ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF SWORD<br />NOT PACIFISM<br /><br />There is a slogan repeated continuously by apologetic “du’āt” when flirting with the West and that is their statement:<br /><br />“ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF PEACE,”<br /><br />And they mean pacifism by the word peace. They have repeated this slogan so much to the extent that some of them alleged that Islam calls to permanent peace with kufr and the kāfirīn. How far is their claim from the truth, for Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindīq (heretic) would argue otherwise.<br /><br /><br />Alī Ibn Abī Tālib (رضي الله عنه) said,<br /><br />“Allah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) was sent with four swords: <br /><br />a sword for the mushrikīn,<br /><br />{AND WHEN THE SACRED MONTHS HAVE PASSED, THEN KILL THE MUSHRIKĪN WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM}<br />(Surah At Tawbah 9:5)<br /><br />A sword for Ahlul-Kitāb,<br /><br />{FIGHT THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN ALLAH OR IN THE LAST DAY AND WHO DO NOT CONSIDER UNLAWFUL WHAT ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER HAVE MADE UNLAWFUL AND WHO DO NOT ADOPT THE RELIGION OF TRUTH FROM THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN THE BOOK – [FIGHT THEM] UNTIL THEY GIVE THE JIZYAH WILLINGLY WHILE THEY ARE HUMBLED}<br />(Surah At Tawbah 9:29)<br /><br />A sword for the munāfiqīn,<br /><br />{O PROPHET, FIGHT AGAINST THE KUFFĀR AND THE MUNĀFIQĪN}<br />(Surah At Tawbah 9:73)<br /><br />And a sword for the bughāt (rebellious aggressors),<br /><br />{THEN FIGHT AGAINST THE GROUP THAT COMMITS BAGHY (AGGRESSION) UNTIL IT RETURNS TO THE ORDINANCE OF ALLAH}<br />(Surah Al Hujurāt 49:9)<br />[Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr]<br /><br />He also revealed the sword against the apostates,<br /><br />{O YOU WHO HAVE BELIEVED, WHOEVER OF YOU SHOULD REVERT FROM HIS RELIGION – ALLAH WILL BRING FORTH A PEOPLE HE WILL LOVE AND WHO WILL LOVE HIM [WHO ARE] HUMBLE TOWARD THE BELIEVERS, MIGHTY AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS; THEY STRIVE IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH AND DO NOT FEAR THE BLAME OF A CRITIC}<br />(Surah Al Mā’idah 5:54)<br />This verse is a fundamental basis for the obligation to fight against the apostate parties.<br /><br />At-Tabarī reported in his tafsīr that amongst the Salaf, ‘Alī Ibn Abī Tālib, Qatādah, al-Hasan al-Basrī, ad-Dahhāk, and Ibn Jurayj said this verse encompassed Abū Bakr (Allah’s sword against apostasy), his companions (رضي الله عنه), and their war against the apostates – the followers of Musaylamah al-Kadhdhāb and those who resisted the obligation of zakāh.<br /><br />Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) also sent down iron alongside the revelation to consolidate His religion by the sword forged with iron. <br /><br />Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) says:<br /><br />{WE HAVE SENT OUR MESSENGERS WITH CLEAR EVIDENCES AND SENT DOWN WITH THEM THE SCRIPTURE AND THE BALANCE THAT THE PEOPLE MAY MAINTAIN [THEIR AFFAIRS] IN JUSTICE. AND WE SENT DOWN IRON, WHEREIN IS GREAT MILITARY MIGHT AND BENEFITS FOR THE PEOPLE, AND SO THAT ALLAH MAY MAKE EVIDENT THOSE BELIEVING IN THE UNSEEN WHO SUPPORT HIM AND HIS MESSENGERS. INDEED, ALLAH IS POWERFUL AND EXALTED IN MIGHT}<br />(Surah Al Hadīd 57:25)<br /><br />Ibn Taymiyyah (رحيم الله) said,<br /><br />“THE BASIS OF THE RELIGION IS A GUIDING BOOK AND SUPPORTING SWORD”<br />[MAJMŪ’ AL-FATĀWĀ]<br /><br />Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) also described what should be struck with the sword,<br /><br />{REMEMBER WHEN YOUR LORD REVEALED TO THE ANGELS, “I AM WITH YOU, SO STRENGTHEN THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED. I WILL CAST TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED, SO STRIKE [THEM] UPON THE NECKS AND STRIKE FROM THEM EVERY FINGERTIP”}<br />(Surah Al Anfāl 8:12)<br /><br /><br />He (سبحانه وتعالى) also said,<br /><br />{SO WHEN YOU MEET THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE, STRIKE THEIR NECKS UNTIL, WHEN YOU HAVE INFLICTED SLAUGHTER UPON THEM, THEN SECURE THEIR BONDS, AND EITHER [CONFER] FAVOR AFTERWARDS OR RANSOM [THEM] UNTIL THE WAR LAYS DOWN ITS BURDENS}<br />(Surah Muhammad 47:4)<br /><br />HIS MESSENGER (صلى الله عليه و سلم) ALSO DESCRIBED THE SWORD AS THE SALVATION FROM EVIL AND FITNAH. HE (صلى الله عليه و سلم) ALSO DESCRIBED THE SWORD AS BEING THE KEY TO JANNAH<br />[Reported by Ibn Abī Shaybah on the authority of Abū Mūsā]<br /><br />He also declared that his worldly provision was placed for him in the shade of his spear and that the best livelihood for the Muslim in the future is what he takes with his sword from the kāfir enemy.<br /><br />So, how can the zanādiqah (heretics) or even those who blindly follow them – Trump, Bush, Obama, and Kerry – obstinately claim that <br /><br />“Islam is a religion of peace,” meaning pacifism?<br /><br />One of the biggest shubuhāt propagated by the heretics is the linguistic root for the word Islam. <br /><br />They claim it comes from the word Salam (peace), when in actuality it comes from words meaning submission and sincerity sharing the same consonant root.<br /><br />Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحيم الله) said:<br /><br />“I MENTIONED BEFORE IN PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED PRINCIPLES THAT ISLAM – THE RELIGION OF ALLAH WITH WHICH HE REVEALED HIS BOOKS AND SENT HIS MESSENGERS – IS THAT THE SLAVE YUSLIM (SUBMITS) TO ALLAH, THE LORD OF THE CREATION, AND THUS, HE YASTASLIM (SUBMITS) TO ALLAH ALONE WITHOUT GIVING HIM PARTNERS AND THAT HE BE SĀLIM (PURELY) FOR HIM, IN THAT HE WORSHIPS HIM WHILE NOT WORSHIPPING OTHER THAN HIM, AS IS MADE CLEAR BY THE BEST WORD.