Know Thine Enemy 12
Know Thine Enemy
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:34 PM
Know Thine Enemy
[# Twelve in a series.]
Carrot & Stick
Islam’s false faith component serves two purposes:
- camouflage
- troop motivator.
Externally, projecting the false religion image protects Islam from criticism. It has immunity so long as it appears to be a religion. Internally, the false faith component is a control mechanism. It projects a carrot in front of each Muslim and a stick behind him.
Paradise
- 9:111. Verily, Allâh has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price that theirs shall be the Paradise. … It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) and the Qur’ân. And who is truer to his covenant than Allâh? Then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded. That is the supreme success .
The supreme success: admission to Paradise. And what is Paradise? A search for gardens turns up matches in 50 surahs.
- 2:25. And give glad tidings to those who believe and do righteous good deeds, that for them will be Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise). Every time they will be provided with a fruit therefrom, they will say: “This is what we were provided with before,” and they will be given things in resemblance (i.e. in the same form but different in taste) and they shall have therein Azwâjun Mutahharatun (purified mates or wives), (having no menses, stools, urine, etc.) and they will abide therein forever.
A little more about those virgins:
- 78:33. And young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age;
- 37:48. …chaste females, … with wide and beautiful eyes.
- 37:49. (Delicate and pure) as if they were (hidden) eggs (well) preserved.
Who is receives these rewards?
- 3:195. …so those who emigrated and were driven out from their homes, and suffered harm in My Cause, and who fought, and were killed (in My Cause), verily, I will remit from them their evil deeds and admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise); a reward from Allâh, and with Allâh is the best of rewards.”
The Muslims lived in the deserts of Arabia, with sparse water and great heat. Imagine what their women must have smelled like with no deodorant and perfume imported at great cost. Allah has promised them perpetual virgins who don’t stink. No headaches, no bathroom breaks. On top of that, he promised them underground rivers! We need a little more detail about those promised rivers.
- 47:15. The description of Paradise which the Muttaqûn (pious - see V.2:2) have been promised is that in it are rivers of water the taste and smell of which are not changed; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine delicious to those who drink; and rivers of clarified honey…
Allah has promised those who fight in his cause and are martyred guaranteed admission to the best seats in the gardens; gardens with rivers of fresh water, honey, wine and milk. And they won’t get drunk; no headache; no gut ache. Did I mention the fruit?
- 52:22. And We shall provide them with fruit and meat, such as they desire.
- 78:32. Gardens and grapeyards;
- 56:32. And fruit in plenty,
56:33. Whose season is not limited, and their supply will not be cut off,
Hell
So, what happens to Muslims who do not join the Jihad?
- 9:39. If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people, and you cannot harm Him at all, and Allâh is Able to do all things.
- 9:68. Allâh has promised the hypocrites; men and women, and the disbelievers, the Fire of Hell, therein shall they abide. It will suffice them. Allâh has cursed them and for them is the lasting torment.
- 9:73. O Prophet (Muhammad)! Strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be harsh against them, their abode is Hell, - and worst indeed is that destination.
- 9:81. Those who stayed away (from Tabuk expedition) rejoiced in their staying behind the Messenger of Allâh; they hated to strive and fight with their properties and their lives in the Cause of Allâh, and they said: “March not forth in the heat.” Say: “The Fire of Hell is more intense in heat“, if only they could understand!
- 9:90. And those who made excuses from the bedouins came (to you, O Prophet) asking your permission to exempt them (from the battle), and those who had lied to Allâh and His Messenger sat at home (without asking the permission for it); a painful torment will seize those of them who disbelieve.
- 9:95. … and Hell is their dwelling place, - a recompense for that which they used to earn.
- 9:101. … We shall punish them twice, and thereafter they shall be brought back to a great (horrible) torment.
Can we find more detail about the torment which will punish those who do not fight in Allah’s cause?
- 4:56. …We shall burn them in Fire. As often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for other skins that they may taste the punishment. …
- 14:49. And you will see the Mujrimûn (criminals, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism, polytheists, disobedient to Allâh, etc.) that Day bound together in fetters; [Muqarranûn in fetters; mean:- with their hands and feet tied to their necks with chains.]
14:50. Their garments will be of pitch, and fire will cover their faces.
- 18:29…. a Fire whose walls will be surrounding them (disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh). And if they ask for help (relief, water, etc.) they will be granted water like boiling oil, that will scald their faces. …
- 78:24. Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink.
78:25. Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges.
- 88:4. They will enter in the hot blazing Fire,
88:5. They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,
88:6. No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,
88:7. Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.
What determines where a Muslim spends eternity?
- 21:47. And We shall set up balances of justice on the Day of Resurrection, then none will be dealt with unjustly in anything. And if there be the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it. And Sufficient are We as Reckoners.
- 101:6. Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
101:7. He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
101:8. But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
101:9. He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
Allah will weigh your sins against your good deeds. Heavy sin; go to Hell. Martyrdom is the Muslim’s Get Out Of Hell Free card.
- 47:4. … But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allâh, He will never let their deeds be lost,
47:6. And admit them to Paradise which He has made known to them (i.e. they will know their places in Paradise more than they used to know their houses in the world).
- Abu Dawud Book 14, Number 2493:
Narrated AbuMalik al-Ash’ari:
AbuMalik heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: He who goes forth in Allah’s path and dies or is killed is a martyr , or has his neck broken through being thrown by his horse or by his camel, or is stung by a poisonous creature, or dies on his bed by any kind of death Allah wishes is a martyr and will go to Paradise.
Now do you understand why they say they love death more than we love life? If they believe that crap they will die trying to torment us.
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