Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi on the theological masters who provide basis for militants
... It cannot be denied that Indian ulema— the
religious guides of Muslim youth—have been vehemently opposed to the brainless
acts of violence including the Pakistani terror attacks juxtaposed with jihad
and martyrdom. Recently, Mufti Mohammed Salim Noori, the spokesperson of a
leading Indian Islamic seminary stated in his fatwa that, “the terrorists like
Hafiz Saeed are beyond the pale of Islam”. He wrote the harshest words against
Saeed stating that “he spilled innocent blood in the name of religion” and that
“it is sin for the common public to listen to his hate speeches” — a Firstpost article has
detailed it.
But these
condemnations have proven ineffective in the series of wanton jihadist
bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir. The more strongly they condemn, the more deadly
attacks the Pakistani Jihadists launch on the valley. Terribly, the Pakistani
Jihadists such as Jaish-e-Mohammed have attached greater religious sanctity to
their terrorist designs on India. Their war cry of ghazwa-e-hind (Islamist
expedition against India) is entirely based on six fabricated prophetic sayings
(hadiths).
The most common among
them is the one that is attributed the Prophet’s companion Hazrat Abu Huraira
(r.a): “Abu Huraira (r.a) said, “The Messenger of Allah promised us the
conquest of India. If I was to come across that event, I will spend my soul and
wealth. If I am killed then I am among the best of martyrs. And if I return
then I am Abu Huraira (RA) who has been freed from the fire of hell.”
Hadiths like this have
extensively been quoted in Pakistan where the jihadist ideologues and extremist
maulvis have tempted the Muslim youths to participate in the ongoing proxy war
against India. The founder and leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Maulana Masud Azhar
often exhorts the virulent doctrine of ghazwa-e-hind in his speeches. Another
jihadist ideologue in Pakistan, Maulvi Irfan ul Haq also uses this Hadith to
misguide the Pakistani people fomenting hatred against India as ‘land of kufr’.
He ranted in his sermon:
“You see, God eliminated kufr and shirk (idolatry and polytheism) from the entire Arab peninsula. But polytheism and idolatry were yet to be uprooted from the rest of the world. Therefore, in his final days, the Prophet issued an order. He said, “There will be a Ghazwa (Islamic battle) in India, in which a group of my Ummah would participate and they will be granted a position equal to that of my foremost followers. In this jihad, some people will be killed and some others will be arrested. After achieving the conquest, the group will join the army of Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (Jesus) in Syria”
He further says: “Abu Hurairah wished
to reach their position, but the Prophet did not respond to his plea and
remained silent. Imagine, how fortunate the Pakistanis are who would
participate in the Prophetic Battle for India (Ghazwa-e-Hind)”. One wonders how
come this is conceived as a Ghazwa, which terminologically means an ‘Islamic
battle in which the Prophet himself participated’. The Pakistani maulvi himself
explains it: “See! Here the word “ghazwa” has been used. Needless to tell the
intellectual gathering over here as to why has it been termed ‘ghazwa’ when the
Prophet (pbuh) is no more now to participate in this battle physically?”
Simply, because it is none other than Prophet’s own mission. So, you have to
carry on this Prophetic mission.”
Thus, the jihadist
Pakistani cleric Maulvi Irfan ul Haq avers that ‘Pakistan has been created for
Ghazwa-e-Hind’. He exhorts that “this is an honour that Allah has bestowed on
Pakistanis, and this is the cause that led to the establishment of Pakistan”. However,
he laments that “majority of us (Pakistani Muslims) do not even know what
Ghazwa-e-Hind is”. “This is precisely why you Pakistanis are criticised by all
the evil forces and especially by Indian people. For they know very well why
this country has been established. They fully understand why this nation has
emerged. But you people do not have the faintest idea about it”, the Maulvi
states in his speech.
Clearly, all this was
stated relying on the fabricated and misconstrued sayings attributed to Prophet
or his companions. Therefore, we cannot overlook the radical Pakistani clergy
breeding for the terrorists taking arms to strike India. While it is an
obnoxious religious design to ‘eliminate all infidels from the Indian
sub-continent’, one cannot reject its implication as part of the proxy war that
Pakistan has launched.
This intellectual war
against India is going on in so many ways. Scores of print and online magazines
are freely available to the Pakistani youths enchanting towards war against
India. Jihadist organs in the Pakistani literature are still flourishing with
an onslaught of radicalization. Take a look at Jaish-e-Muhammad’s magazine in
Urdu entitled “Jaish-e-Muhammad”, Tahrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Urdu magazine
“Nawa-e-Afghan Jihad”, an extremist monthly in English, "Azaan", many
other extremist Islamist magazines in Urdu like “Al-Shariat”, “Sada-e-Mujahid”
“Hateen”, “Murabetun”, “Al-Qalam”, “Rah-e-Wafa” and “Zarb-e-Momin” etc.
These are some of the
many instances of how Pakistani jihadist ideologues resort to Quran and Hadith
in an attempt to brainwash the common Pakistani youth. The Pakistani Islamist
outfit
“Islam ke sipahi”
(the soldiers of Islam) published an article 'Ghazwa-e-Hind: Mujahideen will
conquer India'. Quoting run-of-the-mill and brazenly concocted prophetic
traditions, the author, the chairman of Islam Ke Sipahi, buttresses his point:
“India is a fitna
(evil), which is being supported by the Zionists to destroy Muslims. This has
turned into a proxy war where the Zionists fund and support India to destroy
the Muslims. India itself was a Muslim country until the British invaded it and
before they left they gave all the power to the Hindus and tried their best to
bring the Muslims down, thanks to Allama Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Pakistan
Movements’ efforts that Muslims got Pakistan.”
In the wee hours of
Sunday morning, when the Pakistani terrorists attacked the administrative block
of the Indian Army killing 19 and injuring over two dozen soldiers, they all
seemed well-spirited. It was a bloody war of Ghazwa-e-Hind by the people of
Jinnah to go straight to Jannah (heaven).
Reportedly, the Uri
terrorists belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammed, as the Director General Military
Operations Lt. Gen Ranbir Singh told the media... read more:
The author is a
scholar of Comparative Religion, Classical Arabic and Islamic sciences,
cultural analyst and researcher in Media and Communication Studies. Views are
personal
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