim countries and they kill
those who are protected by agreements
and covenants. So this is extremism and
not Jihād. Rather, these extremists go
even further by blowing up homes,
residential buildings and built-up areas
of cities. They kill Muslims and non-
Muslims, young and old, males and
females, mercilessly. They put terror and
fear into the Muslims and non-Muslims
who live under the protection of the
Muslim governments. Then they have
the audacity to call that Jihād! Rather
that is corruption and not Jihād. They
draw the Muslims into evil, destruction
and ruination. Jihād has pre-conditions
and governing principles that are made
clear in the books of Quranic
Commentary, Prophetic Tradition and
Islamic Jurisprudence.”
The appearance of the ideology of Al-Shabab
(Somalia), ISIS (Syria and Iraq), Boko Haram
(Nigeria) and Al-Qaeda in the 21st Century is
not a new phenomenon. Muslim governments
over centuries have encountered these types
of rebellious movements known in Islamic
terminology as the Khārijites. Along with the
Shi’ītes (embodied in the modern-day Iranian
regime), these Khārijites have never
recognized any legitimacy except their own.
Their goal being to seize power and to establish
a regime of merciless brutality, in the name of
“justice”! The great Salafi scholar and historian,
Ibn Kathīr, who died over seven centuries ago
penned the following words that resonate
strongly in our times, and one senses the deep
insight of this scholar. He said, regarding the
Khārijites:
“If they ever gained strength, they would
surely corrupt the whole of the earth,
including Iraq and Syria. They would not
leave alone a child, whether male or
female, neither a man or a woman. This is
because as far as they are concerned the
people have caused corruption. A corruption
that cannot be fixed except by mass
killing!“ (See Al-Bidāyah, 10/584-585).
This is a bleak reminder of what can befall
nations if these extremists are allowed to
flourish without restraint.
Today, we are witnessing the fulfillment of
these words of Ibn Kathīr at the hands of Al-
Shabab and Boko Haram and other terrorist
insurgencies in Africa, the Middle-East and
elsewhere. These murderers who, in the name
of Islām, have instituted the mass killing of
people on the basis that rectification cannot
take place except by the death of the masses.
The killings perpetrated by Al-Shabab and Boko
Haram and other extremist groups is worse
than the murder committed by the sinners,
because the sinners do not claim that they have
license to kill from God, whilst the extremists
claim that God Almighty Himself has
commanded them with this slaughter, and
therefore they believe they are doing God’s
work! For this reason, the response to this
extremist ideology must be well thought out,
robust and rooted in Islamic doctrine. At the
theological level, the extremists must be
combatted with Quranic and Prophetic
narrations backed up by the sayings and
writings of the earliest generations of Muslim
scholars. This has a two-fold effect. Firstly: It
helps to shut down the Jihādist propaganda
machine that claims to be following the Qurān
and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad
(which is, of-course, untrue). Secondly: When
unsuspecting Muslim youth hear and read
these refutations, they will see through the
false arguments of the extremists. Another
benefit here is that the non-Muslims who have
been presented with an unsightly image of
Islam will realize that these terrorists do not
represent Islam and have in actuality marred
the beauty of the Islamic religion.
2. Recognizing an Extremist or one who is
being Groomed into Violent Extremism
There are certain signs and signals that are
apparent in an extremist that are recognizable
for the one who knows what to look for.
Recognizing these signs is essential in
combatting radicalization of Muslim youth in
the West. To list just a few of those traits:
They focus the youth constantly upon the
political situation of the Muslim regimes and
the Middle-East, and making that the centre-
point of religious
Openly rebuking the Muslim rulers whom
they regard to be tyrants, and calling for
rebellion in Muslim countries, under the
banner, “judgement is for Allāh” – a phrase
misappropriated by the extremists, and
misused.
Praising the heads of extremist ideologies
such as Sayyid Qutb (died 1966). Qutb is
revered by Jihadists all around the world
from Ibn Laden and Aiman Az-Zawahīrī to
Anwar Al-Awlakī and Abu Qatada. He was a
prominent leader of the Egyptian group, “The
Muslim Brotherhood”. His writings are
widespread and translated into dozens of
languages including English. The US-born
Yemeni terrorist, Anwar Al-Awlakī once
boasted that he was so immersed in the
writings of Sayyid Qutb that he felt the
presence of Qutb with him in his prison cell!
Extremists (Khārijites) and those under their
influence are distinguished with the trait of
declaring Muslims who contradict their
political world-view as unbelievers and
apostates. They see the Muslim rulers who
commit sins or acts of tyranny to be
unbelievers. The declaring of Muslims to be
unbelievers is referred to in Islamic
terminology as Takfī For this reason, the
extremists are often referred to as Takfīrites.
Extremists will quite often glorify the acts of
violence perpetrated by “Jihādist” groups,
whether it be suicide bombings, beheading of
hostages, killing of non-Muslims, etc. One
does not see in their speech the
condemnation of violent extremism or its
figureheads.
3. One must not be Deceived by the
Extremists due to their Outward Display of
Piety
Over a thousand years ago, the Salafi scholar,
Al-Ājurrī said regarding the extremist
insurgents:
“Neither the scholars of old nor of these
times, ever differed about the Khārijites.
They regarded them as an evil people
who were disobedient to Allāh and His
Messenger even though they prayed,
fasted and exerted themselves in
worship. And all of this was of no benefit
to them.” (Ash-Sharī’ah 1/135)
Another scholar, Ibn Al-Jawzī (died 1200CE)
said:
“They permitted the killing of children,
yet they did not allow the eating of any
fruits of trees without paying for it! They
tired themselves out with worship, and
would frequently stay awake, yet they
raised their swords against the Muslims.
Even Satan himself could not have
imagined the extent of their evil!” (Talbīs
Iblīs, p. 91)
4. What Can I Do If I Know Of Extremists
Who Are Inciting Or Plotting Terrorist
Attacks?
The Salafi position regarding those who incite
or plan terrorist acts such as suicide bombings,
kidnapping or killing is that Muslims should
inform the authorities. This is regardless of
whether these acts are perpetrated in Muslim
or non-Muslim countries. Muslim communities
must be at the forefront of stamping out these
non-Islamic acts that are done falsely in the
name of Islām. The Prophet (may the peace
and blessings of God be upon him) said: “There
is not a people amongst whom sins are
committed, and they are stronger than those
who commit them yet they do not prevent
them, except that Allāh sends His punishment
upon them all.” The Messenger (may the peace
and blessings of God be upon him) described
these Khārijites, explaining that they have no
understanding of Islām. He said:
“They will recite the Qurān but it will not
go beyond their throats. They will exit
the Religion just as an arrow passes
swiftly through its target.”
Parents too have a mighty responsibility to
cultivate their children upon the true and
correct Salafi understanding of Islām, so that
they are not deceived by these impostors.
5. Salafi Islām Demands That The Muslims
Deal Justly And Kindly With The Non-
Muslims
Allāh has stated in the Qurān:
“Allāh does not forbid you to deal justly
and kindly with those who did not fight
against you on account of Religion, and
they did not drive you out of your homes.
Indeed Allāh loves those who deal with
equity.” (Qurān 60:8-9)
The Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and
blessings of God be upon him) explained to his
Disciples that which was revealed in the Qurān,
and they in turn, acted in accordance to that.
The Prophet (may the peace and blessings of
God be upon him) would never harm women,
children and non-combatants, and he forbade
others from that. He would sometimes
establish treaties with the severest of enemies
hoping that some good would result from it. He
made peace treaties with the Jews of Madinah,
the idol-worshippers of Makkah and with the
Christians. These are undeniable facts. Islām is
not, as is asserted by some, a blood-thirsty
religion, nor does Islām desire fighting just for
the sake of fighting. Unfortunately, the
modern-day “Extremist-Islamists” have marred
the beauty of Islām, distorted the concept of
Jihād and turned countless people away from
looking into the true message of the Prophet
Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of
God be upon him).
Allah stated in the Quran the following words
that are a guide for every true believer:
“Indeed in the Messenger of Allāh, you
have a fine example.” (Qurān 33:21)
“Call to the Path of your Lord, with
wisdom and a good admonition. And
debate with them with that which is
best.” (Quran 16:125)
“And who is better in statement than he
who calls to Allah and does righteous
deeds.” (Quran 41:33)
“And by the Mercy of Allah, you (O
Prophet) dealt with them gently. And had
you been severe and harsh-hearted, they
would have broken away from about you
so pass over their faults, and ask Allah’s
forgiveness for them and consult them in
the affairs.” (Quran 3:159)
And there is the statement of Allah, the Mighty
and Majestic, when He sent Moses and Aaron
to the Pharaoh:
“So speak to him with a word that is soft,
so that perhaps he may remember or
fear (his Lord).” (Quran 20:44)
We ask Almighty God (Allah) to enable every
Muslim and non-Muslim to fully understand
these words and to comprehend the true
Islamic position with respect to the people of
misguidance. We also ask Him to grant every
person the ability to grasp the true message
and beauty of Islam as it was revealed to the
noble Prophet of Islam.
Indeed all praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of
all creation – and may peace and blessings be
upon the Prophet, his family, his Companions
and those who follow him precisely until the
Day of Judgement.

Source: www.abukhadeejah.com/the-salafi-condemnation-of-the-terrorist-attacks-in-kenya/

Pat on the wrist!

Mshhhw

They are cheering the brave matyrs

What they stand to gain by an unjust, cowardly attack on an educational institution is beyond any logic or reason. The ignorant khawarij were totally decimated in the time of Ali bin abi Talib, by knowledgeable muslims led by the Sahaba. Nowadays, we have too few muslims of knowledge to counter their influence.

I watched a YouTube video of an old granny lecturing ISIS members on their behaviour, using verses of the Qur'an. They could not even justify their actions, or refute her accusations with a single verse. They are all enthusiasm and no knowledge.

May Allah enter their minds to stop this fitnah.