The difference in beliefs – An effective

way for the destruction of Muslims     

As the Umayyad rule officially moved towards the ways and traditions of their ancestors, the ‘people of the book’ also took such steps that were in accordance to their destructive motives. They immediately began to plan and promote strategies in contradiction to the concept of Jabr’ism and strived to present a new thought-process before the nation.

          Their main motive behind this act was to indulge the Muslims between these two contradictory concepts and to misguide and mislead them in this manner, and to prohibit them from gaining access to the reality which was in line with the nature.

          The main belief of the Qadri thought-process was that ‘all the human actions are a result of their personal will, which is independent of the Divine will’’.[1]

          This belief was absolutely antagonistic to the concept of Jabr’ism; while the Jabr’iist were of the belief that humans are like a stone reliant on the strong winds of all the changes that occur on itself and does not possess any freewill, and used to invite mankind towards absolute surrender and submission before the rulers and claimed that the Divine fate is attached with them from the beginning, so that they submit themselves before the tyrants and as per the poet ‘the pen of destiny has written all that is supposed to happen, therefore, your actions and inactions are all the same. Your effort to earn your livelihood is nothing but madness, as an infant receives its food inside the darkness of the mother’s womb as well’’[2].

          At a time when the followers of Jabr’ism were preaching these teachings, the movements of Qadr’ism were active in contradiction and their motive was to indulge people into such conflicting issues and to set ablaze the fields of confrontation and in any condition, it would result in the benefit of the ‘people of the book’.

          Sheikh Abu Zuhra speaks about the first person who spoke about Qadr’ism and laid its foundation: ‘The first person who spoke about Qadr was a native of Iraq who was a Christian at first, then converted to Islam and then became a Christian again. Mabad e Jahni and Ghilan e Damishqi received these teachings from this very person.’’[3]

          From this incident, the Umayyad dynasty utilized all those strategies which were suitable for their political benefits in the fields of Caliphate and the names and attributes of Allah, and then began to suppress the followers of these ideologies and a few got assassinated in this incident while a few escaped. But this school of thought did not vanish and thereafter, a large number of sects remained in Basra and became widespread, and became alike the ideologies of dualism or the belief of two sources of power, light and darkness[4].[5]

          From the past incidents, it has become evident that the differences in beliefs and ideologies were not just the base of sectarianism, but the conflict between the people along with the establishment of the Umayyad rule, moreover, it also became the cause of assassination for a group of people due to these differences and conflicts.

          It is evident that the killing the Muslim nation with their own hands by setting ablaze these bloodsheds and massacres, was the age old motive of the Jews and the Christians.

          If at the time of the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.), the enemies of Islam battled against the Muslims resulting in the killings of either sides, at the time of the Umayyad rule, without conducting any battle and without the killing of their men, they made the Muslims hungry for the lives of each other and spectated the destruction and massacre of the Muslim nation.

          The Jews and Christians used to lay down such plots that resulted in the disintegration of the Muslims and their mutual killings, while the Umayyad rulers acted as a host to these Jewish and Christian plots.

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