It’s true. The promise of war booty on earth for the victors and virgins in paradise for the losers created a fighting force that was difficult to defeat. In today’s world, add in the denial, cowardice and complacency of Western authorities, and you’ve got an open playing field.
“Nasser Karimian In Columbus, Ohio Friday Sermon: The Mujahid Seeks Shahada (Martyrdom); He Cannot Be Beaten Because If He Wins – He Wins, And If He Loses – He Also Wins; This Is What Made Islam So Great; Loving This World Is For Losers; Martyrs In Paradise Wish To Return To This World And Die Ten Times Over; Are We Teaching This To Our Kids?,” MEMRI, July 5, 2024:
In a July 5, 2024 Friday sermon at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Nasser Karimian said that the mujahid fights in order to seek martyrdom, not war booty. He said that “if he wins, he wins, and if he loses, he wins.” Karimian explained that the mujahid will continue to fight until he loses, and that this is “what made Islam so great.” He said: “Loving this world is for losers […] by dying that is how I live, by living that is how I die.”
Dr. Nasser Karimian was a guest speaker at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center of Indiana, he is the imam and resident scholar at the Al-Huda Islamic Center of Indiana, and he came to raise funds for a MCYC – MAS (Muslim American Society) Cultural Youth Center, serving Islamic Youth.
Nasser Karimian: “We know, subhanallah [glory to Allah], of the things that are paradoxical thinking in Islam, perhaps one of the most paradoxical, is that we think that when the warrior goes to war, he’s looking to win. Why? So that he can attain the ghanima – war booty. That’s the goal – you go to war, you fight, you become a brave warrior, you win the day, you get your ghanima, your war booty.
“Whereas the fact of the matter is that subhanallah, the mujahid isn’t seeking ghanima. The mujahid is seeking shahada [martyrdom]. The mujahid is not fighting to win, he is actually fighting to lose, and if he wins one battle then he will go again to the next battle, and if he wins that he will go to the next, and the next, and the next, why? Because he doesn’t want to win in the end.
“Why is that the case? Why is it that he’ll try to keep fighting and keep fighting until he finally loses? Because he understands that loving this world is for losers. That’s the true mujahid. The one who understands that loving his dunya [the earthly world], that’s for losers to begin with. So I don’t want to be a loser, I’m going to keep fighting, and I will keep winning until finally I lose, and that is my victory. How can you beat somebody like this? You can’t. Because if he wins, he wins, and if he loses, he wins. Subhanallah. This is what made Islam so great.
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“This is paradoxical thinking. I’m not fighting to win, I’m fighting to lose. Why? Because by dying – that’s how I live, and by living – that’s how I die. So, subhanallah, this is Islam. But are we teaching our kids to see things in such a paradoxical perspective?
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“Nobody who enters Paradise will want to go back to the world. Even if he had everything in his world – maybe he would want to go back. Except for the mujahid, except for the shaheed, except for the martyr. He will wish to return back to the world so he can be martyred and killed again ten times over, because of the honor and dignity, the karama [honor] that he received.
Subhanallah, we turn on the news, we look on our phones, we see people getting killed. We see one after another.
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“The disgusting display of what’s taking place to our brothers and sisters around the world, limbs blown off, white phosphorus melting the skin, and it makes us all cry, and it should make you cry. And yet, subhanallah, it is those who are martyred for simply being with Allah are those who say: ‘Yeah, I want to go back to that.'”
FYI says
“this is what made islam great”
Yet islam has no Golden Rule.no Two chief commandments,classifies non-muslims as “the worst of created beings” sends good people to hell {koran 98:6} where allah uses his one foot to crush them.
And since allah reveals he is not omniscient despite insisting he is{koran 2;29]{“allah is knower of all things”}
centuries of terrorism and war on behalf of a god who suffers from a lack of omniscience and who is NOT the Biblical God who happens to be the God of Israel/.Centuries of islamic “scholarship” have fai;ed to notice this problem
How can allah be god if he is provably NOT omniscient as the errors in the koran show?
allah akbar:i am afraid not..allah cannot be any god if he is not omniscient!
PRCS says
Given that Judaism/Christianity’s god did not prevent Muhammad’s “free will” from concocting and implementing an ideology that would cause such hatred and strife for billions of human beings over the last 1400 or so years one must note that he was then not omniscience (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), omnipresent (present everywhere), or—–he didn’t care to.
Or, as an atheist might conclude: he doesn’t exist.
Walter Sieruk says
This serves as example of Islamic delusion evil murder and madness.
bagsgroove says
If he looses we win and rejoice until the last one is finished !
Walter Sieruk says
Islam with its violent and murderous jihad is a death cult. For example, jihadists of many jihadist groups have, at different times gathered and chanted “They love life. We love death.”
In great contrast to Islam is Christianity, which is centered on Jesus, Who taught and gives life and not death.
For Jesus declared, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
In this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.”
The Muslims who are the jihadists are dangerous, deadly and deluded. By the word “ deluded “ it means that they are under the spell of the deception of the false doctrines of the false religion that is Islam.
This deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded that he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. [N.K.J.V.]
A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Walter Sieruk says
If a jihadist dies just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack, right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of Hamas was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V]
As for dying in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears ; they will heap up for themselves teachers ;and they will away their ears from the truth and be turned to fables.” Second Timothy 4 : 3,4.
tim gallagher says
Well it certainly is a win for decent human beings everywhere whenever another of these murderous jihad scum are killed and sent straight off to hell. What makes islam great – what a load of bullshit. There is nothing great or good or pleasant about islam, nothing. Islam may have a lot of members but there is nothing at all that is good or noble about it in a moral sense..
Lady of the Lake says
Yes its the perfect military strategy… the actual goal is death
PRCS says
“we turn on the news, we look on our phones, we see people getting killed. We see one after another”
Yes, I see that too, but not the way he does.
The following video declares: “Don’t start wars you can’t win”
https://x.com/i/status/1812098083817144532
There are consequences.
Note: it’s a bit tough for the faint of heart to watch.
OLD GUY says
Getting the 72 Virgins upon getting killed fighting for Islam is like getting a participation trophy.
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY,
Interestingly, we are never told what these “72 virgins” actually look like.
What if they are beyond “butt ugly”?