๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐:๐ย โ โ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ก ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒโ
Mohamad Mostafa Nassar
Twitter:@NassarMohamadMR
As I have explained many times before, fighting in Godโs way, does not involve the killing the innocent. These passages always exhort people to fight tyranny, oppression, and persecution. These verses below show the beauty of what โFight in His (Godโs) wayโ means,
Quran 2:190 Fight in the way of God those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors.
2:246 โWould you perhaps refrain from fighting if fighting was prescribed for you?โ They said, โAnd why should we not fight in the cause of Allah when we have been driven out from our homes and from our children?โ But when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned away, except for a few of them. And Allah is Knowing of the wrongdoers.
Quran 4:75 And what is [the matter] with you that you fight not in the cause of God and [for] the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, โOur Lord, take us out of this city of oppressive people and appoint for us from Yourself a protector and appoint for us from Yourself a helper?โ
Commentary
Muhammad Asad
2 I.e, in unison, with their deeds corresponding to their assertions of faith. This moral necessity is further illustrated โ by its opposite โ in the subsequent reference to Moses and the recalcitrant among his followers. [1]
Maulana Mohammad Ali
4a. They had to fight in self-defence; see 2:190, 190a, etc. [2]
Malik Ghulam Farid
3035. Muslims are expected to present a firm, compact and solid front to the forces of evil, under the command of their Leader whom they should give full and unqualified obedience. But a people who seek to become united into a solid and strong community, must possess one code of life, one ideal, one objective and one goal and one programme to achieve that objective. [3]
References:
[1] The Message of The Quran translated and explained by Muhammad Asad page 1169
[2] The Holy Quran Arabic Text with English Translation, Commentary and comprehensive Introduction [Year 2002 Edition] by Maulana Muhammad Ali page 1087
[3] The Holy Qurโan Arabic Text With English Translation & Short Commentary by Malik Ghulam Farid page 1131