"O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong. Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your kindred; the wealth that ye have gained; the commerce in which ye fear a decline: or the dwellings in which ye delight, are dearer to you than Allah, or His Messenger, or the striving in His cause, then wait until Allah brings about His decision: and Allah guides not the rebellious." -- Qur'an 9:23-24
The mainstream Qur'an commentator Ibn Kathir explains: “Allah commands shunning the disbelievers, even if they are one’s parents or children, and prohibits taking them as supporters if they choose disbelief instead of faith.” Another renowned Islamic authority, Ibn Juzayy, notes that Qur'an 9:24, with its warning that one should value nothing in this life higher than Allah, is “a threat to anyone who prefers his family, property or home to emigration and jihad.” "Emigration" to infidel lands in order to spread Islam, that is.
"Suspected suicide bomber called father infidel," from The Jakarta Post, April 18 (thanks to Twostellas):
Abdul Gafur, father of suspected suicide bomber Muchammad Syarif, said Monday his son had labeled him an infidel.“When I gave him advice he called me infidel. I told him to pray more, but he said I gave him too much advice, as if heaven was in my hands,” Gafur said Monday, quoted by tribunnews.com.
Gafur said Syarif was known to have been very stubborn in his religious views, especially after he had joined a hardliner group in 2009.
Syarif had also said the Indonesian Criminal Code was mostly inherited from Dutch laws, which was made by “infidels”.
He said the Indonesian Criminal Code should instead be based on Islamic law, since the majority of the Indonesian people were Muslim.
Syarif was the suspected suicide bomber involved in an attack on the Cirebon Police mosque on Friday. He was killed in the explosion, which also injured around 25 people.
I told him to pray more...
Which, if he were praying by koranic dictates, would have been like putting out fire with gasoline. Sorry for the Bowie reference.
The father probably told him not to murder other people...and we know that is Un-Islamic!
"Gafur said Syarif was known to have been very stubborn in his religious views, especially after he had joined a hardliner group in 2009."
He became a pious Muslim.
i guess the 5th commandment "Honour thy father and thy mother" went out the window at some point.
More "misunderstanding" Islam! If believers can't get it straight, how are dirty kafirs supposed to manage?
Quran 9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."
9:112 "The Believers fight in Allah's cause; they slay and are slain, kill and are killed."
8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."
8:65 "O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding."
“When I gave him advice he called me infidel. I told him to pray more, but he said I gave him too much advice, as if heaven was in my hands,” Gafur said Monday, quoted by tribunnews.com.
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Isn't Islam grand? A man can tell his son *to pray more*, and still be considered "an Infidel" by that son, who was on his way to try to blow up some "insufficiently Islamic" Muslims.
When Islam doesn't have enough genuine Kaffirs to murder, it just eats its own.
Dear Mr Spencer,
I don't think Ibn Juzayy meant emigration to infidel lands.I'm actually pretty sure he meant the opposite.When emigration or hijrah is mentionned in the Qur'an or in the writing of early scholars,in general,it means leaving an infidel land where a Muslim is oppressed or prevented from practicing his religion either to a more liberal infidel land (e.g the first emigration from Makkah to Abyssinia) or to a Muslim land.In particular,the word hijrah refers to the emigation from Makkah to Madinah.
The view held by most Muslim scholars (e.g Ibn Hazm,Ibn Taymiyyah) is that it is forbiddden for a Muslim to reside in Dar al Harb when he can move to Dar al Islam.
To this day when the word hijrah is used,especially among Salafis,it means leaving infidel lands to settle in a Muslim country.
Best regards
Dear Mr Spencer,
I don't think Ibn Juzayy meant emigration to infidel lands.I'm actually pretty sure he meant the opposite.When emigration or hijrah is mentionned in the Qur'an or in the writing of early scholars,in general,it means leaving an infidel land where a Muslim is oppressed or prevented from practicing his religion either to a more liberal infidel land (e.g the first emigration from Makkah to Abyssinia) or to a Muslim land.In particular,the word hijrah refers to the emigation from Makkah to Madinah.
The view held by most Muslim scholars (e.g Ibn Hazm,Ibn Taymiyyah) is that it is forbiddden for a Muslim to reside in Dar al Harb when he can move to Dar al Islam.
To this day when the word hijrah is used,especially among Salafis,it means leaving infidel lands to settle in a Muslim country.
Best regards
CEDRICL wrote:
I don't think Ibn Juzayy meant emigration to infidel lands.I'm actually pretty sure he meant the opposite.When emigration or hijrah is mentionned in the Qur'an or in the writing of early scholars,in general,it means leaving an infidel land where a Muslim is oppressed or prevented from practicing his religion either to a more liberal infidel land (e.g the first emigration from Makkah to Abyssinia) or to a Muslim land.In particular,the word hijrah refers to the emigation from Makkah to Madinah.
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I believe you are correct here, Cedric. More generally, I believe it means adopting greater "Islamic purity", and rejecting an easy life offered by "Infidels".
That's exactly what Muchammad Syarif did—rejected a relatively cushy life with his "Infidel" father in a land governed by "Infidel" laws, in favor of the "path of Jihad in the way of Allah", which led him to strap on that suicide vest.