In Arabic, shahid means “witness,” just as martyr means “witness” in Greek. A martyr is one who bears witness to the truth of his faith — in Christianity by dying for it, and in Islam by killing and dying for it, in accord with the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).
What this cleric is saying is not “extremist”; nor is he espousing the inventions of “Islamophobes,” as some have charged about the 72 virgins. What Nofal says here comes from a hadith of Tirmidhi: “The martyr has six unique traits: he is forgiven immediately; he sees his seat in Paradise and he is saved from the punishment of the grave; he is granted safety from the great terror [of the Day of Judgment]; a crown of honor is placed upon his head, a ruby of which is better than this life and all it contains; he is married to 72 maidens of Paradise; and he is allowed to intercede for 70 relatives.”
“On Hamas TV, Gaza Judge Omar Nofal Extolls the Six Virtues of Martyrdom, Says: Jihad in Palestine Is an Individual Duty Incumbent upon All Muslims,” MEMRI, July 22, 2018 (thanks to Ken):
Interviewed by Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza’s Shari’a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: “How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards?” Nofal said that Jihad is “an individual duty incumbent upon the entire nation.” The interview aired on July 22.
Following are excerpts:
Sheikh Omar Nofal: The martyr gets six rewards. First, he is absolved with the first drop of his blood. The moment the martyr’s blood is shed, all his sins are absolved by Allah.
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When he is martyred, he sees his seat in Paradise, and he is dressed in the clothes of faith. He is a unique and special person, different from the rest of the people, by the grace of Allah. In addition, he is married to 72 virgins of Paradise. This is means that he is granted, in Paradise, some of the things he wished for in life, but they are magnified to a degree that the human mind cannot comprehend. In addition, he is crowned with the crown of honor. The beads, or the links, in the crown of honor, are better than the whole world and all that is in it.
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The martyr can vouch for 70 of his relatives. The martyr can intercede on behalf of his entire family. When he hears about…
Host: And he is married to 72……
The highest level of martyrdom is when a person purifies his intentions, sets out to fight for the sake of Allah and to sacrifice his life and his property, and is killed while facing the fight, not while in retreat. This is the highest level of martyrdom for the sake of Allah.
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Regarding the situation in Palestine I say that Jihad is an individual duty incumbent upon the entire nation. Nobody is allowed to forsake this jihad….
Elizabeth Lawson says
Oh lovely. Incitement to murder, just great! As if we didn’t have enough loony bins running around with their crackpot ideas ready, willing and able to slaughter anything that moves upon the understood exhortations found in their book – providing of course, said murderees are non-Muslim, predominantly Christian, Western …….and most frequently women. Why do we permit propagandists like this to remain in the country?
SB says
No! DS’s. Ask Yourself a question. Why do those who encourage murder of non Muslims, don’t kill non Muslims themselves? Because dumb S’s buy into this bull crap. Do you really think the mighty creator wants you to take the lives of those he created? There are no 72 virgins, only hell.
Indiana Tom says
Well, I can assure you there are 72 virgins. Oink. Oink. Oink.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding that Muslim cleric who declared and explained the Islamic doctrine from the Qur’an of the value ,in the Muslim mindset of how “blessed it is to kill and be killed for the sake of Allah” should even alone expose that Islam is actually a death cult. The following essay thus reveals more of the deadly essence of Islam.
Many times the jihadist members of different Islamic terror entities have gathered together and chanted the words “We love death, they love life.” Likewise those jihadist/Muslims don’t stop with those awful words; they carry through with jihad suicide/homicide attacks. Any sane person would ask “Why do those jihad –minded Muslims have such a mindset of murderous madness?” The answer is that they obtain the way of thinking and believing from the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. As some people call it the Qu ‘ran. For example the Koran in Sura 9:111 instructs “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Therefore it may be conclude that Islam is actually a death cult. In great and wonderful contrast to the death cult which is Islam there is Christianity which is centered on Jesus and His teachings. For Jesus did not teach killing and death but taught and gave life, a good peaceful well lived life and more. For example Jesus declared “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [K.J.V.]
Robert Howes says
Is it not true that much of what is in the Quran is based on the teachings of the Jews and the Christians? Just my atheist view, that there is no God, by any name. Never was, never will be. We are just highly evolved apes who have fooled ourselves into believing that we were “created” in the image of some even higher being. It is a phase we are going through and it is about time we got through it. Those who wrote the Quran were clever but demented.
gravenimage says
Robert, the Qur’an has only the most superficial references to Judaism and Christianity, such as having appropriated the names of Jesus and the Jewish prophets–it has none of Judaism and Christianity’s moral basis, like the Golden Rule.
Even if you think all faiths are rather silly and have no factual basis, surely you see the different societies they create?
There is no freedom in Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
An important question is “Why are the jihadist bombers, so very, delusional that they actually want to become human bombs? ” Some of the reasons are that such violent and deadly people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the Muslim clerics, such as the imams and in some countries as Afghanistan and Iran also the mullahs. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 55:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme brainwash are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations”
Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Mathew 22:29, 30. In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipe-dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
J D S says
Walter…of course Muslims have been brainwashed. They have been taught that the true word of God, the Holy Bible, has been corrupted and that the koran in the true word of God given to muhammad by Gabriel…The key here that most don’t really understand is there is no freewill in Islam…They have been FORCED, over these many centuries to swallow, what muhammad placed upon them as a slavery chains. FORCE and FEAR are the chains if slavery that Muslims are held with…So sad how they are missing the FREEDOMS of Christianity.
Walter Sieruk says
To JDS, thank you for replying to my post. The message that you keyboarded true. As for what you specifically wrote about Muslims” have been taught that the true Word of God , the Bible had been corrupted…” .Yes they have been brainwashed into believing that lie. The reason why the imams and mullahs make that claim that the Bible has been corrupted” is because o fall the many great and outstanding contradictions between the Bible an the Qu ‘ran. So the Muslim clerics make that false claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians ,through time, and that’s way the Bible reads as it does and thus that’s their attempt to discredit the Bible as the trustworthiness of the Word of God., the Bible ,For the Bible doctrines are a strong contrast to the doctrines of the Qu ran. That claim,the Muslim clerics have made very much, underestimate the Power of God to protect and preserve His Word ,through time , and to keep in intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, in light and information of the Bible in can be seen that Islam is a awful and terrible doctrinal error concerning it teaching about the Nature of Jesus and therefore Islam is part of the world of darkness. So Islam with its strong contradictions to the Bible is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. So all dear Muslims are thus invited to leave the false religion of Islam and come the and receive the Jesus of the Bible who is the only way to heaven ,John 14:6. and the True Light of the world. John 8:12.
In addition to all this there is the Christian internet site which replies to the many different claims made by the apologists for Islam. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
Robert Howes says
There could not have been an Islam without a Christianity and a Judaism before it.
Walter Sieruk says
Jihad suicide-homicide jihad bombers are as deluded as they was dangerous and murderous. For they must had actually believed by that by their murdering jihad bombing he was going to obtain for himself a paradise. The more fool them. For the Bible teaches that a murder “shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ” Galatians 5:21. In addition the falsehood of the story of the doctrine from the Koran, the Qu ‘ran, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31, of a sexual /lust-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for certain men Muslim men is a falsehood the is a story /doctrine is this also absurd. The Bible warns against listening to and believing in unproven, unfounded and far-fetched religious stories. No matter how enticing those religious story /doctrines may be . For the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. Furthermore, the Bible had predicted the coming of such false religious teachers, as those imams, who teaches other a story/doctrine of a lust-filled /lust-fill place for specific men. For the Bible reads “”For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but will after their own lust shall heap to themselves teachers ,having itching ears; and they shall turn their ears for the truth ,and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The god of Islam likes it when non-Muslims [Kafirs] die . About the god of Islam ,the television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. Verily if Allah pleased, He could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His Battles.” 47:4
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [NKJV]
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent jihadist/Muslims are actually so very deluded by the false doctrines of Islam that they jihadists view their murderous attacks as “martyrdom operations.” This is because they firmly believe that they will have a paradise, for themselves, after they die in a jihad attack. This is how strong the influence of the deceptive power of the false religion of Islam can be. This delusional madness which results in death and destruction is, somewhat, explained in the following quotation by a Christian author.
“Muslims killed while waging jihad are often honored as martyrs. Also, the prophet Muhammad said that they would be guaranteed passage to paradise. Narrated Abu Huraira in Hadith 9:549:
‘Allah’s Apostle said “Allah guarantees to the person who carries out jihad or His Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but the jihad for His Cause and belief in His Words, that he will either admit him into paradise or return him with the reward or the bounty he has earned to his residence from where he came out.’ [1]
As for the first part of this above quote about a “guarantee’’ of entering into a paradise for a Muslim who dies fighting in the jihad is a falsehood and false doctrine of a “guarantee “. Which a both tragic and sad for many reasons as well as bogus way of God. For Jesus taught not the above but clearly did teach that He is the genuine and only way to heaven. For example, John 14:6 gives the very words of Jesus Which are “I am the way ,the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father ,but by Me.”
[1] ISLAM AND THE BIBLE: WHY TWO FAITH COLLIDE BY David Goldmann page 122
Wellington says
There are so many reasons to hold Islam in contempt, death for apostasy and the sanctioning of rape are two such reasons. No Golden Rule for all and death or severe bodily harm for any criticism of Mo’s creed, Mo himself or the Koran are two other reasons. Yet another reason is the puerile, truly childlike, view of the afterlife proffered by Islam, replete (what a surprise) with females at the service of men even then.
How in the Hell can anyone of sense and knowledge believe in this stupid, heinous religion or even defend it? Islam’s gotta’ go or mankind will remain in the deep shit it is now in because so many believe in or defend this decrepit, ludicrous excuse for a religion.
Terry Gain says
It’s hard to believe that Islam has survived post Renaiisance and Post Feminism. i attribute the survival to lack of knowledge about Islamic Doctrine.
I wonder what percentage of non Muslim populations understand the doctrine. The notion of a carnal paradise betrays Islam as the work product of very primitive men.
Kill for God and be rewarded with all the sex you want from women whom God has created for your sexual pleasure. Seriously? Is Allah an all powerful Frat Boy? (with apologies to frat boys).
PRCS says
Re: Post Feminism.
Feminists now celebrate World Hijab Day.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington and Terry.
Rarely says
Hmmm. If it’s so good why doesn’t he avail himself of 72 virgins etc. in Paradise? These guys never practice what they preach and their “followers” don’t seem to figure that out. Maybe it’s because he knows that they all get the same 72 virgins?
Bev says
My thoughts exactly. The guys preaching ‘death’ never want to seem to take advantage of being a martyr.
Indiana Tom says
Of course the catch is that the virgins of paradise are not necessarily humans. Oink. Oink. Well, you did not eat us so we went to the Muslim heaven and we are now your reward.
Rarely says
Thanks. I forgot about the virgin sheep, the virgin goats, and those beautiful virgin camels. Yum. Yum.
FYI says
I think that stuff about 72 virgins is wrong;I heard somewhere that the word for virgin actually means something else and its..
72…Raisins.
Just think what the lusty jihadist male can do with 72 Raisins….
Nothing.
Terry Gain says
Yes, raisins. Raisins with wide eyes and swelling breasts.
gravenimage says
Exactly. When are raisins described as having “modest gazes”?
Rarely says
In islam EVERYTHING is possible if allah wishes it. And so it is possible that allah would command that muslims find grapes sexy in the extreme — worth dying for.
gravenimage says
🙂
Geoffrey Britain says
In the Qur’an, Allah has declared that only a “CLEAN” jihadist that kills in the name of Allah will get their 72 virgins. Any “unclean” Muslim is permanently barred from paradise and gets NO virgins. ANY contact with any part of a pig renders a Muslim ‘unclean’. That’s why Muslims get bent out of shape when exposed to pork products.It takes a special cleansing ritual to restore an unclean Muslim to a cleanly state.
Wound and slay jihadists with hollow point ammo that encapsulates dried pigs blood and promote it on the internet. Recruitment will plummet when wanna be jihadists realize that their game has turned into a version of Russian Roulette…
Execute captured jihadists and Imams and Mullahs in an “unclean” manner and watch how fast they back away.
You gain leverage over an enemy when you attach (what for them) intolerable consequence to their actions.
Jaladhi says
Islam won’t be Islam without its followers killing, raping, looting, invading, stealing, incest, pedophiilia, …. – all those “good” qualities that Islam teaches. Without all these Islam would be just like any other religion …- who wants that!! Not Muslims – ha, ha,..
Logic&Reason says
Carry out some hits for the mob boss (who, for some reason, can’t do it on his own) and, if you happen to get killed “in the line of duty”, you get an eternity of babes, booze, and baubles.
But….Trump’s the bad guy…..right…..
Terry Gain says
Compared to Allah, Trump is a saint. Trump merely grabbed pussies. Allah created pussies solely for the pleasure of men who killed innocent people.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Trump ever grabbed pussies–it sounds like he just talked about it. Crude, certainly, and I am no fan–but nothing compared to the ugly epidemic of Muslim rape and abuse.
mortimer says
According to Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza’s Shari’a appeals court, ALL the PALLIES should be fighting in jihads and none of them have a right to avoid fighting.
Well, Sheikh Nofal, what are you doing to help the jihad, besides sitting?
Why not practice making bombs in your basement, you hypocrite?
Mateen Elass says
This interviewee fairly drips with hypocrisy. I would guess that Judge Omar Nofals is at least in his 60s. After extolling the six matchless benefits of martyrdom, he asks, “Yes. How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards?” Yet, here the judge is, with perfectly coiffed beard and ultra-clean headdress and robes, planning apparently to live out his natural days commanding young lemmings to do what he never had the guts to do for Allah.
Then at the end of this clip, he has the temerity to assert that jihad (against Israel) is a “fard al-‘ayn”, that is, an individual duty incumbent on ALL Muslims. No one is exempt, because apparently he believes that the Muslim ummah has been attadked, Muslim land has been taken, and all Muslims must rally to defend the cause. “No one is allowed to forsake this jihad,” he concludes.
Except of course Islamic judges, whose calling is to send others to kill and be killed all the while staying safely in the television studio, looking to live happily into old age, thumbing their noses at the six matchless benefits of martyrdom.
I nominate Mr. Nofal for Hypocrite of the Year.
Michael Copeland says
Nomination seconded.
PRCS says
No vote needed.
Terry Gain says
It seems to me that a loving God would not command men to kill innocent people nor reward such men with women created solely to service them, but who am to argue against – in the words of Pope Francis and Barack Obama – ” a great Abrahamic Religion”.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric: One who kills and is killed for Allah “is married to 72 virgins of Paradise”
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In other words, a pious Muslim who dies while murdering innocent people. This is mainstream Islam.
More:
Regarding the situation in Palestine I say that Jihad is an individual duty incumbent upon the entire nation. Nobody is allowed to forsake this jihad….
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This is a tenet of Islam, as well. Sometimes Jihad is “Fard Kalifa”–as long as some Muslims are slaughtering Infidels, it’s all good.
But where Muslims have an especial hatred for Infidels–as, for instance, against the Jews, as here–it is deemed “Fard Ayn”, where every able-bodied Muslim is supposed to be out murdering the Kufar.
God, I hate Islam.
Mateen Elass says
Graven,
I think you meant “fard kifayah” as distinct from fard al-‘ayn.
gravenimage says
You are right, Mateen. I should have looked up the spelling.
Thank you for the correction.
Lydia Church says
Noooo, not ‘virgins of paradise,’ but ‘harlots of hell,’ where the jihadists are the sex slaves for the female demons. Oh, they’ll be burning up, but not like they’d like to be…
Dragan Krstic says
According to the last news of radio Maccah Allah has sent e-mail to all imams that shortage of virgins is on the lowest limit and number of 72 will be reduced to 12 only in very close period. His servant Mohammad advices all the jihadists who are ready to die for Allah to hurry up.
Rachael Montague says
As a woman, I don’t see the lure of being surrounded by 72 male virgins.
Jean says
Rachael.
That’s not what would be in store for you… According to one theory, the virgins ARE the Muslim females lucky enough to enter paradise instead of hell.
So for a Muslim woman, apparently, the choice stands between having molten lead poured perpetually down your throat in hell, or being perpetually raped by a mass murderer, in a perpetual virgin state to make sure it hurts each time…
One also wonders about the age of these virgins.
In Christianity, the resurrected bodies will, according to Augustine, appear about thirty years old, since that is when a person is at the height of their beauty and power.
But the females in Islam’s paradise… Will they perhaps be nine, like Mohammad’s favourite wife, Aisha, when he took her virginity?
It is amazing that there are ANY voluntary female converts to Islam.
Even their paradise is a misery.
gravenimage says
No worries there, Rachael. These are from men only–the only ones who really matter in Islam.
Muslim women are lucky enough if they aren’t sent to Hell. At best, they face an eternity of watching their husbands and those 72 virgins going at it.
Lars says
Well now I know why Madonna had a great hit with the old Like A Virgin song.
David Wood reveals Islam’s reward for its believers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNL8xugDNZQ and certainly it looks like plain old Ba’al worship to me.
Some might hope that Allah’ s stock will not run out of virgins….
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Lars. A David Wood classic!
RickyS says
Update from science news: The 72 black-eyed Virgins are the real deal, scientists say. However, it turns out they are goats, not maidens. Even worse, they are male goats. In other words, Billy Goats. And they aren’t happy about being virgins…
don vito says
This imam looks to be an “old white man”, would saracens listen to an “old white man”? s/. One of the bene’s I didn’t see listed by the imam, which is, the shiehad’s family get paid by the PA< which gets money from the UN, which gets money from the US, EU, and various other western nations, hm…. .
highsider says
A well known mistranslation of a muslim word. It’s actually virgin goats.