Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RS

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/009.qmt.html#009.029

YUSUFALI: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Thanks, but no thanks.


94 posted on 03/13/2006 6:50:22 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies ]


To: Fred Nerks

You do realize, of course, that this is tied to 9:28 where they pushed the unbelievers away from the Mosque at Madina , and 30,31,and 32 where they spell out what they consider the blasphemies that caused it.

You also realize that the fight was to institute a tax to make up for the loss of income caused by them being pushed away.

So it was not fight the unbelievers for not believing, it was fight them for being tax-evaders - they were setting themselves up as the IRS of their time.


101 posted on 03/14/2006 12:30:18 PM PST by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson