4.  Emphasizes the urgent need to
address the scourges of anti-Semitism, Christianophobia, and Islamophobia
as contemporary
forms of racism
as well as racial and violent movements based on racism and
discriminatory ideas directed at African, Arab, Christian, Jewish,
Muslim and other communities;

39:2. Verily, We have sent down the Book to you (O
Muhammad ) in truth: So worship Allâh
(Alone) by doing
religious deeds sincerely for Allâh’s sake only, (and not to
show-off, and not to set up rivals with Him in worship).

39:3. Surely, the
religion (i.e. the worship and the obedience) is for Allâh only.
And those who take Auliyâ’ (protectors and helpers) besides Him (say):
“We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allâh.” Verily,
Allâh will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ.
Truly, Allâh guides not him who is a liar, and a disbeliever.

33:21. Indeed in the Messenger of Allâh
(Muhammad ) you
have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting
with) Allâh and the Last Day and remembers Allâh much.

2:277. Truly those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness,
and perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and give Zakât, they will have
their reward with their Lord. On them shall be no fear, nor shall they
grieve.

4:57. But those who believe (in the Oneness of
Allâh – Islâmic Monotheism) and do deeds
of righteousness, We shall admit them to Gardens under which
rivers flow (Paradise), abiding therein forever. Therein they shall
have Azwâjun Mutahharatun [purified mates or wives (having no menses,
stools, urine, etc.)] and We shall admit them to shades wide and ever
deepening (Paradise) .

9:105. And say (O Muhammad ) “Do deeds! Allâh will see your deeds,
and (so will) His Messenger and the believers. And you will be brought
back to the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen. Then He will inform
you of what you used to do.”

Sahih Volume 4, Book 52, Number 41:

Narrated Abdullah bin Masud:

I asked Allah’s Apostle, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is the best deed?”
He replied, “To offer the prayers at their early stated fixed times.” I
asked, “What is next in goodness?” He replied, “To be good and dutiful
to your parents.” I further asked, what is next in goodness?” He
replied, “To
participate in Jihad in Allah’s Cause.” I did not ask Allah’s
Apostle anymore and if I had asked him more, he would have told me
more.

Sahih Volume 4, Book 52, Number 43:

Narrated ‘Aisha:

(That she said), “O Allah’s Apostle! We consider Jihad as the
best deed. Should we not fight in Allah’s Cause?” He said, “The
best Jihad (for women) is Hajj-Mabrur (i.e. Hajj which is done
according to the Prophet’s tradition and is accepted by Allah).”

9:120. It was not becoming of the people of
Al-Madinah and the bedouins of the neighbourhood to remain behind
Allâh’s Messenger (Muhammad  when fighting in Allâh’s Cause) and
(it was not becoming of them) to prefer their own lives to his life.
That is because they suffer neither thirst nor fatigue, nor hunger in
the Cause of Allâh, nor
they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any
injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of
righteousness. Surely, Allâh wastes not the reward of the
Muhsinûn

9:121. Nor do they spend anything (in Allâh’s Cause) – small or great –
nor cross a valley, but is written to their credit, that Allâh may
recompense them with the
best of what they used to do (i.e. Allâh will reward their good
deeds according to the reward of their best deeds which they did in the
most perfect manner).

Chapter O9.0: Jihad

(O: Jihad
means to war
against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from
the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it
is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare
against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah bless
him and give him peace) said as he was returning from jihad.

“We have returned from the lesser jihad to the
greater jihad.”

The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to
scholarly consensus (def: b7) is such Koranic verses as:

-1- “Fighting is prescribed for you” (Koran 2:216);

-2- “Slay them wherever you find them” (Koran
4:89);

-3- “Fight the idolators utterly” (Koran 9:36);

and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim
that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:

“I have been commanded to fight people until
they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say
it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the
rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah”;

and the hadith reported by Muslim,

“To go forth in the morning or evening to
fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and
everything in it.”Details concerning jihad are found in the accounts
of the military expeditions of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give
him peace), including his own martial forays and those on which he
dispatched others. The former consist of the ones he personally
attended, some twenty-seven (others say twenty-nine) of them. He fought
in eight of them, and killed only one person with his noble hand, Ubayy
ibn Khalaf, at the battle of Uhud. On the latter expeditions he sent
others to fight, himself remaining at Medina, and these were
forty-seven in number.)

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 Allâh desires (for you)
the Hereafter. And Allâh is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

Sunan Abu Dawud Book 38, Number 4390:

Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:

I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to
grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not
killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.

Sahih Volume 4, Book 52, Number 311:

Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:

The Prophet said, on the day of the Conquest of Mecca, “There is no
migration (after the Conquest), but Jihad and good intentions, and when
you are called
for Jihad, you should immediately respond to
the call.”

2:85. After this, it is you who kill one another
and drive out a party of you from their homes, assist (their enemies)
against them, in sin and transgression. And if they come to you as
captives, you ransom them, although their expulsion was forbidden to
you. Then
do you believe in a part of the Scripture and reject the rest? Then
what is the recompense
of those who do so among you, except disgrace in the life of
this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they shall be consigned
to the most grievous torment. And Allâh is not unaware of what
you do.

 3:110. You [true believers in Islâmic Monotheism,
and real followers of Prophet Muhammad  and his Sunnah (legal
ways, etc.)] are
the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin
Al-Ma’rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm has ordained) and
forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islâm has
forbidden), and you believe in Allâh. And had
the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) believed, it would
have been better for them; among them are some who have faith,
but most of them are Al-Fâsiqûn (disobedient to Allâh – and rebellious
against Allâh’s Command).

3:111. They will
do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; and if they fight against
you, they will show you their backs, and they will not be
helped.

3:112. Indignity
is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a
covenant (of protection) from Allâh, and from men; they have drawn on
themselves the Wrath of Allâh, and destruction
is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayât
(proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allâh
and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed
(Allâh) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allâh’s disobedience,
crimes and sins).

Sahih Volume 6, Book 60, Number 80:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Verse:–“You (true Muslims) are the best
of peoples ever raised up for mankind.” means, the best of
peoples for the people, as
you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam.

Tabari IX:69    “Arabs are the most noble
people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We
were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s
helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they
believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has
protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves,
we will fight him forever in Allah’s Cause. Killing him is a small
matter to us.”

Bukhari: V9B89N256    “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You should
listen to and obey your ruler even if he is a black
African slave whose head looks like a raisin.‘”

Ishaq:450    “It is your folly to fight the Apostle, for
Allah’s army is bound to disgrace you. We brought them to the pit. Hell
was their meeting place. We collected them there, black slaves, men of no
descent.”

Ishaq:374    “The black troops and slaves of the Meccans
cried out and the Muslims replied, ‘Allah destroy your sight, you
impious rascals.'”

Bukhari:V4B52N137    “The Prophet said, ‘Let the negro
slave of Dinar perish. And if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not
find anyone to take it out for him…. If he [the black slave] asks for
anything it shall not be granted, and if he needs intercession [to get
into paradise], his intercession will be denied.'”