Our dear Amin Refaat is saying that the original Islam was peaceful and civilized! No I'm not kidding! Part 3

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 12, 2018 at 07:39

Our dear Amin wrote this little gem:

>2. Quran is filled with verses of the free religion rule.

Really? Where? However, the verse that baffled al-Mufasereen was Q2:256 where your so called Allah says: لااكراه في الدين or no compulsion in religion After all this means that the Meccan pagans should not be forced to become Muslims sword or no sword.right our dear Amin al-Tablighee?

And al-Mufasereen come to the rescue but they have zero clue what لااكراه في الدين really means so as usual they provide us readers with different stories and explanations for this disaster so let us turn to al-Tabari the earliest extant tafsir of the Qur'an and he provides several explanations (which means who was making things up) So let us read:

1. هذه الآية منسوخة، وإنما نـزلت قبل أن يفرض القتال

Oh this verse is ABROGATED! It was revealed before making fighting mandatory!

This means that 2:256 was abrogated by Q9:5 or Ayat al-Sayf

So much for the no compulsion in religion Islam style

What a disaster

2. al-Tabari also provides stories about Muslims whose children were adopted by Jews and about Allah wanting them not to be forced to become Muslims! Mash'allah

أن المرأة من الأنصار كانت تنذر إن عاش ولدها لتجعلنه في أهل الكتاب، فلما جاء الإسلام قالت الأنصار: يا رسول الله ألا نكره أولادنا الذين هم في يهود على الإسلام، فإنا إنما جعلناهم فيها ونحن نرى أن اليهودية أفضل الأديان؟ فلما إذ جاء الله بالإسلام، (75) .
أفلا نكرههم على الإسلام؟ فأنـزل الله تعالى ذكره: " لا إكراه في الدين قد تبين الرشد من الغي"

So this la Ikrah fi al-deen was not about blanket tolerance of Islam for other religions but about a specific case of the Ansar's children adopted by Jews! It does not apply to for example your Hindu ancestors who were brutalized by the Muslim invaders of India

3. And as usual there is another fable of children of a member of al-Ansar that converted to Christianity and Allah declaring his la Ikrah fi al-deen

كان له ابنان، فقدم تجار من الشام إلى المدينة يحملون الزيت. فلما باعوا وأرادوا أن يرجعوا أتاهم ابنا أبي الحصين، فدعوهما إلى النصرانية، فتنصرا فرجعا إلى الشام معهم. فأتى أبوهما إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقال (70) إن ابني تنصرا وخرجا، فأطلبهما؟ فقال: " لا إكراه في الدين "

You see our dear Amin al-mufasereen were making things up and this is called a case of تبرير or trying to justify the absurd

The real disaster here is if there was indeed no compulsion in religion then the Meccan pagans should not have be forced to convert to the religion of Muhammad that they detested Right our dear Amin?

>They say everyone is free to believe or disbelieve,

Then why did the God of Muhammad threaten the Meccan pagans that they will be killed by the sword unless they become Muslims? And why did Mahmud of Ghazni quote Ayat al-Sayf as his reason for murdering millions of your Hindu ancestors?

>There is no compulsion in religion and so on.

So much for the bogus Islamic "no compulsion in religion"

Oh the Arabic? You can ask your Mullah if he knows Arabic to translate it for you

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