Jihad is a religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of the Prophet Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Qur’an and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.
The world is divided into two spheres, Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb. The latter, the Land of Warfare, is a country belonging to infidels which has not been subdued by Islam. The Dar al-Harb becomes the Dar- al Islam, the Land of Islam, upon the promulgation of the edicts of Islam. Thus the totalitarian nature of Islam is nowhere more apparent than in the concept of Jihad, the Holy War, whose ultimate aim is to conquer the entire world and submit it to the one true faith, to the law of Allah. To Islam alone has been granted the truth: there is no possibility of salvation outside it. Muslims must fight and kill in the name of Allah.
We read (IX. 5-6):“Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them”;
IV.76: “Those who believe fight in the cause of God”;
VIII.39-42: “Say to the Infidels: if they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven; but if they return to it, they have already before them the doom of the ancients! Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God’s.”
Those who die fighting for the only true religion, Islam, will be amply rewarded in the life to come:
IV.74: “Let those who fight in the cause of God who barter the life of this world for that which is to come; for whoever fights on God’s path, whether he is killed or triumphs, We will give him a handsome reward.”
What should we make with these further unfortunate verses from the Qur’an:
*Torment to Non-believers->IV.56
*Only Islam Acceptable-> III.85
- No friends from outsiders->III.118
*No friends with Jews, christians->V. 51
- No friends with non believers->IV.144, III.28
- No friends with parents/siblings if not believers->IX.23
- Fight non-believers->IX.123 * Kill non-believers->IV.89
*Anti Jewish verses->V.82
- God a “plotter”->VIII.30
*Killing Idolators->IX.5
- Idolators are unclean just because they are idolator->IX.28
- Forcing non-believers to pay tax->IX.29
- The Torment of Hell->XLIV.43-58
- All except Muslims/Jews/Christians/Sabeans will go to hell->II.62, V.69
- Cast terror in the hearts, smite the neck and cut fingertips of unbelievers->VIII.12
- Smite the neck of unbelievers->XLVII.4
- Severe Punishment for atheists->X.4 ; V.10 ; V.86
- Severe Punishment for non-believers->XXII.19-22 ; LXXII.23, XCVIII.6
*Punishing non-believers of Hereafter->XVII.10
- Punishing for rejecting faith->III.91
- Non believers go to hell->IV.140 ; VII.36 * Partial Believers go to hell too->IV.150-1
- Sadistic punishments->LVI.42-43
- Punishment for apostates->XVI.106 ; III.86-88 ; III.90 ; IV.137.
- Threat of punishement for not going to war->IX.38-39, XLVIII.16
*God making someone more sinful so he can be punished more->III178
*Intentionally preventing unbelievers from knowing the truth->VI.25 ; VI.110
- Intentionally preventing unbelievers from Understanding Quran- >XVII.45-46
- It is God who causes people to err and He punishes them for that- >XVII.97
- God could guide, if he chose to, but did not->VI.35
- Intentionally misguiding those whom he pleases to->XIV.4
- Willfully misguiding some->XVI.93
- God causes human to err->IV.143 ; VII.178
- God deceiving humans->IV.142
