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The Sword Verse (Arabic: آية السيف, romanized: ayat as-sayf) is the fifth verse of the ninth surah of the Quran [1] [2] (also written as 9:5). It is a Quranic verse widely cited by critics of Islam to suggest the faith promotes violence against pagans (polytheists, mushrikun) by isolating the portion of the verse "kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them".
Zahiri – views insulting God or Islamic prophets as apostasy. [36] Ja'fari (Shia) – views blasphemy against Islam, the Prophet, or any of the Imams, to be punishable with death, if the blasphemer is a Muslim. [37] In case the blasphemer is a non-Muslim, he is given a chance to convert to Islam, or else killed. [38]
Charles Matthews writes that there is a "large debate about what the Quran commands as regards the "sword verses" and the "peace verses". According to Matthews, "the question of the proper prioritization of these verses, and how they should be understood in relation to one another, has been a central issue for Islamic thinking about war."
In an Islamic context it can refer to spreading corruption on Earth or spreading mischief in a Muslim land, [2] moral corruption against God, [3] or disturbance of the public peace. [ 4 ] The spread of fasad is a major theme in the Quran, and the notion is often contrasted with islah (setting things aright). [ 5 ]
Fear of God and love for the Household of Muhammad; World and its people; al-Qasi'a (lit. ' the abasement '): Warning about Satan, caution against vanity and other vices, his precedence in Islam; Qualities of the God-fearing; Age of Ignorance, the animosity of Arab tribes, the position of hypocrites; Fear of God and details about the Day of ...
Qadariyyah (Arabic: قَدَرِيَّة, romanized: Qadariyya), also Qadarites or Kadarites, from qadar (), meaning "power", [1] [2] was originally a derogatory term designating early Islamic theologians who rejected the concept of predestination in Islam, qadr, and asserted that humans possess absolute free will, making them responsible for their actions, justifying divine punishment and ...
Atheist comedian Pat Condell criticises Islam in his YouTube videos For irreligious former Muslims, see the above subsection "Former Muslims". Theo van Gogh (1957–2004), relative of the world-famous painter Vincent van Gogh , was a Dutch film director who collaborated with Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the short film Submission (2004) and was ...
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 121– 140. Frank, Richard M. (1978). Beings and Their Attributes: The Teaching of the Basrian School of the Mu'tazila in the Classical Period. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-378-8. Gilliot, Claude (2007). "Attributes of God". Encyclopedia of Islam, E3. pp. 176 ...