Sura 5:51: "O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your allies and protectors: They are but allies and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust."
Sura 47:4: "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah- He will never let their deeds be lost."
2007-03-10 22:00:18 · 7 answers · asked by Ting 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Simple.
[60:8] GOD does not enjoin you from befriending those who do not fight you because of religion, and do not evict you from your homes. You may befriend them and be equitable towards them. GOD loves the equitable.
[60:9] GOD enjoins you only from befriending those who fight you because of religion, evict you from your homes, and band together with others to banish you. You shall not befriend them. Those who befriend them are the transgressors.
As for your next verse, that (in fight) pretty much put it in context.
2007-03-10 22:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by Adia Azrael 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm missing why these things are disturbing. Sura 5:51 is common sense. People of different faiths usually don't get along. If you expect to be budies with them, know that they feal closer to their co-religionists than to you and will sell you out if push comes to shove. Both Christianity and Judaism have similar ideas. In Christianity it's the idea of not being unequally yoked, and Judaism says it is a known principle that Esau hates Jacob. (meaning non-Jews hate Jews.) It's common sense.
47:4 is also common sense. If you fight people, fight them. DOn't let false compassion end up getting you in adragged out war. Take em out hard, then subdue them, and once they are pacified you can start with the compassion.
How do these ideas differ from common sense?
2007-03-11 06:07:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
for 47 4 I have to congratulate you because you are the first one on yahoo answer who did put the whole verse so all is left is for you to read it not the first half to find that it is
1- speaking about a WAR
2- it offers either "generosity or ransom" for the prisoner. if it implied what people read at the begining of the verse it should have asked for the smite of the prisoners right?
God bless
2007-03-11 06:23:33 · answer #3 · answered by Temsah 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of the first verse is obvious. There is no loyalty between believers and unbelievers.
A similar concept is found in the bible:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB)
The second verse is situational; it applies when the Muslims are at war.
2007-03-11 06:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is about: "war conditions". In this period some Jews fought Muslims to take their homes and lands and were supported by some christian radicals. And then God said: "If they tended to peace, follow their inclination to peace".
2007-03-11 06:27:38 · answer #5 · answered by Lawrence of Arabia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is very disturbing...
1. The Qur'an tells muslims to kill and go to war to fight for Islam: Quran, chapters (Surahs) 9:5; 2:191; 2:193; 3:118; 4:75,76; 5:33, 8:12; 8:65; 9:73,123; 33:60-62.
2. Fight for Allah: "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers, (Quran 2:191).
3. Muslims are to battle for Allah: "Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak," (Quran 4:76).
4. Kill those against Islam: "The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter," (Quran 5:33).
5. Beheading: "When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger. 13That is because they opposed Allah and His messenger. Whoso opposeth Allah and His messenger, (for him) lo! Allah is severe in punishment," (Quran 8:12).
6. Allah urges war: "O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand," (Quran 8:65).
7. Slay non-muslims: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful," (Quran 9:5).
8. Allah urges war: "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination," (Quran 9:73).
9. Allah urges war: "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)," (Quran 9:123).
10. Allah urges killing: "...the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist... 61Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering. 62(Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah, (Quran 33:60-62).
11. Beheading: "Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens..." (Quran 47:4).
12. Allah loves those who fight for him. "Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure," (Quran 61:4).
2007-03-11 06:07:50 · answer #6 · answered by Disciple 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a muslim, but it is pretty well self explanatory.
2007-03-11 06:05:40 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋