1. Muslims are to fight to recover land, establish Islam, and promote
jihad everywhere.
Surah 2:191 - Kill them wherever you find them (those who fight
against you); drive them out of the places from which they drove you, for
tumult and persecution are worse than killing.
Surah 2:193 - And fight them until tumult and persecution are
no more, and religion is for Allah.
Surah 2:216 - Fighting is obligatory for you, though it may be
disliked by you; but it may be that you hate a thing although it is good
for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you.
Surah 4:71 - Take your precautions, then go forth in parties
(to jihad), or go forth all together.
Surah 4:74 - Let those fight for the cause of Allah who sell
the life of this world for the Hereafter. Whoever fights for the cause
of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a great
reward.
Surah 4:89 - …so take not friends from them [disbelievers]
until they migrate from their homes in the cause of Allah; and if they
turn back (to enmity) to then seize them and slay them wherever you find
them, and choose no friend or helper from among them.
Surah 4:91 - Against such we have given you clear authority.
Surah 8:39 - And fight them until persecution is no more, and
religion is all for Allah.
Surah 8:65 - O Prophet! Urge the believers to fight. If there
be of you twenty steadfast they shall overcome two hundred…because they
(the disbelievers) are a people without intelligence.
Surah 9:5 - …slay the polytheists whevever you find them, and
take them (captive) and besiege them, and lie in ambush for them everywhere.
But if they repent and establish the Prayer and pay the Zakat, let them
go their way.
Surah 9:29 - Fight against those from among the People of the
Scripture who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day; who do not forbid
what Allah and His messenger have forbidden, and who do not adopt the religion
of truth until they pay the tribute out of hand, utterly subdued.
Surah 9:41 - March forth, lightly armed and heavily, and strive
with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah.
Surah 9:44 - Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day will
never ask you to exempt them from fighting with their wealth and their
lives.
Surah 9:52 - Say "Are you waiting for anything to befall us except
one of the two best things (matyrdom or victory)?
Surah 9:111 - Allah has bought from the believers their lives
and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs. They shall fight in
the way of Allah, kill and be killed… Rejoice then in the bargain you have
made with Him.
Surah 33:60,61 - If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts
is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease… They will be
seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.
Surah 47:20 - But when a decisive Surah is revealed in which
fighting is mentioned, you see those in whose hearts is a disease looking
at you like (someone) under the shadow of death. Therefore, woe unto them.
Surah 49:15 - The true believers are those who have faith in
Allah and His Messenger, and do not doubt, and who fight for His cause
with their wealth and their lives.
[A note following 9:41 states that "this commandment is to be taken
literally." All people should join in, whether experienced for dangerous
activities or less experienced for other duties. A note following 9:111
states that Muhammad's conditions for believers are "to regard me and
my cause as your cause, and to defend it to the end". Then they will
receive the Garden and eternal life. A note after 47:20 says that when
the decision is taken about jihad, believers should not hesitate.]
Surah 17:16 - When We decree that a population should be
destroyed, We (first warn and) command those of them that live in comfort, and
yet they persist in sin so that the word is proved true against them, and then
We destroy them utterly.
Surah 48:26 - When the disbelievers had set up in their hearts
zealotry, the zealotry of the age of Ignorance, then Allah sent down His peace
of reassurance to His Messenger and the believers, and obliged the believers to
adhere to the word of piety…
[A note explains that 48:26 relates to the signing of the Treaty of Hudaibiyah after Makka was conquered. Though the idolaters didn't want to recognize Muhammad as the "Messenger of Allah", they signed the treaty and this verse calmed Muhammad's followers.]
Points #1 and #2 support a Middle East missionary's contention that
Islam is a religion of peace, but only once political supremacy is established.
A pertinent clue comes from a note after 2:83 (not listed) in which the
term "treason" is used for the Jews' rejection of Muhammad as their prophet
and authority. This is a political term, not a religious one. (See point
#1 in the chapter Muhammad.)
[Notes following these surahs explain that spoils are to be divided
fairly among the needy to avoid chaos with most going to the veterans of
the battles.]
[A note following 8:67 references Matthew 10:34 to confirm that "in battle one should not be afraid to make slaughter among the enemy."]
In Matthew 10:34, Jesus says "Don't imagine that I came to bring peace
to the earth! No, I came to bring a sword." This is clearly metaphorical
based on the same reference in Luke 12:51-53, "No, I have come to bring
strife and division! From now on families will be split apart, three in
favor of me, and two against…" The Qur'anic notes clearly misrepresent
New Testament scripture to serve its ends.
[A note preceding these surahs indicates that Moses' companion was a
spiritual guide who was the recipient and disburser of Knowledge, divine
Mercy, and the Divine Presence.]
[A note following 33:26 explains that this refers to the Jewish tribe of the Banu Quraiza.]
Numerous and extensive accounts of this incident by Muslims and non-Muslims
alike reveal that there was religious tolerance in Madina until Muhammad
arrived. To his dismay, the Jews rejected his prophethood and flawed biblical
accounts. As a result, when a few individual incidents of intimidation
occurred on both sides, Muhammad chose to punish all Jews and confiscate
their belongings. As one ex-Muslim points out, this is inconsistent with
the verse "…no soul shall bear another's burden." (Surah 39:7, 53:38)
The official verdict was that all the able-bodied men should be killed,
women and children taken captive, and the considerable Jewish wealth divided
among Muhammad and his fighters. This wealth and the abundant tools used
by the Jewish craftsman would conveniently serve to equip Muhammad's men
with weapons and influence for the conquests ahead.
A potential clue to Muhammad's brutality.