TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

The present militants or non-state actors are only trying to materialize the ideology they have received from their leaders. The worst aspect of this militancy is that it is associated with Paradise by its ideologues. These ideologues made Muslims believe that if they succeed in their violent struggle and become shaheed or martyred, they would go to Paradise. Muslims thus became obsessed with this beautiful notion. For them worldly success or failure does not matter. If they succeed in the struggle, they will receive the title of ghazi, or victorious. If they die in this struggle, even if it be through suicide bombing, then they would be regarded as martyrs, guaranteed Paradise in the world Hereafter. It is this kind of a political ideology that has motivated the Muslim youth of the present time to engage in militancy. They will remain active in this field, unless this ideology is dispelled as un-Islamic and against the Sunnah of the Prophet of Islam. This Muslim militancy has caused the loss of precious lives and also greatly damaged the true picture of Islam. It is the duty of every sincere Muslim to try to prove this political theory wrong through argument. Muslim militancy can be killed only through an ideological weapon, and not by any physical weapons. There are parties and groups in the Muslim world who have accepted this political ideology as the right ideology and became associated with it. Now, when the violence resulting from this ideology is being condemned all over the world, they too have joined in condemning it. However, this kind of condemnation will yield no result. These people must first declare that their ideologues were wrong and they had wrongly accepted their ideology. Thus, their condemnation should begin from condemnation of the ideology and not from condemnation of the present militancy. These people will not receive the credit of condemning militancy by doing so in human rights terms. Rather, they will have to first disown the political ideology of their ideologues, which they still regard as respectable, and only then can they be given the credit of having condemned militancy. CPS International is a mission that is performing this same task. We have published hundreds of books and articles for this purpose. The magazine ‘Spirit of Islam’, was in part initiated for this very purpose. Those who want Muslim militancy to come to an end should earnestly spread our literature and the ‘Spirit of Islam’ among Muslims and others. o The ideologues of political Islam are truly responsible for Muslim militancy.