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Sadhu

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I dont know from where you got this information.. (any references???)

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The refrence is d Quran. I was quoting from d quran.
...translated by Muhammed Marmaduke Pickhall.

...who was born as a christian, Muhammed William Pickhall, n converted to Islam.
He was a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader. He declared his conversion
to Islam in dramatic fashion after delivering a talk on ‘Islam and Progress' on 29 November 1917,
to the Muslim Literary Society in Notting Hill, West London. He was also involved with the services
of the Woking Muslim Mission in the absence of Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, its founder.

Buit if U hv a problem with his translations I can provide translations by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
whose translation is d most widely circulated English translations of the Qur'an, and had been
distributed and subsidized by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the 20th century.

Anyway, here r some gems from his transtations.


Quran, 9:5
But when the forbidden months Are past, then fight and slay
The Pagans wherever ye find them, And seize them, beleaguer them,
And lie in wait for them In every stratagem (of war);
But if they repent, and establish regular prayers
And practise regular charity, Then open the way for them:
For God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

So U see, d Qur’an clearly proclaims d wen d time is appropriate, Muslims must use force to convert
d unbelievers to Islam.

For d non-Muslims, the alternative to dis is to pay d humiliating protection money (Jizya) or b killed.
Here:

Quran, 9:29
Fight those who believe not In God nor the Last Day,
Nor hold that forbidden Which hath been forbidden
By God and His Apostle, Nor acknowledge the Religion
Of Truth, (even if they are) Of the People of the Book,
Until they pay the Jizya With willing submission,
And feel themselves subdued.


Quran, 9:123
O ye who believe! Fight The Unbelievers who gird you about,
And let them find firmness In you: and know that God Is with those who fear Him.


Quran 9:126
See they not that they Are tried every year Once or twice?
Yet they Turn not in repentance, And they take no heed.


Quran, 8:65
O Apostle! rouse the Believers To the fight. If there are Twenty amongst you,
patient And persevering, they will Vanquish two hundred: if a hundred,
They will vanquish a thousand Of the Unbelievers: for these Are a people without understanding.


SOURCE : The Holy Quram : English Translation (1930) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1875-1936)
The Holy Quran Index

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