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68 Islam -- A Peaceful Religion?

to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you
owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth be-
longs to Allah and His Apostle.”

[Volume 4, Book 56, Number 662] Narrated Abu Said: The Prophet said, “You will follow the
wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of
a mastigure, you too will go there.” We said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Do you mean the Jews and the
Christians?” He replied, “Whom else?” (Meaning, of course, the Jews and the Christians.)

[Book 019, Number 4366] It has been narrated by ‘Umar b. Al-Khattib that he heard the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian
Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.

[Volume 5, Book 59, Number 611] Narrated Abu Qatada: Allah’s Apostle said, “Whoever pro-
duces a proof that he has killed an infidel, will have the spoils of the killed man.” So I got up to
look for an evidence to prove that I had killed an infidel, but I could not find anyone to bear wit-
ness for me, so I sat down...Allah’s Apostle then got up and gave that (spoils) to me, and I
bought with it, a garden which was the first property I got after embracing Islam.

[Volume 3, Book 29, Number 72] Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle entered Mecca in the
year of its Conquest wearing an Arabian helmet on his head and when the Prophet took it off, a per-
son came and said, “Ibn Khatal is holding the covering of the Ka’ba (taking refuge in the Ka’ba).”
The Prophet said, “Kill him.”

[Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57] Narrated ‘Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to
‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his
place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody
with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s
Apostle, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”’”

[Volume 9, Book 89, Number 271] Narrated Abu Musa: A man embraced Islam and then re-
verted back to Judaism. Mu’adh bin Jabal came and saw the man with Abu Musa. Mu’adh asked,
“What is wrong with this (man)?” Abu Musa replied, “He embraced Islam and then reverted back to
Judaism.” Mu’adh said, “I will not sit down unless you kill him (as it is) the verdict of Allah and
His Apostle.”

[Volume 5, Book 59, Number 425] Narrated Anas: “We are those who have given the Pledge of al-
legiances to Muhammad for to observe Jihad as long as we live.”

[Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25] Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle was asked, “What is the
best deed?” He replied, “To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad).” The questioner then
asked, “What is the next (in goodness)?” He replied, “To participate in Jihad (religious war)
in Allah’s Cause.”

The Berean Voice July-August 2002