What is Gazwa-e-Hind & Why is it invoked?
While people of most other faiths strive to make the most of the gift of life, Muslim children are indoctrinated to believe that eradication of Kafirs in the Indian Subcontinent as outlined in the prophesized “Ghazwa-e-Hind”.
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Hindus
are prisoners of their perspective. They believe that like their
ancient universal Puranic prayer: “Sarve bavantu sukhina, sarve santu
niramayah, sarve badrani pashyantu, ma Kaschit dukh bhag bavet (May All
become Happy; May All be Healthy; May All See what is Auspicious; May
none suffer in any way)” or Vedic Mantra, “Aa no bhadra kritvo yantu
vishwata (Let noble thoughts come to us from every side)”, people of
other faiths too cherish such lofty and pious wishes for all. Sadly,
however, that is not the case. There is lot of bigotry, barbarity,
treachery, deceit, cunning and what you have, going around the world in
the name of religion that the pious Hindu has been reduced to the status
of a refugee in his own land, or whatever is left of it, like the peace
loving Hindus of Kashmir.
Whereas
all the revealed religions not native to the Indian soil have committed
monumental atrocities, it is the Islamic barbarity that has been the
cruelest. There’s a phrase that Muslim militant leaders all across the
world have used against India for decades and that is: “Ghazwa-e-Hind”
or a holy raid of India. It is based on a supposed utterance of Prophet
Muhammad, which calls upon Muslims to rally behind Jesus after his
resurrection in Jerusalem from where he will lead an attack on Rome and
Christianity while destroying Europe, while sending an army towards
India to destroy Hindus as a people and the eradication of Hinduism from
India.
Ghazwa-e-Hind
is a notorious prophecy that is mentioned in some so called "good"
hadith predicting a great battle in India between Muslims and Hindus,
resulting in a conquest by the Muslim warriors of the entire Indian
sub-continent. The conquest will supposedly occur before the end-times
and create an Islamic caliphate resembling the social order that existed
at the time of Prophet Muhammad by imposing Islamic Sharia.
According
to the prediction the final battle will supposedly start in Syria with
the troops marching forward from Jerusalem to India. The warriors will
supposedly destroy the land of Hind; possess its treasures and then the
King of Jerusalem will use those treasures for the décor of Jerusalem.
The troops will supposedly bring the Indian kings in front of the King
of Jerusalem, who would order the troops to conquer all the area between
the East and the West.
The
prediction adds that armies carrying black flags will supposedly come
from Khurasan, make India part of Khursan and no power would be able to
stop them and India would become fully Islamic state. Later Allah would
supposedly grant success to those warriors, as far as they would bring
their kings by dragging them in chains. And Allah would forgive those
warriors by the Blessing of this Great War. And when those Muslims would
return, they would find Isa Ibn Maryam [Jesus] in Syria. Later,
according to the prediction, the Anti-Christ would supposedly appear in
India and try to rule the world. Isa ibn Maryam, i.e Jesus Christ would
kill him and save the world.
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Radical
Islamists invoke this prediction to prophesize a great battle in India
between true believers and non-believers before the end-times. The
references in the Hadith to the Ghazwa-e-Hind (Battle of India) infuse
South Asia with importance as a battleground the creation of an Islamic
caliphate.
Imperatively,
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) are vying
with each other for recruitment on the South Asian subcontinent. As has
been the case in other regions where radical Islamists have congregated
(including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria), jihadi recruitment in the
region covering Pakistan, India and Bangladesh is aided and abetted by
competing claims of divine support.
The
South Asian region has a long history with jihadi movements, dating
back to the eighteenth century. During the 1980s, it became the
battleground for hosting global jihad as part of the
internationally-backed guerilla war against the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan. With American support, the radical Islamists entered
Afghanistan through Pakistan and received advanced military training to
fight the Soviets. The first generation of al-Qaeda commanders and
ideologues were veterans of the anti-Soviet Afghan war. ISIS, too, has
been influenced greatly by the so-called Arab-Afghans and their
disciples. During the war against the Soviets and the ensuing Taliban
rule, ancient prophecies of Khurasan – which includes modern Afghanistan
– resurfaced to inspire jihadists and promise great heavenly rewards.
The
immediate fall-out of the Afghan insurgency was that many of these
radical elements returned to their home countries to conduct terrorist
attacks. Also the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the
Pakistan-backed insurgency in Kashmir against India stoked jihadism in
the region. Many an Indian youth were inspired to join the terrorist
organizations to fight in Syria and elsewhere to help in the creation of
the so-called Islamic Caliphate.
Muslim
scholars in India have interpreted the Hadith and the prophecy
variously; there being no unanimity among them. Whereas Maulana Mufti
Mushtaq Tijarvi of Jamaat-i Islami India has suggested that the hadith
is not genuine at all and it is just a fabrication intended to justify
Qasim's invasion of the Indian subcontinent, others are inclined to
believe that it indeed is in hadith, but that has already happened long
ago in 600-700 CE when Mohammad bin Qasim attacked India. After that
there have been a number of attacks on India from Central Asia by Muslim
rulers, and India was under Muslim rule for a long time. Maulana Abdul
Hamid Numani of the Jamiat ul-Ulema-i Hind opines that this Hadith was
already fulfilled at the time of the Four Righteous Caliphs, when
several companions of the Prophet came to India in order to spread
Islam. Mufti Sajid Qasmi, professor at Dar ul-Uloom Deoband, believes
that the Hadith might also refer to the invasion of Sindh by Arabs under
Muhammad bin Qasim in the eighth century.
Not
much credence need be given to the favourable interpretations by local
Indian Maulanas, particularly to those belonging to Deobandhi school of
thought for the simple reasons that they preach hardcore wahabism and it
is they who initially prepared the fertile ground for militancy by
sending its cadres to Kashmir. Even in other parts of India they use
Mullas and Maulanas to surreptitiously preach puritanically exclusive
Islam. Their interpretations, favourable as these may ostensibly seem,
may be hiding the true intent and may also be aimed at lulling the
majority community into complacence and, as has often been the case,
later taking advantage of the same in furthering the interests of Islam.
The excluvist brainwashing done in Madrasas in the name of imparting
education is far from providing secular education and bears testimony to
the Islamic designs against inclusive idea of India.
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Muslims
of 'Tamil Nadu Thowheedh Jamaath' organization hold placards and shout
slogans as they protest against the Supreme Court verdict on a disputed
religious site of Ayodhya, in Chennai on Nov. 18, 2019.
History
of Islam is full of such practices inasmuch as according to the Islamic
doctrine of “Taqiyya”, it is perfectly okay for a Muslim to indulge in
lying, deceit, cheating, cunning, treachery, trickstry, bullying,
sleight, killings, intimidation, use of force and what have you if it
promotes islamisation in any which way one may think. One can clearly
understand this concept from the speech made by Yasser Arafat at
Johannesburg: "This agreement, I am not considering it more than the
agreement which had been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and
Quraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and
considered it "Sulha Dania" [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad had
accepted it and we are accepting now this [Oslo] peace accord." It may
be noted that Arafat was comparing the Oslo Accords with the Hudaybiyyah
peace treaty - a 10-year truce agreed between Islam's Prophet Muhammad
and the Quraish Tribe of Mecca. However, only two years later, Muhammad
attacked and conquered Mecca.
Even
assuming for a moment that the above favourable interpretations of
Indian Islamic scholars are bonafide, the ground reality is that all
Mullahs and Maulavis interacting with the Muslim masses, ignorant and
uneducated as they are, propagate that murder, mayhem and even any
heinous crime could be committed if it promotes islamisation. The curse
of love jihad and several such insidious practices are offshoots of this
clever and cunning ploy to work for the promotion of Islam. It may be
reiterated that “Taqiyya” is of fundamental importance in Islam.
Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. One can,
without any doubt, go so far as to say that the practice of “taqiyya” is
mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge
from the mainstream. “Taqiyya” is very prevalent both in Islamic
religion and politics, especially in the modern era.
Imperialism,
colonialism and even Christianity in their heydays did commit crimes
against humanity and eradication of entire peoples, but none wanted
their own demise as a reward. While people of all other faiths strive to
make the most of the gift of life, Muslim children are indoctrinated to
believe that life begins after death, and that the earth is a mere
transit lounge where the eradication of Hindus is a sacred duty of the
Muslims of the Indian Subcontinent as outlined in the prophesized
“Ghazwa-e-Hind”.
In
view of this, it is any day better to be over-careful than be even a
whit careless with regard to what they preach and what they actually
practice; for the costs involved will be catastrophic. If not
confronted, the malady of Ghazwa-e-Hind is bound to erupt the way ISIS
and al-Qaida did. And today even the most educated and liberal Islamic
clerics dare not, if at all, denounce this path of barbarity bordering
on lunacy.
(The author served in Indian Revenue Service and retired as Director General of Income Tax - Investigation)
Source: https://www.organiser.org/Encyc/2020/2/28/What-is-Gazwa-e-Hind-Why-is-it-invoked-.html
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