Page 43 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Just like the peddlers of superstition, opponents of Islam have
also tried to apply this false interpretation over the verses to a large
number of commandments about Islam. Let us now look at where
these people have gone wrong.

The Mistakes in Differentiating between the
"Meccan Period Muslims" and

"Medinan Period Muslims"

Some opponents of Islam refer to Muslims advocating peace as
"Meccan period Muslims." In their eyes, the time when our Prophet

(pbuh) was in Mecca was a peaceful time of no wars, yet wars sud-
denly started following our Prophet's (pbuh) migration to Medina.
Some people claim, on that basis, that the proponents of war in Islam
recognize only the verses revealed in the Medinan period, while

peace-loving Muslims recognize only the verses from the Meccan
period. That idea is as illogical as it is ignorant.
As we have already seen, the essential precondition for a Mus-

lim to acquire the identity of a Muslim is to believe in all the verses
of the Qur'an, without exception. If someone rejects a single verse,
then he loses the attribute of being a Muslim as described in the
Qur'an. There is therefore no possibility in the eyes of the Qur'an of

someone who says, "I am a Muslim" to discriminate by saying, "I rec-
ognize this verse but not that one."
It is true that there was no fighting in the Meccan period in the

life of our Prophet (pbuh), but that there was fighting in the Medinan
period and that verses were sent down concerning those particular
battles. In order to understand the reason for this we need to under-
stand the difficult conditions in the time of our Prophet (pbuh).

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