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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

What Is Misunderstood about

War in Islam

A Muslim Has a Responsibility to Believe in Every Verse of
the Qur'an, Without Exception

The reason for this heading appearing here is to show the false
nature of claims made by fanatics who seek to add superstition to
Islam and some opponents of Islam, who in turn misuse the unpleas-
ant idea of those fanatics that some verses of the Qur'an are no longer
valid. They cite this verse as supposed evidence for their claims:

Whenever We abrogate an ayat or cause it to be forgotten, We
bring one better than it or equal to it. Do you not know that God
has power over all things? (Qur'an, 2:106)
Those who twist their tongues against the Qur'an have misinter-
preted this verse as evidence to allow them to impose their own
superstition as the faith instead of the Qur'an. They have unwisely

imagined that by misinterpreting this verse, they can invalidate
some verses and even replace them with fabricated hadiths. Some, in
order to legitimize the atrocities they seek to commit, wrongly and
without any basis, maintain that the Qur'an's provisions regarding
compassion, mercy and forgiveness have been abrogated and the

verses about war apply. Some opponents of Islam, on the other hand,
maintain that there are verses about the use of intoxicants or war that
no longer apply and seek to divide Muslims into those who abide by
that and those who do not. Neither of these is correct.

The true interpretation of this verse that the people in question
seek to cite as evidence for their own utterly perverse way of think-

ing is as follows; the Arabic word "ayat" in the term "Whenever We
abrogate an ayat" is singular. The word ayat also means sign or mir-

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