Christian Student Dies from Torture; Muslim seminary implicated in forcible conversion attempt

Christianity Today ^ | 5.12.04

[ambrose]

Pakistani Christian Student Dies from Torture Muslim seminary implicated in forcible conversion attempt.

By Barbara G. Baker, Compass Direct | posted 05/12/2004

Pakistani police in the central province of Punjab reluctantly detained a Muslim cleric last week after a Christian university student savagely beaten and tortured inside a local Islamic madrasseh (seminary) died of his injuries.

Maulvi Ghulam Rasool was put under detention at a Toba Tek Singh police station at midday on May 2, about 10 hours after Javed Anjum, 19, died in a Faisalabad hospital.

Despite repeated attempts to obtain the cleric's release before judicial magistrates, he remains in temporary custody. At Saturday's hearing, the lawyer for Anjum's family persuaded the court to include the victim's deathbed statement recorded by the police on April 26 in the formal First Information Report on the case.

Monday, Judge Qamar Zaman Khoker ordered Rasool kept under physical remand for another two days, to give police until Wednesday to recover further evidence and arrest two other suspects in the crime.

"The police are trying to cooperate with us," a local Christian monitoring the case told Compass, "but the matter is politicized. The government does not want maulvis (Muslim prayer leaders) to be arrested." Maulvi arrests can damage relations with the powerful extremist bloc of the Muslim electorate, the spokesman said.

Last week, Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi admitted that although Muslim religious leaders had been arrested in the past, the current government did not believe in such "extreme" action. "We will have to display sectarian harmony and unity in our ranks to dispel the impression of intolerance about Islam," Elahi was quoted as saying in the May 6 issue of The News.

Rasool has been identified as a prayer leader and watchman at the Jamia Hassan Bin Murtaza Madrasseh in Tarandi village, near Toba Tek Singh, where Anjum was tortured for five days. The madrasseh's principal, Maulvi Ghulam Murtaza Shah, was identified by Anjum as one of his tormentors.

On his hospital deathbed, Anjum declared in his formal statement to the police that he was tortured specifically because he refused to convert to Islam. According to his testimony videotaped by his family, Anjum had been seized by people from the madrasseh when he stopped to get a drink of water from the school's water tap.

When they learned he was a Christian, they pressured him "from night until morning" to convert to Islam. When he resisted, he said, he was subjected to barbaric forms of torture.

His abuse included repeated electric shocks to his ears, a broken right arm and fingers, some of his fingernails pulled out, skin burns, severe beatings on his feet, and serious injuries to his kidneys and bladder. Reportedly 26 wounds were found on his body in the official post mortem report issued May 6.

Anjum said he was finally forced under torture to repeat the words of the Muslim creed, an act which according to Islamic law constitutes conversion to Islam. But he told his family he had not renounced his Christian faith.

In his third year of undergraduate studies in commerce at Quetta's Government College, Anjum was the third of six children.

He disappeared on April 17 while traveling from Toba Tek Singh to his grandfather's home in Gojra. His father came quickly from Quetta to report him missing to local police, placing a notice on cable TV and searching the area.

On April 22, madrasseh representatives took Anjum to the police, claiming they had caught him trying to steal their water pump. But his condition was so critical that police refused to take him into custody, asking his family to take him to a local hospital.

Within two days, both of the youth's kidneys were failing, and local doctors ordered him transferred to Faisalabad's Allied Hospital. Despite repeated dialysis treatments and intensive care, he died on May 2, 11 days after he was hospitalized.

According to an April 30 report in Dawn newspaper, the madrasseh's principal told a district official that Anjum was a drug addict, and that he had confessed to stealing in order to buy his narcotics.

When an investigative team from Lahore's Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement visited the Toba Tek Singh police station the day after Anjum's death, head constable Mohammad Anwar ul-Haq declared that the accused attackers "had not beaten him with the intention to kill him."

Since Anjum had gone to the madrasseh "intentionally with the motive of theft" and the madrasseh staff had caught him in the act, the constable reasoned, "It was God's will that he had to die this way."

"This whole atmosphere of intolerance [against non-Muslims] is being created by the curriculum," a Christian cleric who attended Anjum's funeral told Compass. "We've just made a study on the latest books issued by the government, and they are more Islamist, more fanatical, than before."

For the past two years, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has declared that Islamic schools fomenting divisive "sectarian" teachings would be forced to revise their courses or face closure.

Yesterday Religious Affairs Minister Mohammed Ejaz ul-Haq declared at a madrasseh ceremony in Taxila that "Western propaganda against madrassehs is baseless and it must be countered." Quoted in Monday's Daily Times newspaper, ul-Haq claimed that the "erroneous" textbooks accused of promoting intolerance and violence among madrasseh students had been removed from the market, and that those who prepared them would be tried and punished.

[Brellium]

Koran 2:257 "Let there be no compulsion in religion"

Koran 5:48 "To every one have We given a law and a way...made And if Allah had pleased, he would have them as one people. But he hath done otherwise, that He might try you in that which He hath severally given unto you; wherefore press forward in good works. Unto God shall ye return, and He will tell you that concerning which ye disagree."

The problem is not Islam, but rather the clerics and the mullahs.

27:20
But these ill-omened owls have done a wrong,
And learned to sing as the white falcon sings.
And what of Sheba's message that the lapwing brings
If the bittern learn to sing the lapwing's song?

[ambrose]

http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html

A few excerpts from the Quran/Koran:

[2.193] And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah

[4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

[4.95] The holders back from among the believers, not having any injury, and those who strive hard in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal

[4.144] O you who believe! do not take the unbelievers for friends rather than the believers; do you desire that you should give to Allah a manifest proof against yourselves?

[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

[8.39] And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.

[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[9.11] But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith

[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

[9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!

[9.33] He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse.

[9.123] O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).

[jnarcus]

WRONG!!! Islam means submission It is born of violence and it will die in violence. This is the most evil thinking that man has ever come up with. Stop trying to make it seem as if Islam has any moderates As far as I can tell all they have are people who say "well yes but....and then there is Israel and the occupiers..etcetc" What a boat load. This is not a religion of peace but rather of death. Time to start telling the whole truth and calling evil for what it really is evil

[A6M3]

Thanks for doing your part to rip the mask off of islam and exposing it for what it really is, an evil satanic force on the earth, headed not by G-d, but by satan.

[Brellium]

We can play this quote game all night, I just made a fresh pot of coffee.

Qur'an 39:12
"Shall they who have knowledge and they who have it not, be treated alike?"

Qur'an 5:85
"Thou shalt certainly find those to be nearest in affection to the believers, who say, 'We are Christians'."

Qur'an 16:124
"Follow the religion of Abraham, the sound in faith."

Qur'an 9:33
"Fain would they put out God's light with their mouths: but God hath willed to perfect His light, albeit the infidels abhor it."

3:110
"And they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is unjust, and speed on in good works. These are of the righteous."

3:100
"that there may be among you a people who invite to the good, and enjoin the just, and forbid the wrong. These are they with whom it shall be well.

16:92
"Verily, God enjoineth justice and the doing of good ... and He forbeth wickedness and oporession. He warnedth you that haply ye may be mindful."

7:198
"Make due allowances; and enjoin what is just, and withdraw from the ignorant."

3:128
"...who master their anger and forgive others! God loveth the doers of good."

2:172
"There is no righteousness in turning your faces toward the East or the West, but he is righteous who believeth in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the Scriptures, and the Prophets; who for the love of God disburseth his wealth to his kindred, and to orphans, and the needy and the wayfarer, and those who ask, and for ransom; who observeth prayer, and payeth the legal alms, and who is of those who erform their covenant when they have convenanted, and are paitent under ills and hardships, and in the time of trouble: these are they who are just, and these are they who fear the Lord."

[Texasforever]

You are in the wrong forum in the wrong week to apologize for Islam.

[Brellium]

As I said before, the problem lies within Islam, but is not Islam.

The Imam Ali "And one day Islam shall be like an overturned pot, with her contents spilt out for all to see."

It is the clerics and the mullahs who sully the religion and pursue their own petty agendas ahead of that which is Gods.

[ambrose]

 

The Koran’s 150 Jihad Verses

Compiled by Yoel Natan

www.angelfire.com/moon/yoelnatan/koranwarpassages.htm

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[Footnotes]

 

      Each of the 150 verses in this list was selected based on how clearly and directly it spoke about Jihad, at least when considered in its immediate context. Most of the listed passages mention a military expedition, fighting, or distributing war spoils. Verses NOT generally listed are those that speak about aspects of Jihad other than the raiding, fighting and looting, for example:

Z      Muhammad’s poor opinion of those who did not go on Jihad, even though they were able-bodied and able financially (for instance, some verses in K 009:081-096), and

Z      The heavenly rewards for Jihadists.

Such omitted verses can readily be found in proximity to the Jihad verses listed below.

 

I. Horizontal List of Verses II. Vertical List of Verses

III. Excerpts of Verses IV. Full-text of Verses (With Bolding)

 

I. Horizontal List of Verses

 

Ch.	The Koran’s 150 Jihad Verses	# per Sura	Running Count
002	178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244	10	10
003	121-126, 140-141, 146, 152-157, 165-167, 169, 172-173, 195	22	32
004	071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095, 100, 102, 104	15	47
005	033, 035, 082	3	50
008	001, 005, 007, 009, 012, 015-017, 039-048, 057-060, 065-075	33	83
009	005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029, 036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083, 086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123	27	110
016	110	1	111
022	039, 058, 078	3	114
024	053, 055	2	116
025	052	1	117
029	006, 069	2	119
033	015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050	8	127
047	004, 020	2	129
048	015-017, 022, 024	5	134
049	015	1	135
059	002, 005-008, 014	6	141
060	009	1	142
061	004, 011, 013	3	145
063	004	1	146
064	014	1	147
066	009	1	148
073	020	1	149
076	008	1	150

 

II. Vertical List of Verses

 

The Koran’s 150 Jihad Verses:

1	2:178	26	3:165	51	8:01	76	8:68	101	09:073	126	33:27
2	2:179	27	3:166	52	8:05	77	8:69	102	09:081	127	33:50
3	2:190	28	3:167	53	8:07	78	8:70	103	09:083	128	47:04
4	2:191	29	3:169	54	8:09	79	8:71	104	09:086	129	47:20
5	2:193	30	3:172	55	8:12	80	8:72	105	09:088	130	48:15
6	2:194	31	3:173	56	8:15	81	8:73	106	09:092	131	48:16
7	2:216	32	3:195	57	8:16	82	8:74	107	09:111	132	48:17
8	2:217	33	4:071	58	8:17	83	8:75	108	09:120	133	48:22
9	2:218	34	4:072	59	8:39	84	9:05	109	09:122	134	48:24
10	2:244	35	4:074	60	8:40	85	9:12	110	09:123	135	49:15
11	3:121	36	4:075	61	8:41	86	9:13	111	16:110	136	59:02
12	3:122	37	4:076	62	8:42	87	9:14	112	22:039	137	59:05
13	3:123	38	4:077	63	8:43	88	9:16	113	22:058	138	59:06
14	3:124	39	4:084	64	8:44	89	9:19	114	22:078	139	59:07
15	3:125	40	4:089	65	8:45	90	9:20	115	24:053	140	59:08
16	3:126	41	4:090	66	8:46	91	9:24	116	24:055	141	59:14
17	3:140	42	4:091	67	8:47	92	9:25	117	25:052	142	60:09
18	3:141	43	4:094	68	8:48	93	9:26	118	29:006	143	61:04
19	3:146	44	4:095	69	8:57	94	9:29	119	29:069	144	61:11
20	3:152	45	4:100	70	8:58	95	9:36	120	33:015	145	61:13
21	3:153	46	4:102	71	8:59	96	9:38	121	33:018	146	63:04
22	3:154	47	4:104	72	8:60	97	9:39	122	33:020	147	64:14
23	3:155	48	5:033	73	8:65	98	9:41	123	33:023	148	66:09
24	3:156	49	5:035	74	8:66	99	9:44	124	33:025	149	73:20
25	3:157	50	5:082	75	8:67	100	9:52	125	33:026	150	76:08

 

III. Excerpts of Verses

 

The Koran’s 150 Jihad Verses:

Translation used: M. H. Shakir, published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 1983,

unless otherwise indicated.

Set	Count	Citation	Excerpt
1	1+2	2:178-179
[2.178]...retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain... [2.179] ...there is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves.
2	3+4	2:190-191
[2.190] ...fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you...[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
3	5+6	2:193-194
[193]...fight with them...[194]...whoever then acts aggressively against you, inflict injury on him according to the injury he has inflicted on you...
4	7-9	2:216-218
[2.216] Fighting is enjoined on you...[2.217]... fighting in it. Say: Fighting in it is a grave matter...persecution is graver than slaughter... [2.218]...strove hard in the way of Allah…
5	010	2:244	...fight in the way of Allah
6	11-16	3:121-126
[3.121]...to lodge the believers in encampments for war...[3.122] When two parties from among you had determined that they should show cowardice [about Jihad]...[3.123]...Allah did certainly assist you at [the Battle of] Badr...[3.124]...[3.125] Yea! if you remain patient and are on your guard, and they come upon you in a headlong manner, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of the havoc-making angels. [3.126] ...victory is only from Allah...
7	12-18	3:140-141
[3.140] If a wound has afflicted you (at [the Battle of] Uhud), a wound like it has also afflicted the (unbelieving) people; and We bring these days to men by turns, and that Allah may know those who believe and take witnesses from among you...[3.141] ...that He [Allah] may purge those who believe and deprive the unbelievers of blessings.
8	19	3:146
Yusuf Ali: How many of the prophets fought (in Allah’s way) [Jihad], and with them (fought) large bands of godly men? But they never lost heart if they met with disaster in Allah’s way [lost a battle], nor did they weaken (in will) nor give in.
9	20-25	3:152-157
[3.152]...you slew them by His [Allah’s] permission [during a Jihad battle]...[3.153] Pickthall: ...the messenger, in your rear, was calling you (to fight)...that which ye missed [war spoils]...[3.154]...They say: Had we any hand in the affair, we would not have been slain here [in a Jihad battle]. Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained [in a Jihad battle] would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain...[3.155] (As for) those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies met...[3.156] O you who believe! be not like those who disbelieve and say of their brethren when they travel in the earth or engage in fighting: Had they been with us, they would not have died and they would not have been slain...[3.157]...if you are slain in the way of Allah...mercy is better than what they amass [what those who stay home from Jihad receive – no booty on earth and no perks in heaven].
10	26-28	3:165-167
[3.165]...you [Muslims] had certainly afflicted (the unbelievers) with twice as much [in a Jihad battle]...[3.166]...when the two armies met ([the Battle of] Uhud)...[3.167]...Come, fight in Allah’s way, or defend yourselves...If we knew fighting, we would certainly have followed you...
11	29	3:169
...reckon not those who are killed in Allah’s way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are provided sustenance from their Lord [meaning they are enjoying their 72 virgins in heaven];
12	30+31	3:172-173
[3.172] (As for) those who responded (at [the Battle of] Uhud) to the call of Allah and the Apostle after a wound had befallen them...shall have a great reward.
13	32	3:195
...who fought and were slain...I will most certainly make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better reward.
14	33+34	4:071-072
[4.71] ...go forth in detachments or go forth in a body [to war]. [4.72] ...hang back [from Jihad] ...not present with them [in Jihad].
15	35-38	4:074-077
[4.74] Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward. [4.75]...fight in the way of Allah... [4.76] Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Satan...[4.77] ...when fighting is prescribed for them... Our Lord! why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? ...
16	39	4:084
Fight then in Allah’s way...rouse the believers to ardor maybe Allah will restrain the fighting of those who disbelieve...
17	40-42	4:089-091
[4.89] ...if they turn back [to their homes], then seize them and kill them wherever you find them... [4.90] Allah has not given you a way against them [Allah supposedly does not allow Muslims to fight people friendly to Muslims]. [4.91]...seize them and kill them wherever you find them...
18	43+44	4:094-095
[4.94]...when you go to war in Allah's way... [4.95] ...those who strive hard [Jihad] in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal...Allah shall grant to the strivers [i.e., Jihadist] above the holders back a mighty reward.
19	45	4:100
...whoever flies in Allah's way [forsakes his home to fight in Jihad], he will find in the earth many a place of refuge and abundant resources, and whoever goes forth from his house flying to Allah and His Apostle, and then death overtakes him [in Jihad], his reward is indeed with Allah...
20	46	4:102
...let them take their arms...let them take their precautions and their arms...there is no blame on you, if you are annoyed with rain or if you are sick, that you lay down your arms...
21	47	4:104
...be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy...
22	48	5:033
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned [Pickthall and Yusuf Ali have “exiled” rather than “imprisoned”]
23	49	5:035
...strive hard [at Jihad] in His way that you may be successful.
24	50	5:082
...you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews [compare with “whenever Jews kindle fire for war, Allah [Muslims] puts it out” (K 005:064)] and those who are polytheists [while they are converted to Islam on pain of death]...
25	51	8:001
Pickthall: ...the spoils of war...The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger
26	52	8:005
Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your house with the truth, though a party of the believers were surely averse;
27	53	8:007
...Allah promised you one of the two (enemy) parties, that it should be yours: Ye wished that the one unarmed should be yours, but Allah willed to justify the Truth according to His words and to cut off the roots of the Unbelievers.
28	54	8:009
...I will assist you [in Jihad] with a thousand of the angels following one another [see 008:012].
29	55	8:012
...make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
30	56-58	8:015-017
[8.15] ...when you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, then turn not your backs to them. [8.16] ...for the sake of fighting... [8.17] So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them, and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Allah Who smote [Allah gets the credit for Jihad]...
31	59-68	8:039-048
[8.39] Shakir: ...fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah... [8.40] Yusuf Ali: If they [unbelievers] refuse [to stop fighting], be sure that God is your Protector...[8.41] Shakir: ...whatever thing [loot] you gain, a fifth of it is for Allah and for the Apostle...the day on which the two parties met [in a Jihad versus anti-Jihad battle]...[8.42]...Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done, that he who would perish might perish by clear proof [bring success to Muslims engaged in robbing a caravan near Badr against all the odds]...[8.43]...Allah showed them [the Mekkans] to you in your dream as few [fighters]; and if He had shown them [the Mekkans] to you as many [fighters] you would certainly have become weak-hearted [i.e., hearts. See the similar discussion in K 002:249 about how a smaller army can defeat a larger army]...[8.44]...when you met, as few [fighters] in your eyes and He made you to appear little [few fighters] in their eyes, in order that Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done [a Jihad versus anti-Jihad battle brought on by overconfidence in each side]...[8.45]...when you meet a party [in battle], then be firm...[8.46]...obey Allah and His Apostle and do not quarrel for then you will be weak in hearts [demoralized] and your power [to execute Jihad] will depart...[8.47]...be not like those [Mekkans] who came forth from their homes [to fight Muslims]...[8.48]...when the two parties [Muslims versus Mekkans] came in sight of each other he [Satan] turned upon his heels...
32	69-72	8:057-060
Pickthall: [8.57] If thou come on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember. [8.57] Khalifa: When you are betrayed by a group of people, you shall mobilize against them in the same manner. GOD does not love the betrayers. [8.59] Shakir: ...let not those who disbelieve think that they shall come in first; surely they will not escape. [8.60] And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Allah knows them; and whatever thing you will spend in Allah’s way [for Jihad]...
33	73-83	8:065-075
[8.65] O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand [in other words, do not understand totalitarian ideologies like Islam]. [8.66] ...if there are a hundred patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a thousand they shall overcome two thousand by Allah's permission... [8.67] It is not fit for a prophet that he should take captives unless he has fought and triumphed in the land; you desire the frail goods [i.e., ransom money] of this world... [8.68] ...ransom... [8.69] Eat then of the lawful and good (things) which you have acquired in war [war spoils]...
34	84	9:005
...slay the idolaters wherever you find them...take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush...
35	85-87	9:012-014
[9.12] ...fight the leaders of unbelief...[9.13] What! will you not fight a people...[9.14] Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a believing people.
36	88	9:016
...those of you who have struggled hard [in Jihad]
37	89+90	9:019-020
[9.19] ...strives hard in Allah’s way?... [9.20]...strove hard [Jihad] in Allah's way with their property and their souls...
38	91-93	9:024-026
[9.24] ...striving in His way [Jihad]:, then wait till Allah brings about His command [to go on Jihad]: ... [9.25] Certainly Allah helped you in many battlefields and on the day of [the Battle of] Hunain, when your great numbers made you vain, ... [9.26] ...chastised those who disbelieved [Muhammad gives credit to angels and Allah for the actions of Jihadists]...
39	94	9:029
Fight those who do not believe in Allah...nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
40	95	9:036
...fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together...
41	96+97	9:038-039
[9.38] ...Go forth in Allah's way [to Jihad]… [9.39] If you do not go forth [to go on Jihad], He will chastise you with a painful chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you [to go on Jihad]...
42	98	9:041
Go forth light [lightly armed] and heavy [heavily armed], and strive hard in Allah’s way [Jihad] with your property and your persons...
43	99	9:044
...striving hard with their property and their persons [Jihad] ...
44	100	9:052
...Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or by our hands...
45	101	9:073
...strive hard [Jihad] against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them...
46	102	9:081
...they were averse from striving in Allah’s way [Jihad] with their property and their persons, and said: Do not go forth [to Jihad] in the heat...
47	103	9:083	... shall you fight an enemy with me [in Jihad]...
48	104	9:086	...strive hard [in Jihad] along with His Apostle
49	105	9:088
...strive hard [in Jihad] with their property and their persons...
50	106	9:092
Yusuf Ali:Nor (is there blame) on those who came to thee to be provided with mounts [saddles on which to go to war], and when thou said, "I can find no mounts for you," they turned back, their eyes streaming with tears of grief that they had no resources wherewith to provide the expenses [to go on Jihad].
51	107	9:111
...they fight in Allah’s way, so they slay and are slain...
52	108	9:120
Yusuf Ali:...whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah [while on a march to Jihad], or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers [invade their territory], or received any injury whatever from an enemy [during a Jihad battle] ...
53	109+110	9:122-123
[9.122] Pickthall:...the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth... [9.123] ...fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness...
54	111	16:110
Yusuf Ali:...who thereafter strive and fight for the faith and patiently persevere...
55	112	22:039
Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made...
56	113	22:058
Sher Ali: ...those who leave their homes for the cause of Allah, and are then slain or die, Allah will, surely, provide for them a goodly provision...
57	114	22:078
...strive hard [in Jihad] in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him...
58	115	24:053
...they would certainly go forth [to Jihad (see K 024:055)]...
59	116	24:055
Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth [as a reward for going on Jihad (see K 024:053)]...
60	117	25:052
Palmer: ...fight strenuously with them in many a strenuous fight.
61	118	29:006
...strives hard [in Jihad], he strives only for his own soul...
62	119	29:069
...(as for) those who strive hard [in Jihad] for Us...
63	120	33:015
Pickthall: ...they had already sworn unto Allah that they would not turn their backs (to the foe) [in Jihad battle]...
64	121	33:018
...they come not to the fight [Jihad] but a little...
65	122	33:020
...they would not fight save a little [in Jihad].
66	123	33:023
Pickthall: ...Some of them [Jihadists] have paid their vow by death (in battle), and some of them still are waiting…
67	124-126	33:25-27
[33.25]...Allah sufficed the believers in fighting… [33.26]...some [Jews] you killed and you took captive another part. [33.27]...He made you heirs to their [Jewish] land and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land which you have not yet trodden…
68	127	33:050
...those [captive women] whom your right hand possesses [i.e., by virtue of the sword used in Jihad] out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war...
69	128	47:004
...when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates...(as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah...
70	129	47:020
[47.20] ...fighting [allusion to Jihad] is mentioned therein ...
71	130-132	48:15-17
[48.15] Pickthall: ...when you set forth to capture booty...[48.16]...You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they submit...[48.17] Pickthall: There is no blame...for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeys Allah and His messenger [by going on Jihad], He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turns back [from Jihad], him will He punish with a painful doom.
72	133	48:022
...if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs...
73	134	48:024
And He [Allah] it is Who held back...your hands from them [in Jihad] in the valley of Mecca...
74	135	49:015
Sale: ...true believers ...employ their substance and their persons in the defense of God’s true religion...
75	136	59:002
...the hands of the believers [i.e. Muslims demolished Jewish homes] ...
76	137-140	59:5-8
Pickthall:[59.5] Whatsoever palm-trees you cut down or left standing on their roots [during a Jihad siege of the Jews at Madina], it was by Allah’s leave, in order that He might confound the evil-livers [Jews]. [59.6] ...that which Allah gave as spoil unto His messenger from them, you urged not any horse or riding-camel for the sake thereof, but Allah gives His messenger lordship over whom He will... [59.7] That which Allah gives as [war] spoil unto His messenger from the people of the townships [Jews], it is for Allah and His messenger...whatsoever [spoils] the messenger gives you, take it...[59.8] ...who seek bounty [war spoils] from Allah...
77	141	59:014
They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified towns or from behind walls...
78	142	60:009
Allah only forbids you respecting those who made war upon you on account of (your) religion [no fraternizing with the enemy]...
79	143	61:004
...Allah loves those who fight in His way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall.
80	144	61:011
...struggle hard in Allah’s way [Jihad] with your property and your lives...
81	145	61:013	...victory [in Jihad] near at hand...
82	146	63:004
...they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back? [This verse speaks of internecine Jihad against Muslims deemed infidels or “hypocrites.”]
83	147	64:014
...surely from among your wives and your children there is an enemy to you; therefore beware of them [collaborators with the enemy, especially if the women were once war spoils]...
84	148	66:009
O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be hard against them...
85	149	73:020	...others who fight in Allah's way...
86	150	76:008
And they [Muslims] give food out of love for Him [Allah] to...the captive [of Jihad] ...

 

IV. Full-text of Verses (With Bolding)

 

The Koran’s 150 Jihad Verses:

Translation used: M. H. Shakir, published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 1983,

unless otherwise indicated.

Set	Count	Citation	Full-Text
1	1+2	2:178-179
[2.178] O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female, but if any remission is made to any one by his (aggrieved) brother, then prosecution (for the bloodwit) should be made according to usage, and payment should be made to him in a good manner; this is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy; so whoever exceeds the limit after this he shall have a painful chastisement. [2.179] And there is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves.
2	3+4	2:190-191
[2.190] And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. [2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
3	5+6	2:193-194
[2.193] And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors. [2.194] The Sacred month for the sacred month and all sacred things are (under the law of) retaliation; whoever then acts aggressively against you, inflict injury on him according to the injury he has inflicted on you and be careful (of your duty) to Allah and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
4	7-9	2:216-218
[2.216] Fighting is enjoined on you, and it is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Allah knows, while you do not know. [2.217] They ask you concerning the sacred month about fighting in it. Say: Fighting in it is a grave matter, and hindering (men) from Allah's way and denying Him, and (hindering men from) the Sacred Mosque and turning its people out of it, are still graver with Allah, and persecution is graver than slaughter; and they will not cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can; and whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies while an unbeliever—these it is whose works shall go for nothing in this world and the hereafter, and they are the inmates of the fire; therein they shall abide. [2.218] Surely those who believed and those who fled (their home) and strove hard in the way of Allah these hope for the mercy of Allah and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
5	010	2:244
And fight in the way of Allah, and know that Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
6	11-16	3:121-126
[3.121] And when you did go forth early in the morning from your family to lodge the believers in encampments for war and Allah is Hearing, Knowing. [3.122] When two parties from among you had determined that they should show cowardice [about Jihad], and Allah was the guardian of them both, and in Allah should the believers trust. [3.123] And Allah did certainly assist you at [the Battle of] Badr when you were weak; be careful of (your duty to) Allah then, that you may give thanks. [3.124] When you said to the believers: Does it not suffice you that your Lord should assist you with three thousand of the angels sent down? [3.125] Yea! if you remain patient and are on your guard, and they come upon you in a headlong manner, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of the havoc-making angels. [3.126] And Allah did not make it but as good news for you, and that your hearts might be at ease thereby, and victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
7	12-18	3:140-141
[3.140] If a wound has afflicted you (at [the Battle of] Uhud), a wound like it has also afflicted the (unbelieving) people; and We bring these days to men by turns, and that Allah may know those who believe and take witnesses from among you; and Allah does not love the unjust. [3.141] And that He [Allah] may purge those who believe and deprive the unbelievers of blessings.
8	19	3:146
Yusuf Ali: How many of the prophets fought (in Allah’s way) [Jihad], and with them (fought) large bands of godly men? But they never lost heart if they met with disaster in Allah’s way [lost a battle], nor did they weaken (in will) nor give in. And Allah loves those who are firm and steadfast [in Jihad].
9	20-25	3:152-157
[3.152] And certainly Allah made good to you His promise when you slew them by His [Allah’s] permission [during a Jihad battle], until when you became weak-hearted and disputed about the affair and disobeyed after He [Allah] had shown you that which you loved; of you were some who desired this world and of you were some who desired the hereafter; then He [Allah] turned you away from them that He might try you; and He has certainly pardoned you, and Allah is Gracious to the believers. [3.153] Pickthall: When ye climbed (the hill) and paid no heed to anyone, while the messenger, in your rear, was calling you (to fight). Therefore He rewarded you grief for (his) grief, that (He might teach) you not to sorrow either for that which ye missed [war spoils] or for that which befell you. Allah is informed of what ye do. [3.154] Then after sorrow He sent down security upon you, a calm coming upon a party of you, and (there was) another party whom their own souls had rendered anxious; they entertained about Allah thoughts of ignorance quite unjustly, saying: We have no hand in the affair. Say: Surely the affair is wholly (in the hands) of Allah. They conceal within their souls what they would not reveal to you. They say: Had we any hand in the affair, we would not have been slain here [in a Jihad battle]. Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained [in a Jihad battle] would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain, and that Allah might test what was in your breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and Allah knows what is in the breasts. [3.155] (As for) those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies met, only the Satan sought to cause them to make a slip on account of some deeds they had done, and certainly Allah has pardoned them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Forbearing. [3.156] O you who believe! be not like those who disbelieve and say of their brethren when they travel in the earth or engage in fighting: Had they been with us, they would not have died and they would not have been slain; so Allah makes this to be an intense regret in their hearts; and Allah gives life and causes death and Allah sees what you do. [3.157] And if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die, certainly forgiveness from Allah and mercy is better than what they amass [what those who stay home from Jihad receive—no booty and no perks in heaven].
10	26-28	3:165-167
[3.165] What! when a misfortune befell you, and you had certainly afflicted (the unbelievers) with twice as much [with Jihad], you began to say: Whence is this? Say: It is from yourselves; surely Allah has power over all things. [3.166] And what befell you on the day when the two armies met ([the Battle of] Uhud) was with Allah's knowledge, and that He might know the believers. [3.167] And that He might know the hypocrites; and it was said to them: Come, fight in Allah's way, or defend yourselves. They said: If we knew fighting, we would certainly have followed you. They were on that day much nearer to unbelief than to belief. They say with their mouths what is not in their hearts, and Allah best knows what they conceal.
11	29	3:169
And reckon not those who are killed in Allah’s way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are provided sustenance from their Lord [meaning they are enjoying their 72 virgins in heaven];
12	30+31	3:172-173
[3.172] (As for) those who responded (at [the Battle of] Uhud) to the call of Allah and the Apostle after a wound had befallen them, those among them who do good (to others) and guard (against evil) shall have a great reward. [3.173] Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against you [in battle], therefore fear them, but this increased their faith, and they said: Allah is sufficient for us and most excellent is the Protector.
13	32	3:195
So their Lord accepted their prayer: That I will not waste the work of a worker among you, whether male or female, the one of you being from the other; they, therefore, who fled and were turned out of their homes and persecuted in My way and who fought and were slain, I will most certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better reward.
14	33+34	4:071-072
[4.71] O you who believe! take your precaution, then go forth in detachments or go forth in a body [to war]. [4.72] And surely among you is he who would certainly hang back [from Jihad]! If then a misfortune befalls you he says: Surely Allah conferred a benefit on me that I was not present with them [in Jihad].
15	35-38	4:074-077
[4.74] Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward. [4.75] And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper. [4.76] Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Satan; surely the strategy of the Satan is weak. [4.77] Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and say: Our Lord! why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? Wherefore didst Thou not grant us a delay to a near end? Say: The provision of this world is short, and the hereafter is better for him who guards (against evil); and you shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone.
16	39	4:084
Fight then in Allah's way; this is not imposed on you except in relation to yourself, and rouse the believers to ardor maybe Allah will restrain the fighting of those who disbelieve and Allah is strongest in prowess and strongest to give an exemplary punishment.
17	40-42	4:089-091
[4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back [to their homes], then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper. [4.90] Except those who reach a people between whom and you there is an alliance, or who come to you, their hearts shrinking from fighting you or fighting their own people; and if Allah had pleased, He would have given them power over you, so that they should have certainly fought you; therefore if they withdraw from you and do not fight you and offer you peace, then Allah has not given you a way against them [Allah supposedly does not allow Muslims to fight people friendly to Muslims]. [4.91] You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given you a clear authority.
18	43+44	4:094-095
[4.94] O you who believe! when you go to war in Allah's way, make investigation, and do not say to any one who offers you peace: You are not a believer. Do you seek goods of this world's life! [Meaning that Muslim ought not say someone is a non-Muslim just to plunder him.] But with Allah there are abundant gains; you too were such before, then Allah conferred a benefit on you; therefore make investigation; surely Allah is aware of what you do. [4.95] The holders back from among the believers, not having any injury, and those who strive hard [Jihad] in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal; Allah has made the strivers with their property and their persons to excel the holders back a (high) degree, and to each (class) Allah has promised good; and Allah shall grant to the strivers [i.e., Jihadist] above the holders back a mighty reward:
19	45	4:100
And whoever flies in Allah's way [forsakes his home to fight in Jihad], he will find in the earth many a place of refuge and abundant resources, and whoever goes forth from his house flying to Allah and His Apostle, and then death overtakes him [in Jihad], his reward is indeed with Allah and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
20	46	4:102
And when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them, let a party of them stand up with you, and let them take their arms; then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear, and let another party who have not prayed come forward and pray with you, and let them take their precautions and their arms; (for) those who disbelieve desire that you may be careless of your arms and your luggage, so that they may then turn upon you with a sudden united attack, and there is no blame on you, if you are annoyed with rain or if you are sick, that you lay down your arms, and take your precautions; surely Allah has prepared a disgraceful chastisement for the unbelievers.
21	47	4:104
And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain, and you hope from Allah what they do not hope; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
22	48	5:033
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned [Pickthall and Yusuf Ali have “exiled” rather than “imprisoned”]; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,
23	49	5:035
O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and seek means of nearness to Him and strive hard [at Jihad] in His way that you may be successful.
24	50	5:082
Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews [compare “ with “whenever Jews kindle fire for war, Allah [Muslims] puts it out” (K 005:064)] and those who are polytheists [while they are converted to Islam on pain of death]…
25	51	8:001
Pickthall: They ask thee (O Muhammad) of the spoils of war. Say: The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger, so keep your duty to Allah, and adjust the matter of your difference, and obey Allah and His messenger, if ye are (true) believers.
26	52	8:005
Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your house with the truth, though a party of the believers were surely averse;
27	53	8:007
Yusuf Ali: Behold! Allah promised you one of the two (enemy) parties, that it should be yours: Ye wished that the one unarmed should be yours, but Allah willed to justify the Truth according to His words and to cut off the roots of the Unbelievers;
28	54	8:009
When you sought aid from your Lord [at the Battle of Badr], so He answered you: I will assist you [in Jihad] with a thousand of the angels following one another [see 008:012].
29	55	8:012
When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
30	56-58	8:015-017
[8.15] O you who believe! when you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, then turn not your backs to them. [8.16] And whoever shall turn his back to them on that day—unless he turn aside for the sake of fighting or withdraws to a company—then he, indeed, becomes deserving of Allah's wrath, and his abode is hell; and an evil destination shall it be. [8.17] So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them, and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Allah Who smote [Allah gets the credit for Jihad], and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
31	59-68	8:039-048
[8.39] Shakir: And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do. [8.40] Yusuf Ali: If they [unbelievers] refuse [to stop fighting], be sure that God is your Protector—the best to protect and the best to help. [8.41] Shakir: And know that whatever thing [loot] you gain, a fifth of it is for Allah and for the Apostle and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if you believe in Allah and in that which We revealed to Our servant, on the day of distinction, the day on which the two parties met [in a Jihad versus anti-Jihad battle]; and Allah has power over all things. [8.42] When you were on the nearer side (of the valley) and they were on the farthest side, while the caravan was in a lower place than you [the Makkan caravan the Muslims robbed]; and if you had mutually made an appointment, you would certainly have broken away from the appointment, but—in order that Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done, that he who would perish might perish by clear proof [bring success to Muslims engaged in robbing a caravan near Badr against all the odds], and he who would live might live by clear proof; and most surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing; [8.43] When Allah showed them [the Makkans] to you in your dream as few [fighters]; and if He had shown them [the Makkans] to you as many [fighters] you would certainly have become weak-hearted [i.e., hearts. See the similar discussion in K 002:249 about how a smaller army can defeat a larger army] and you would have disputed about the matter, but Allah saved (you); surely He is the Knower of what is in the breasts. [8.44] And when He showed them to you, when you met, as few [fighters] in your eyes and He made you to appear little [few fighters] in their eyes, in order that Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done [a Jihad versus anti-Jihad battle brought on by overconfidence in each side], and to Allah are all affairs returned. [8.45] O you who believe! when you meet a party [in battle], then be firm, and remember Allah much, that you may be successful. [8.46] And obey Allah and His Apostle and do not quarrel for then you will be weak in hearts [demoralized] and your power [to execute Jihad] will depart, and be patient; surely Allah is with the patient. [8.47] And be not like those [Makkans] who came forth from their homes [to fight Muslims] in great exultation and to be seen of men, and (who) turn away from the way of Allah, and Allah comprehends what they do. [8.48] And when the Satan made their works fair seeming to them, and [Satan] said [to the Makkans]: No one can overcome you this day, and surely I [Satan] am your protector: but when the two parties [Muslims versus Makkans] came in sight of each other he [Satan] turned upon his heels, and [Satan] said: Surely I am clear of you [the Makkans], surely I see what you do not see [Allah’s angels], surely I fear Allah; and Allah is severe in requiting (evil).
32	69-72	8:057-060
Pickthall: [8.57] If thou come on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember. [8.58] Khalifa: When you are betrayed by a group of people, you shall mobilize against them in the same manner. GOD does not love the betrayers. [8.59]Shakir: And let not those who disbelieve think that they shall come in first; surely they will not escape. [8.60] And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Allah knows them; and whatever thing you will spend in Allah’s way [for Jihad], it will be paid back to you fully and you shall not be dealt with unjustly.
33	73-83	8:065-075
[8.65] O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand [in other words, do not understand totalitarian ideologies like Islam]. [8.66] For the present Allah has made light your burden, and He knows that there is weakness in you; so if there are a hundred patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a thousand they shall overcome two thousand by Allah's permission, and Allah is with the patient. [8.67] It is not fit for a prophet that he should take captives unless he has fought and triumphed in the land; you desire the frail goods [i.e., ransom money] of this world, while Allah desires (for you) the hereafter; and Allah is Mighty, Wise. [8.68] Had it not been for a previous ordainment [i.e., the revelation of K 008:067] from God, a severe penalty would have reached you for the (ransom) that you took [or better, “would have taken”]. [8.69] Eat then of the lawful and good (things) which you have acquired in war [war spoils], and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
34	84	9:005
So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
35	85-87	9:012-014
[9.12] And if they break their oaths after their agreement and (openly) revile your religion, then fight the leaders of unbelief—surely their oaths are nothing—so that they may desist. [9.13] What! will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and aimed at the expulsion of the Apostle, and they attacked you first; do you fear them? But Allah is most deserving that you should fear Him, if you are believers. [9.14] Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a believing people.
36	88	9:016
What! do you think that you will be left alone while Allah has not yet known those of you who have struggled hard [Jihad] and have not taken any one as an adherent besides Allah and His Apostle and the believers; and Allah is aware of what you do.
37	89+90	9:019-020
[9.19] What! do you make (one who undertakes) the giving of drink to the pilgrims and the guarding of the Sacred Mosque like him who believes in Allah and the latter day and strives hard in Allah's way [Jihad]? They are not equal with Allah; and Allah does not guide the unjust people. [9.20] Those who believed and fled (their homes), and strove hard [Jihad] in Allah's way with their property and their souls, are much higher in rank with Allah; and those are they who are the achievers (of their objects).
38	91-93	9:024-026
[9.24] Say: If your fathers and your sons and your brethren and your mates and your kinsfolk and property which you have acquired, and the slackness of trade which you fear and dwellings which you like, are dearer to you than Allah and His Apostle and striving in His way [Jihad]:, then wait till Allah brings about His command [to go on Jihad]: and Allah does not guide the transgressing people. [9.25] Certainly Allah helped you in many battlefields and on the day of [the Battle of] Hunain, when your great numbers made you vain, but they availed you nothing and the earth became strait to you notwithstanding its spaciousness, then you turned back retreating. [9.26] Then Allah sent down His tranquility upon His Apostle and upon the believers, and sent down hosts which you did not see, and chastised those who disbelieved [Muhammad gives credit to angels and Allah for the actions of Jihadists], and that is the reward of the unbelievers.
39	94	9:029
Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
40	95	9:036
Surely the number of months with Allah is twelve months in Allah's ordinance since the day when He created the heavens and the earth, of these four being sacred; that is the right reckoning; therefore be not unjust to yourselves regarding them, and fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
41	96+97	9:038-039
[9.38] O you who believe! What (excuse) have you that when it is said to you: Go forth in Allah's way [to Jihad], you should incline heavily to earth; are you contented with this world's life instead of the hereafter? But the provision of this world's life compared with the hereafter is but little. [9.38] If you do not go forth [to go on Jihad], He will chastise you with a painful chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you [to go on Jihad], and you will do Him no harm; and Allah has power over all things.
42	98	9:041
Go forth lightly [lightly armed] and heavy [heavily armed], and strive hard in Allah's way [Jihad] with your property and your persons; this is better for you, if you know.
43	99	9:044
They do not ask leave of you who believe in Allah and the latter day (to stay away) from striving hard with their property and their persons [Jihad], and Allah knows those who guard (against evil).
44	100	9:052
Say: Do you await for us but one of two most excellent things? And we await for you that Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or by our hands. So wait; we too will wait with you.
45	101	9:073
O Prophet! strive hard [Jihad] against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.
46	102	9:081
Those who were left behind were glad on account of their sitting behind Allah's Apostle and they were averse from striving m Allah's way [Jihad] with their property and their persons, and said: Do not go forth [to Jihad] in the heat. Say: The fire of hell is much severe in heat. Would that they understood (it).
47	103	9:083
Therefore if Allah brings you back to a party of them and then they ask your permission to go forth, say: By no means shall you ever go forth with me and by no means shall you fight an enemy with me [in Jihad]; surely you chose to sit the first time, therefore sit (now) with those who remain behind.
48	104	9:086
And whenever a chapter is revealed, saying: Believe in Allah and strive hard [in Jihad] along with His Apostle, those having ampleness of means ask permission of you and say: Leave us (behind), that we may be with those who sit.
49	105	9:088
But the Apostle and those who believe with him strive hard [in Jihad] with their property and their persons; and these it is who shall have the good things and these it is who shall be successful.
50	106	9:092
Yusuf Ali: Nor (is there blame) on those who came to thee to be provided with mounts [saddles on which to go to war], and when thou said, "I can find no mounts for you," they turned back, their eyes streaming with tears of grief that they had no resources wherewith to provide the expenses [to go on Jihad].
51	107	9:111
Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.
52	108	9:120
Yusuf Ali: It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighborhood, to refuse to follow Allah's Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah [while on a march to Jihad], or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers [invade their territory], or received any injury whatever from an enemy [during a Jihad battle]: for Allah suffers not the reward to be lost of those who do good;
53	109+110	9:122-123
[9.122] Pickthall: And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may gain sound knowledge in religion, and that they may warn their folk when they return to them, so that they may beware. [9.123] O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
54	111	16:110
Yusuf Ali: But verily thy Lord,- to those who leave their homes after trials and persecutions,- and who thereafter strive and fight for the faith and patiently persevere,- Thy Lord, after all this is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
55	112	22:039
Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed, and most surely Allah is well able to assist them;
56	113	22:058
Sher Ali: And those who leave their homes for the cause of Allah, and are then slain or die, Allah will, surely, provide for them a goodly provision. And, surely, Allah is the Best of providers.
57	114	22:078
And strive hard [in Jihad] in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him; He has chosen you and has not laid upon you a hardship in religion; the faith of your father Ibrahim; He named you Muslims before and in this, that the Messenger may be a bearer of witness to you, and you may be bearers of witness to the people; therefore keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and hold fast by Allah; He is your Guardian; how excellent the Guardian and how excellent the Helper!
58	115	24:053
And they swear by Allah with the most energetic of their oaths that if you command them they would certainly go forth [to Jihad (see K 024:055)]. Say: Swear not; reasonable obedience (is desired); surely Allah is aware of what you do.
59	116	24:055
Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth [as a reward for going on Jihad (see K 024:053)] as He made rulers those before them, and that He will most certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and that He will most certainly, after their fear, give them security in exchange; they shall serve Me, not associating aught with Me; and whoever is ungrateful after this, these it is who are the transgressors.
60	117	25:052
Palmer: So obey not the unbelievers and fight strenuously with them in many a strenuous fight.
61	118	29:006
And whoever strives hard [in Jihad], he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds.
62	119	29:069
And (as for) those who strive hard [in Jihad] for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways; and Allah is most surely with the doers of good.
63	120	33:015
Pickthall: And verily they had already sworn unto Allah that they would not turn their backs (to the foe) [in Jihad battle]. An oath to Allah must be answered for.
64	121	33:018
Allah knows indeed those among you who hinder others and those who say to their brethren: Come to us; and they come not to the fight [Jihad] but a little,
65	122	33:020
They think the allies are not gone, and if the allies should come (again) they would fain [gladly] be in the deserts with the desert Arabs asking for news about you, and if they were among you they would not fight save a little [in Jihad].
66	123	33:023
Pickthall: Of the believers are men who are true to that which they covenanted with Allah. Some of them have paid their vow by death (in battle), and some of them still are waiting; and they have not altered in the least.
67	124-126	33:25-27
[33.25] And Allah turned back the unbelievers in their rage; they did not obtain any advantage, and Allah sufficed the believers in fighting; and Allah is Strong, Mighty. [33.26] And He drove down those of the followers of the Book who backed them from their fortresses and He cast awe into their hearts; some [Jews] you killed and you took captive another part. [33.27] And He made you heirs to their [Jewish] land and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land which you have not yet trodden, and Allah has power over all things.
68	127	33:050
O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those [captive women] whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who fled with you; and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her—specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
69	128	47:004
So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.
70	129	47:020
And those who believe say: Why has not a chapter been revealed? But when a decisive chapter is revealed, and fighting [allusion to Jihad] is mentioned therein you see those in whose hearts is a disease look to you with the look of one fainting because of death. Woe to them then!
71	130-132	48:15-17
[48.15] Pickthall: Those [the Bedouin] who were left behind will say, when you set forth to capture booty: Let us go with you. They fain would change the verdict of Allah. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): You shall not go with us. Thus hath Allah said beforehand. Then they will say: You are envious of us. Nay, but they understand not, save a little. [48.16] Say to those of the dwellers of the desert [the Bedouin] who were left behind: You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they submit; then if you obey, Allah will grant you a good reward [booty]; and if you turn back as you turned back before, He will punish you with a painful punishment. [48.17] Pickthall: There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeys Allah and His messenger [by going on Jihad], He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turns back [from Jihad], him will He punish with a painful doom.
72	133	48:022
And if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs, then they would not find any protector or a helper.
73	134	48:024
And He [Allah] it is Who held back their hands from you and your hands from them [in Jihad] in the valley of Mecca after He had given you victory over them; and Allah is Seeing what you do.
74	135	49:015
Sale: Verily the true believers [are] those only who believe in God and his apostle, and afterwards doubt not; and who employ their substance and their persons in the defense of God's true religion: These are they who speak sincerely.
75	136	59:002
He it is Who caused those who disbelieved of the followers of the Book to go forth from their homes at the first banishment you did not think that they would go forth, while they were certain that their fortresses would defend them against Allah; but Allah came to them whence they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts; they demolished their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers [i.e. Muslims demolished Jewish homes]; therefore take a lesson, O you who have eyes!
76	137-140	59:5-8
Pickthall:[59.5] Whatsoever palm-trees you cut—cut down or left standing on their roots [during a Jihad siege of the Jews at Madina], it was by Allah’s leave, in order that He might confound the evil-livers [Jews]. [59.6] And that which Allah gave as spoil unto His messenger from them, you urged not any horse or riding-camel for the sake thereof, but Allah gives His messenger lordship over whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things. [59.7] That which Allah gives as [war] spoil unto His messenger from the people of the townships [Jews], it is for Allah and His messenger and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that it become not a commodity between the rich among you. And whatsoever [spoils] the messenger gives you, take it. And whatsoever he forbids, abstain (from it). And keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is stern in reprisal. [59.8] And (it is) for the poor fugitives who have been driven out from their homes and their belongings, who seek bounty [war spoils] from Allah and help Allah and His messenger. They are the loyal.
77	141	59:014
They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified towns or from behind walls; their fighting between them is severe, you may think them as one body, and their hearts are disunited; that is because they are a people who have no sense.
78	142	60:009
Allah only forbids you respecting those who made war upon you on account of (your) religion [i.e., no fraternizing with the enemy], and drove you forth from your homes and backed up (others) in your expulsion, that you make friends with them, and whoever makes friends with them, these are the unjust.
79	143	61:004
Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall.
80	144	61:011
You shall believe in Allah and His Apostle, and struggle hard in Allah’s way [Jihad] with your property and your lives; that is better for you, did you but know!
81	145	61:013
And yet another (blessing) that you love: help from Allah and a victory [in Jihad] near at hand; and give good news to the believers.
82	146	63:004
And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back? [This verse speaks of internecine Jihad against Muslims deemed infidels or “hypocrites.”]
83	147	64:014
O you who believe! surely from among your wives and your children there is an enemy to you; therefore beware of them [collaborators with the enemy, especially if the women were once war spoils]; and if you pardon and forbear and forgive, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
84	148	66:009
O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be hard against them; and their abode is hell; and evil is the resort.
85	149	73:020
Surely your Lord knows that you pass in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night, and (sometimes) half of it, and (sometimes) a third of it, and (also) a party of those with you; and Allah measures the night and the day. He knows that you are not able to do it, so He has turned to you (mercifully), therefore read what is easy of the Quran. He knows that there must be among you sick, and others who travel in the land seeking of the bounty of Allah, and others who fight in Allah's way, therefore read as much of it as is easy (to you), and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and offer to Allah a goodly gift, and whatever of good you send on beforehand for yourselves, you will find it with Allah; that is best and greatest in reward; and ask forgiveness of Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
86	150	76:008
And they [Muslims] give food out of love for Him [Allah] to the poor and the orphan and the captive [of Jihad]…

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Footnotes:

 

¹ This list was compiled based on the examination of similar lists, the major ones being: 1) Richardson, Don. Secrets of the Koran. Regal, Venture, California 2003, Appendix B, p. 254, “The Koran’s 109 War Passages,” 2) Winn, Craig. “What did Muhammad have to say about...,” prophetofdoom.net, accessed 3 May 2004, and 3) Bailey, Rev. Richard P. “Jihad: The Teaching of Islam From Its Primary Sources – The Quran and Hadith,” www.answering-islam.org/Bailey/jihad.html, accessed 4 May 2004.

 

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³ Various English translations of the Koran can be found online, e.g. at www.quranbrowser.com.

 

⁴ Copyright © 2004 by Yoel Natan. This list may be distributed and printed freely with proper attribution: “Compiled by Yoel Natan, 2004, www.yoel.info.” If you modify this list, please mention Yoel Natan, 2004, www.yoel.info, in a footnote. Thank-you!

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[Brellium]

Well, we've established you can cut and paste.

[ambrose]

Yes, I can do that.

I'd like to see a "moderate" Muslim explain those verses.

There are some fairly harsh verses in the Bible, and I've seen some pretty good explanations for why they are no longer applicable. With the Islamic Jihad verses, all I hear in response is a move to change the subject.

[A6M3]

Mohammed was a thief and a pedophile amongst other things. An evil demonic being, doing satans work on earth.

[Brellium]

I fail to see the point?

Would any explaination change your personal belief in God?

Actually before you answer that one, I'll offer a corollary;

In the Torah it says that anyone who works on the Sabbith should be put to death.

I would be hard pressed to find even an Ultra-Orthadox Jew who would even acculmate to such an idea.

The problems concerning Islam are many and they are all too evident as Ali said they would be. Even the Qur'an says that it is best to walk the good path between the two evils (an alagory to moderation) yet that among many others are forgotten by the clerics and the mullahs. They like the Jews in the time of Christ have moved further to fundamentalism in the assumption that they have fallen behind due to their lack of faithfulness to God. The picture I'm painting through this interpitation implies I believe Islam's future is not all togeather bright for muslims. Irregardless of the constant talk of this being Islam's Century.

I could likely contradict many of the above statements or explain them away but I don't have the time or patience, which seems to be fading more each passing day. I'm sure many are taken out of context, but as I cannot and do not speak Arabic, I cannot say for certain and with the complexity of that language I am unwilling to read any English translation except from all but the most trusted of sources(which sadly there are none).

One the side note, the pedophile charge has particularly annoyed me. Anyone with even a slight knowledge of history will knows that durring the ancient times, and up untill the use of sanitation systems in cities and towns the many people could not expect to live beyond the age 30. The protagonists in Romeo and Juliet are thought to have been around the age 15 and it was not unusual for children to mary before that (usually with the daughters first menstration). Marrige is now carried out later in life due to our better understanding of anatomy, increased education, and longer lifetimes (mainly the last two). That implication that Mohammad was a pedophile while true is applying modern relativism to a time which is now beyond us and which we are not fully able to understand. The funny thing is, the reverse seems to be the problem Islam faces currently. I'll also note that I'm quite sure I could apply that same judgement to an ancestor of any reader of this forum or discussion and likely every ancestor from there on back.

One day we will see libralization from Islam, I know quite a bit about it from my faith and know enough to actually hold my own in discussions (and also point out critical flaws) with many clerics.

I also know this child has earned his place near God for holding his belief through this torture, to gain such a place should be the aim of every person on this planet.

[ambrose]

In the Torah it says that anyone who works on the Sabbith should be put to death.

Easy answer... that law has not been in force for nearly 2000 years... No dodging, no interpretations... it simply has not be applicable for 2000 years...

[Brellium]

Then you see my point.

[ambrose]

While many so-called experts like to argue over the language in the Koran...and the meaning of said language respective to its time, I've often found that actions speak louder than words.... I'd like to believe that Muslims are full of love and peace, but their actions say otherwise.

The only sane branch of Islam I've ever heard of were the old Sufis, and it isn't even clear whether they were Muslims. They certainly wouldn't live very long in today's atmosphere of Jihad and Fatwas.

[Brellium]

Ah, yes, the Sufi's, Sufi was a daughter of Muhammad, the Imam Ali (who I spoke of earlier) was her son, and was expected to be the torch bearer after Muhammed passed on.

Shite islam derives from it since they believe only the decendants of Muhammed were the only ones fit to cary on his message.

Sadly it all but died out with the assination of Ali at (I think) Karbala by the Ommyads (or was it the Asimmyads? I can never remember). Some of what I've read, states emphatictly that those two regimes were the beast straight out of the book of revalations.

[ambrose]

The thing is, I've really stopped even seeing Islam as a 'religion' per se... I see it as just another militant ideology like Communism and Nazism.

The clerics and their followers have done nothing to tell me I am wrong.

I sure hope something changes within Islam (a Sufi revival seems like the best shot for this), because if it doesn't, there will likely be a World War.

[neutrino]

The problem is not is-slime, but rather the clerics and the mullahs.

Tut, tut. You neglected to include a sarcasm tag! I've also corrected the spelling of the cult you alluded to. Cheers!