Page 55 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Having made that important point, we shall now examine all
the verses that the peddlers of superstition and opponents of Islam
seek to offer as evidence for the violence perpetrated supposedly in
the name of Islam, and we will refute their errors on the subject one
after the other.

Before looking at these verses, we need to know that all the bat-
tles described in the Qur'an were waged against a particular commu-

nity in that region, and that these special conditions are expressed in
the verses. That community was a polytheistic one, with which an
agreement had been reached. Therefore, all these battles were deter-
mined by the behavior and aggression of the community in question
which had breached the peace and friendship agreements. The vers-
es sent down therefore concern the state of affairs at that time and

describe that specific climate.

In order to better understand this fact, let us look at the defini-
tion of polytheist at the time and the agreements reached with them:

Polytheists with Whom

Agreements Were Made

Although, according to some commentaries of the time, the
word polytheist simply means "those ascribing equals to God," the

term really refers to pagans who worship idols, who explicitly
ascribe equals to God and believe in countless deities and who are
not Muslim, Jewish, Sabaean, Christian or Magian.

While the Qur'an refers to the various religions that existed in
Arabia during the time of the coming of Islam, the polytheists are
always mentioned as a separate group. Looking at the time of our
Prophet (pbuh), although it was made lawful to marry women from

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