A MOSLEM'S CONDUCT

CHAPTER 4
A MOSLEM'S CONDUCT

The Koran advises the believers on the subject of infidels
in their neighborhoods and circles of friends.

IX/123:
O ye who believe! Fight those of the dis-
believers who are near to you, and let them
find harshness in you, and know that Allah
is with those who keep their duty (unto
Him).

IV/144:
O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers
for (your) friends in place of believers.
Would you give Allah a clear warrant
against you?

V/51:
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and
Christians for friends. They are friends
one to another. He among you who taketh
them for friends is (one) of them. Lo!
Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.

III/118:
O ye who believe! Take not for intimates
others than your own folk, who would spare
no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper
you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance
of) their mouths, but that which their
breasts hide is greater. We have made
plain for you the revelations if ye will
understand.

IX/122:
And the believers should not all go out to
fight. Of every troop of them, a party
only should go forth, that they (who are
left behind) may gain sound knowledge in
religion, and that they may warn their folk
when they return to them, so that they
may beware.

IV/160-161:
Because of the wrongdoing of the Jews We
forbade them good things which were (be-
fore) made lawful unto them, and because
of their much hindering from Allah's way,

And of their taking usury when they were
forbidden it and of their devouring people's
wealth by false pretenses. We have pre-
pared for those of them who disbelieve a
painful doom.

VI/147:
Unto those who are Jews We forbade every
animal with claws. And of the oxen and
the sheep forbade We unto them the fat
thereof save that upon the backs or the
entrails, or that which is mixed with the
bone. That We awarded them for their
rebellion. And lo! We verily are Truthful.

V/57:
O ye who believe! Choose not for friends
such of those who received the Scripture
before you, and of the disbelievers, as
make a jest and sport of your religion. But
keep your duty to Allah if ye are true
believers.

IV/101:
And when ye go forth in the land, it is no
sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye
fear that those who disbelieve may attack
you. In truth the disbelievers are an open
enemy to you.

IV/102:
And when thou (O Muhammad) art among
them and arranges" (their) worship for
them, let only a party of them stand with
thee (to worship) and let them take their
arms. Then when they have performed
their prostrations let them fall to the rear
and let another party come that bath not
worshipped and let them worship with thee,
and let them take their precaution and
their arms. Those who disbelieve long for
you to neglect your arms and your baggage
that they may attack you once for all. It is
no sin for you to lay aside your arms, if
rain impedeth you or ye are sick. But take
your precaution. Lo! Allah prepareth for
the disbelievers shameful punishment.

A.GHOSH