Myths and Lies of the Kuffar
Introduction:
All Praise and All Thanks are for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to whom we shall all
return to be judged on The Last Day.
The following are brief comments and analysis of aspects of the ignorance of the
kuffar, of some of their myths, lies and distortions in relation to Deen
Al-Islam. Most of these comments have been taken (with the occasional slight
addition) from various articles of mine, and more comments and analysis of other
kaffir myths, lies and distortions will be added later, InshaAllah.
The Kaffir Myth of Moderate and Extremist Muslims:
This myth arises from the kuffar judging Muslims according to whether those
Muslims accept or reject the West, and accept or reject the values and ways of
the West. Those who accept the West, with all that this implies, the kuffar call
"moderate Muslims". Those who do not accept the West - who refuse to
accept the kaffir interpretation of Islam - the kuffar call
"extremists", or "supporters of terrorism" or
"terrorists", and the kuffar have manufactured laws which enable them
to imprison these so-called "extremists" for their "intolerance
and hate" and for their "glorification of terrorism".
In effect, the West, the kuffar, have set themselves up to define what is, and
what is not, Islam, and what it is, or it is not, lawful for a Muslim to do, or
speak, or write, anywhere in the world. They have manufactured, with the help of
their tame and apostate Muslims, a so-called "moderate Islam" which
basically views Islam as a religion, which accepts that this "Islam"
is compatible with democracy, which accepts the kaffir Taghut of the
nation-State, and which accepts that the Shariah needs "updating" so
that the laws of this nation-State, where Muslims dwell, can and should include
laws deriving from the ways, the categories, of the West. In addition, this
"moderate Islam" accepts the kaffir definition of "peace",
ignores the duty of Jihad, of reclaiming Muslim lands, and accepts that Muslims
can and should live in "peace" with the kuffar.
However, we should not use the terms "extreme" and
"moderate" in reference to Deen Al-Islam. Rather, we should use
"obedience" and "error". A Muslim falls into error when they
reject the timeless perfection of Deen Al-Islam, when they reject ruling by
Shariah alone, when they ally themselves with the kuffar, when they imitate the
kuffar by applying the terms, the concepts, the ideas, the Taghut, of the kuffar
to Deen Al-Islam. Thus, if we use the terminology of the kuffar for the moment,
then according to the correct definition just outlined, what the kuffar call
"moderate Muslims" are Muslims who are clearly in error (if not
apostates) while what the kuffar call "extremist Muslims" or
"fundamentalists" are those who are obedient to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala and who thus are true representatives of Deen Al-Islam.
The Kaffir Myth of Ideology and Islamo-Fascism:
A recent myth, propagated by the kuffar and based upon their ignorance, is that
Islam is some kind of "ideology". Or, rather, that those Muslims who
do not accept or who do not adhere to the "moderate" so-called
"Islam" that the kuffar find acceptable (and which they have in large
part manufactured and propagated) instead adhere to some kind of "Islamist
ideology", which "Islamist ideology" the kuffar then categorise
and label according to their own ignorant, fallible, manufactured, terms and
ideas.
Thus, according to the kuffar this so-called "Islamist ideology" is
"totalitarian" in nature and has, according to them, similarities with
"fascism" and even "National Socialism" and some of the more
ignorant kuffar have gone so far as to describe this " Islamist
ideology" by the term Islamo-fascism. The leaders of the kuffar, and their
lackeys and followers, have gone even further and now use the term "Islamo-fascism"
to describe that which they dislike, and fear, and that which they are fighting.
This derives, in part, from their prejudice - their arrogant inability to see
the world, and people as the world, and people, are. Instead of seeing and
understanding the reality, the kuffar see the world and people in a distorted
way, through their manufactured constructs, their fallible ideas and theories.
These labels which the kuffar direct at us - such categorization of us and of
Deen Al-Islam - shows the utter failure, and the arrogance, of the kuffar yet
again. For, despite their claims to be objective and rational, they are in
thrall to their own subjective notions, concepts and ideas, which they project
on Deen Al-Islam and Muslims, yet again failing to understand the simple
fundamental and irreconcilable difference between Deen Al-Islam and the West.
So, here it is again: Deen Al-Islam means simple humble honourable dignified
obedience to only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and the perspective of Jannah, the
liberation of Tawheed, whereas the West means slavery to one's hawah, the
pursuit of unattainable illusive goals (such as personal happiness and
"peace"); usury and debt and wage-slavery; hypocrisy; and the arrogant
prejudice of believing that the West is superior.
In addition, the kuffar - and their tame moderate "Muslims" - write
and talk about Islam as a "religion". Islam is a Deen
- a complete and perfect Way of Life. Nowhhere in the Quran does the word mazhab
occur. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala calls Islam a Deen, and therefore to be precise
we should talk and write about Deen Al-Islam, and not about "Islam" as
if Islam was a "thing" to be categorized according to the manufactured
terms, ideas and concepts of the kuffar. There is no such thing, in Deen
Al-Islam, as "religion" and "State" - there are only duties
and obligations to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger (salla Allahu 'alayhi
wa sallam). There is only obedience to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. A
"religion" is a manifestation of kufr, concealing as kufr does The
Unity of Tawheed which lies beyond the ignorant division to which the kuffar
have assigned and manufactured separate concepts such as "the State",
"the nation", and "religion". Furthermore, the submission
that is Deen Al-Islam is submission to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His
Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) - that is, it is not to
"Islam" as if this "Islam" was some "thing" to to
be adhered to or identified with.
The Kaffir Myth of Human Rights:
What the kuffar call "human rights" are a manifestation of their
Ignorance and their arrogance, for the basis for this concept, this idea, is the
belief that human beings have these "rights", by their very nature,
and that manufactured laws, governments, agencies and organizations - or
"our leaders" - can "give" us these rights, or embody them,
or protect them. In addition, this kaffir concept implies that we, as
individuals, have or should have a "duty" to "obey" such
laws, such governments, organizations, and such leaders since they embody or
protect these "rights". However, according to Deen Al-Islam, this
amounts to kufr: to insolence, to overstepping the bounds which Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala has set for us. It is a denial of our Muslim nature and a denial of
the truth of Tawheed.
For Islam, "human rights" - individual "rights" - do not
exist. For Muslims, there is only obedience, or disobedience. Muslims know that
we, as individuals, only have duties and responsibilities - toward Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; toward those who are the representatives of Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala on Earth (such as a Khalifah); toward our brothers and sisters; toward
upholding Adab Al-Islam in our relations with non-Muslims.
According to Deen Al-Islam, Nature, and the Cosmos - all beings, every-thing,
whether living, or inert, inorganic matter - are Signs of Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala, and one of the aims of our mortal existence is to seek to discover, know
and understand these Signs, for by doing this we will come to understand Tawheed:
that is, how all beings derive from The One, depend upon The One, and change
only in accordance with what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala decrees. Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala has gifted us with the faculty of reason that we may know, discover,
these Signs.
Tawheed is knowing that we not only depend on Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for
everything, but also that it is for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone to determine
our duties, our responsibilities, our goals, our very way of life. We were
created, by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, as finite fallible beings, whose
knowledge and understanding can never be complete or totally correct. Hence, we
must rely on Allah, with this reliance being the essence of our very being: a
manifestation of our true nature, as human beings.
That is, our natural state of being - that which expresses our purpose, our
nature, that which is the meaning of our being - is to acknowledge and accept
our reliance upon our Creator. This reliance is "submission to only Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala" and this is being Muslim, which is a return to our
natural state, to our fitrah.
The quest for "human rights", the demand for "human rights"
- for individual rights - negates, and covvers-up, our true nature. It takes us
away from our true, natural, relationship with our Creator, and this kaffir
concept of "rights" is a Taghut, which they bow down to and expect
others to bow down to. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Allah is the Wali of those who believe: from darkness, He leads them
into the light, while those do not believe have, as their Wali, their Taghut
so that they are led from light into darkness. For them, there is the Fire,
where they shall dwell forever." 2: 257 Interpretation of Meaning
The Kaffir Lie of Peace:
For the kuffar, peace is the "happiness of the greatest number",
personal happiness and contentment, or the tranquillity which can arise from
lack of conflict
We Muslims do not view peace in the same way as the kuffar - or, rather, we
should not view peace in the same way as them. For Muslims, peace is what Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala informs us it is. What others call peace, and how they
define it, is therefore irrelevant for us. For us, peace is the peace of Jannah,
and that state of being which arises from submission only to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala.
Our goal is not to attain some state of "peace" on this Earth, or to
strive for "peace" between nation-States; or to avoid conflict in the
name of "peace". Our goal is obedience to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala -
to strive to do, and uphold and propagate, what is halal; to restrain from
doing, to restrain others from doing, what is haram. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
has said that there will be conflict, killing and violence:
"And there shall be conflict between you while you dwell, resting for a
while, on Earth which shall provide for you." 2: 36 Interpretation of
Meaning
"Let those who would trade the life of this world for the life Hereafter
fight in the Cause of Allah. And those who do fight in the Cause of Allah -
whether they be killed or are victorious - will have bestowed on them, by Us,
a great reward." 4: 74 Interpretation of Meaning
"In exchange for their lives and their goods, Allah has given those who
believe Paradise. Thus will they fight in Allah's cause, and thus will they
kill, and be killed." 9: 111 Interpretation of Meaning
We are not striving for the same goal as the kuffar - our goal is obedience; the
perfect, eternal, peace of Jannah. The so-called "happiness of the greatest
number" is therefore irrelevant to us. The tranquillity which many of the
kuffar, in their ignorance and delusion, seek is irrelevant to us. Our
perspective is Jannah - not the illusions and the temptations of this world, not
our personal happiness in this temporary mortal life, and not the
"peace" of, or for, this world.
The Kaffir Myth of Progress:
Another of the fundamental errors of the kuffar - one more sign of their
ignorance, their pride, their refusal to see the Unity of Tawheed behind the
illusion of their manufactured divisions - is the error, the Taghut, of
progress, and the "modernization" that is part of this.
The kuffar, in their ignorance, consider that we human beings, individually and
collectively, should strive for "progress" and that this involves
advancement, toward some abstract, or mythical - some manufactured - ideal or
toward some state of being.
According to the kuffar, true progress primarily involves two things: (1)
advancement toward their manufactured concept of "freedom" ( see Errors
of the Kuffar, Part 1: The Kaffir Error of Freedom) and (2) the acquisition
of material wealth and material luxury. Some of the kuffar would add that
progress also involves advancement toward, and the acquisition of, reason. Thus,
according to the kuffar, people and their way of life can and should be judged
by this kaffir criteria of progress - by the move from what they would call a
more "primitive way of living" to what they would call a more
"enlightened/civilized/material/prosperous" way of living. To achieve
this, people must "modernize", as their ways of life must be
"modernized".
The basis of this manufactured concept, this idea of the kuffar, is that life
can, or should be, "better" - that there is, has been, should be, or
could be, a movement, a change, toward this "better", defined as this
"better" is by various assumptions concerning what is important about
life, by assumptions about the meaning of human life itself.
The fundamental error here is the error regarding the meaning, the purpose, of
our mortal life. For Muslims, the meaning of our life is to know, to submit to,
to obey, our Rabb, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. The purpose of our lives is to
strive for Jannah - to strive to attain the eternal life which can be ours in
the Gardens of Paradise. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"What your heart desires and your eyes delight in will be there in that
Garden of Paradise you can inherit through your deeds in your life in this
world." 43:71-72 Interpretation of Meaning
Unlike the kuffar, we do not view human existence in terms of
"history" and "civilizations" (as defined by them) and thus
as something causal, or linear, as some kind of struggle upward, or progress
toward some idealized society, or struggle toward some ideal (such as
"freedom") or toward some personal state of being. Rather, we view
human existence in relation to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - in relation to Jannah.
This is a fundamental difference between us and the kuffar - and it is a
difference which the kuffar do not understand, and which some Muslims, it seems,
also do not understand, given their acceptance of the kaffir desire to
"modernize Islam". For the kuffar desire us - even demand of us - that
we adhere to their Taghut of progress; that we modernize Islam; that we accept
their assumptions about life; that we accept their perspective, and use their
terms, which use of such terms amounts to thinking like them, being like them,
imitating them.
To be Muslim, is to reject the Taghut of "progress" - it is to reject
the answers which the kuffar have manufactured in their attempts to explain the
meaning and purpose of life. To be Muslim is to be concerned about Jannah - to
be concerned about the Judgement of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. To be Muslim, is
to obey only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. To be a kaffir is to be concerned about
manufactured concepts, ideals, and ideas; to view people, and life, through the
divisions which these create. To be kaffir is to reject Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala and to reject our true, Muslim, nature.
"Those who seek dignity and honour should know that they derive from
Allah (alone)." 35:10 Interpretation of Meaning
In addition, as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says, all that is manufactured or
devised or invented by us and of which we are so proud will pass away into
nothing and be irrelevant when our soul (nafs) is brought before Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala to be judged and either rewarded with Jannah, or condemned to the
Fire.
"And all that they devised will be removed from them" 10:30
Interpretation of Meaning
Thus, let the kuffar gloat about their "inventions" which have brought
them "progress" and materialism and a wealth based on exploitation. In
contrast, we look toward Jannah and concern ourselves with obeying Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Whatever good that may have been written is from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and
whatever mistakes or errors have been made are from me. May Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala protect us from all forms of Al-asabiyyah Al-Jahiliyyah, forgive us for
our mistakes, and guide us to and keep us on the Right Path, wa Allahu Alam.
Abdul-Aziz
20 Jumaada al-Thaani 1428
Challenging the
Kuffar