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
[Sidenote: (27) _Ibid_, 24.]
40. "Say, if your father and your sons and your brethren and your
wives, and your kindred and wealth which ye have gained, and
merchandise which ye fear may be unsold, and dwellings wherein ye
may delight be dearer to you than God and His Apostle and
(_Jihadan_) toiling in My cause, then wait until God shall Himself
enter on His work; God guideth not the impious."
Sale ... "Advancement of his religion."
Rodwell ... "Efforts on his path."
Palmer ... "Fighting strenuously."
[Sidenote: (28) _Ibid_, 41.]
41. "March ye forth light and heavy and (_Jahidoo_) toil with your
substance and persons on the way of God. This, if ye knew it, will
be best for you."
Sale ... "Employ your substance and your persons
for the advancement of God's
true religion."
Rodwell ... "Contend with your...."
Palmer ... "Fight strenuously with your wealth
and persons."
[Sidenote: (29) The Immunity, IX, 44.]
42. "They who believe in God and in the last day will not ask leave
to be exempt from (_Yojahadoo_) toiling with their substance and
their persons. But God knoweth them that fear Him."
Sale ... "Employ their substance and their persons
for the advancement of God's
true religion."
Rodwell ... "Contending with their substance and
persons."
Palmer ... "Fighting strenuously."
[Sidenote: (30) _Ibid_, 82.]
43. "They who were left in their homes were delighted behind God's
Apostle and were averse from (_Yojahidoo_) exerting with their
riches and their persons for the cause of God, and said, 'March not
out in the heat.' Say, a fiercer heat will be the fire of hell!
Would that they understood this."
Sale ... "Employ their substance and their persons
for the advancement of God's
true religion."
Rodwell ... "Contending with their riches and their
persons."
Palmer ... "Fighting strenuously with their wealth
and their person."
[Sidenote: (31) _Ibid_, 87.]
44. "Moreover when a Sura was sent down with 'Believe in God, and
(_Jahidoo_) toil in company with his Apostle,' those of them who
are possessed of riches demanded exemption, and said, 'Allow us to
be with those who sit _at home_.'"
Sale ... "Go forth to war."
Rodwell ... "Contend."
Palmer ... "Fight strenuously."
[Sidenote: (32) The Immunity, IX, 89.]
45. "But the Apostle, and those who share his faith (_Jahadoo_)
exerted with their substance and their persons, and these ! good
things await them and these are they who shall be happy."
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