Death: The difference between Islam and secular outlook.

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(Part two hundred and ten, Depok, West Java, Indonesia, February 17, 2015, 23:59 pm)

Death: The difference between Islam and secular outlook.

Fellow humans kill each other already known to God as the creator, that's when God wanted to create man to be inheritors of the earth, namely Adam, had received protests from the Angels.

'' Why would God create man (adam) when they will kill each other in the face of the earth. '' I know better what you do not know, '' replied God.

But according to the instructions Quran and Hadith, a new Muslim should kill when they pressed or threatened his life by others who try harrash Religion of Allah and His Prophet, trying to continue arrogant to God and hostile to God by doing shirk, to make another God, God's two-timing, consider Prophet of God as sons of God, even though idolatry / two-timing of God) is very large and not forgiven by God, if they do not realize it before it dies (Repentance).

Are people today do not learn much from the previous history, many of them die in vain, just look at World War II, over 60 million people have died in the war, also War world I, the War in Vietnam, the war in Afhanistan, crusade before World War I .

Now, the world shocked by the establishment of the Islamic State of Syria, Iraq and Sham / Islamic State of Iraq, Syria and the Levant (ISIL).

ISIL as we know from Wikipedia beliave Ahlul Sunnah waljamaah (salafi), the world is now playing using mashab salafi other than Saudi Arabia, is ISIL.

As we know the Salaf very uphold the Prophet Muhammad and his companions Umar, Uthman, and Ali ,Abu Bakr, is different from the Shiite group insulting companions of the Prophet and change Pillars of Islam and the Five Pillars of Islam, the two sentences creed other than the Prophet Muhammad with 12 Shia Imam.

And try using different mushab Quran with currently used Sunni (Salafi).

That is why a group of fanatics Salafi consider Shi'ite been out of Islam and Gentile.

Now, with the establishment of the State ISIL, the opponent (the main enemy) is a state-assisted Assad regime Shiite Iran and its ally Hezbollah.

While in Iraq the majority Shia Shia dominated government in support 80 Western states, including Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates in addition to Jordan.

Now, according to Reuters news ISIL supporters grew and appeared in Libya and sympathizers also in Nigeria (Boko Haram).

When the US and its allies to defend Iraq not because the Iraqi Shia, but the interests of Iraq's oil reserves which is one of the country's largest oil reserve holder in the world after Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Then attacked 80 countries of West and his own fellow Muslims (Salafi) will make ISIL will perish.

These extinctions will be accelerated with a statement of Hezbollah leader, Nasrullah, who will send more troops to Iraq and Syria.

Physically, perhaps none ISIL remaining supporters, but in their view that death is the beginning of a new life in the hereafter in fact, they are considered to be martyrs, encounter God in a state of purity without sin.

So who die in vain who, wallahu nature (God only knows)

Death in Islam is different from the secular (or other views).

Death (or died) in the view of Islam is the expiration of human life lived on earth (or are living in another universe).

The end of the human life is marked by the lifting of the spirit by the angel of death of the human body, Till now man can not know exactly kapam he will die, but God has been telling people in the Qur'an, it has been determined that the death of God in the book: "Lawh Mahfuz ".

Prophet sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam said: "Allaah has set all the destiny of all creatures from fifty thousand years before God created the heavens and the earth". (HR. Muslim, no. 2653).

"No misfortune can happen on earth and (nor) in yourselves but it is inscribed in the Book (Lawh Mahfuz) before We bring it. Verily it is easy for Allah ". (QS. Al-Hadid: 22).

That the dead man melalai various ways, it is because that also has been appointed by God, either due to illness, accidents, disasters such as tsunami, heart disease, and thousands of other causes.

So how many years of human life, human beings do not know for sure, that the doctors can only guess only.

Death, according to Islam, is the initial stage of eternal life of man, namely natural hereafter, if later after God judged him to be immortal in heaven, or in hell.

Views on the death of the Afghan Mujahideen embraced this when communist army defeated the Soviet Union, and now also applied to other Muslim fighters, who see death, especially death in defense of religion is seen as a martyr, martyr in the holy Quran as a guaranteed death God in Heaven.

Now the approach of death according to Islam is of course only believed to approach the faithful, who believe the word of God in the Quran and the Hadith (the Word) of the Prophet Muhammad,

So when death was seen darisudut secular point of view, so different, because the concept of human life from the point of view that only secular human throughout life, could be 100 years, or 1000 years, the days of Noah,

But, according to Islam, the essential human life is eternal kehudupan (no age limit in the hereafter.

Thus, according to Islam, man it would lose if it does not utilize a short time in the world, especially in the preparation of the hereafter, how the preparation is done, all there tuntunannya in the Quran and Hadith.

While the secular view, tuntunannya only human sense or instinct, which is very limited, far behind the science of God who created the universe, including human intellect and instinct created God.

As an intelligent and sensible man, and if we only rely on our own sense very limited, with the Science of God's infinite.

That sebbbnya Mujahideen forces wherever they fought against the enemies of God always has a death squad, into the heart of the enemy with bombs full in the chest. Because in this way they view their accelerate incoming surge, they certainly are not afraid to die in the struggle, even with simple weapons, against an enemy who has advanced weapons. So their strength 90 percent supported morale and spirit fisabilillah, which looked at death, as the Word of God fighters were martyred was actually not dead in the eyes of God.

So death according to Islam must be seen through the eyes of the believers (Muslims believe the Quran and Hadith).

Enemies of Islam in the modern age of course different from the time of the Prophet Muhammad's era, when the first is the dissidents (pagans) who always attack the Muslims, now in another form, for example, has tried to insult Islam as insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, trying to insult the Prophet and his friend, trying to create a new prophet, using new and different Scriptures, or clearly deviate as regard the prophet as a child of God (associating partners with God)

If man knew (faith) that live in the Hereafter is far more precious than the life in the world which in the view of God's humility, faith will put the man went to Mecca for hajj / umrah, compared to the streets of New York, Paris, or other than the city of Mecca and Medina, because in addition to plunge us be immoral lust eyes, sayhwat adultery, and wastage of wealth in vain, without reward. It's different if hajj / Umrah, in addition to a large reward if accepted worship (sincere and use lawful money) will also remove sin.

From on our train ride vip expensive, better ride economy class, any surplus money as charity to which entitled us, as stock in the hereafter.

It is a severe test is when we dititipin God in the form of excessive wealth, because if we are not grateful will make us arrogant and more loving world than the hereafter. Also deposited in the form of power makes us proud and arrogant on the Word of God and the Word (Hadith). Look at Muslim women, who boastfully walk on earth with the very word of God, which requires the woman wearing her hijab. Just look at the policy weak woman of faith is usually controlled by the lust of power that persuaded the devil and the devil seduced by lifting the corrupt officials and power hungry and do not do justice.

The grisly killing of Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh by burning him alive sent shock waves across the globe and brought heaps of condemnation from political and religious leaders of all stripes against the new heights of macabre of which Islamic State proved capable. Horror and sickening disgust may represent enlightened persons’ natural reaction to this barbarity, but beyond the condemnation, it is important to understand its reasons and likely consequences in the tumultuous context in which the Islamic State phenomenon has been playing out. Several questions arise in this regard.

The first is whether Islamic State brutality represents the frenzied unleashing of sadism on the part of psychopathic leaders, or a deliberate strategy intended to boost its “larger than life” image and cast a terrifying shadow that makes adversaries tremble and its followers cheer. The consistent manner in which Islamic State has been executing its “reign of terror” suggests the latter. The organization issues pamphlets in which the rape of female captives is justified, routinely strews the heads of victims throughout the city of Raqqa, its “capital,” and engages in other activities attesting that for Islamic State, brutality is not a whim but a matter of core policy.

No less important is the question of whether the strategy works. Judging from Islamic State successes so far, the answer seems affirmative. Since September 2014, as the United States continued its campaign of air strikes against Islamic State, the group has nearly doubled its Syrian domain, and it is now increasingly active in Libya. Admittedly, Islamic State’s triumphant march cannot be fully ascribed to its brutality and barbarism.  Yet brutality and barbarism are part and parcel of its brand, whereby it sets itself apart from competing groups like al Qaeda. It is that special brand that excites thousands of foreign fighters (30,000 according to last estimates) and drives them to risk life and limb on Islamic State’s behalf. By this measure, atrocities that Islamic State perpetrates certainly contribute their share to its accomplishments.

A Jordanian girl holds a poster of pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh in Amman Febr. 2, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

So what is it about bizarre ways of killing and the cult of death that has such a magnetic appeal to so many? Sigmund Freud famously highlighted humans’ profound fascination with sadism and masochism by postulating adeath instinct, a universal force that governs the dark side of our psyche. The enigma of death and dying has mesmerized people from time immemorial, bringing thousands of cheering Romans to watch Christians being devoured by lions or gladiators being slaughtered by their victors. The luster of death has hardly dimmed over the centuries. In the not-too-distant American past, lynchings in the South attracted large audiences, as state-sponsored beheadings and stonings in Saudi Arabia and other nations ruled by Sharia law do today. The proliferation and popularity of TV shows that feature cruel and bizarre ways of killing prove that fascination with death isn’t reserved for “another place,” and that morbid curiosity about grisly atrocities has a respected seat in the living rooms of ordinary Americans.

Watching, of course, is hardly the same as doing. One may abhor and be disgusted by what one sees while continuing to ogle it. There is in our psyche a battle between “good and evil,” andcivilization works by restraining our destructive impulses and allowing their expression in highly sublimated forms. It is OK to watch atrocities on TV and images of beheadings, but it is profoundly unacceptable to engage in any kind of authentic violence. This allows us to let off our (destructive) steam, which affords catharsis without presumably causing any real damage to society.

The tranquility of the social order is upset, however, when the societal narrative is turned to sanction real violence. This often happens when a category of people is demonized –  depicted as less-than-human, despicable vermin that merits no sympathy or consideration. Destroying the scourge is reframed as the good, justifying all violence in its aid. In the case of Islamic State, their take on Islam provides such a justifying narrative, twisting the Koranic spirit to legitimize unrestrained mayhem against the alleged enemies of Allah.

Once unbounded from societal restraints, unmitigated violence holds multiple attractions to its practitioners. For one, it instills a primordial fear in the hearts of its enemies. The very idea of dying is profoundly scary to most people; the idea of dying in incredibly humiliating and painful circumstances multiplies the dread. In addition, the dispensation of cruel and unusual punishment lends the perpetrator an aura of overriding force of godlike proportions. It creates a myth of potency that many people, especially those disempowered and belittled, may find irresistible. Identification with an aggressor is a way to feel powerful and safe. “I am the danger,” quips Walter White to his wife Skylar in a striking episode of the TV series Breaking Bad. He means to reassure her and allay her anxieties because the role of perpetrator is antithetical to that of victim, and there is psychological safety in being at the initiating (rather than receiving) end of violence.

Finally, though not of least importance, the readiness to go to extremes of cruelty by disregarding universal norms of humanity and compassion signals a depth of commitment to a cause — a total devotion and assurance in its justness and utter legitimacy. Such confidence, too, is compelling and of particular appeal to people who are confused, uncertain and perplexed. The untold violence that Islamic State practices attests to the depth of its ideological commitment. It thus provides a much desired sense of purpose and personal significance to those who join the group.

These strategic advantages notwithstanding, there is another crucial side to heinous violence that bodes ill for its perpetrators: The unleashing of evil mobilizes a concerted effort to defeat it on behalf of the good. It unleashes one’s own powers of destruction to eradicate the plague. The outrage and disgust that grisly cruelty evokes can create a powerful backlash; previously separate factions can unite behind a sacred purpose and feel empowered to put an end to the atrocity. Before the execution of al-Kasaesbeh, the Jordanian population was polarized in its attitudes toward Islamic State; it spoke in resolute unison afterward. Other voices in the Middle East and elsewhere echoed the outrage and grim resolve of the Jordanians. Possibly then, this time Islamic State may have crossed a red line, and the advantages it used to reap from its unbounded violence may be offset by the storm of outrage that gathers against it. (Reuters)