Dr. Nasoha Saabin: Suicidal Bombing

Suicidal bombing is a new phenomenon in Muslim communities. We have not heard in the past that Muslims are ready to kill themselves because they want to kill their enemies. We have heard about the Japanese soldiers who are ready to commit suicide in order to kill their enemies.

Since the Japanese are not Muslims, we can understand why the Japanese commit suicides but we cannot understand why Muslims can commit suicide. Allah prohibits us from committing suicides and whoever commits suicides they will becomes infidel, and they will enter hellfire forever. Without the orders of Allah, we cannot take another person life or his own life. The work of taking life is the work of Allah and if anyone takes his own life without the order of Allah, he or she is taking over the work of Allah and is committing a great wrong. Suicidal bombing is against the order of Allah. Muslims who died because of suicidal bombing is not a martyr as they claimed to be but died as an infidel who will go to the hellfire.

In one battles at the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w there is one man who is fighting very vigorously in the battle and one of the Companion of The Prophet Muhammad s.a.w remark to the Prophet that this man is the inhabitants of paradise. On hearing, Prophet remarked that this man is inhabitant of hellfire. The companion who narrated this incident said that when I heard the Prophet s.a.w said that he was the inhabitant of hellfire, I was puzzled and I started to follow that man whenever he went in the battle. The companion of the Prophet said, later on to my amazement I saw the enemy has injured him very badly and since he was not ready to accept the injury, I testify to the truth of the words of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, I saw him committing suicide. In Islam, whoever commits suicides he has committed a major sin and his place will be in the hellfire. This incident, which happen at the time of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w clearly support the stand point that those who died as a result of suicidal bombing is not a martyr as they claimed to be but died as an infidel who will go to hellfire. In a recent article in the local newspaper, I have read that Taliban Pakistan has prepared about 3000 people ready to do suicidal bombing in various cities of Pakistan.

Taliban and Al-Qaeda have regarded the Americans and Jews as their enemies and they try to tell the Muslims in the whole world that Americans and Jews are also the enemies of Muslims. Please read my articles on the enemies of Islam for you to understand this point. Al-Qaeda and Taliban have the opinion that fighting against Americans and Jews is a religious war or Jihad. Whoever died in whatever ways, even suicidal bombing during the war is a martyr or syuhadah. As a martyr or syuhadah, they will enter paradise forever. In my opinion, the war between Americans and Jews on one side and Al-Qaeda and Taliban on the other side is not a religious war or Jihad as Al-Qaeda or Taliban claimed to be. The war resulted, because two parties claim the lands and the wealth are theirs and neither party is willing to relinquish their claim. It is a war to gain material wealth and not the war to gain the pleasure of Allah. Allah give values to iman and good actions and war resulted because the propagation of iman and good action is stop by the enemies is loved by Allah. Whoever died in that war is a martyr and will enter paradise forever. Allah gives no values at all to the worldly material and the war to gain material wealth such as land has no values in the eyes of Allah. Whoever died because of that war is not a martyr and whoever died because of suicidal bombing in that war is an infidels and he or she will never enter paradise.

The war between Americans and Al-Qaeda is not a religious war or Jihad. In order to make you understand more on these issues of war, please read my articles, is war a crime? Whoever Muslims who died in that war is not a martyr or syuhadah? Whoever died by committing suicides died as infidel and will enter hellfire forever. Whoever hears and talks about something repeatedly, even though it is wrong, will finally accept it as truth. Actually, this is what happens to those recruited by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to become suicidal bombing. Those recruited to become suicidal bombing are bombarded by ideas that war against American and Jews is a holy war, dying in the war will make them to become martyr, and they will enter paradise. Because of continuous brain washing, they have regarded the war as a holy war instead of a crime and they are ready to die as martyr even by doing suicidal bombing.

Dr Nasoha Saabin