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Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion or drove you out of your homes. Verily Allah loves those who deal with equity.
A tradition reported by Abdullah bin Abi Aufa, لَا تَتَمَنَّوْا لِقَاءَ الْعَدُوِّ وَسَلُوا اللَّهَ الْعَافِيَةَ فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُوهُمْ فَاصْبِرُوا وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ تَحْتَ ظِلَالِ السُّيُوفِ" “and don’t desire to see your enemy (to bring your army to their front) and pray for peace from Allah, but if such a situation occurs; then be patient and know that paradise is under the shadow of swords”. Means that primarily, our relations are peaceful, however, if a war is imposed then we have to withstand and avoid waiting to be butchered.
You can realize the difference between the verses, if we say that Muslims are asked to fight the non-Muslims; we would have left the other verses un-applicable. And according to the juristic principle اعمال الدليلين اولى من اهمالهما او اهمال احدهما “to apply two texts is better then to leave them both or any one of them”. Therefore it is desirous to say: we will fight the non-Muslims when they fight us or commit any aggression or they compel Muslims to convert from Islam, otherwise our relations are based on peace.
Moreover, we have another principle of imposing conditional texts on absolute, which will lead to application of both the texts. According to this principle; we have to apply the conditional text, impliedly, however, we would have acted on the absolute. So when one text said kill them all, another said kill them if they kill you, if we put to practice the second text, we would have acted on both, we will kill them (the first text) if they kill us( the second text).
Last but not least; I would like to mention the absolute verses which al-Kafir mentioned in one of his posts:
These verses call for killing, but whom they intend and when?
Let’s see:
1. بَرَاءَةٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ إِلَى الَّذِينَ عَاهَدْتُمْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ…
2. Verse 3: أَنَّ اللَّهَ بَرِيءٌ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ…
3. Verse 4 إِلَّا الَّذِينَ عَاهَدْتُمْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ…
4. كَيْفَ يَكُونُ لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ عَهْدٌ…
5. verse 12: وَإِنْ نَكَثُوا أَيْمَانَهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ عَهْدِهِمْ وَطَعَنُوا فِي دِينِكُمْ فَقَاتِلُوا أَئِمَّةَ الْكُفْرِ إِنَّهُمْ لَا أَيْمَانَ لَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَنْتَهُونَ
But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and attack your religion with disapproval and criticism, then fight (you) the leaders of disbelieve (chiefs of Quraish pagans of makkah-for surely their oaths are nothing to them- so that they may stop (evil actions).
6. أَلَا تُقَاتِلُونَ قَوْمًا نَكَثُوا أَيْمَانَهُمْ وَهَمُّوا بِإِخْرَاجِ الرَّسُولِ وَهُمْ بَدَءُوكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ
Will you not fight a people who have violated their oaths (pagans of makkah) and intended to expel the messenger while they did attack you first?
Here as well, the verses mentioned the causes of attack or war, they breached the covenants, intended to expel the messenger, it is considered an aggression by Quraish, infidels of Mecca and are not general for all.
To conclude:
Our relations with non-Muslims are based on peace, we are not allowed to fight them but if they commit any aggression, we have to attack them, kill them and use the war for peace and harmony in the world. And to help understand the issue I would like to quote the translation of a chapter of the holy Quran, called Kâfirûn (the disbelievers):
1. “Say: [O Muhammad to these and Kâfirûn]: “O Al- Kâfirûn [disbelievers in Allah],
2. “ I worship not that which you worship”,
3. “Nor will you worship that which I worship”,
4. “ and I shall not worship that which you are worshipping”
5. nor will you worship that which I worship”
6. TO YOU BE YOUR RELIGION, AND TO ME MY RELIGION.
hope for a peaceful world!
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jamal siddiqui | May 10th, 2007
you have rightly said...
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