A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád': Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and; that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not; Allowed in The Koran - 1885Cherágh Ali
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A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád': Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and; that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not; Allowed in The Koran - 1885
Cherágh Ali
Islam -- Apologetic works; Islam -- Relations; Jihad; War -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Besides this, it is wrong to translate _in kun tum kharajtum Jihadan fi
Sabili_, as "if ye go forth to fight in defence of my religion," or "if
ye go forth to fight on my path," or "if ye go forth fighting
strenuously in my cause." It simply means, "if you have come out
striving in my cause," and the sentence is a complement or correlative
of the verse, meaning, if you have come out of Mecca, striving, or to
strive, in my cause, suffering from exile and undergoing the afflictions
and distresses of living homeless, leaving your family and property
unprotected, and all these pains (_Jihad_) you have taken to please me,
then you should not make friends with my foes and your foes, who do not
believe in the truth which has come to you, and have driven out the
Prophet and yourselves (from Mecca, your home) only for the reason that
you believe in God your Lord.
[Sidenote: (23) The Apartment, XLIX, 15.]
36. "The true believers are those only who believe in God and his
Apostle and afterwards doubt not; and who (_Jahadoo_) strive with
their substance and their persons on the path of God. These are the
sincere."
Sale here translates _Jahadoo_ those "who employ their substance
and their persons in the defence of God's true religions."
Rodwell ... "Contend with their substance and their persons."
Palmer ... "Fight strenuously with their wealth and persons."
See my observations under No. 17, para. 28.
[Sidenote: (24) The Immunity, IX, 16.]
37. "Think not that ye shall be forsaken and that God doth not yet
know those among you who (_Jahadoo_) do their utmost and take none
for their intimate friends besides God and His Apostles and the
faithful. But God is well apprised of your doings."
Sale ... "Fought for his religion."
Rodwell ... "Fought valiantly."
Palmer ... "Fought strenuously."
[Sidenote: (25) _Ibid_, 19.]
38. "Do ye place the giving drink to the pilgrims and the
visitation of the sacred temple on the same level with him who
believeth in God and the last day, and (_Jahada_) taketh pains in
the way of God. They are not held equal by God, and God guideth not
the unrighteous."
Sale ... "Fighteth."
Rodwell ... "Fighteth."
Palmer ... "Is strenuous."
[Sidenote: (26) The Immunity, IX, 20.]
39. "They who have believed and fled their homes and (_Jahadoo_)
toiled with their substance and with their persons on the path of
God are of the highest degree with God, and these are they who
shall enjoy felicity!"
Sale ... "Employ their substance and their
persons in the defence of God's true
religion."
Rodwell ... "And striven with their substance and
with their persons in the path of
God."
Palmer ... "Been strenuous in the way of God
with their wealth and their persons."
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