[Quranic Reflection]: the true face of murder

[Mister Agenda]

In Islam it is a guide to self defense, another explicit verse stated that:

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.

Note that it's talking about punishment, not defense. And apparently it's better for those who are patient but you shouldn't feel like you're being advised to be patient....

Returning an attack, that is, defending yourself, isn't an eye for an eye. If you found the robbers and robbed them as punishment, that would be 'an eye for an eye'. In self defense doing more than what they would have done to you can be justified, you can shoot someone even if you're pretty sure they were only going to beat the shit out of you; but you shouldn't shoot them in the back when they've dropped their gun and are running away even if you're pretty sure they would have shot you.