With a ceasefire achieved between Israel and Hamas, the shooting and bombing in Gaza has stopped. But is that peace? Given its 1988 charter, a covenant by its own terms, Hamas is at perpetual war with Jews. That covenant with Allah says:
Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another. The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.
Leaving the circle of struggle with Zionism is high treason and cursed be he who does that. “For whoso shall turn his back unto them on that day, unless he turneth aside to fight or retreateth to another party of the faithful, shall draw on himself the indignation of Allah and his abode shall be hell; an ill journey shall it be thither.” (The Spoils – verse 16). There is no way out except by concentrating all powers and energies to face this Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion. The alternative is loss of one’s country, the dispersion of citizens, the spread of vice on earth and the destruction of religious values. Let every person know that he is responsible before Allah, for “the doer of the slightest good deed is rewarded in like and the doer of the slightest evil deed is also rewarded in like.”
The Islamic Resistance Movement considers itself to be the spearhead of the circle of struggle with world Zionism and a step on the road. The movement adds its efforts to the efforts of all those who are active in the Palestinian arena. Arab and Islamic peoples should augment by further steps on their part. Islamic groupings all over the Arab world should also do the same, since all of these are the best-equipped for the future role in the fight with the warmongering Jews.
Thus, it would seem that as long as there are Jews in the Holy Land, once ruled entirely by Muslims (as Hamas notes in its Covenant), Hamas will fight them as a religious obligation not to be avoided. This is not a vision of peace.
But the Hamas interpretation of the will of Allah is not the only one.
The Prophet Muhammad made covenants with the children of Israel to respect and protect them. He did this as an agent of Allah.
A colleague of ours, Recep Senturk, dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar, has written a book with a stunning proposal.
He points to the passage in Qur’an that affirms the equality of all descendants of Adam: “I am, therefore, I have rights and duties.”
Recep draws conclusions from this verse that a moral standard of Adamiyyah – equality among those who carry the DNA of Adam – applies in our time everywhere there are descendants of Adam.
The book is available on Amazon here.
Please buy a copy as soon as you can and read it. Consider for yourself the implications for reconciliation between Palestinians and the Jews of Israel if both peoples would accept the premise of Adamiyyah and therefore learn to accept the other as worthy and respectable and not an enemy.