[quote]Gkhan wrote:
Aleksandr wrote:
A person that read the next post I made. Which, it seems, is more than you can say!
Hey, I respond as I read.[/quote]
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
Aleksandr wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
I donāt think that I ought to imitate the prophet.
Doesnāt the Qurāan say heās an excellent example of conduct?
http://quranicteachings.co.uk/uswa-e-hasana.htm
But the historical context is useful for interpreting.
Good, so when it discusses under what circumstances itās permissible to wage jihad, weāre allowed to discuss it. This is where we had our feud over Surah 2. I argued that the historical context and later revelation from Mohammed informed the interpretation of Surah 2, just as Jalalayn and Kathir did. You had a huge problem with that.
The issue was how you ignored several verses from the second surah, which forbid acting as an aggressor, and mandate ending hostilities when your enemy stops attacking you.
On the surface, it would appear so. But Muslims have a different definition of what constitutes aggression, do they not? Shirk is considered aggression. According to Bukhari ( http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.650 ), Surah 9 was revealed after Surah 2. Since Allah is free to replace older commands with newer and better ones, 9:5 and 9:29 appear to inform the understanding of Surah 2, at least according to respected Quranāic commentators like Jalalayn and Ibn Kathir. Mohammed was not engaged in a defensive conflict in Surah 9 - he picked a fight with the Byzantines.
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Responding would take a considerable amount of reading. Iām a few weeks out from comps, and getting into this right now would no longer be an amusing distraction, it would be annoying and overly time-consuming.