Page 63 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

very affectionate, peaceable and reconciliatory way. The text of the
Constitution of Medina shows that Muslims adopted a protective
attitude toward the rights and laws of the polytheists, and that these
polytheists wished to act alongside Muslims in the defense of Medi-
na. Such an attitude toward the polytheists is not at all surprising
because in the Qur'an, Muslims have a responsibility to protect poly-

theists with whom they have signed agreements, even at the cost of
their own lives. (This will be set out in greater detail in due course.)

In conclusion, the constitution in question is regarded as a highly
important document containing the nucleus of unity and union, love
and affection, friendship and peace, and represents an example of
dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims in general and between
Muslims and Jews in particular. The conception of love and peace of

our Prophet (pbuh) was based on the Qur'an but it is hard at present
to identify a Muslim society capable of living by that same concep-
tion. This is definitive and highly important evidence that the most
democratic constitution in history was written and implemented by

our Prophet (pbuh) and that present-day societies have turned away
from the practices of our Prophet (pbuh) as revealed in the Qur'an.
The subsequent sections of this book therefore need to be

assessed in the light of this information. The practices of today's ped-
dlers of superstition are radically different from the advice of the
Holy Qur'an, which commands that even polytheists be protected
and says that the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) enjoy a

special status for Muslims, and from the practices of the Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh), who always aimed for peace and democracy.
The peddlers of superstition are always looking for evidence for
unceasing conflict in the Qur'an, yet the Qur'an itself always coun-
sels peace. This important fact therefore needs to be borne in mind
while interpreting the verses about war.

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