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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I love Srilanka" data-source="post: 7713239" data-attributes="member: 244944">I hope you need a direct words which says islam is not violence, anyway I would like to give you the sequence and circumstances of versus in which it was revealed.this will help you to understand and clarify your questions. please read the below.In the previous ayahs,(refer 2:213,214) we saw Allah (swt) preparing the Muslim Ummah for carrying his Message to mankind. Allah (swt) reminded them how the effort to carry this Message to mankind was a struggle that had existed since the dawn of time. It was for this purpose that Allah (swt) had sent all of the prophets and messengers. Allah (swt) also reminded the Muslims how they would have be patient and steadfast because the role of carrying this Message required the nation that bears this responsibility to go through severe test and trials. Only those who demonstrate patience have a chance of their actions being accepted by Allah (swt). Only those who show patience have a hope of getting the Help of Allah (swt). Not only is it required to show patience and steadfastness through trials and difficulties, but the mission of carrying this Message also requires sacrifice. One of these sacrifices was that of wealth and resources. So in this ayah, Allah (swt) teaches us how we should be willing to part with our wealth if we are among those who would carry this Message to mankind. At the time of the Prophet (saw), many of the Muslims were ready and willing to sacrifice their wealth to gain the Pleasure of Allah (swt), but they were unsure as to who was the most deserving of their wealth. They wanted to give their money in the way of Allah (swt) but they were not sure who to give it to. Allah (swt) addresses their doubts in this ayah in 2:215 Allah (swt) begins this ayah by saying “They ask you what they can spend”. Here we can see how the Quran is not a static book, but it responds to the questions and situations that arose in the lives of the Muslims. This fact that the Quran is dynamic is a further proof of it’s Miracle because not only is at it the height of Arabic but it is Arabic that came in response to the environment. Allah (swt) responds to the questions of the early Muslims by commanding the Prophet(saw) to “Say “Whatever you spend from good”. Before we look at whom Allah (swt) has commanded us to spend on, notice that Allah (swt) refers to spending from “the good”. Thus the command to spend is from “the good”. So the spending here is not restricted to spending money, but it is anything that you can spend from the “good”. The “good” is what you have that you give up sincerely to seek the Pleasure of Allah (swt). This could be your time, your effort, your food, your home, or your transportation. All that we give up to seek the Pleasure of Allah (swt) is that which is good. Then Allah (swt) lists the groups of people on whom we must spend. Allah (swt) says “it should be for parents, for near relatives, for orphans, for the Miskeen, and for the travelers” A question to ask ourselves here is that why does not Allah (swt) tell us to spend on dawah and jihad? If dawah and jihad are so important then why does Allah (swt) not mention them here? Why does Allah (swt) mention these categories of people first? Is not the mission of this Ummah to spread the Message of Allah (swt) to mankind? So should dawah and jihad have priority when it comes to spending for the way of Allah (swt)? We believe the answer to these questions is that it is most important to take care of those need in our own society first. Muslims care for all mankind but we should first make sure that our own family and our own community is taken care of before we try to help others. So first we should spend on our families, then we should spend on those who are most deprived and most in need in our own community In 2:216 We see in this ayah how Allah (swt) continues to prepare the Muslims for their role of carrying His (swt)’s Message to mankind. In the previous ayah, Allah (swt) reminded the Muslims how it was necessary to spend from their wealth. They should spend on their family, and their relatives and those in need. Allah (swt) also reminded them how He (swt) Knows whatever they spend of good and He (swt) Knows every good action that they do. But this task of carrying the Message of Allah (swt) to mankind not only requires the sacrifice of wealth and resources but it also requires fighting and warfare. It is to this aspect of carrying the Message to mankind that Allah (swt) brings our attention to in this ayah. Allah (swt) begins this ayah by saying “Prescribed for you is fighting”. Allah (swt) obligated fighting for the Muslim community. The fighting that Allah (swt) obligates has only two purposes. Either to defend the Muslims or to remove the obstacles that prevent the Message of Allah (swt) from reaching mankind. These are the only two reasons where it is permissible to fight. Allah (swt) then says “although it is disliked by you”. The vast majority of humans do not like fighting in battle. You have to leave the comfort and safety of your home, you have to part with your family whom you love, you often have to travel and make a journey to an unknown land. You also have to leave your business, your trade or whatever obligation that you may have at home. You also have to make great financial sacrifices So most humans, including you and me, do not like fighting. Allah (swt) acknowledges this fact in this ayah when He (swt) says about fighting that “it is disliked by you”. However in the next part of the ayah Allah  (swt) says “But it may be that you hate a thing and it is good for you and that you like a thing and it is bad for you” We as human beings always need to remind ourselves how limited our knowledge is. We only know about the world what we can sense, we do not know anymore beyond that. Take fighting for example. You probably don’t like fighting, not only for the reasons cited above but also you might think why should we kill other human beings. You do not like the idea of killing another human being. But now suppose that human killed your entire family. Supposing he brutally tortured your father or brother or son and he raped and ravaged your mother or sister or wife or daughter. Would you still be hesitant about killing him after you can see the great evil that he has done? Probably not. You should also realize that the ones whom Allah (swt) is asking you to fight have done a far greater evil than what we described above. They are preventing the Message of Allah (swt) from reaching mankind. Can you even imagine a greater evil than that? You love Allah (swt) the most so you should consider any injustice that is done against Him (swt) to be even worse than any injustice that is done to your own family. These people have done injustice to Allah (swt) by preventing His (swt)’s Message from reaching mankind and by preventing His (swt)’s Law from being implemented in the land. In 2:217 In the previous ayah we saw how Allah (swt) obligated the Muslims to fight in His (swt)’s way. They had to fight to remove the obstacles that were preventing the Message of Allah (swt) from reaching mankind. Allah (swt) told them that they had to fight even though they disliked fighting and Allah (swt) reminded them that He (swt) Knows and they do not know. Now when this ayah was revealed the worst of enemies for the Islamic State at that period was the powerful tribe of Quraysh. They were the Prophet (saw)’s own tribe and they rejected him (saw) even when they were certain that he (saw) was the Messenger of Allah (swt). They were also the most powerful of tribes in the Arabian peninsula and they were also the tribe that benefited the most from the status quo. So they were the ones who were the most opposed to the Message of Allah (swt). Now it so happened that Abdullah’s raiding party intercepted one of the trading caravans belonging to Quraysh. They attacked the caravan, killing one of it’s guards and taking the others as prisoners. They returned with the caravan and their prisoners back to Madinah. However what Abdullah and his companions had failed to realize was that the night on which they had attacked the caravan was a night of the Sacred Month of Rajab during which fighting and killing was prohibited. So by mistake the Muslims had initiated a conflict and spilt blood during a month in which fighting and killing was forbidden. These Muslims had accidentally violated the sanctity of the sacred month. Now the enemies of Islam, including the Quraysh and the Jews, used this opportunity to launch a propaganda campaign against the Muslims. They told everyone how the Prophet (saw) and the Muslims had violated the sanctity of the Sacred Months. They ignored the fact that this incident had happened by mistake and that it was only a few Muslims who had actually done it. The ignored the fact that the majority of the Muslims were not involved in this incident and they did not even support what had been done. They ignored the fact that the Prophet (saw) himself was displeased with the actions of Abdullah and that he (saw) refused to take the booty from the caravan that the Abdullah’s raiding party had captured. The enemies of this Message did not care about all of this, they were only looking for an excuse to attack Islam. They only wanted to portray Islam in a negative light so that they can drive as many people away from it as they could. They kept pressing this point and they made sure the whole world heard it. This was a very difficult episode for all of the Muslims; they were the victims of a vicious propaganda campaign that turned all of the Arabs against them. Everyone was talking about how the Muslims had violated the sanctity of the sacred months. That was when Allah (swt) revealed this ayah Allah (swt) says “They ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it”. Many Muslims were unsure what to do in the situation that they had found themselves in it. They did not know how to react to the propaganda and the lies that were coming from the enemies of Islam as a result of this incident. They wondered if what Abdullah bin Jash and his companions had done was as evil as how the enemies of this Message made it out to be. So they came to the Prophet (saw) and they addressed their concerns to him (saw). Then Allah (swt) revealed this ayah in response to their inquires. Allah (swt) commands the Prophet (saw) to “Say “Fighting in it is a great sin”. First Allah (swt) acknowledges that fighting in the Sacred Month is a great sin. It was Allah (swt) Who had made the months sacred, and anyone who violates the Sacred Months violates what Allah (swt) had made sacred. So we see that Allah (swt) does not absolve Abdullah bin Jash and his companions completely. Allah (swt) shows them how what they had done was indeed a wrong action, and Allah (swt) lets them know that they should have been more careful and made sure that it was not the Sacred Month of Rajab before they initiated any fighting. However in the next part of the ayah Allah (swt) exposes the reality of the situation and He (swt) shows us how the evil ones really were. Allah (swt) says “but to block (people) from the Path of Allah and to do kufr to Him, and (to block people) from the Masjid Al-Haram, and to drive out its people from it, is a greater sin with Allah, and Fitna is worse than killing”. This was what the Quraysh chiefs had done. They had done all of this. So how dare they question the Muslims for committing an impious action when they had done the worst of actions? They had blocked people from the Path of Allah (swt) by preventing this Message from reaching the people. They had made all sorts of lies and fabrications about this Message so that the people thought that this Message was evil without realizing that it was from Allah (swt). They had also made kufr to Allah (swt). Recall how we said that this word means “to cover”. They had covered the Truth of this Message when they knew that it was the Truth They had also done kufr by covering all of the favors and blessings that Allah (swt) had bestowed on them. They also blocked the Muslims from coming to the Masjid Al-Haram for Hajj and Umrah. How evil are a people who would block the true worshippers of Allah (swt) from even coming to the House of Allah (swt)? They had also driven the Prophet (saw) and the Muhajiroon out of Makkah. They also caused great Fitna by forcing many Muslims to abandon their Din through oppression, torture and persecution. This Fitna was far worse than killing because they were driving people away from Allah (swt), What could be a greater evil than turning people away from Allah (swt)? So even though Abdullah bin Jash and his companions had done wrong by fighting in the sacred months, the Quraysh had done much greater wrong and so they had no right whatsoever to criticize the Muslims in any way. Allah (swt) then says “And they will not stop fighting against you until they turn you away from your Din”. This is what they want to prevent at all costs because they want a society in which they can satisfy all of their lusts without any limits and they can exploit all of the people. They want a society in which they can sleep with their neighbor’s wife and they can take exuberant amounts of interest from the people. The only way of life that will outlaw these evil practices is this Din of Islam. The enemies of this Message know this reality about the Din of Allah (swt), so they will do everything they can to prevent it from gaining from supremacy. Furthermore they also know that the strength of Islam does not come from the military capabilities of it’s armies or the resources of it’s lands but rather the strength of Islam come from it’s people. So they will stop at nothing to turn Muslims away from their Din. We can see the same scenario playing out in the world today. The enemies of this Message recognizes that Islam is the only threat remaining to their way of life. So they are trying every way possible to turn Muslims away from their Din. They are making all kinds of false propaganda about this Message. In addition to feeding this propaganda to the non-Muslims they also feed it to the Muslims through the mass media. They make Muslims think that their Din is one of barbarism and terror. They make Muslims think that their Din is outdated and not compatible with a modern society </blockquote>

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