I have always believed that Islam is a family of brothers and sisters. No such division as Civil & Military is acceptable in Islam.
Was our Holy Prophet (PBUH) Civil or Military?
Were our four rightly-guided Caliphs Civil or Military? Were the armies that were assembled for Iraqi Syrian Persian and African campaigns Civil or Military?
Isn’t it a historical fact that in the initial century of the glory of Islam, every Muslim was required to (and expected to) perform both the Civil and the Military duties and functions with an equal degree of commitment and excellence?
Fundamentally ever Muslim in the centuries of the glory of Islam was expected and required to be a soldier just and everything else after that.
Look at the life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). He was a Prophet and a campaigner for Allah till the night of the epoch-making migration that changed the history of the world.
In Madina he arrived as a peace-maker between feuding tribes, and soon become a state’s founder.
Then began his life as a soldier and a General, in which capacity he was able to do what had never been done in all history before. He brought the whole of Hijaz under one state writ.
Even while acting as General, he continued to perform the role of a State-Builder with unparalleled vision and success!
Let us move on to the century of the Crusades. Who was Saladin?
Initially a man on the run. Then soldier. Then a commander. Then a General of all generals. Then a ruler of all rulers. Was he Civil or Military?
07-03-2014
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