Islam loathes kidnapping and coercion

I bear witness that there is no God except Allah, the Eternal, besought of all and that our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) our master our role model remain a messenger and His apostle.“I was raised to perfect unique behaviour. The prophet said; may Allah perfect his mercy and pleasure upon him and his house hold […]

I bear witness that there is no God except Allah, the Eternal, besought of all and that our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) our master our role model remain a messenger and His apostle.
“I was raised to perfect unique behaviour. The prophet said; may Allah perfect his mercy and pleasure upon him and his house hold till the day everything on earth will perish and the face of your lord full of majesty and honour will remain forever.
Willingness is natural and could all the time give natural outcome. Doing things at will is doing things at base. Islamic monotheism is but a total submission to the will of Allah. So coercion does not go with conviction, and religion is all about conviction. Allah has recognised Islam through the  holy prophet of Islam with options and he says; “let there be no compulsion in religion, truth stands out clear from error, whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah has grasped the must trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks and God hears and knows all things.” Q2v56.
Islam teaches that a person’s faith must be pure and sincere, so it certainly is not something that can be forced on someone. To debunk the myth that Islam was spread by the sword” the [non-Muslim] historian, Reverend Dr De Lacy Evans O’Leary (1872-1957) wrote: “History makes it clear that, however that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon the conquest of races is one of the most fanatically absurd myths that historians have ever accepted.”
The holy prophet met lots of non-Muslims in Medina, lived with them and ate with them in the course of establishing government in Medina. Muhammad (SAW) passed away without compelling any one of them into Islam and left some of them in their own way of life.
Allah the most high says; “and had your lord willed, those on earth would have believed, all of them together, so will you o’ Muhammad [SAW] then compel mankind until they become believers” it is not for any person to believe except by the will of Allah and he will put the wrath on those who are heedless.” Islam has taught us ways of praising and calling others to the ways of Allah. Wisdom and good preaching, anything other than these is not Islam but politics.
The devil has succeeded in designing so many moves for so many people and they see nothing good than that action of theirs. When you are asked of Islam and abduction, the answer is definitely HARAM. Islamic completely condemns kidnapping or abduction; it is against the way of Allah; there is therefore no justification for it in the Islam. Allah says; “Say O’ Muhammad ‘shall we tell you the greatest losers in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life. While they thought that they were acquiring good by their deeds. There is nowhere in the history of Islam where Muslims are first to an launch an attack, all the battles fought by the prophet (SAW) and the Muslims were defensive. Anything beyond these is a total transgression.
Allah says: “and fight in the way of Allah, those who fight you, but transgress not the limit. Truly Allah likes not the transgressors.”[Q2v190].
Kidnapping has no place in Islam, it is a square peg in a round hole; it cannot fit in. The lawfuls are clear according to the prophet of Islam and unlawfuls are also glaring and in between them are certain ambiguities. Satan has taken over man’s affairs except those who are sincerely religious that could be free from it.
The Qur’an says; “O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may take away part of the dower ye have given them – except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good.” Q4v19.
The Holy Qur’an remains the criterion between truth and falsehood. The prophet, SAW, says; “help a brother who cheats and the cheated brother.” Let this serve as admonition against mischief on earth. Let Allah in his infinite mercy free the girls from the capacity. The truth has come, the falsehood has vanished. [And remember] when you kill a man and fall into dispute among yourselves as to the crime, but Allah brought forth that which you were hiding.
O’ our lord we have wronged ourselves, if you do not forgive us and have mercy on us, we will surely be among the losers.

Sharafudeen A. Aliagan is the Chief Imam of Nasfat Juma’at Mosque, Abuja. He will be contributing to this column weekly.