Peacemakers Shall Be Blessed

Assalamu A'alaykum wa Rahmatullahee wa Barakatu

Peace Angela:

There can be things that we don't like but it is good in the sight of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and there can be something that we like but it is not good in the sight of Allah.

Let us pretend that you walk in the street in your town and you see how a guy tries to kill an old lady. The only way for you to save the old lady is by killing this guy. What would you do?

Wars are always great trials, but sometimes they are not avoidable. If a people oppresses and terrorizes other people then it is the obligation of the Muslim to help, even if it needs force. I am talking about battles between soldier and soldier. However, if the soldier of the enemy desist fighting then he should be given peace, and after you have given someone peace you cannot kill him be he Muslim or someone from other faiths. If they resist fighting however then we fight back. We fight those enemies who resist fighting and those who fight us. Wars and battles are always ugly and they are huge struggle, but if people fight us we cannot just give them the other cheek. This would mean that we approve their tyranny, and in the end the tyrants will rule while the peacemakers live as slaves or are no more.

Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu aleihi wassallam, did not fight his whole life in physical battle. He only fought in actual battles for altogether less then 2 days. If he were a bloodthirsty tyrant then he would wage war and kill all his life. However, he became a prophet when he was 40 years old. Before, this day he had not fought any battles, except the battles against desires etc. He lived a normal life. He married a beautiful woman and had offspring. His future wife employed him and he received financial support through his wife Khadijah. Until the age of 40, there was no battle. He just lived his life following the religion of Abraham, aleihi salaam.

Was the first commandment Muhammad received to fight the non-believers? Was the first commandment to kill the idol-worshippers of Arabia? The first commandments Muhammad received told him and everyone of us to learn and to gain knowledge. Education was the first commandment. Muhammad during the Makkan Period did not wage wars against anyone be they the Quraish, the Nazarenes, the Jews or whoever. When you carefully read the Qur'anic Verses from the Makkan Period. You do not find rulings on fighting and laws. The do's and don'ts were revealed in the Madeenah Period which begins with the Hijrah (Migration from Makkah to Madeenah). The Makki chapters of the Qur'an are preparations for the laws. You find that in the Makki part of Qur'an, the topics are the hereafter, hellfire, and paradise and the tenets of faith.

Muhammad and his companions suffered greatly by the Quraish leaders. Companions were tortured, but no Muslim raised any weapon. There were companions of the prophet to fight against them but the prophet did not command to do so. When Muhammad migrated from Makkah to Madeenah he was about 50 years old. In ten years prophethood he did not fight. They settled in Madeenah. I don't know the age of Muhammad during the battle of badr. The battle of badr was the first battle. After more than 50 years of life, Muhammad fought a battle. If you think that this battle took place over years, no. It was one battle. The Muslims killed whoever resisted fighting. They were attacked by a huge army. The Muslims were about 340 in number. It is said that the number of the Muslims were the same in number as the number of soldiers who were fighting with the King Talut or Saul against the army of Goliath/Jalut when young David, aleihi salam, killed Goliath. There was not way around the battle.

Muhammad did not fight many battles. Battles are usually not more than a few hours. Muhammad altogether fought in actually physical battle for less than two days.

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amlhabibi2000 wrote: In those developing Nations you have the indigenous peoples hurting, harming and killing each other as well as a number of them denying their own people safe passage and freedom of expression and the freedom to go about the daily buisness of life.

I was talking about real literal poverty in developing countries, the kind of poverty where people starve and have barely enough food to keep themselves alive so they can feed their children. I don't think lack of "freedom of expression" is poverty. In places like Somalia, people are ready to give up all their freedoms, rights, and every other privilage for the sake of food - the most basic human need.

You have great visions, but you need to outline some concrete plans to bring about "positive change."