This is Not the Path
to Paradise!

Response to Daesh (not: ”IS/ ISIS”)

by Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah

Part 2 A Statement to the Muslim World and its Leaders

Remember and Consider the Question Why?

In March 2014, more than 250 Islamic scholars and thinkers from around the world attended the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies in Abu Dhabi. One of the goals of the Forum was for these leaders to establish a unified position in response to the gravest threats facing the Muslim world today during this critical phase of its history. The gravity of the situation is manifested in the following ways:

• The uncommon nature of the threat is evidenced by unprecedented levels of violence utilizing every type of warfare. This even includes weapons of mass destruction, which citizens of the same country are using against one another.


• This violence has a broader reach, as evidenced by the expanding geography that covers a large region of the Muslim and Arab nations. Conflicts are on the verge of spreading to other regions as well.


• This conflict is different in its duration. Perpetual conflicts, with no end in sight, are becoming the norm.


• The ideas and psychology associated with this violence are distinct. This dimension augments the three dimensions above since these conflicts have produced the most extreme ideas, the most bizarre fatwas (legal edicts), and the most fanatical and inciting opinions. The discourse has been filled with appalling fatwas rendering judgments on excommunication, deviance, immorality, and heresy. These fatwas have justified bloodshed while disregarding Islamic law's mandates of civil obedience, respect for life, and to refrain from divisiveness, irrespective of how morally degraded a society becomes. Instead, there are inappropriate claims of engaging in jihad and addressing the ills of society without fulfilling the conditions of doing so, which has led to even more suffering.


• This conflict has international implications and tarnishes the image of Islam worldwide. Some might even describe our faith as "a religion of terrorism” and work to try Islam and its adherents under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter.

From:
This is Not the Path to Paradise - Response to ISIS
[binbayyah.net]


Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah
President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies September 14, 2014
Abu Dhabi


Document written by 250 muslim scholars and thinkers.


other links:

• Open Letter To Al-Baghdādī

• Suspected Secret Service Links

Go to part 3 - Recommendations From The Forum For Promoting Peace