ALLAH ALLOWS MUHAMMAD TERROR AND WAR BOOTY

While giving his opinion of the first mosques, Muhammad makes some interesting disclosures.  He does not deny that the Jews and the Christians also had their prophets but adds: �I have been given superiority over the other prophets in six respects: I have been given words which are concise but comprehensive in meaning; I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of the enemies); spoils have been made lawful to me . . . ; I have been sent to all mankind; and the line of prophets is closed with me� (1062).  The whole earth is also made a �mosque� for him and given to him as a legitimate place of prayer for him and his (1058).  This is the idea of the world as a �mandated territory� bestowed on the believers by Allah.

We see here that European imperialism with all its rationalizations and pretensions was anticipated by Islamic imperialism by a thousand years.  In Islam we find all the ideological ingredients of imperialism in any age: a divine or moral sanction for the exploitation of the barbarians or heathens or polytheists; their land considered as a lebensraum or held as a mandate; they themselves regarded as the wards and special responsibility (zimma) of the civilizing masters.

Another hadIs mentions Muhammad�s power of �intercession� on the Day of Judgment, which other prophets lack (1058).  Other ahAdIs mention other points.  �I have been helped by terror. . . . . and while I was asleep I was brought the keys of the treasures of the earth,� says Muhammad.  This wealth the followers of the Apostle �are now busy in getting them,� adds AbU Huraira, the narrator of this hadIs (1063).

author : ram swarup