Mr Dave & Mr x lets reason together on Jihad

Submitted by Babagana Mustapha (Nigeria), Dec 20, 2005 at 07:47

Please Mr. Bushhouse68, know that we muslims are not disputing the meaning of Jihad, but most people give it a wrong meaning. For instance, Mr. X gave his reasons of quiting Islam as this "But after reading the Qur'aan and hadith and history of Mohammad several times i was totaly disapointed and i discovered myself that i wasnt a real muslim in all my life ...a real muslim must be like osama bin laden ....a killer." To my supprise Mr. X claimed that he read the Qur'aan and hadith and history of Mohammad several times, but did not see where Allah said 'but if they (non-muslims) incline to peace, you (muhammad) also incline to it & put your trust in Allah...Even if they intend to decieve you, verily Allah is All-sufficient for you..Q 8:61-62. And the scholars of the Qur'an said there is no word in the whole of the Qur'an that is repeated most like the word As-Sabr ( be patient & persevere). In some places Allah will tell Muhammad to forgive & overlook Q2:109 etc.But Mr X's eyes is only sees the word Qatl (kill).

Mr X also asking some questions like "Why he(Muhammad) was the only one who see revealations in a cave? While all other prophets hear God or angels anywhere !! WHy he must medidate in the cave to hear God and why no one was allowed to enter ? To me, these questions are not intelligent enough, bcos,now if I ask " why did Mary claimed to have encountered with Angels ALONE & concieved Jesus"? Or why did Jesus resurrected without anybody seeing him?
Another Q by Mr. X is "WHy he was the only prophet who used the sword , and sent men to assissinate people who dislike him like a mafia boss( like Ka'ab a jewish poet)"?

But the sholars told us that Moses, David, Solamon etc used sword aganst their enemies. But someone may ask why Jesus never use sword, the answer is bcos of TWO reasons
1)He didn't had strong followers that time & the small he has some have betrayed him.
2)He himself said 'his kindom is not of this world' then why should he use sword?
If you say Muhammad killed Ka'ab, but why did he spare Abdullahi bin Ubay who did worst than Ka'ab? Please find out if you are sinsire. Let me help you with a clue in your findings, that is Why did US strike Iraq & let N. Korea? And also note that Muhammad was a spritual as well as a political leader.

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