More than 100 Muslim scholars –
including officials from the UAE – have united
to denounce ISIL.
In a 15-page open letter to Abu Bakr Al
Baghdadi, the terror group’s leader, and his
followers, the scholars set out how the killing
of innocent civilians and the issuing of fatwas
was not in accordance with Islamic Sharia.
The letter commented on a sentence often
repeated by ISIL followers when they said that
Prophet Mohammed “was sent with the sword
as a mercy to all worlds”.
The 126 scholars, who included the UAE adviser
to the Head of State for Judicial and Religious
Affairs and the head of the Dubai Fatwa
Department, cited a verse from the Quran that
says: “We did not send you, except as a mercy
to all the worlds.”
The letter added that “sent with the sword” is
part of a hadith that is specific to a certain time
and place “thus it is forbidden to mix the Quran
and hadith in this way, as it is forbidden to mix
the general and the specific, and the
conditional and unconditional”.
A renowned Islamic scholar from the UAE, Dr
Ahmad Al Kubaissi, one of the signatures on
the letter, said ISIL was like a “black snake with
mysterious roots attacking a neighbourhood; it
bites everyone in its way without
distinguishing”.
“How will this neighbourhood fight it? One will
carry a sword, and another a shoe, then each
will strike in their own way. This letter is a
public speech that wanted to fight this snake
using logic and argument.”
He said he believed such people did not
understand logic and reason. He said the
evidence used in the letter was valuable and
informative. “The discussion is an Islamic
moderate elegant one, those who wrote it
enjoy high ethical morale.”
The letter also explained it was forbidden in
Islam to enact legal Sharia punishments known
as “hudud” without following the correct pre-
conditions and procedures. It was also
forbidden to torture people, force them to
convert or deny women and children their
rights. It also clarified that loyalty to one’s
nation was permissible in Islam, and, following
the death of Prophet Mohammed, Islam did
not require anyone to migrate.
Other issues addressed included difference of
opinion and over simplification of Islamic
matters by extracting verses from the Quran
without understanding them in their full
context.
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this is a blatant lie. here in Nigeria people are still sentence to death in the North because they speak again Muhammad. sharia is a curse to the world. it should be destroyed totally.