Is the Quran Hate Propaganda? The Quran Says that Non-Muslims Should Not be Taken as Friends Given that Allah hates non-Muslims to the extent that he would prevent them from knowing the truth, cause them to err and then condemn them to eternal torture for their unbelief and misdeeds, it would make little sense if he intended Muslims to treat unbelievers by the same standards that they treat each other here on earth. The Quran says that no true Muslim would ever love anyone who resists Islam, even if it is a family member: Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. (58:22) There are at least nine places in the Quran where believers are warned not to befriend non-Muslims: O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof against yourselves? (4:144) In fact, anyone who does take a non-Muslim as a friend could be accused of being an unbeliever as well: O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk. (5:51) Note that Christians, according to the Quran, are included in the ranks of unbelievers: They indeed have disbelieved who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary (5:17) Muhammad said that unbelievers have it out for Muslims. They may appear harmless or friendly, but, in reality, they harbor corruption and evil intentions: O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse (3:118) For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies (4:101) As for them, they are but plotting a scheme (86:15) Those outside of Islam are really helpers of evil against Allah: The Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord! (25:55) The Quran says that hostility and hate will exist between Muslims and infidels for ever until the latter believe in Allah alone. (60:4) Instead of befriending non-Muslims, the Quran encourages hostility. Muslims are ordered to fight unbelievers: O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. (9:123) The Quran tells Muslims that they will spend eternity laughing at unbelievers (83:34) and mocking their suffering as they are tortured in Hell: And the dwellers of the garden will call out to the inmates of the fire: Surely we have found what our Lord promised us to be true; have you too found what your Lord promised to be true? They will say: Yes. Then a crier will cry out among them that the curse of Allah is on the unjust. (7:44) – Muhammad got an early start on this by personally mocking his dead enemies following the Battle of Badr (Ibn Ishaq 454) One does not befriend those over whose suffering they will later rejoice, nor does it make any sense that Muslims would befriend those whom the Quran labels enemies of Allah by virtue of their unbelief.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 02:18:41 +0000
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