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Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
This un-Islamic practice with regard to
shahadah and shahid has today reached its ultimate
limit. This is the actual reason for the violence
that has spread among Muslims today. Those
Muslims who are killed in this violence are given
the title of shahid and hailed as martyrs and it is
claimed that they will enter Paradise as soon as
they die.

This phenomenon as such emerged in the age
of European colonialism. In this period, various
Western powers established their dominance
in lands inhabited by Muslims. Because of the
wrong guidance of their intellectuals and leaders,
Muslims were fired with a burning desire for
revenge. This thirst first took the form of extreme
hate, and then escalated into deadly violence.
In order to project this violence as ‘holy’,
it began being claimed that those who died
spearheading this violence were ‘martyrs’ or
shahids and would enter Paradise immediately,
without being at all questioned by God. This,
without any doubt, was a self-invented claim,
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