Sura 9:29

Submitted by TruthWFree (United States), May 15, 2009 at 15:35

"E.g. how can I treat a Moslem whose Allah teaches : [9.29] "Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth ... " ?"

let me explain you how this verse understand in general public sense and myself Please pay attention the integrity of verse .It is mostly about war situation agreements..it starts "This is a declaration of immunity by Allah and His Apostle towards those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement"

now,folowing numbers such as 9.4 "Except those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement, then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up any one against you, so fulfill their agreement to the end of their term..............."

.Numbers in seperate verses does not mean it is isoleted from the integrity of the verse.we come to 9.7"So as long as they are true to you, be true to them;"When i came to 9.29 I see that there is a legal right to fight with those who disobeyed the agreement.Modern countries has also war laws ,agreement laws against any of their possible enemies.If we read them without an integrity,we can conclude horror films.i never understand that a muslim not forced by quran to fight with jews ,christs or anyother religion based on a reason that they dont believe in allah or in islam .

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berk akk,

You make the statement that 9:29 is just a war situation. Why is it that those of your religious faith attacked the World Trade Centers on 9/11? Under which Sura did they feel compelled by allah to fly airplanes into those buildings in following the wishes of their allah? I will give you the doubt that you believe it was wrong and against the Quran, do you?

On the other hand, why is it that so many "misinterpret" the real meaning of the Quran and bomb and kill and strike off heads in the name of your allah? How can so many be misguided? Did allah not communicate properly whereby some believe it this way (kill and fight) and some believe that way (peace and love)? And what about Suras 9-5 and 5-51, how are they interpreted?

The problem with your religion is that it (Quran and Hadiths) includes many exhortations of violence against non believers and the believers can rationalize any excuse for violence (or not).

I urge you to read the Gospels of Jesus Christ where you will find no (none) exhortations of violence against those who do not believe that Jesus Christ was Son of God and "One with the Father" and "You have seen me, you have seen the Father". Even with these teachings of non violence, Christians have done some violent things in history. It's man's nature and no religion should foster this evil side of mankind, but Islam does (many, many versus of hate against the non believers).

Your Muhammad in the Quran basically said (600 years after Christ), that Jesus was not the Son of God, did not die on the cross, and gives no credence to Christ's teachings of love and forgiveness. The Isa of the Quran is not the Jesus of the Gospels. Jesus also said He was the only way to the Father so how could Muhammad's religion be truth?...unles the Gospels are a lie?

Jesus said you will know false prophets by their "fruits". The "fruit " of Muhammad has been aggression and killing for 1400 years and is still going on in almost every conflict in the world today (Islam against non believers). I will not list the conflicts as there are too many.

Jesus also said that Satan was the father of all lies. I believe that your Muhammad was visited by the devil in the cave, not Gabriel. As a person of faith in Jesus Christ, I can come to no other conclusion.

I ask you to leave your evil religion, read the Gospels, and put you faith in Christ. Christ also said "do not be afraid of those that can kill the body, fear the one that can throw body and soul into Gehenna (Hell).

Peace,

TruthWFree

I know that you would put your life at risk (apostate from Islam) so I do not ask this lightly.

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