NO HATRED TO ANY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY ! QURAN ALFAJR: “114 Hence, who could be more wicked than those who bar the mention of Gods name from [any of] His houses of worship and strive for their ruin, [although] they have no right to enter them save in fear [of God]? For them, in this world, there is ignominy in store; and for them, in the life to come, awesome suffering. 2:115 And Gods is the east and the west: and wherever you turn, there is Gods countenance. Behold, God is infinite, all-knowing. 2:116 And yet some people assert, God has taken unto Himself a son! Limitless is He in His glory! Nay, but His is all that is in the heavens and on earth; all things devoutly obey His will. (2:117) The Originator is He of the heavens and the earth: and when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, Be - and it is. 2:118 AND [only] those who are devoid of knowledge say, Why does God not speak unto us, nor is a [miraculous] sign shown to us? Even thus, like unto what they say, spoke those who lived before their time their hearts are all alike. Indeed, We have made all the signs manifest unto people who are endowed with inner certainty. 2:119 Verily, We have sent thee [O Prophet] with the truth, as a bearer of glad tidings and a Warner: and thou shalt not be held accountable for those who are destined for the blazing fire. 2:120 For, never will the Jews be pleased with thee nor yet the Christians, unless thou follow their own creeds. Say: Behold, Gods guidance is the only true guidance. And, indeed, if thou shouldst follow their errant views after all the knowledge that has come unto thee, thou wouldst have none to protect thee from God, and none to bring thee succour. 2:121 Those unto whom We have vouchsafed the divine writ [and who] follow it as it ought to be followed98- it is they who [truly] believe in it; whereas all who choose to deny its truth - it is they, they who are the losers! THE QURAN ILLUSTRATED 3RD NOVEMBER 2013: “[although] they have no right to enter them save in fear [of God]?”It is one of the fundamental principles of Islam that every religion which has belief in God as its focal point must be accorded full respect, however much one may disagree with its particular tenets. Thus, the Muslims are under an obligation to honour and protect any house of worship dedicated to God, whether it be a mosque or a church or a synagogue (cf. the second paragraph of 22:40); and any attempt to prevent the followers of another faith from worshipping God according to their own lights is condemned by the Quran as a sacrilege. A striking illustration of this principle is forthcoming from the Prophets treatment of the deputation from Christian Najran in the year 10 H. They were given free access to the Prophets mosque, and with his full consent celebrated their religious rites there, although their adoration of Jesus as the son of God and of Mary as the mother of God was fundamentally at variance with Islamic beliefs (see Ibn Sad I/I, 84 f.). “Limitless is He in His glory”, i.e., far from any imperfection such as would be implied in the necessity (or logical possibility) of having progeny either in a literal or a metaphorical sense. The expression subhana - applied exclusively to God - connotes His utter remoteness from any imperfection and any similarity, however tenuous, with any created being or thing. “Spoke those who lived before their time”.i.e., people who were not able to perceive the intrinsic truth of the messages conveyed to them by the prophets, but rather insisted on a miraculous demonstration that those messages really came from God, and thus failed to benefit from them. - This verse obviously connects with verse 108 above and, thus, refers to the objections of the Jews and the Christians to the message of the Quran. “Yea, every one of them claims that he [himself] ought to have been given revelations unfolded!”(74:52) literally:everyone of them wants to be given wide-open scriptures, or scriptures unfolded (i.e., open to everyones understanding): cf. 2:118 - Why does not God speak unto us, nor is a message conveyed to us? - i.e., directly, without the intervention of a prophet. The above is the earliest illustration of the arrogance or false pride to which the Quran so often refers. “Those unto whom We have vouchsafed the divine writ [and who] follow it as it ought to be followed “Or: apply themselves to it with true application - i.e. try to absorb its meaning and to understand its spiritual design.”(Source Muhammad Asad)
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