The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 81)
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- The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 81)
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demonstration against the British and the Zionists. The demonstrators
demanded revenge and clashed with the police and troops.”
al-Qassam as a leader can be seen from three perspectives: as a Muslim
revivalist; as a nationalist, and as a man with class-consciousness. In the
early 1920s al-Qassam with
another Syrian religious scholar, Sheikh Kamil al-Qassab, criticised the
custom in Haifa and Acre of Muslim mourners chanting out loud al-
Takbir and al-Tahlil while accompanying their dead to the cemetery,
which they denounced this as bid’a (hateful innovation). al-Qassam
believed that the only way that Muslims could liberate themselves from
the foreign occupation and to achieve progress would be by the revival of
Islam.“ He also criticised the Islamic Supreme Council for spending
money on decorating mosques and building hotels. He was quoted as
saying :
"The jewels and the decorative implements in the mosques
should be transformed into weapons. If you [the council]
lost your land, how are the decorations going to help you,
when they are on the walls?"#
To al-Qassam religious values were to be transformed into
revolutionary forms as a framework for armed revolt. He preached
revolt through Islamic values, such as Jihad or self-sacrifice, and he
succeeded in mixing nationalism with religion and in making fighting
against colonialism a form of worship.
39.Akram Zueiter, al-Haraka al-Wataniya. Beirut, 1980, p.32
40.Abdullah Schleiffer, "The Life and Thought" In Islamic
Quarterly (August 1981), p.67 and Samih Hammondeh, al-Wa’ i
Wa al-Thawra. p68
41.Ibid p.63
42.Mohammad Adib Fakhr al-Din al-Qassam (1zz al-Din’s nephew)
in an interview by Ali Hussein Khalaf, in Jabla 6/12/81.
Ali Hussein Khalaf, Tagribat, al-Seikh al-Qassam. p.42 - تاريخ
- 1990-10
- المنشئ
- Sonia Nimr
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