Page 49 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

on the grounds that God had made killing unlawful. Instead, as
commanded in the verses, they always called the other side to peace,
and when peace proposals were ineffective they left their homes,
lands and cities and moved away.

In the 13 years or so of the Meccan period and the first years of
the Medinan period, believers were still commanded to be patient in
the face of all this torture and injustice and to preach the faith of God

kindly, as revealed in the verse "Call to the way of your Lord with
wisdom and fair admonition, and argue with them in the kindest
way" (Qur'an, 16:125), and no fighting was permitted. Our Prophet
(pbuh) responded as follows to those Muslims who wished to stand
up to the persecution in question:

Fighting is still not permitted. Be patient, God's help is at hand, and
you will be rewarded for your sufferings...

Our Prophet (pbuh) was given permission to engage in self-
defense for himself and his community in the following verses which
were revealed after the migration to Medina:

Permission to fight is given to those who are fought against
because they have been wronged – truly God has the power to
come to their support – those who were expelled from their

homes without any right, merely for saying, "Our Lord is God"…
(Qur'an, 22:39-40)
With these verses, the Muslim community that had been unjust-
ly forced into exile merely for saying "Our Lord is God" started to
make preparations to defend themselves. As explicitly stated in the
verse, a Muslim community "who are fought against because they

have been wronged" are permitted to defend themselves; but they
are not told to attack. Following this verse, Muslims began to defend
themselves and fought back against the ferocious community that

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