Iftekhar Hai says: June 16, 2014 at 8:35 am
BELOW IS DEFINITION OF THE WORD KAFIR OR INFIDEL
Kafir or Infidels:
The word Kafir is derived from the Arabic root word KFR, (Kaf, Fay and Ray) which means to cover, conceal or hide, to hide with the intention of misleading or misinforming. It also includes interpreting the Holy Scriptures with the intention of suppressing or distorting the truth. In modern language, you can say, it has to be intentional dishonesty, deception and misinformation. Just like a more sophisticated, premeditated perjury is classified as treason. Hence we have to consider the extent of intentional deception or perjury in defining Kafir.
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In case of people meddling with the Holy Scriptures where intentionally truth is either, concealed, changed, omitted, misinterpreted so that people either begin to doubt or lose complete faith in God, His Signs and His Revelations – this can come in the area of treason/infidelity or Kufr. Character assassinations and deliberate deceptions of Biblical (or Vedic) and Quranic Prophets, done intentionally to undermine the faith or trust/believe in God, His Signs and Revelations can also be classified, as Kufr and people committing such acts are Kafirs or infidels (suppressor of TRUTH OR SATYA). Just like in modern language a person unfaithful to his country could be a traitor. One cannot call a believer in God from Christian, Hinduism or Jewish faith as Kafir if they do not believe in Mohammed (pbuh) as Messenger. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR MUSLIMS TO BELIEVE IN MOHAMMED (P) BUT NOT A MUST BELIEVE FOR PEOPLE OF HINDU, CHRISTIAN OR OTHER FAITHS.
Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs who comprise 3.5 billion of the world’s population cannot all be classified as non-believers or as KAFIRS. The Quran does not give a standard criteria for collectively defining people as Kafirs.
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Each case is an individual case and because we humans do not have perfect knowledge – our Prophet has cautioned Muslims from calling anyone a Kafir. There are billions of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, etc. who belief in God, the Last Day and Life after Death and in doing righteous deeds. They have also been shown the art of surrender, submission or devotion (which in Arabic is called Islam). The Quran says, “To every people God send an Apostle in their own language and in their own country to clarify (misunderstandings) 14:4, 10:47 &16:36. Muslims are commanded to believe in the revelations that have come to them (The Quran) and the revelations that came before our times in 2:4. (This means Hinduism, Judaism, Christainty that came before Islam).
Hence believers in One God from other faiths cannot be lumped or stereotyped as non-believers. No one has the authority to judge others. Hence they cannot be called KAFIRS because they also have been shown the art of surrender, submission or devotion which is the true meaning of the word Islam.
Kafirs or infidels that the Quran refers to were pagan Arabs hypocrites who rejected God and installed 360 idols inside KAABA.
Originally when Abraham and Ismael build KAABA (4,000 years ago) there was nothing inside the walls of KAABA……Mohammed (p) restored the KAABA back to the days of Abraham and Ismael because each tribal IDOL claimed superiority over the other and they introduced WAR CULTURE ALL OVER ARABIA.
Mohammed’s teachings brought them into the fold of MONOTHEISTIC TEACHINGS OF THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. In my opinion – NO ONE HAS THE AUTHORITY OF JUDGING OTHERS – JUST AS JESUS PREACHED, “ DO NOT JUDGE OTHERS LEST YOU BE JUDGED.”
Iftekhar Hai, President
UMA Interfaith Alliance
Quran Teacher
Also read Pluralism in Islam.
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Nice to read but this has no basis in Koran or Sunna.
Koran uses other words besides Kafir to refer to Non-Muslims.
If Kafir only refers to pagans of Arabia, why all mighty Allah has to include it in Koran as he says Koran is message to all for all times ?
The worst thing is if go by what this soft Jihadi says, i.e. Kafir only refers to Pagans of Arabia, then that whole chapter of 109, titled KAFIROON becomes worthless and meaningless, as Muslims keep citing this chapter as proof of tolerance in Koran.
The true meaning of kaffir according to koran is the person who do not believe in allah and his messenger mohammad no matter how good he may be he must be killed or converted. He can be hindu jew christan. the biggest question i want to raise here is who is allah who saw him and can we see him the answer according to koran is no we can not see him because he can not be idolized he created us and never want us to see him he has directed us to divide humnans into muslims and non muslim and made it the mandatoey duty of muslim to kill non-muslim. All other religion of today world overcame superstitions and changed themself but it is islam who reject to adapt according to modern world and keep all muslims in stone when the scientific investigation was conducted on islam it proved to be biggest fanactic religion with no ethical base and few truth of humanity are mixed in islam with fanactcism this is the truth. Islam has completely failed in giving peace to the world if other religion have not existed then it is possible that today also we would be living in stone age and this is the real truth.