Useless War

According to a hadith, the Prophet of Islam said: “By Him in whose hands is my soul, the world will not end until a time comes when the killer will not know why he killed and the slain will not know why he was killed.” Someone asked the Prophet why this would happen. He answered: “This will happen in the age of harj [the age of fighting and bloodshed]. Both the killer and the slain will go to Hell.” (Sahih Muslim, 2908)

Hadith commentators generally translate the word harj as excessive fighting and bloodshed. This sort of senseless, frenzied slaughter happens among a people when, driven by communal supremacism, they are it is fired by blind enmity for others. This is the condition of present-day Muslims. This mindset has become so widespread and deeply-rooted among them that in their narrow communalism they think of other communities as their foes. They have begun to imagine that others are engaged in conspiracies against them. On the basis of this self-created idea of theirs, their hearts are now filled with feelings of hate for others. The extremist violence among Muslims today is a result of this. They are now drowned in hate, not only for other communities but also for those co-religionists of theirs whom they regard as supporters of their enemies.

Today, scores of Muslim terrorist groups are engaged in horrific violence in different parts of the world—not sparing even little children in schools, worshippers in mosques and people grieving for the dead in graveyards. This completely unjustified slaughter has now assumed such horrific proportions that the terrorists have come to think of slaughter as a desirable end in itself, even though they have no justified reason for it at all.