Definition of Kafir
Sunday, September 14
A kafir is a person who is not a Muslim.
Islam makes a sharp distinction between Muslims on the one side and everyone else on the other. Their laws distinguish this too. In Shari'a law, a Muslim can testify in court against a kafir, but a kafir may not testify against a Muslim. In Shari'a law, it is illegal for a Muslim to kill a fellow Muslim, but it is not illegal for a Muslim to kill a kafir. A kafir is an unbeliever, an infidel.
Political Islam has a good definition also: Defining Kafir, complete with quotes from the Qur'an describing how Muslims ought to deal with kafirs. It's not pretty.
Answers.com defines it this way:
Kafir is an Arabic word literally meaning "ingrate." In the Islamic doctrinal sense the term refers to a person who does not recognize Allah or the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad and hides, denies, or covers the truth. In cultural terms, it is a derogatory term used to describe an unbeliever or an apostate from Islam. It is usually translated into English as "infidel" or "unbeliever."
The word kāfir is the active participle of the root K-F-R "to cover". As a pre-Islamic term it described farmers burying seeds in the ground, covering them with soil while planting. Thus, the word kāfir implies the meaning "a person who hides or covers". In Islamic parlance, a kāfir is a word used to describe a person who rejects Islamic faith, i.e. "hides or covers [viz., the truth]".
4 comments:
Does this mean those muslims that are killing other muslims are not considered good muslims?
Yes, Ziggy. A Muslim should not kill another Muslim.
However, the penalty for apostasy is death. So if a Muslim considers another Muslim to be an apostate, he can kill him or her. And that's what you see happening around the world: Some Muslims are trying to modernize or have human rights or democracy, and all of that is an abandonment of the faith, which means it is apostasy.
Islam is basically having a civil war worldwide.
There's actually more to it. It's true that Islam splits the population of the world into Muslims and Kuffars (non-believers), with Muslims being superior to Kuffars who are 'najis' (filthy or polluted).
But the Kuffars are then further divided into Dhimmis and Harbis. A Dhimmi is a Kuffar who pays the Jizya (protection money) and accepts the supremacy of Islam, and may be allowed to live. A Harbi is a Kuffar who does not accept the supremacy of Islam, and must be killed.
So Islam is at war with us and always has been, and always will be until we submit, pay the Jizya and 'feel ourselves subdued', as the Koran says.
Terror is an essential aspect of Islam. Mohammed himself said 'I have been made victorious through terror'."
Ziggy,
Yes, you are right. Those who are not Islamic enough are considered apostates who have left Islam or infidels and their lives are forfeit for the crime of treason. The Sunnite terrorists hate the Shiites and the Shiite terrorists hate the Sunnis. They call one another "kafir" and then justify the ensuing slaughter of innocent families.
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