Re: Pakistani soldiers fighting TTP are not martyrs : Munawar Hassan
As far as Pakistan is concerned, TTP at best can be classified as Rebels (fighting against the state and people of Pakistan), otherwise they are criminals and terrorists combined. They are criminals because they break laws of the state (Pakistan) and terrorists because they are terrorising, creating disorder, killing and injuring innocent civilians of Pakistan.
As far as ‘Islam’ is concerned, they are Kharjees. They are Kharjees because they kill Pakistanis after declaring them Kafirs … as it is evident from their own sources and interviews … and they do that because they pretend to be committed practicing Muslim and know that they could not kill Muslims without considering them Kafir (as life of a Muslim is safe from committed practicing Muslims).
Whatever one considers these Kharjee terrorists (aka Taliban), they are certainly not innocent. They have killed and injured many innocent Pakistanis.
It is duty of Pakistan (state) to punish them or kill them in combat. For that, state (Pakistan) can use Pakistani police, but these Kharjee terrorists are armed to teeth and police or civil administration cannot handle them. So, to get rid of these Kharjee terrorists, using armed forces is only choice.
For getting rid of these Kharjee terrorists, Pakistan government can also take foreign help including help of non-Muslim allies (for instance American and their Ababeels ‘aka drones’), and that would be according to Islam too (It can be proven from Quran that a Muslim state can have non-Muslim allies … and allies mean that one helps other in need).
Even though who is Shaheed in front of Allah, only Allah knows best that he would reveal on judgement day on individual basis, but as far as Muslims are concerned … we are given direction on who we can consider Shaheed or not. Thus:
There is no doubt that Pakistanis (army or whoever) dying fighting Kharjee terrorists are Shaheed … as they get killed on duty defending their homeland and innocent citizens of their homeland from Fitna and Fasad of Kharjee terrorist. Also, innocent Pakistanis killed by these kharjee terrorists are Shaheed … as Muslim whose life ends unnaturally become Shaheed (one who dies while struggling to live a life as Muslim fulfilling his day to day duties of life as directed by Allah is Shaheed). Anyhow, who do not consider them Shaheed is a fool and ignorant of Islam.
As for TTP, whatever one considers them, Rebels, terrorists, criminals, Kharjees, they cannot be classified as Shaheed ... because they are spreading Fitna and Fasad and anyone who spread Fitna and Fasad (terrorism, disorder, and mayhem), works for Shaitan, and goes to Hell. Anyone who considers killed Kharjee terrorists as Shaheed, must be Kharjee himself or ignorant fool.