dhimmi no more

Submitted by Sohail (United Kingdom), Nov 21, 2006 at 09:13

Dhimmi here is the translation of 5:116:

And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, Thou I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden. Quran 5:116

As you can see it says that Allah will ask Jesus if he told people to worship him and Mary has Gods and Jesus says of course he didn't. Dhimmi here is what the next verse says:

Never said I to them aught except what Thou didst command me to say, to wit, 'worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord'; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when Thou didst take me up Thou wast the Watcher over them, and Thou art a witness to all things. Quran 5:117

See Jesus says that he only told the people to worship Allah and not him.

Sohail

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