Jihad-in-Islam-by-Maududi

S. Abul A'la Maududi gave a lecture about Jihad in Lahore, April 13, 1939, Jihad In Islam. Sayed means that Maududi was a direct descendant of one of Moe's daughters. He was a theologian and philosopher who founded Jamaat-e-Islami.

His major work is Tafhim al-Qur’an which explains the meaning of the Qur'an. A quick survey of his tafsir should convince you that he knew his subject matter. [Qur'an links in this post are to Tafhim al-Qur’an.]

Jihad In Islam brings up some important concepts which deserve careful consideration. On the first page, Maududi brings up the concept of Jihad, and turns it against Islam's detractors with a reverse projection. He accuses the West of making war for economic gain, contrasting that with Jihad in the way of Allah, for the holy purpose of making things right in the world. Of course, he overlooks Moe's mercenary motivation, which was revealed by Allah in 8:67.

On the second page, Maududi punches a large hole through the fiction of Islamic passivity. [Emphasis added.]

We have now officially denounced armed. struggle of all sorts just to convince and satisfy our overlords. Now the term Jihad only refers to word-war through spoken or written word.

Another significant revelation, on the third page, could be overlooked too easily. A misunderstanding of the nature of Islam is partially responsible for misunderstanding Jihad.

The first misunderstanding is that Islam is taken as a religion in the conventional I sense of the term ‘religion’.

Maududi proceeds to define that conventional sense. Pay close attention to this.

Religion as a common term means nothing more than a hotch potch of some beliefs, prayers and rituals.

Maududi told his audience that, under this definition, religion should be "a private affair". ... "There is no occasion- and justification to take up arms in this process. "

If we quit reading there, we miss the message. On the next page, Maududi deflates the balloon.

...if Islam is taken as a conventional type of religion, the institution of Jihad cannot be justified.

So why was Maududi lecturing about Jihad?

In fact Islam is neither a religion, nor the Muslims are a nation in the conventional sense of these terms. Islam, instead, is a revolutionary concept and ideology which seeks to change and revolutionise the world social order and reshape it according to its own concept and ideals.

This concept is further developed beginning on page 9.

It is the .most important, rather fundamental ideal of the Muslims, the most outstanding revolutionary party to sacrifice its life and and all the resources at its command to fight, against the evil forces. of the world, not to take their place but completely eliminate the evil and to enforce the word of Allah all over the world.

Islam is a revolutionary program to impose itself upon the entire world by force if necessary. But there is more. At the end of the page 10, another important concept is introduced: Allah's sovereignty.

No one has the right to become self-appointed ruler and order and prohibit whatever he likes on his own volition and authority.

Any ruler not ruling by the Qur'an is an evil tyrant who must be overthrown. The following verses are cited to support these ideas: 26:151-152, 18:28, 11:18-19, 12:39, 28:38, 79:24, 2:258 and 41:15.

Page 15 of the lecture spells out the intention of Islam with some clarity. [Emphasis added.]

...Islam is not merely a religious creed or a set of rituals but it is a comprehensive system that tends to annihilate all tyrannical and evil systems in the world and to enforce its own reformation programme which it deems best in the interest of mankind.

Any system that is not Islamic is necessarily tyrannical and evil. Islam decides what is good for us and imposes it by force of arms, annihilating our system of government and way of life.

On page 16 we learn that the purpose of the Party of Allah is

to eliminate the hegemony of un-Islamic aystems replacing them with a balanced social and cultural order called the Word of Allah by the holy Quran,

To support this, Maududi cites 3:110, which describes Muslims as the best of peoples. Sahih Bukhari 6.60.80 explains what makes them the best: bringing us with chains on our necks until we embrace Islam.

In the lecture's next page, Maududi cites three ayat as the scriptural basis for Jihad: 2:193, 8:73 and 9:33. On that basis, the Party of Allah must "capture power".

On page 18, Maududi explains why the Muslims living among kuffar is compelled to strive for "the extirpation of the rule opposed to their ideology and bring their own ideology into power". They can't tolerate the ideological conflict.

Maududi restates Islam's strategic objective on page 20.

...that the objective of ‘Jihad’ in Islam is to liquidate the suzerainty of an un-Islamic system of life and replace it with the rule of Islam.

We learn next that Islam must be expanded, that it must be imposed globally. This is made plain on page 21.

...no State can fully implement her ideology without expanding it to her neighbouring States.

Maududi presents the example of Islam's founder, who invited the rulers of neighboring states to embrace Islam and "resolved to take military action" against those who refused. It should become clear to you that Islam is violent, not peaceful; that it seeks to impose its will upon the entire world, destroying our way of life in the process. Islam is waging an existential conflict against us; what are we going to do about it?

While I urge everyone to read translations of the original sources: the Qur'an & Sahih Bukhari and their derivatives such as Reliance of the Traveller and Ibn Kathir's Tafsir, much can be learned from Jihad In Islam, Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah and The Religious and Moral Doctrine On Jihad and from many secondary sources. “Radical Islam: A Threat America Must Take Seriously” will be web cast Saturday, April 24, '10 from 10 to 5 EDT.

Islamic Extortion Letter to Obama

On March 30, 2010, Logan's Warning published an article exposing Revolution Muslim's latest assault against our way of life. The article included this video.



The eleven minute video includes several insane rants that should outrage every loyal American. It also includes a reading of the open letter described below.

Revolution Muslim has uttered and published an open letter, in the form of a petition, which threatens the United States of America in general and its President in particular with violent attack.

The petition opens with an arrogant self-identification and barbarian threat emulating the form and style of Islam's damnable Profit.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Most Merciful¹ - This letter is from the Muslim Nation (ummah), the followers of the Last and Final Prophet to mankind, Muhammad son of Abdullah² (May Peace and Blessings be Upon him), to Barack Obama, the ruler of the United States of America - May Peace be upon those who follow the right path and true guidance.³

1. They claim to speak for Allah, who allegedly had one final spokesman: Moe, who, thank God,was silenced by death in 632.
2. They claim to speak for Ummah al-Islamiyya, which has no Caliph since the dissolution of the Caliphate by Attaturk, and therefore has no one to speak for it.
3. The last sentence of the opening paragraph is a thinly veiled threat. If peace is upon the followers of true guidance (the Qur'an) then by default, war is upon those who reject the Qur'an.

The second paragraph makes the dawa explicit and restates the implicit threat.

We invite you to Islam⁴ and want to inform you that if you become a Muslim you will be safe⁵ and Allah will double your reward,⁶ but if you reject this invitation to Islam you will be committing a sin by misguiding your subjects and admirers and Allah will humiliate you for warring against His (elevated above all is He) intimate trustees.

4. This is the explicit dawa; President Obama has been invited to publicly embrace Islam and make it the national religion, in contravention of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
5. This is a restatement of the implicit threat, safety and war being the alternative outcomes dependent on the choice of Islam or kufr.
6. This clause is an emulation of Moe's extortion letters. Compare it to this sentence from his letter to Heracles: "... Allah shall reward you doubly...".

The third paragraph quotes the Qur'an 3:64, which demands that we deny Jesus Christ. Read the context or Ibn Kathir's Tafsir to verify this fact.

In the fourth paragraph, the authors criticize President Obama's campaign tactics and the perceived results of his first year in office. While calling him a tyrant, they accuse the United states of having an empire.

In their screed's fifth paragraph, the authors quote Thomas Paine before waxing irrational and inverting fact and logic while bitterly bitching about our and Israel's retaliation against Islamic aggression.

In their sixth paragraph, the authors continue to fulminate irrationally about our foreign policy and denounce our efforts to suppress Islamic terrorism. Their seventh paragraph segues into domestic policy while maintaining the same level of irrationality. The irrational fulminations are followed by an enumerated list of demands that we surrender in Afghanistan & Iraq, shut down our military bases, end our support of Israel and disassociate from the Islamic regimes they seek to overthrow and replace with pure theocracy.

The screed concludes with a dense summation which requires detailed dissection.

If you do this than there will be peace between us and you⁷. Allah says in the Quran, “and if the enemy inclines toward peace, then you incline to it and put your trust in Allah (8:61).”⁸ We call you to peace Mr. Obama, we only want to live under the laws and culture that God has granted us in the Qur’an, free from American dictate, free from empire and colonialism⁹. In the event you establish these policies then over $1 trillion will be available to spend on your own people.¹⁰ They can have food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education and more. The American Empire is going bankrupt and all because of its War on Islam.¹¹ We tell you the Muslim nation has never suffered under occupation for long and that our true creed does not allow us to practice our religion but hand over soveverignty in the realm of politics, economics and society to a foreign force. Islam dominates in every aspect of the word and is never dominated.¹² It is a superior system as it is Divine and from the Creator Himself. We call you to the religion that is the only acceptable way of life in the eyes of Allah and we warn you of a personal and societal humiliation in the event that you obstinately persist and do not heed this call¹³.

7. This is a repetition of the threat: if we do not accede to their demands, they will make war on us.
8. The quote of 8:61 is out of context. 8:60 commands Muslims to build the largest army they can to "strike terror into the hearts of the enemies" [Abdullah Yusuf Ali].
9. They declare that they want to live by the Qur'an, free from American dictate, empire & colonialism. America does not dictate domestic policies in Arabia, nor do we have an empire nor colonies. It is Islam that seeks empire and colonies. If they want to live under Shari'ah, what are they doing in New York City? They should be in Mecca.
10. If we abandon our national defense, nothing will be available for domestic spending, because we will be conquered. Besides which, the dichotomy is false on its face. National defense is a necessity for the preservation of food, clothing, shelter and every other good and service. Those goods and services are created by private enterprise, not by the federal government.
11. We do not have a war on Islam, Islam is at war against us; our government is blind to the fatal fact. This state of denial must come to an end, and soon if we wish to preserve our liberty and prosperity.
12. Islam dominates! Our elected leaders seem to be ignorant of Islamic supremacism. 9:33 tells us that Allah sent Moe to make Islam superior. The concept is repeated in 48:28 and confirmed in Sahih Bukhari 4.52.65 with these words: "He who fights that Allah's Word (i.e. Islam) should be superior, fights in Allah's Cause."
13. The demand for surrender and threat of attack is repeated one last time.

The petition has 340 signatures.

The demon spawn rallied on a New York sidewalk, promoting their open letter to Obama, cursing him, cursing democracy; inciting hatred and violence. If the content and style of this video don't outrage you, you need psychiatric care.



What are you going to do about it? While those demon spawn were cursing America, our way of life and our President, a new resolution "Combating Defamation of Religions", complaining of incitement of hatred and violence, was fresh off the presses, with the ink still wet. What will you do about it? Will you roll over and go back to sleep or will you rise up in protest?

It is time for those America haters who threaten us with violent attack to go home. The citizenship of those who were born here should be revoked and they should be shipped out with one way tickets. The Mosques, Madrassas & Islamic Centers should be closed for good. The enemies of America should be removed and kept out.

We can't do it, because Islam wears the false cloak of religion. Because it is assumed to be a religion, it is under the protection of the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause. We must amend the Constitution to acknowledge the fact that Islam is a war cult, not a legitimate religion. The first step in that long process is to sign and promote the Outlaw Islam! petition. After signing the petition, copy it and paste it into an email to everyone you can influence. Urge them to sign and forward it.

At the end of November, the Ad Hoc Committee will meet for the purpose of writing a protocol to ICERD which will make this blog post and all negative information about Islam illegal. There is only one defense, a counter attack. We must take Islam to the World Court for its egregious violations of ICERD, ICCPR & CPPCG. Those international human rights covenants, if enforced, require that Islam be proscribed by law for supremacism, incitement & genocide. If you love liberty, particularly free speech, then you will sign and promote the International Qur'an Petition. If you won't take this simple step to preserve free speech, who will? If you won't do it now, it will soon be too late. Now is the time to sign these petitions and send them to your family, friends, associates and acquaintances with an exhortation to sign and forward the petitions.