Lulua
10-12-2001, 01:28
Mujaahideen: A Misnomer For Many
MUJAAHIDEEN. WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN, AND WHO DESERVES TO BE MUJAAHID?
The root is ja-ha-da. The radical verb is 'jahada', meaning to strive, to
make effort. 'Jihaad', one of the verbal nouns, is basically to make efforts
and to struggle against all evil, in one's own self firstly, and then
around. Armed struggle is an extreme implementation thereof. A 'mujaahid' is
someone who makes jihaad. The plural of the word is 'mujaahidoon', and when
declined to the accusative or genitive, it becomes 'mujaahideen'.
So, basically 'mujaahideen' are Muslims who, conscious of their duties as
creatures and vice-gerant of God on earth, struggle against any form of evil
and injustice. The struggle starts within one's own self. And the first
enemy, after Satan, is one's own self. This struggle then extends to the
surroundings. Means for jihaad are mainly the intellect, good words, good
actions, mutual encouragement, preaching and reminders, the pen (and lately
the Internet), (...), and the last rescourse, in case all the previous fail,
are arms, and only on a defensive basis, against injustice and tyranny.
Since Muslims are constantly, everyday, in self-jihaad, the appellation
'mujaahideen' is normally conferred to those people who fight militarily in
the cause of God.
The world today knows the soldiers of the Northern Alliance as mujaahideen.
This nickname has been conferred to them by the world's media, and WRONGLY
so!!!! My call is to refrain from calling these people mujaahideen, lest the
word be vulgarised and defamed.
Soldiers of the Northern Alliance are people of brute nature. They rape,
kill unjustly, massacre, loot and so on. People with this kind of register
will dishonour such a noble word as mujahideen. Mujahideen struggle for the
establishment and maintain of God's word on earth. Where they enter after
victory, goodness is spread and evil flees away. The contrary was true when
the Northern Alliance entered Kabul and other cities. When they entered,
satanic music started being heard, pornographic pictures displayed, many
women left away their chaste ways, and many men gave themselves away in
wine-drinking and so on. To crown it all, many people, hundreds of them,
were massacred cold-bloodedly, after being humiliated and debased. These are
satanic acts and against the principles of Islam.
The Taliban deserve to be called mujahideen far more than the soldiers of
the Northern Alliance, if we speak relatively. OK, if you don't want to call
the Taliban mujahideen, at least STOP CALLING SOLDIERS OF THE NORTHERN
ALLIANCE MUJAHIDEEN.
Keep that word noble, and let it be possessed by noble people.
Peace
Nadeem
MUJAAHIDEEN. WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN, AND WHO DESERVES TO BE MUJAAHID?
The root is ja-ha-da. The radical verb is 'jahada', meaning to strive, to
make effort. 'Jihaad', one of the verbal nouns, is basically to make efforts
and to struggle against all evil, in one's own self firstly, and then
around. Armed struggle is an extreme implementation thereof. A 'mujaahid' is
someone who makes jihaad. The plural of the word is 'mujaahidoon', and when
declined to the accusative or genitive, it becomes 'mujaahideen'.
So, basically 'mujaahideen' are Muslims who, conscious of their duties as
creatures and vice-gerant of God on earth, struggle against any form of evil
and injustice. The struggle starts within one's own self. And the first
enemy, after Satan, is one's own self. This struggle then extends to the
surroundings. Means for jihaad are mainly the intellect, good words, good
actions, mutual encouragement, preaching and reminders, the pen (and lately
the Internet), (...), and the last rescourse, in case all the previous fail,
are arms, and only on a defensive basis, against injustice and tyranny.
Since Muslims are constantly, everyday, in self-jihaad, the appellation
'mujaahideen' is normally conferred to those people who fight militarily in
the cause of God.
The world today knows the soldiers of the Northern Alliance as mujaahideen.
This nickname has been conferred to them by the world's media, and WRONGLY
so!!!! My call is to refrain from calling these people mujaahideen, lest the
word be vulgarised and defamed.
Soldiers of the Northern Alliance are people of brute nature. They rape,
kill unjustly, massacre, loot and so on. People with this kind of register
will dishonour such a noble word as mujahideen. Mujahideen struggle for the
establishment and maintain of God's word on earth. Where they enter after
victory, goodness is spread and evil flees away. The contrary was true when
the Northern Alliance entered Kabul and other cities. When they entered,
satanic music started being heard, pornographic pictures displayed, many
women left away their chaste ways, and many men gave themselves away in
wine-drinking and so on. To crown it all, many people, hundreds of them,
were massacred cold-bloodedly, after being humiliated and debased. These are
satanic acts and against the principles of Islam.
The Taliban deserve to be called mujahideen far more than the soldiers of
the Northern Alliance, if we speak relatively. OK, if you don't want to call
the Taliban mujahideen, at least STOP CALLING SOLDIERS OF THE NORTHERN
ALLIANCE MUJAHIDEEN.
Keep that word noble, and let it be possessed by noble people.
Peace
Nadeem