Full Context

Submitted by Sanity (Qatar), Aug 26, 2014 at 03:48

I hope you have read its continuation 5:34 as well to call it as FULL CONTEXT my dear..

I will give you the full context of 5:32-34

Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.

Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

- For your information.. fighting against those who wage war or corruption is perfectly alright in terms of defence and justice.

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