hi my name is Fel Solan the director of
bridges foundation and this video is in
response to the uh
campaign uh that was uh made recently
Distributing the film obsession with
many uh newspapers in the
US uh and I will be answering what
people watched in this movie and what I
want to say in the beginning is that I
want to rely on logic and evidence in my
talk I want not to appeal to
emotions but rather to your sense of
Sound Logic uh I want the statements
that I will make and the talk that I
will give right now to be justified on
the basis of your Sound Logic I will not
try to beautify Islam which is my
religion because I believe that Islam is
beautiful already and it doesn't need
any plastic Sur
sures this film
mainly tried to condemn Islam from four
different uh
directions number one Jihad trying to to
display
Jihad as equal to
terrorism number two the issue about
holy war saying that Jihad equals holy
war and the issue of suicide bombings
trying to show that many Muslims can be
suicide bombings or our Prospect suicide
bombings and also uh the issue about uh
comparing Islam to
Nazism number one let's talk about
Jihad the word Jihad linguistically
comes from the root of the word
J
which means in the Arabic language
exerting extra
effort so linguistically the word Jihad
means striving and
struggling idiomatically the word Jihad
has three main meanings the first one is
what we call Jihad or a nonviolent
struggling within ones self to live a
life of virtue someone struggles against
his ego to be a better person
uh it's not easy to wake up at dawn
every day and wash your face hands and
feet and go to pray while people are in
bed this needs Jihad needs some struggle
against oneself non violent struggling
against on it's not easy to spend in
charity without showing off uh to do
that with sincerity all this needs Jihad
so number one a nonviolent struggling
within oneself number two
saying the truth even if it's against
one's interests in some countries when
people say the truth they can find
themselves in jail you know what Islam
says here Islam says here still say the
truth it doesn't tell Muslims to stay
quiet in order to be safe it says no
still say the truth and Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him uh made a very clear
statement about this saying that the
best form of jihad is a word of Truth in
the presence of a tyrant and what do
tyrants do tyrants kill but still
Prophet Muhammad was encouraging Muslims
to say the truth even if this may cost
them their lives so number one it's a
nonviolent struggling against oneself to
live a life of virtue number two saying
the truth even if it's against one's
interests number three combat to
establish
justice and establish in Justice is a
supreme goal not only in Islamic
teachings in every
civilization if uh people lose their
rights and and and their land and their
countries they can fight back to regain
back their rights to uh liberate their
countries and actually uh establishing
Justice is an ultimate goal in Islam God
Almighty mentioned in the
Quran this verse that proves that the
reason why God Almighty sent Messengers
and books and and and and scriptures
with them is to establish justice on
Earth this is in chapter number 57 verse
number 25 God Almighty said in the Quran
we sent a four time our Messengers with
clear signs and sent down with them the
book and the balance of right and wrong
so that people may stand forth in
Justice the reason why God Almighty sent
Messengers and books in their hands is
to establish justice on Earth Islam is a
religion of
justice but how can Justice be uh
applied there is a verse in the Quran
that
says so if they withdraw from you and
fight not against you and offer you
peace then Allah has opened no way for
you against them which means that if the
rights will be rendered back to the to
to to whom they are due and Justice will
be established through peaceful means
god almighty is not allowing Muslims to
fight let's now
see the etiquet of combat in Islam
through the in the uh in which are very
clear in the traditions of prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him he said never
kill innocent people actually there is a
ruling among the main rulings of Islam
which is which says no one can be fought
except a
combatant so in
Islam killing civilians cannot be
justified Islam doesn't justify what
happened on 911 nor 77 nor even
Hiroshima and nagazaki killing civilians
is not justified in Islam no matter the
reason
maybe number two Prophet Muhammad told
us never torture prisoners of War
neither psychologically nor
physically he said never kill animals
never destroy crops never destroy
infrastructures of course Prophet
Muhammad never said infrastructures but
the order is not to poison the wells and
poisoning a well is a destruction for
the infrastructure of the country
Prophet Muhammad said never mutilate
bodies of enemies dead or alive and uh
the women the children and the elderly
should be all protected from any harm
houses of worship should be protected
from any harm and always bury all dead
with respect actually even this means
that even if the enemy fled the
battlefield leaving their dead behind
them it is the duty of the Muslim Army
to bury their dead especially exactly as
they bury their own
dead and by the way that was 14400 years
before the Geneva Convention and I
challenge you go to
www.un.org which is the website of the
United Nations download the Geneva
Convention if you find anything more
than that I'll give each one of you
$100 the question now is uh do Muslims
fight others because they are none
Muslims which means Jihad is launched
against people because they are
non-muslims the answer is no but what
does that me can Jihad be launched
against Muslims also yes which is
Crystal Clear in the Quran in chapter
number 49 uh verse number nine that says
if and if two groups among the Believers
fall to fighting each other then
reconcile between them both but if one
of them still Rebels against the other
then fight you all against the one that
which Rebels till it complies to the
command of Allah and this shows that the
verse is encouraging Muslims all of them
all Muslims to fight against a group of
Believers because they are rebelling
rebellious because they are
transgressing against people so it's not
about who's Muslim and who's not it's
about who oppressed and who is an
oppressor