4. Jihad


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.]



2. Though point #1 suggests serious consequences for those who reject Islam…
Surah 16:125 - Invite (all) to the path of your Lord with wisdom and kindly exhortation, and reason with them in the most courteous manner.

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.)



3. Muslims are not to kill other Muslims.
Surah 4:92 - Never may a believer kill a believer unless (it be) by mistake.
Surah 4:93 - He who slays a believer intentionally, his reward is Hell forever…


4. The material gains of battle belong to Allah and Muhammad.
Surah 8:1 - They ask you (O Muhammad) about the spoils of war. Say: "The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger.
Surah 59:7 - That which Allah gives as spoil to His messenger from the people of the townships, it is for Allah and His messenger (for the State)…

[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.]



5. Non-combatant unbelievers are also to be made examples of in battle.
Surah 8:55,57 - Assuredly, the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the ungrateful who will not believe… If you come on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that perhaps they may remember.


6. The Qur'an uses the Gospel to condone slaughter.
Surah 8:67 - It is not for any prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land.

[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.



7. In an odd trial for Moses, Islam appears to promote the killing of rebellious, unbelieving youth.
Surah 18:66 - Moses said to him: "May I follow you so that you may teach me the right-guidance which you have been taught?
Surah 18:67 - "You will not be able to have patience with me, said the other.
Surah 18:74 - They both journeyed on until, when they met a young man, he (Moses' companion) slew him. And Moses said: "What! have you slain an innocent soul though he had killed nobody? Truly you have done a foul thing.
Surah 18:75 - "Did I not tell you, he replied "that you would not have patience with me?
Surah 18:80 - "As for the youth, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would oppress them by rebellion and disbelief.

[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.]



8. Muhammad has the Jews of Madina slaughtered.
Surah 33:26 - And He brought down those of the People of the Scripture… and cast panic into their hearts. Some you slew, and you made captive others.

[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.



9. Those who know Muhammad's wrath fear him more than God.
Surah 59:13 - Their dread of you is more intense in their hearts than their fear of Allah…

A potential clue to Muhammad's brutality.


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