COFFEE WITH KAFIR ... 2

COFFEE WITH KAFIR ... 2

Moderate Muslims are munafiqs (hypocrites), hence, not true Muslims. This lack of fanatical faith in every letter of the Deen and faith in reason and good sense makes them patriotic. But the true believers consider such moderation heresy, as the Word of their God is absolute, to the very letter and, hence, inviolable. There can be no moderation in the Deen. Every unabrogated verse of the Qur'an is binding on the believer and he cannot budge from it an inch by citing altered circumstance and compulsions of modernity. 

Islam divides the world into the realm of war (Dar-ul-Harb) and the realm of Islam (Dar-ul-lslam) and it is by waging a constant multidimensional war (jihād) that the Muslim (momin/mominā) must convert the former to the latter. The whole body of believers, local and global, national and transnational, forms the Ummā (Muslimdom) and no Muslim must fight against his brother or sister believer. 

Jihād is fundamental to Islam and it makes Islam no less a political movement than a religious one. If a Muslim falls in jihādi combat, he becomes a martyr (shaheed) and flies fast to heaven (jannat) to be rewarded with luscious dream damsels and associated appetizers in milk and honey, scented breeze and cool shade, palatial house and able-bodied servants at his beck and call. Every true Muslim's dream is to be martyred in warfare against the infidel (kafir) after killing as many of them as possible to become Ghāzi with Jannat waiting for him Inshallah (God willing). 

Reams may be written on Islam and jihād but I'll end the note here by saying that Islam has never faced a dearth of desperate devotees desirous of death in jihādi activity. When hundreds of millions of Momins are held captive to jihādi ideology and a large number actually crave for death in combat against the kafir, we have a very serious problem at hand.

Written by Sugata Bose