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Friend or Foe?
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Friend or Foe?
Another issue I have with Quran is that it said in one Surah not to befriend/love your enemy and enemy of God. Then it is also said in the same Surah that God only forbid you from befriending/loving those whom fought them and drove them out of their homes, and that he doesn't forbid you from those whom have not fought them. The logical conclusion would be only those whom fought them are enemies of God. However this is contradicted in Suratal Baqara where it is said God is the enemy of disbelievers. Moreover in Suratal Fatir, it is stated that God hates disbelievers with a strong hatred (the word maqtan denotes a strong type of hatred). Naturally whom God loves people should love, and whom he hates people should hate. Then you also have verses in Suratal Maeeda that although can be argued to mean other then friendship, context as Tabatabai shows, shows it to mean friendship, and it was forbidding it with people of the book. At any rate, those verses are not necessary to show the contradiction, what has been stated previously is enough.
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Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 3:09 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Darwinian - September 28, 2012 at 7:07 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 7:17 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Brian37 - September 28, 2012 at 7:23 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 7:31 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Brian37 - September 28, 2012 at 10:24 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Angrboda - September 28, 2012 at 7:39 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 7:44 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 9:14 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Shell B - September 28, 2012 at 10:29 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Brian37 - September 28, 2012 at 10:48 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Angrboda - September 28, 2012 at 11:30 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by MysticKnight - September 28, 2012 at 11:56 pm
RE: Friend or Foe? - by Shell B - September 29, 2012 at 12:32 am



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