As-Sawi specifies that the payment of the jizya, the Qur’anic tax that non-Muslims must pay to Muslims as a sign of their submission (Qur’an 9:29), signifies that the non-Muslims are “humble and obedient to the judgements of Islam.” The Bedouin commander al-Mughira bin Sa’d, who when he met his Persian counterpart Rustam, said: “I call you to Islam or else you must pay the jizya while you are in a state of abasement….You pay it while you are standing and I am sitting and the whip hanging is over your head.” Similarly, the revered Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir says that the dhimmis must be “disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated.” The seventh-century jurist Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab stated: “I prefer that the people of the dhimma become tired by paying the jizya since He says, “‘until they pay the jizya with their own hands in a state of complete abasement.’”
In The History of Jihad is superabundant detail about how this imperative for humiliation and abasement played out in specific historical contexts.
Who wouldn’t be grateful?
“Imam Khamenei: Three vital lessons from Jesus (pbuh) for all Christians and Muslims,” Ahlul Bayt News Agency, December 26, 2020:
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): God, the Wise, has said, “O people of the Book, let us come to a common word between us and you that we will worship none except Allah, that we will associate none with Him, and that none of us will take others for lords besides Allah.” (Qur’an 3:64)
Dialogue between the intellectuals and scholars of the two religions, Islam and Christianity, is a good action. When it leads to both sides taking a common position with regard to the most vital human issues today, it is useful and fruitful too. Undoubtedly, one of these issues that should be dealt with is “opposition to the presence and spread of spirituality in human beings’ lives.” This opposition is a hasty, confused response from the world’s political and economic powers, who are equipped with wealth, advanced tools of propaganda and destructive, deadly weapons. [Apr. 20, 1993]
The main target of the arrogant powers is Islam. They are seeking to subvert this religion. This is something that everybody should bear in mind. There exists no difference to them between the Shia and the Sunni. They feel threatened by any nation or community or any individual that firmly adheres to Islam. They are justified in feeling threatened since Islam indeed does pose a threat to the domineering goals and hegemonic objectives of the arrogant powers. However, Islam poses no threat whatsoever to non-Muslim nations.
The arrogant powers are insinuating the opposite in their negative propaganda. By using artistic and political means and through their media they are insinuating that Islam is hostile to other nations and to other religions. This is not true. Islam is not antagonistic toward other religions.
When Islam dominated non-Muslim regions, the followers of other religions were grateful to Muslims for their Islamic mercy. They told Muslim rulers that they treated them more kindly than those who ruled them prior to Muslims. When Muslims conquered Syria, they showed kindness toward the Jewish and Christian residents of the region.
Islam is the religion of kindness. It is the religion of mercy. It is a blessing for the entire humanity. Islam tells Christianity that “come to an equitable agreement between us and you” (The Holy Qur’an, 3: 64). It stresses the commonalities that they share.
Islam is not hostile to other nations or to other religions. Islam is opposed to compulsion, oppression, arrogance and domination. Those seeking predominance over nations and the oppressors and arrogant powers are trying to portray the opposite of this reality to the world by utilizing all their resources, from Hollywood and propaganda means to arms and weapons and military forces.
Islam and the Islamic awakening pose a threat, but only to arrogant powers. Wherever they notice this threat, they make it the target of their attacks. It does not matter to them whether this threat emanates from the Shia or from the Sunni….
MIke says
what a NUT
Westman says
And an arrogant fruitcake, as well. Notice that he thinks he is speaking for all of Islam while mainstream Islam wants him buried. The outcries from Sunni nations over the loss of his general and atomic scientist were just deafening – not.
He’s frightened and should be, knowing that there is a race between nature and humans to make use of him for growing daisies.
jca reid says
When they did, why are they STILL not there & why are NOT invited back? Rather like the Eastern Europeans not wanting the soviet Russians back in.
La Plume de Maat says
“Islam is the religion of kindness. It is the religion of mercy. It is a blessing for the entire humanity. Islam tells Christianity that “come to an equitable agreement between us and you””: so easy to check : ask Charlie-Hebdo, Samuel Paty and thousands and thousands that have been beheaded in the name of this so kind religion during the Islam reign of terror. So sweet.
Sam says
Dhimmis had a special place in Medina. Prophet Muhammad(sa) said, “If anyone wrongs a man with whom a covenant has been made [i.e. a dhimmi], or curtails any right of his, or imposes on him more than he can bear, or takes anything from him without his ready agreement, I shall be his adversary on the Day of Resurrection.” [1,5]
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He also made it clear that the protection of their life and honor was the responsibility of the Muslims, and failing in this regard would incur God’s wrath, “Whoever killed a Mu’ahid (a person who is granted the pledge of protection by the Muslims, i.e. a dhimmi) shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise though its fragrance can be smelt at a distance of forty years (of traveling).” [6] At the conquest of Mecca, Prophet Muhammad(sa) had the upper hand against the personalities who had persecuted him for over two decades. He could have silenced his enemies forever. Instead, he turned to the Meccans and asked:
‘O’ Quraish! How do you think I would treat you?’ They replied: ‘We expect nothing but good from you as you are a noble and kind brother to us and the son of a noble and kind brother as well.’ The Prophet said, ‘I say to you what the Prophet Joseph said to his brothers: ‘No blame shall lie on you this day! You are free to go.’ [7]
gravenimage says
dhimmitude is a protection racket–Infidels under dhimmitude, despite paying the crushing Jizya, can be attacked and murdered if there is so much as a rumor that *any* non-Muslims have violated the dhimma. And note that this includes such “crimes” as celebrating their religion openly or not stepping into the gutter to let Muslims pass.
Here is the oppressive Pact of Umar:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/pact-umar.asp
Infidel says
Dear Khamenei, I assume that you also mean that when the Safavid rulers of your country converted it from sunni to the imamiyeh shi’a islam, the people welcomed it as well?
I invite you to convert to Zoroastrianism! Please go ahead and respond in the same logical way that you think people do: welcome my invitation and convert to this true faith of your country. After all, even imamiyeh islam ain’t Iranian, since it too starts w/ Ali and Huseyn, neither of whom were Iranian
P.S. The idea that there’s no difference b/w shi’a and sunni is belied by Iran’s own policies towards the latter, which is treating them the same way as non-muslims. Not just that, had Iran really thought that there’s no difference b/w shi’a and sunni, they wouldn’t have been hostile to Saudi Arabia
somehistory says
Such hogwash as this is not even found on a pig farm. Pig farm hogwash is honest, but this scum is spewing a load of lies. Just whom does he believe will accept what he says as truth?
The only time they could be ‘thankful” or “grateful” to a moslim is when the moslim is fleeing, his back turned on the victims and running for his filthy, lying, devil-worshipping life because someone stronger has confronted him.
And then, even then, the gratefulness and thankfulness would actually be toward the one making the moslim flee.
Can’t imagine any time that a victim…a Christian, Jew or other person, even another moslim…would feel grateful or thankful for being forced under the evil yoke of islam by a demon possessed, greedy, lusty, back-stabbing, moslim.
Lavéritétriomphera says
@La Plume de Maat,
It’s obvious the followers of the Lord of the lies can only lie. For them, to lie is a way to survive, it’s not a choice.
Jaladhi says
LIAR!
Vladimir says
Muhammad said the ”all war is deceit”, and since Islam is at war with all that is Not-Islam, nothing that a Muslim says can be automatically trusted at all. To be against Islam is to be at war with them in some fashion, and to surrender to them is to surrender to the concept of suffering persecution from them, some respite from time to time given the faithful Christian only because of God’s mercy, that He chastises His people by means of Islam for a time, to refine and to purify.
Even in the rare truthful things Islam teaches, it is only to further deceive people by the appearance of righteousness. Islam is the concentration of all other false religions and the concentration of all worldly materialism and sensual sinfulness, as ”Allah” is claimed to benefit his followers with all kinds of worldly success if they do his will in this life, and all manner of pleasures in the life to come.
This then I think is the end-times one world religion, this then I think is the religion of Antichrist and his followers, and everyone who will not be for Christ, will be for Islam and Antichrist in the later days.
Westman says
“It does not matter to them whether this threat emanates from the Shia or from the Sunni….”
Uhh, you mean like Israel and Sunni Arab nations cooperating to keep Shia Iran contained? Like Sunni Saudi Arabia working with the US to keep an eye on Shia Iran?
Why, Khamenei, do you run to Russia and China for protection? Why don’t you have Sunni allies?
And about that, “religion of kindness”, how many Baha’i have you killed this year? How many did Ruhollah Khomeini kill in 1979-1980? How many citizens did you hang this year? How many women? How many people have your terrorist proxies killed this year?
You are a damned liar, Khamenei, and even your own citizens know it is true. The majority are praying for the day you and your fellow Mullahs receive the “justice” you pronounced upon others. You are like the white tombs, full of dead men’s rotting corpses.
barbaracvm1 says
Grateful ? ? ? Is that why the crusades were always pushing the Muslims back from Christian lands. Is that why the Spaniards finally where able to push the Moors / Muslims back to Africa. Their only mistake was granting those Muslims remaining in Spain the same tithing to remain.
The Knights of the Templar mission was to help the Christians to visit the Holy Land.
Baldwin of Jerusalem, the Leprosy King, at age 16 never lost a battle fighting the Muslim.
They fought for their right to worship the Trinity as HE directed.
Mojdeh says
Khamanie is dead or almost dead. All his appearances on TV belongs to 3 months or 3 weeks ago. Do not deceived by Terrorist Haramzadeh Mullahs. We ask where Islam dominated like Iran . People killed by your terrorist regime innocent people still in prison. Child molesters killings with knife is high. You have police of gangs that put fear on the people republic democratic people of Iran. With out them you are nothing. General Ghasem Killed on Jan 3 2020 , i am so glad , he was rapist and murder of many women in Evin , Rajai Shahr and other prison, We celebrate his death with people of Iran, we will burn all his posters in Iran soon weather in home or outside. Death to terrorist Islamic republic of Iran. We ask army navy air force stand down, instead put your bombs on the all mullahs. We already identified all of regime inner circles. They will not escape. Mojtaba bye bye? January 3 2021 world celebrates killing the most terrorist wanted by world, We hope he is on the hell and pay prices for his rapes and killings and terrorist activities that killed many USA soldiers. God Bless North America and Donald Trump.
Westman says
Mojdeh, that’s a marvelous word, haramzadeh, for the Mullahs. Stay safe.
Infidel says
Means ‘bastard’, if I’m not mistaken
tim gallagher says
People like this truly do inhabit another planet. I’d call it planet insanity. This loony probably does actually believe this delusional bullshit he spouts. I can only agree with Mike’s comment, up above, that this Muslim maggot is a NUT. But then again, all of Islam is insane. It is full of such unbelievably backward, barbaric crap, from 7th century Arabia, and is a danger to all of us non-Muslims.
Dave R says
Khomeini can only speak for himself and the numerous backwards feeling Iranians who are the Supreme Council’s most important defense against all the other Iranians he despises, oppresses, imprisons, tortures and executes. What a guy.
Mojdeh says
Islamic State (ISIS) FATWA on Pamela Geller: “We will send all our lions to achieve her slaughter”
This threat illustrates the savagery and barbarism exhorted by Islamic texts and teachings. It calls for my death for violating Sharia blasphemy laws. What remains to be seen is whether the free world will finally wake up and stand for the freedom of speech, or instead kowtow to this evil and continue to denounce me. What’s really frightening and astonishing about this threat is that the media in denouncing me is essentially allying with and even cheering on the Islamic State. I expected this from jihadists. I never expected it from my fellow Americans in the mainstream media.
Pamela We love you from Iran and all Muslim nations. They are bunch of criminals Muslim gangs.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
Well, Mojdeh, the current day MSM are “Useful Idiots” and vying to throw you to the wolves in their vain hopes of being eaten last. But consumed will they be.
As I always say: If you want to know what living in a Caliphate and/or under Sharia Law would be like? Ask an Armenian.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Khamenei: ‘When Islam dominated non-Muslim regions, the followers of other religions were grateful to Muslims’
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What crap. Persecution by Muslims led Spain, Portugal, southern France, southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, the Balkans, Israel, Biafra, South Sudan, and other places to fight against Muslim oppression, in many cases resulting in freedom. The claim that Infidels are grateful to Muslims for persecuting them is just ludicrous.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, it is absolutely amazing some of these mega lies that somehow arise, such as this one that the Muslim rule over non-Muslim countries was viewed as enlightened and pleasant by the non-Muslims, gravenimage. Muslims seem to me to always treat any non-Muslims appallingly so I can’t see how it ever could have been possible that Muslims have ever treated non-Muslims decently in any place or time when they had seized power. Islam could never behave decently in the way that is claimed. This Khamenei would be telling the usual outrageous lies that Muslims always try to sell to people.(although maybe the scumbag actually believes the rubbish he is spouting, in which case he is a completely deluded lunatic.) Any non-Muslim that enjoyed life under Islam would have to be a complete masochist.
gravenimage says
So true, Tim.
gravenimage says
God, the Wise, has said, “O people of the Book, let us come to a common word between us and you that we will worship none except Allah, that we will associate none with Him, and that none of us will take others for lords besides Allah.” (Qur’an 3:64)
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Muslims claim that Christians worship other than Allah, so this “common word” means that Christians and Jews will convert to Islam.
Mojdeh says
Total black out at nights in Tehran and major cities will bombed to hell. Freeway lights are in darkness and exit and entrance free ways all are dark. Well we know why this is pre test for what is coming ? We Iranian
already to leave Tehran Mashhad, Isfahan, Busher and many cities to safe places.?
Giacomo Latta says
”Islam is opposed to compulsion, oppression, arrogance and domination.”
Does ”opposed to” translate to ”a raving fanatic to the point of lunacy of” in Persian?
OLD GUY says
I wonder what he smokes or shoots up to get these dreams of islamic love and joy? Or is he just plain NUTS.
Walter Sieruk says
“The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia law …” [1]
It’s complete blindness , delusion ,folly and error to even attempt to establish Sharia law in North Africa or for that matter any other nation or place in this world.
About Islamic law ,otherwise known and Sharia law. It should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.
Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347
Walter Sieruk says
A former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “Iran is representative of what Islamic fundamentals desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it: State Terror, Instead of utopic, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare.” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Furthermore, in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by , the Christian scholar, William Wagner ,on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave Iran. ” This is a point worth pondering.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 346,.
Quazgaa says
The arab masters will fight their wars to the last iranian servant.
Even so, iran is despised by both the western world and their arab masters.
A befitting end for a nation of slaves.