Who is a Terrorist? – Dr Zakir Naik
TJIP-2
And many a times two different labels are given for the same activity of the same individual. For example, more than sixty years back, when we were ruled by the Britishers, when they were controlling India, there were certain Indians who were fighting for their freedom. These group of Indian, by the British Government, they were labeled as Terrorist. But those same people, by the common Indians, we call them as Patriots, as Freedom fighters. Same individual, same activity, two different label. One group is calling them a terrorist; the other group is calling them freedom fighters, patriots. Same individual, same activity, two different labels. Therefore before you give a label, you have to try and find out, what is the reason that the person is giving the label. If you agree with the British government, that Britain had a right to rule over India, you would call all these people as terrorist. But if you agree with the view of the common Indians that the Britishers came to India to do business, they had no right to rule over us then you would call these people as freedom fighters. Same people, same activity, two different labels.
And I’d like to give you one more example, of Nelson Mandela who was the ex-President of the New Free South Africa. And we know by the previous government, the white Apartheid government, they called Nelson Mandela earlier as a terrorist, and they imprisoned him in Robin Island for more than twenty-five years. But the same person, by the indigenous South Africans, they called him as a hero. Same person, same activity, two different label. If you agree, with the previous white Apartheid government of South Africa, that the color of the skin makes you superior, if your skins color is white it makes you superior then we all have to agree that one of the greatest terrorist on earth was Nelson Mandela. But if you agree with the view of the South Africans, the original inhabitants of South Africa, that the color of the skin does not make you superior, or same as is mentioned in the Qur’an in
Surah Hujurat, Chapter 49, Verse No. 13, it says,
“Ya ‘Ayyuhan Naasu ‘Inna Khalaqnaakum Min Dhakarin Wa ‘Unsa Wa Ja’alnaakum Shu`uban Wa Qabaa’ila Lita`arafu ‘Inna ‘Akramakum `Indallaahi ‘Atqaakum ‘Innallaaha `Alimun Khabir”
“O human kind! We have created you from a single pair of male and female, and have divided you into nations and tribes so that you shall recognize each other, not that you shall despise each other and the most honored in the sight of Almighty God is the person who has Taqwa.”
The criteria for judgment in the sight of Almighty God, is not color of the skin, its not sex, it’s not wealth, but it is Taqwa, it is righteousness, it is piety, it is God’s consciousness.
So if you agree with the view of the Qur’an and as our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) said, he said in the farewell pilgrimage, in the Hajjatul wida. He said that “No Arab is superior to a Non-Arab, neither is the Non-Arab is superior to an Arab, No white man is superior to a black, neither is the black man is superior to a white except by virtue.”
So if you agree with the view of the Qur’an and the sayings of beloved Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) you would not call Nelson Mandela as a terrorist but you would call a person who is fighting for his rights.
Therefore before any person gives any label to any individual for any of his acts, we have to first analyze for what reason is he doing the act.
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