Believers w/ good works will go to
Paradise (S30:15) |
No one is guaranteed a place in Paradise
(S 6:125,S 7:178-179, S32:13) |
The earlier revelations from Mecca
appear to be more accommodating to Christians and Jews.
- Sura 109: “…To you your religion,
to me my religion.
- Sura 15:45: “We well know what the infidels
say: but you are not to compel them.
- Sura 43:88 -- 89: "and [Mohammed] says, ‘O
Lord, these are people who do not believe. Bear with them and
wish them peace.’ In the end they shall know their folly.”
- Sura 2: 256: "there is no compulsion in
religion.”
- Sura 29:46: “And argue not with the People
of the Scripture …and say: We believe in that which
hath been revealed unto us and revealed unto you; our God and your
God is One, and unto Him we surrender.
- Sura 42:15b: “… Unto us our works
and unto your works; no argument between us and you. Allah
will bring us together, and unto Him is the journeying.”
- Sura 5:82: “ Thou wilt
find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe
the Jews and the idolaters. And thou wilt find the
nearest of them in affection to those who believe those who say:
Lo! Weare Christians. That is because there are among them priests
and monks, and because they are not proud.
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Attitude and tolerance changes toward
Christians and Jews in the later (Meccan) era.
- Sura 22:9: "as for the unbelievers [now refers
to Christians and Jews], for them garments of fire … and shall
be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their
bowels and skin shall be dissolved into and shall be punished with
hot iron rods.
- Sura 47: 4: "when you meet the unbelievers,
strike off their heads: then when you have made wide slaughter among
them, carefully tie up the remaining captives.
- Sura 5: 75: “ they surely are infidels
who say, "God is the third of three"; for there is but
one God: and if they cannot refrain from what they say, a severe
punishment shall light on those who are unbelievers.”
- Sura 5:51: “believers [Muslims], do not
take Jews or Christians as friends. They are but one another's friends.
If anyone of you takes them for his friend, then he is surely one
of them.
- Sura 5:56-64: “all believers, do not
take as your friends the infidels or those who received the scriptures
before you [Jews and Christians] and who scoff and jest at your religion,
but fear God if you are believers. Nor those who when you call them
to prayer, make it and object of mirth and derision. This is only
because they are people who do not understand. Say: “People
of the Book: isn't it true that you hate us simply because we
believe in God, and in a what he has sent down to us, and in what
he has revealed to others before; and because most of you are evildoers?”
- Sura 9:29,30: (S 5:82; 9:30; 22:17)
- Sura 2:61: “wretchedness and baseness were
stamped on them [that is, the Jews] and they drew on themselves the
wrath of God. This was because they disbelieve to the signs of God
and slew the Prophets unjustly, and because they rebelled and transgressed.”
- Sura 4:160,161: “because of the wickedness
of certain Jews, and because they turned many from the way of God,
we have forbidden them good and wholesome foods which were formally
allowed them; and because they have taken to use three, though they
were for betting that: then have cheated others of their possessions,
we have prepared a previoextsus punishment for the infidels among
some.”
- Sura 30:31: “… be not of
those who ascribe partners (Trinity) unto Him”
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Religion of peace
No coersion in faith (S.4:15)
Islam means “submission” in Arabic
Salaam is the word for “Peace” in Arabic
(same root word, different
meaning)
Muslim is one who submits to Allah
Therefore:
Islam is said to be the “way to Peace” because
you can only find peace in submission to God. |
Sura 9:5 - “Fight and slay the pagans (i.e.
infidels) wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them,
and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.”
Sura 5:33 - “The only reward of those who
make war upon Allah and His Messenger and strive after corruption
in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have
their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or exile from the
land.” |