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Muslim cleric: Jews “truly and completely deserve that some of them were transformed into apes and pigs”

Dec 16, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The Fatiha (Opening) is the first sura (chapter) of the Qur’an, and most common prayer of Islam. If you’re a pious Muslim who prays the five requisite daily prayers of Islam, you will recite the Fatiha seventeen times in the course of those prayers.

According to an Islamic tradition, the Muslim prophet Muhammad said that the Fatiha surpassed anything revealed by Allah (“the God” in Arabic, and the word for God used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims) in the Torah, the Gospel, or the rest of the Qur’an. And indeed, it efficiently and eloquently encapsulates many of the principal themes of the Qur’an and Islam in general: Allah as the “Lord of the worlds,” who alone is to be worshiped and asked for help, the merciful judge of every soul on the Last Day.

In Islamic theology, Allah is the speaker of every word of the Qur’an. Some have found it strange that Allah would say something like “Praise is to Allah, Lord of the worlds,” but Islamic tradition holds that Allah revealed this prayer to Muhammad early in his career as a prophet (which began in the year 610 AD, when he received his first revelation from Allah through the angel Gabriel — a revelation that is now contained in the Qur’an’s 96th chapter), so that the Muslims would know how to pray.

It is for its last two verses that the Fatiha is of most concern to non-Muslims.

The final two verses of the Fatiha ask Allah:

Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.

The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path — while the path “of those who have evoked Allah’s anger” are the Jews, and those who have gone “astray” are the Christians.

The classic Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”

Ibn Kathir’s understanding of this passage is not a lone “extremist” interpretation. In fact, most Muslim commentators believe that the Jews are those who have earned Allah’s wrath and the Christians are those who have gone astray.

This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir. One contrasting, but not majority view, is that of Nisaburi, who says that “those who have incurred Allah’s wrath are the people of negligence, and those who have gone astray are the people of immoderation.”

Wahhabis drew criticism a few years back for adding “such as the Jews” and “such as the Christians” into parenthetical glosses on this passage in Qur’ans printed in Saudi Arabia.

Some Western commentators imagined that the Saudis originated this interpretation, and indeed the whole idea of Qur’anic hostility toward Jews and Christians. They found it inconceivable that Muslims all over the world would learn as a matter of course that the central prayer of their faith anathematizes Jews and Christians.

But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology. The printing of the interpretation in parenthetical glosses into a translation would be unlikely to affect Muslim attitudes, since the Arabic text is always and everywhere normative in any case, and since so many mainstream commentaries contain the idea that the Jews and Christians are being criticized here.

Seventeen times a day, by the pious.

Please note that I am not saying that the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian interpretation of the Fatiha is the “correct” one. While I don’t believe that religious texts are infinitely malleable and can be made to mean whatever the reader wants them to mean, as some apparently do, in this case Nisaburi’s reading has as much to commend it as the other: there is nothing in the text itself that absolutely compels one to believe that it is talking about Jews and Christians. And it is noteworthy that in his massive and evocatively named 30-volume commentary on the Qur’an, Fi Zilal al-Qur’an (In the Shade of the Qur’an), the twentieth-century jihad theorist Sayyid Qutb doesn’t mention Jews or Christians in connection with this passage.

At the same time, however, the idea in Islam that Jews have earned Allah’s anger and Christians have gone astray doesn’t depend on this passage alone. The Jews have earned Allah’s “wrath upon wrath” by rejecting Muhammad (2:87-90), and the Christians have gone astray by holding to the divinity of Christ: “They have certainly disbelieved who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary’”(5:72).

The Hadith, the traditions of the words and deeds of Muhammad and the early Muslims, also contains material linking Jews to Allah’s anger and Christians to his curse, which resulting from their straying from the true path. (The Jews are accursed also, according to Qur’an 2:89, and both are accursed according to 9:30). One hadith recounts that an early Muslim, Zaid bin ‘Amr bin Nufail, in his travels met with Jewish and Christian scholars. The Jewish scholar told him, “You will not embrace our religion unless you receive your share of Allah’s Anger,” and the Christian said, “You will not embrace our religion unless you get a share of Allah’s Curse.” Zaid, needless to say, became a Muslim.

In light of these and similar passages it shouldn’t be surprising that many Muslim commentators have understood the Fatiha to be referring to Jews and Christians.

“Egyptian Preacher Sheikh Iyhab Bayan: The Jews Deserved to Be Transformed into Apes and Pigs,” MEMRI, November 24, 2019:

Egyptian preacher Sheikh Iyhab Bayan said in a Friday sermon in Kamshish, Egypt that was uploaded to the Internet on November 24, 2019 that the Jews are so treacherous that their treachery could be discussed forever. He said that the Jews have a twisted mentality, that they slayed Allah’s prophets, that they are the worst sinners among Allah’s creatures, and that the Quran’s description of them as people who incurred the wrath of Allah is accurate. Referring to a Quranic story in which Jews were transformed into apes and pigs, Sheikh Bayan said that the Jews deserved this punishment and that they are the epitome of treachery, lies, and transgression.

Following are excerpts:

Sheikh Iyhab Bayan: The Prophet Muhammad brought about peace, Islam, and loyalty – even with Jews. There is no indication that the Prophet or his companions had betrayed the Jews even once. As for the Jews, I could talk [about their treachery] forever… Can a chameleon [sic] even change? Can such a twisted mentality straighten out… A twisted mentality that violated the commandments of Allah, slayed Allah’s prophets, and lied about Allah… They are the absolute worst sinners among Allah’s creatures. They are the most arrogant towards other people among Allah’s creatures.

[…]

Allah spoke the truth when He described them in the Quran as “those who incurred the wrath of Allah,” in the Al-Fatiha chapter. “Those who incurred the wrath of Allah” are the Jews. They truly and completely deserve the wrath of Allah. They truly and completely deserve that some of them were transformed into apes and pigs, because they are the epitome of treachery, lies, and transgression.

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  1. Siddi Nasrani says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    What the Sheikh Iyhab Bayan is saying here is typical ” projection ”
    What you say about the Jews & Christians is really what some of the followers of Islam
    are like !

    • mortimer says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 1:44 pm

      Agree. The sheikh is criticizing behaviors that Allah authorizes Muslims to use in jihad: betrayal, treachery, lies, theft, ignoring the rules of Sharia.

      It is ironic that the Fatiha prayer refers to the ‘straight path’ when Islam grants Muslims permission to be devious, duplicitous and crooked.

      • Battle says

        Dec 17, 2019 at 8:15 am

        Mortimer: Spot on.

      • J D.S says

        Dec 17, 2019 at 10:17 am

        As the Muslims are just jealous because God chose the Jews instead of them to be His people. Muhammad. (If he ever actually existed…No historical proof that he did) said Gabriel brought to him says message from God…..I would question that….God needed no other oroohet…John, in his revelation said it all …so should God need another to speak for him.
        Upon the return of Jesus will lead a mighty Army to completely destroy the Muslims and all those who may ally with them….So.. who was and where from was the angel that supposedly brought a message to muhammad?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
        Something to ponder.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 8:37 pm

      So true, Siddi.

    • Battle says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 8:13 am

      Siddi Nasrani: Spot on.

  2. pfwag says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Says the inbred…

  3. mortimer says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    I truly wish all Jews and Christians understood that Muslims are cursing them 17 times a day, every day, in their canonical prayers. Muslims consider hating Jews and Christians to be inspirational, rather than bigotry. It is bigotry. Muslims are required to be bigoted if they practice normative, canonical Islam. Most Jews and Christians are reluctant to learn that, but it is factual. Most Muslims don’t know the complete doctrine of AL WALAA WAL BARAA, and so many do not practice this teaching of hatred and hostility religiously.

    -Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]

    -“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 9:05 pm

      +1

  4. PRCS says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    Yes, some of Allah’s slaves are ‘like that’.

    But, to plagiarize, the rest of them “are not real Muslims”.

    The Sheikh is a REAL Muslim.

  5. FYI says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    “We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
    Jesus Christ
    John 4 v 22

    Does the sheikh’s comment refer to Jesus..and Moses and Elijah..?

    Of course in islam all those JEWISH Biblical prophets were actually muslims.

    Yet even the koran insists that authentic prophets must be Jewish[“Children of israel”] :-

    “And verily WE gave the children of Israel the scripture and the command and the Prophethood and provided them with good things and favored them above all peoples”
    Koran 45:16

    Given that the “prophet” muhamed was NOT Jewish,according to koran 45:16,he did not have the right to be associated with the “prophethood”.How hilarious is that?

    muhammed,the mass-murderer of Jews Abu Dawud 4390,was killed by a Jewish woman:that is poetic Justice surely because he proved he was a FALSE prophet
    {See On You Tube acts17apologetics who killed muhammed?}

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 8:38 pm

    Muslim cleric: Jews “truly and completely deserve that some of them were transformed into apes and pigs”
    …………………..

    Of course, the real danger is that Muslims believe that they have the right to attack and murder Jews and other Infidels.

    • Westman says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 12:57 am

      Anyone who believes humans can be transformed into apes and pigs is the epitome of ignorance and stupidity. Holding on to ignorance for 1400 years only makes sense in a world without scientific progress.

      In my children’s and grandchildren’s life times, humans will create life from synthesized DNA/RNA, produce thinking machines, expand nuclear power, greatly reduce fossil fuel use, and travel to Mars while Islam remains stuck in the muddy swamp where the Sun sets.

      Islam has run out of exploitable(conquered) dhimmi nations. It’s swim or sink time for Islam to enter the modern world. The “immigrants” are already voting with their feet yet haven’t shaken off the shackles. One more generation….

  7. PRCS says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 2:29 am

    while Islam remains stuck in the muddy swamp where the Sun sets

    What?

    You sure about that?

  8. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Clearly: the accuser is the accused.

    It is the Mark of Cain: Islam is a marked House.

  9. Battle says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 8:22 am

    Robert Spencer hits nail on head. Good.

  10. Battle says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 8:33 am

    Sheikh Iyhad Bayan is bigoted.

  11. Battle says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 8:37 am

    How many underage girls has Sheikh Iyhad Bayhan married, molested and raped?

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