RE: [Quranic Reflection]: the true face of murder
March 14, 2020 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2020 at 5:13 am by WinterHold.)
(March 13, 2020 at 12:10 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
(March 12, 2020 at 4:03 pm)WinterHold Wrote: No. As I posted to The Grand Nudger, an eye is for an eye; I fight you when you come to my backyard carrying a rifle or a gun; looking to fight me.
'An eye for an eye' is from the Jewish Law of Talion: if you cost someone their eye, you are literally supposed to have your own eye gouged out as a punishment for your crime. It's not a guide to self defense.
(March 12, 2020 at 4:34 pm)WinterHold Wrote: No, you called me "a barbarian"; so now I'll apply the "eye for an eye" verse on you and call you an insult similar to barbarian....ummm neanderthal ?
Hey; neanderthal ! move it !!
But if you come attacking me with a bat, expect me to wield one back at you.
Keep it to insults; I'll keep it to insults too ! level it up; and I'll level it up.
eye for an eye. Fair and equal.
As of assuming that I will terrorize you, I say clear your chest a little, I just provided you with my personal constitution. and it says eye for an eye, not eye for a nuclear bomb
The Jews eventually gave up the Law of Talion as the barbarity it was; Isa's example to the Christians was to forgive those who wrong you (not that Christians have a good track record AT ALL of following that example). Trading insults gets us nowhere.
In Islam it is a guide to self defense, another explicit verse stated that:
Quote:Sura 16, The Quran:
https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=en#...rans=en_sh
( 126 ) And if you punish [an enemy, O believers], punish with an equivalent of that with which you were harmed. But if you are patient - it is better for those who are patient.
Trading insults doesn't work at all times, sometimes you need to forgive and let it go.
But sometimes only the returning of the insult -or the attack- works, perhaps armed burglars are an example.
Judaism has similarities to Islam; unlike Christianity -with lesser similarities- which was forged to massive extents by the Romans. Being one religion in my belief -before getting cut between the major famous 2 religions-, Islam is the reform of the two.
