LOOT: SPECIAL GIFT FOR MUSLIMS FROM 'ALLAH'

In this post, all the verse of Quran have been taken from the translation rendered by 'Hilali and Khan' and it is said to be the most widely circulated translation in the world. 

According to पतंजलि योगसूत्र, one of the golden rules is not to take what is not rightfully yours. This is called अस्तेय. The वैदिक/सनातन धर्म has had a hoary tradition on these lines. It talks of rising above such illusory gains.

Islam has no such tradition of योग so that one can rise above the pleasure of the senses. So different is Islam from वैदिक/सनातन धर्म that the eighth chapter of Quran is dedicated to justification of looting from other religions. The name of the chapter is Anfal or अन्फाल, which means loot of war. The title should be sufficient for an alert and balanced mind that if one of the longest chapters is devoted to such a topic, what kind of ideology can it preach. In this post, we will find how Jihad, killing of others, terrorizing the others and looting of others is justified.

To understand the post, it is better to get acquainted with a few Islamic words.

Mushrik - It means those who consider any one else as God, except Allah. The word 'shirk' or शिर्क means participation and its verb is shirkat or शिरकत. Thus, all those who worship the supreme creator by any other name like ब्रह्म, ब्रह्मा, शिव, कृष्ण, राम, दुर्गा, विष्णु, अय्यप्पा, मुरुगन, Jesus, Jehova or any other name are Mushrik. This word is primarily used to represent those who are involved in मूर्तिपूजा which is called 'बुत परस्ती' in Islam. Thus all Hindus and Buddhists are mushrik. In fact, the word बुत has its origins in the word बुद्ध because of the large carvings of Buddh which were revered by Buddhists.

'Ahle Kitaab - As compared to Mushriks, the people of Judeo-Christian origin are better placed. They are referred to as 'people of the book' or 'अहले किताब'. This preferential treatment to them is because the founder of Islam, Mohammad, borrowed generously from old testament and new testament. 

Kuffar - It is a term which includes Mushrik as well as people of the book. Singular of Kuffaar is Kaafir or काफिर.

Aayat - Verses of Quran. Hindi - आयत, singular -Aaya or आया.


Anfal - War booty, loot, also called ग़नीमत or Ghanimat.

Like evangelists, whom Gandhi ji rightly called 'vendors of goods', Islamists have also found out that Hindus have lost their intellectual agility and can be deceived by using the right kind of phrases and face expression. The days Hindus become intellectually active and courageous, they will not only be able to stem the tide of predatory creeds but will be able to save those poor souls who have been converted to Islam. Muslims all over the world and especially on our sub continent, are victims because they have been uprooted from their ancestral faith and converted to Islam, either with sword or some other inducement.


Islam was started by a seventh century Godman called Muhammad bin Abdullah (Muhammad son of Abdullah).

In the year 695 A.D., at 25, he had married a 40 years old wealthy and successful business lady named Khadija. This alliance was economically very fruitful for Muhammad. For next 25 years he did not have to worry about earning a livlihood. 
She died after 25 years and now Muhammad had to take care of his daily needs. He married a very old lady named Sauda to take care of his and Khadija's children and married six years old Aisha within a year of demise of Khadija. Since he had proclaimed himself to be a Godman, Allah obligingly 'revealed' the Surah 8 to take care of the monetary angle of his 'prophet'.


The gist of this chapter is that Allah wants his latest courier and his followers to raid, loot, kill and rape innocent persons and share the booty among themselves. The only fault of these innocents is that they do not follow the self styled 'prophet'. 


It so happened that Muhammad and his 305 followers had raided a Caravan. The caravan belonged to Mecca and its leader had been alerted about the evil designs of Muhammad and his cronies. He sent a message for reinforcements to protect the precious Caravan from the robbery, changed the route and reached Mecca safely. The raiding party of Muslims encountered the reinforcements. The meccans outnumbered the Muslims but were reluctant to fight as they felt that Muhammad and his men were their relatives. The Muslims did not have any such qualms and they attacked with their full might and defeated the Meccans. Some of the chiefs of Mecca were killed and the others left the field, leaving their belongings behind. It was a poor consolation for the war hungry Muslims so they started quibbling among themselves for the distribution. It was at this opportune time that Allah's latest instalment of instructions was 'revealed' through Muhammad.


The first verse is :

They ask you (O Muhammad SAW) about the spoils of war. Say: "The spoils are for Allah and the Messenger." So fear Allah and adjust all matters of difference among you, and obey Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW), if you are believers.

With this verse, Allah sanctioned the muslims to kill and loot all those who did not believe in Allah. The chapter has 75 verses in which 'Allah' uses a colourful vocabulary to denounce the followers of any other faith. I will quote some of these verses here.

And (remember) when Allah promised you (Muslims) one of the two parties (of the enemy i.e. either the army or the caravan) that it should be yours, you wished that the one not armed (the caravan) should be yours, but Allah willed to justify the truth by His Words and to cut off the roots of the disbelievers (i.e. in the battle of Badr).

In the verse 12 of this chapter, Allah commands to behead the Kaafirs and cause TERROR in their hearts.

(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes."

In the next verse, the reason for the terrorist activity is clarified

This is because they defied and disobeyed Allah and His Messenger. And whoever defies and disobeys Allah and His Messenger, then verily, Allah is Severe in punishment.

Then Allah warns all non Muslims in verse 38:

Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease (from disbelief) their past will be forgiven. But if they return (thereto), then the examples of those (punished) before them have already preceded (as a warning).

In next verse, Allah gives the command to fight till all non Muslims are finished off.

And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.

Then the cat comes out of the bag in verse 41, where Allah asks for 20% in the robbery:

And know that whatever of war-booty that you may gain, verily one-fifth (1/5th) of it is assigned to Allah, and to the Messenger, and to the near relatives [of the Messenger (Muhammad SAW)], (and also) the orphans, Al-Masakin (the poor) and the wayfarer, if you have believed in Allah and in that which We sent down to Our slave (Muhammad SAW) on the Day of criterion (between right and wrong), the Day when the two forces met (the battle of Badr) - And Allah is Able to do all things.

Badr is the name of the place where this confrontation took place. Very few people know that the attack on Kargil was code named Al-Badr, taking inspiration from this robbery raid. Allah displays his anger on disbelievers. 
Quran - Chapter 8, verse 55

Verily, The worst of moving (living) creatures before Allah are those who disbelieve, - so they shall not believe.

Thus, Allah considers all those to be worst of creatures, who do not believe in ayats of Quran. So, except Muslims all are detested by Allah.

If Allah dislikes them then how should the faithfuls treat them. It is clearly explained. [8:57]

So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson. 

Hindi rendering is more clear

तो अगर वह लड़ाई में तुम्हारे हाथे चढ़ जाएँ तो (ऐसी सख्त गोश्माली दो कि) उनके साथ साथ उन लोगों का तो अगर वह लड़ाई में तुम्हारे हत्थे चढ़ जाएं तो (ऐसी सजा दो की) उनके साथ उन लोगों को भी तितिर बितिर कर दो जो उन के पुश्त पर हो ताकि ये इबरत हासिल करें 

Allah really hates Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Zorashtrians, Jews and Christians. So, [8:59]

And let not those who disbelieve think that they can outstrip (escape from the punishment). Verily, they will never be able to save themselves (from Allah's Punishment).

Ajmal Kasab or Afzal Guru became terrorists because [8:60]

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

The above statement gives us an idea as to why radical Islamists are never short of money. 

We keep on hearing the word Jihad. Here is its true meaning [8:65]

ऐ रसूल तुम मोमिनीन को जिहाद के वास्ते आमादा करो (वह घबराए नहीं ख़ुदा उनसे वायदा करता है कि) अगर तुम लोगों में के साबित क़दम रहने वाले बीस भी होगें तो वह दो सौ (काफिरों) पर ग़ालिब आ जायेगे और अगर तुम लोगों में से साबित कदम रहने वालों सौ होगें तो हज़ार (काफिरों) पर ग़ालिब आ जाएँगें इस सबब से कि ये लोग ना समझ हैं  

When the Muslims had won the confrontation, they held about 50 Meccans as captives so that more money could be earned in the form of ransom (if this is not gangsterism, what is?). Out of these poor captives were two men named An-Nazr and Ukba, who used to tease Muhammad by saying that he was not a prophet. Now they were at the mercy of Muhammad. An-Nazr was immediately beheaded by Ali on command of Muhammad (so much for freedom of expression and mercy). Ukba asked Muhammad as to why was he being executed, Muhammad replied

Because of your enmity to Allah and his prophet

To this Ukba pleaded:

And my little girl! who will take care of her?

Muhammad replied

Hell-fire!

And Ukba was cut into pieces.
Then Muhammad said to the corpse of the man:

I give thanks unto the Lord that hath slain thee, and comforted mine eyes thereby.

Life of Mahomet by William Muir, pp 229,230

The ever obliging Allah sent the justification of this cold blooded murder immediately. Allah, through his prophet has a desire for slaughter of Kuffar. Thus they have to be killed.[8:67]

It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise. 

Then in verse 69, the loot money is given sanction, making it lawful for Muslims.

So enjoy what you have gotten of booty in war, lawful and good, and be afraid of Allah. Certainly, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

After declaring that loot is a good deed for Muslims and 20% of it is for 'Allah', he goes on to define the real Muslims in verses 72 - 75:

जिन लोगों ने ईमान क़ुबूल किया और हिजरत की और अपने अपने जान माल से ख़ुदा की राह में जिहाद किया और जिन लोगों ने (हिजरत करने वालों को जगह दी और हर (तरह) उनकी ख़बर गीरी (मदद) की यही लोग एक दूसरे के (बाहम) सरपरस्त दोस्त हैं और जिन लोगों ने ईमान क़ुबूल किया और हिजरत नहीं की तो तुम लोगों को उनकी सरपरस्ती से कुछ सरोकार नहीं-यहाँ तक कि वह हिजरत एख्तियार करें और (हॉ) मगर दीनी अम्र में तुम से मदद के ख्वाहॉ हो तो तुम पर (उनकी मदद करना लाज़िम व वाजिब है मगर उन लोगों के मुक़ाबले में (नहीं) जिनमें और तुममें बाहम (सुलह का) एहदो पैमान है और जो कुछ तुम करते हो ख़ुदा (सबको) देख रहा है...और जो लोग काफ़िर हैं वह भी (बाहम) एक दूसरे के सरपरस्त हैं अगर तुम (इस तरह) वायदा न करोगे तो रूए ज़मीन पर फ़ितना (फ़साद) बरपा हो जाएगा और बड़ा फ़साद होगा...और जिन लोगों ने ईमान क़ुबूल किया और हिजरत की और ख़ुदा की राह में लड़े भिड़े और जिन लोगों ने (ऐसे नाज़ुक वक्त में मुहाजिरीन को जगह ही और उनकी हर तरह ख़बरगीरी (मदद) की यही लोग सच्चे ईमानदार हैं उन्हीं के वास्ते मग़फिरत और इज्ज़त व आबरु वाली रोज़ी है...और जिन लोगों ने (सुलह हुदैबिया के) बाद ईमान क़ुबूल किया और हिजरत की और तुम्हारे साथ मिलकर जिहाद किया वह लोग भी तुम्हीं में से हैं और साहबाने क़राबत ख़ुदा की किताब में बाहम एक दूसरे के (बनिस्बत औरों के) ज्यादा हक़दार हैं बेशक ख़ुदा हर चीज़ से ख़ूब वाक़िफ हैं

Thus Jihad is the best duty of a Muslims. This is the true Islam and true Muhammad.

RAPING AND KILLING HINDUS - ISLAMIC STYLE

This is one of the most heart rending letters written by victims on their helplessness. This letter was written by the women of Malabar about five months after the moplah riots had started by the muslim moplah community of Malabar, Kerala. These riots started on 1st of August, 1921, exactly one year after the death of Sh. Bal Gangadhar Tilak. After the death of Tilak, M.K. Gandhi had acquired prominence in Congress and along with the notorious Ali brothers had started what is known as Khilafat movement. One of the promises made at the start of the movement was 'self rule' in one year. And exactly after one year, these riots broke out. To know why this movement was anti national, pro British, anti muslims and anti Hindu, read about the reality of the khilafat movement.

The moplah muslims, according to the contemporary news reports, started an orgy of loot, murder and rapine on Hindus. What is ironic is that the word 'moplah' means son-in-law in Malayalam. The reason for the name of the community is that the muslim traders came from Arab in eighth century and settled in Kerala. With time, they married the local women and became permanent settlers there. Hence the name. For them self rule meant rule of Islam and for Islam all those who are not muslims are kafir (काफ़िर) . They are either to be killed or converted to Islam. Their wives, children and properties belong to the killer of 'kafirs'.

It was in this background, the terrible riots took place. Here is the petition which the women of Malabar sent to the 'countess of reading'.

To
Her Gracious Excellency
THE COUNTESS OF READING,
Delhi.

The humble memorial of the bereaved and sorrow stricken women of Malabar.

May it please your gracious and compassionate ladyship.

We, the Hindu women of Malabar of varying ranks and stations in life who have recently been overwhelmed by the tremendous catastrophe known as the Moplah rebellion, take the liberty to supplicate your Ladyship for sympathy and succour.

2. Your Ladyship is doubtless aware that though our unhappy district has witnessed many Moplah outbreaks in the course of the last one hundred years, the present rebellion is unexampled in its magnitude as well as unprecedented in its ferocity. But it is possible that your ladyship is not fully appraised of all the horrors and atrocities perpetrated by the fiendish rebels ;of the many wells and tanks filled up with the mutilated, but often only half dead bodies of our nearest and dearest ones who refused to abandon the faith of our fathers;

of pregnant women cut to pieces and left on the roadsides and in the jungles, with the unborn babe protruding from the mangled corpse ;

of our innocent and helpless children torn from our arms and done to death before our eyes

and of our husbands and fathers tortured, flayed and burnt alive ;

of our hapless sisters forcibly carried away from the midst of kith and kin and subjected to every shame and outrage which the vile and brutal imagination of these inhuman hell-hounds could conceive of ;

of thousands of our homesteads reduced to cinder- mounds out of sheer savagery and a wanton spirit of destruction ;

of our places of worship desecrated and destroyed

and of the images of the deity shamefully insulted by putting the entrails of slaughtered cows where flower garlands used to lie.

or else smashed to pieces ;

of the wholesale looting of hard earned wealth of generations reducing many who were formerly rich and prosperous to publicly beg for a piece or two in the streets of Calicut, to buy salt or chilly or betel-leaf — rice being mercifully provided by the various relief agencies. These are not fables.

The wells full of rotting skeletons, the ruins which once were our dear homes, the heaps of stones which once were our places of worship — these are still here to attest to the truth. The cries of our murdered children in their death agonies are still ringing in our ears and will continue to haunt our memory till death brings us peace. We remember how driven out of our native hamlets we wandered starving and naked in the jungles and forests. We remember how we choked and stifled our babies' cries lest the sound should betray our hiding places to our relentless pursuers.

We still vividly realise the moral and spiritual agony that thousand of us passed through when we were forcibly converted into the faith professed by these blood thirsty miscreants ; we still have before us the sight of the unendurable and life long misery of those — fortunately few —of our most unhappy sisters who born and brought up in respectable families have been forcibly converted and then married to convict coolies. For five long months not a day has passed without its dread tale of horror to unfold.

3. Your gracious Ladyship's distracted memorialists have endeavoured without exaggeration, without setting down aught in malice to convey at least some idea of the indescribably terrible agonies which they and thousands more of their sisters have been enduring for over five months now through this reign of inhuman (rightfulness inaugurated and carried on in the name of the Khilafat. We have briefly referred without going into their harrowing details to our heart rending tale of dishonour, outrage, rapine, and desolation. But if the past has been one of pain and anguish, the future is full of dread and gloom. We have to return to a ruined and desolated land. Our houses have been burnt or destroyed ; may of our breadwinners killed ; all our property looted ; our cattle slaughtered. Repatriation without compensation means for us ruin, beggary, starvation. Will not the benign Government come to our aid and give us something to help us to begin life anew? We are now asked to settle down as paupers in the midst of the execrable Sends who robbed, insulted and murdered our loved ones — veritable demons such as hell itself could not let loose. Many of us shrink from the idea of going back to what there is left of our homes; for though the armed bands and rebels have been dispersed the rebellion cannot be said to be entirely quelled. It is like a venomous serpent whose spine has been partly broken, but whose poison fangs are still intact and whose striking power, if diminished, has not been destroyed. A few thousands of rebels have been killed and a few more thousands have been imprisoned, but as the Government are only too well aware many more thousands of rebels, looters, savagely militant evangelists and other inhuman monsters yet remain at large, a few in concealment, but most, moving about with arrogance openly threatening reprisals on all non-moslims who dare to return and resume possession of their property. Many refugees who went back have paid for their temerity with their lives. In fact, repatriation, if it is not to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire, must mean for the vast bulk of your Ladyship's impoverished and helpless memorialists and their families a hard inexorable problem of financial help, and adequate protection against renewed hellish outrages from which immunity would be utterly impossible as long as thousands of men and even wom6n and children of this semi-savage and fanatical race in whom the worst instinct of earth hunger, blood-lust and rapine have been awakened to fierce activity- are free to prey upon their peaceable and inoffensive neighbours who — let it be most respectfully emphasized — because of their implicit trust in the power an I the will of a just and benign Government to protect them, had suffered their own art and capacity for self defence to emasculate and decay.

4. We, Your Ladyship's humble and sorrow-stricken memorialists do not seek vengeance. Our misery will not be rendered less by inflicting similar misery upon this barbarous and savage race; our dead will not return to us if these slayers are slaughtered. We would not be human, however, if we could ever forget the cruel and shameful outrages and indignities perpetrated upon us by a race to whom we have always endeavoured to be friendly and neigbourly! we would be hypocritical if, robbed of all our possessions we did not plead for some measure of compensation to help us out of the pauperism now forced upon us; we would be imbecile, if knowing the ungovernable, anti-social propensities and the deadly religious fanaticism of the raoplah race v.e did not entreat the just and powerful government to protect the lives and honour of our humble sisters who have to live in the rebel-ravaged zone. Our ambition after all is low enough ; sufficient compensation to save us and our children from starvation, and enough military protection against massacre and outrage are all that we want. We beseech Your Compassionate Ladyship to exercise all the benevolent influence that you possess with the government to see that our humble prayers are granted. But if the benign Government does not consider it possible to compensate us and to protect us in our native land we would most fervently pray that free grants of land may be assigned to us in some neighbouring region which though less blessed with the lavish gifts of nature may also be less cursed by the cruelty and brutality of man.

We beg to remain

Your Ladyship's most humble and obedient servants.

Since then there have been scores of riots throughout the country, including the infamous noakhali riots in which similar treatment was meted out to the hindu women of Bengal. The ferocity of this outrage was surpassed during the second partition of the भारतवर्ष in 1947. It seems that we have not learnt anything from our history. That is why we are witnessing the same distressing signals in Kashmir, West Bengal and Kerala. 

I request everybody to read Qur'an to find out the root cause of the behaviour of Muslims.

It was Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, who set the example for Muslims to kill काफिर husbands to get their wives. The same is emphasized in Qur'an. His 'wife' Juwairiyya was also one such woman.