EXTRACT FROM ANWAR SHAIKH’S BOOK ON ISLAM
The following is an extract from a 40 page booklet titled “ISLAM” authored by the late Anwar Shaikh, my friend. Anwar published it in December 1994 through his own company named ‘The Principality Publishers, P.O. Box 918, Cardiff CF2 4YP (U.K.),’ because at that time it was not politically correct in UK to criticize Islam so no publisher in UK would risk publishing the prolific writings of Anwar Shaikh. While Anwar did the writing he and his Welsh wife did all the rest, sharing the work load between them.
Nonetheless his writings spread like wildfire by word of mouth. Naturally he received threats of all kinds including but Anwar remained fearless. He was assured by the then government that there was no danger, because by that time the Salman Rushdie affairs had alerted the authorities. That was what Anwar told me.
From page 34 to 36 Chapter 4 of “ISLAM”, the 40 page booklet.
The Prophet declared his nation and country is sacred by the force of revelation; he knew t hat his people could, not rule the world until they were welded into effective fighting force. So he formulated the doctrine of Jihad, i.e. fighting against the unbelievers for taking over their country, personal possessions and women, and subjugating them to the Arabian hegemony. This is how the doctrine of Jihad works:
1. He told the Jews; “If you become Muslim, you will be protected; otherwise you should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His messengers (Muhammad), and I want to expel you from this land”. (Sahih Albukhari. Vol. 4)
2. Since the ambition to possess the entire earth or the best part of it required military enterprise, the Prophet declared, “The paradise lies under the shades
of the swords” (Sahih Albukhari, vol. 4)
3. Since Jehad is against the unbelievers, the Prophet created unlimited opportunities for holy wars by declaring all other religions false and ungodly: “And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted … ” (The House of Imran : 85)
4. The Prophet abrogated all other religions because he called himself to be the apostle of all humanity: “Any Jew or Christian who heard of me but did not believe in me would go to hell”. (Sahih Muslim Ch.20)
In fact, the holy wars were the wars of national ambition and contained all those elements of savagery as did the wars of the infidels. Al Bukhari Vol. 8 has recorded some examples to this effect. Let me quote three:
1. The Prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men who belonged to the tribe of Uraina and let them die bleeding.
2. When men from Ukl committed crimes, the Prophet had them arrested. Their hands and legs were cut off, their eyes were branded with red-hot irons and they were thrown at Al-Harra, when they begged for drinking water, it was refused and they died thirsty.
3. Those who fought against him, he amputated their limbs and they died of bleeding. The prophetic attitude is justified on the authority of the Koran: “The only reward of those who fight against AlIah and the Messenger is execution or crucifixion or the cutting of hands and feet from opposite sides, or banishment from the land.” (The Table: 33).
Thus one can see that Islam is not a message of mercy but a secular code like all other contemporary codes. To perpetuate opportunities for war to keep Mujahedeen (warriors of Allah) on war footing, Islam is based on the hatred of non-Muslims. Consider the following:
1. Do not pray for your dead mother, father, relatives or friends, nor go near their graves, if they ‘were unbelievers. (Repentance: 189)
2. The believers must not take unbelievers for friends. (The Woman Tested: 10).
3. Muslims must wage a struggle against the non-Muslims and be harsh with them. (The Forbidding 5).
4. Slay the idolators wherever you find them. (Repentance: 5).
5. Slay the idolators wherever you find them; take not to yourself anyone of them as friend or helper. (Women: 90)
6. God urges the Prophet to be tough with the unbelievers and assures him that they will not be able to resist him much longer. (The Confederates: 60).
7. God has cursed the unbelievers and prepared a blaze for them. (The Confederates: 65).
The Prophet made the sanctity of his own person as the corner-stone of the Islamic edifice. For-example, without believing in him, the belief in God is absolutely useless. The projection of himself as the Behavioural Model (USWA- e- HASNA) for the believers, no matter where they may be, has served as the fountain of Arab national superiority for countries.
As the Prophet loved Arabia and its cultural traditions, the foreign Muslim nations started loving Arabia and its traditions at the expense of their own countries and cultures. It should be noted that the Prophet hated infidels.
As the ancestors of these foreign nations were invariably unbelievers, they started hating their own forefathers to love the Arab heroes. The Prophet’s assertion that the Muslims are one nation and the infidels are another, accelerated the process of the foreign Muslims’ unity with the Arabs, but as the Behavioral Model was Arabian, the relationship between the Arabs and the foreign Muslims became that of the leader and the led or the master and the slave.
As a result, the foreign Muslims have little or no loyalty to their own motherlands for being devoid of national honour. This is nothing but the miracle of the Prophet who imposed the everlasting hegemony of his own people on Muslims of foreign nations. I salute him and applaud his ingenuity because he has created similar relationship between Arabia and the foreign Muslim country as it exists between a burning lamp and moths; these insects are impatient to cremate themselves on its flame without any coercion on the paret of the lamp! This divine imperialism has no parallel in history.
Anwar Sheikh’s thought further:
Allah thinks of unbelievers as *”the worst animals” and thus declares Himself to be “the enemy of infidels.” So odious is His detestation of those, who do not believe in Him, that He orders their murder and pillage on a permanent basis. To complete this most horrendous plan, He
offers for these misdeeds rewards of paradise, the most luxurious place for the choicest carnal pleasures. Thus, sex and violence rank as the two pillars of the Islamic faith.
Readers ought to bear in mind that the basic belief of Islam is that Allah is One and He is “the Creator, Almighty and All-knowing.” If this were true, He would have created everybody a Muslim. Since this is not the case because people are born as Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists, etc., converting them through violence and sexual bribe, cannot be the Divine approach. Still worse, a person who believes in God alone, does not rank as a Muslim, and deserves the punishment of hell-fire. To qualify for paradise, one must believe in Muhammad as well. Obviously, Muhammad is as great as Allah.
In fact, Allah is just a figurehead and Muhammad is the real driving force behind Islam because it is he, who is the Model of Behaviour, which must be closely followed by the Muslim, and it is his Intercessory powers, which get people into paradise, abounding in lewd festivities.
One must also note that Muhammad is “the Mercy for all beings” whereas Allah, despite claiming to be All-Merciful, is the Creator of Hell, which He is committed to fill with infidels. How self-contradictory the person of Allah is!
Murdering and robbing innocent people is the greatest evil that there can be. What is even more baffling is the fact that Allah calls such atrocities as Jehad (the holy war), declares pillage as “lawful and good” and offers paradise as a reward for such abominations.
When we analyse the scheme of Jehad, the holy code of violence, and its reward i.e. paradise, the most luxurious place for the choicest sensual merriments, we realise that sex and violence are not isolated concepts but integral parts of the well-meditated Islamic Sexual Psychology, which seeks to exploit man’s weakness for libidinous delights at the
expense of feminine rights and dignity.
No God shall resort to sex and violence for securing followers. This is blasphemous for being injurious to the concept of Divinity. It is simplya Muhammadan plan for building an Arab Empire.
Islamic Sexual Psychology may be a new discovery, because it is being discussed as such for the first time in this book, but as a fact it has always been there. To establish this truth, I have avoided all those references, which may be construed as misinterpretations. Since the purpose of this dissertation is not to forge lies, but serve the cause of public good, it is hoped that the Muslim scholars shall respond by acting according to those Koranic verses, which suggest that the truth must be supported by argument ( 2: 111 ) and not coercion ( 2: 255 ).
Further it could be read at : http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1091
There seems to be a school of thought in the Islamic world ( see, for example, Rafiq Zakaria, “Muhammad and the Quran” –the Preface and the first 21 pages) however muted it may be these days, that Quran and Mohammad were misinterpreted by even famous commentators in the Hadits and a lot of sayings and actions attributed to Mohammad were concoctions by over-zealous followers in the first few centuries after M’s death. It is necessary to investigate this aspect further to lay to rest the bona fides of Islam . A classic example is the meaning of the word “Jihad”.
It is ironic that what is Islam and what is Christianity and who said what in those religions are themselves in doubt, Hindu-baiters throw the same charge against Hindu Dharma and denigrate it.
RVN