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Lying for the sake of Allah
http://www.hraic.org/taqiyya_taqqiyya_and_dissimulation.html
Hadith Sahih Bukhari (5:369)
Prophet Muhammad called for volunteers to assassinate a
poet who was making fun of him, K'ab bin Ashraf.
K'ab's step-brother Muhammad bin Maslama said he would,
but could he lie to get him out of his fortress? The
Prophet replied affirmatively.
Taqiyya, Taqqiyya and Dissimulation (by Robert E. Burns,
Grad Dip Islamic Studies)
Al-taqiyya, dissimulation or plain, right-out lying is
often stated to be a shiite muslim concept. An example is
the Iranian revolution of 1979 where Ayatollah Khomeini
presented his struggle as one against the Shah and
invited all Iranians to participate. However, his primary
agenda was the introduction of a theocratic islamic state
based on vicious Sharia, islamic law. Within a year or so
his former "allies", democrats, Marxists, communists,
Baha'i were being executed.
But taqiyya is not just a Shia tradition. The Sunni
Moriscos rode out the Spanish Inquisition by hiding their
true views. They would conform by going along to mass and
then wash off the "holy water" when they got home. (I
certainly do not blame them for this taqqiyya.(Double q
when their life is in danger.))
What is important to us today is to be on our guard in re
this "diplomacy", dissimulation and not take muslim
statements at face value. Al-Qaeda did not seem to
realize that they could not overcome the Western
superpower (or perhaps they had a compulsion to
martyrdom?) but most muslim countries know that the time
is not yet ripe for the islamization of the world.; For
example, Saudi Arabia sees a need to protect its corrupt
regime and oil from the Iraqis and for this Western
weapons are needed.
The Qur'an explains this:
"Let not the believers take for friends or helpers
unbelievers rather than believers .
except by way of precaution (taqiyya), that ye may guard
yourselves from them.
But Allah cautions you to remember Himself; for the final
goal is to Allah." (3:28)
"In the cause of Allah" is the qualifying concept.
Muslims must not dissemble if this is not the case: for
example for personal reasons or where the aims of islam
should be made clear.
Religious and progressive groups in the West should
beware of "United Fronts" with muslims who will use them
for taqiyya. "Stop the bombing of Afghanistan, the
killing of civilians" in many cases really meant "stop
the bombing of caves where Osama bin Laden might be
hiding". Muslim apologists will blithely tell you that
jihad means "striving for Allah" e.g. in one's personal
life or perhaps war to defend islam knowing full well
that it can be offensive war to spread islam. They will
tell you that islam is a religion of peace and tolerance
when there are dozens of examples of belligerence and
intolerance in the Qur'an, for example (9:5), (98:6),
(9:29), (9:14), (8:39), (9:123), (48:29),(60:4), (5:72-
73), .
Their main reply when these verses are quoted to them is
that "they are quoted out of context" or applied to
certain conditions pertaining at that time. But this is
pure dissimulation: fundamentalists will say that the
verses do apply today and have never been abrogated.
As a general rule, do your own research. Many
fundamentalist web sites do not hide the truth of their
aims and doctrines. They are proud not to dissemble.
Added 6/6/02 Muhammad permitted lying if it was in the
interests of islam
Sahih Bukhari 5:369
Allah's Apostle said, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin
Al-Ashraf [a poet] who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?"
Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, "O Allah's
Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?" The Prophet
said, "Yes," Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to
say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab). "The Prophet
said, "You may say it." ...
Islam's #1 theologian allowed lying in the interests of
islam
a.. Imam Abu Hammid Ghazali said: "Speaking is a means
to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is
attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it
is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is
no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an
aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is
permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible."
(Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, "The Reliance of the
Traveller") "On the battlefield" (dealing with non-
muslims) outwittings are necessary.
Hadrat Ali said that in the battlefield one could not
observe the highest standard of truth as a muslim has
been exhorted to do in matters of religion. For example
in the battlefield one has to hide facts and outwit the
enemy." (Hadith Sahih Muslim, Vol. 2, ft. #1446)
Tauriya or twisting of meanings
" A type of lie which is not a serious sin is tauriya or
double-entendre which means using a word, an expression
or a phrase, which has an obvious meaning and intending
thereby another meaning to which it applies, but which is
contrary to the obvious one." (Sahih Muslim Vol. 1, ft.
402, English version)
HRAIC's Experience
Our organization has experienced taqiyya, "outwittings",
lying about this website in a submission made to the
Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs - "Response to
Proposed Racial & Religious Tolerance Bill " by Amir
Butler of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee.
I quote: "The material published by this organization
seeks to show that all muslims are fundamentalists and a
threat to the west." [On the contrary we say there are
"The Two Faces of Islam", one of our articles] "It goes
further than most islamophobic material, in that it
accuses muslims of believing in pedophilia, bestiality,
ethnic cleansing, rape, stealing and an assortment of
other offences. Amongst the charges made is that muslims
sodomize babies and have sex with "sheep, cows, camels
and so on"
If you examine the article "Pedophilia and Prophet
Muhammad", you will see the really nasty stuff is a
direct quote from a book by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.
Muslims are not blamed for ethnic cleansing in this day
and age. (In fact we supported the muslim Kosovars when
Slobodan Milosevic was trying to get them out of Kosovo.
This material is still in our Archives.) Our article on
ethnic cleansing refers to the removal of all Jews and
Christians from Arabia by Prophet Muhammad and his
successors. There are references to the Armenian genocide
by Turkey in what was Turkish Armenia in 1915, and in
Asia Minor in 1922.
Rape, at that time - an article on "Rape and Islam" is in
the pipeline, received two brief mentions in "Women and
Islam": One is on how the victim is blamed and the other
is how difficult it is to obtain a conviction under
islamic law. (There must be 4 adult male muslim witnesses
to the act. A woman's word is not accepted.)
Muslims are not singled out as being thieves. The
reference is to amputation of hands for theft in Taleban
Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iraq, UAE,... They
may not have liked the reference to Prophet Muhammad, who
robbed 82 caravans and dispossessed thousands of Jews.
Again the emphasis is on human rights - we consider
amputation of a hand to be an abuse.
Amir Butler sounds like a convert to islam with a
complete grasp of the English language and I consider
that their submission was a deliberate misrepresentation
of what is on our web site.
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