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Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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._._.._- <strong>Are</strong> <strong>All</strong> IIelitilOS .._.... <strong>Alike</strong>? _.._--_ ...._.._.._..._.._..45­<br />

Consult the Qur'1n and find how much importance has<br />

!teen assillled to "the boundaries" ofthese injUnctions.<br />

OltelsanCf: of tbe Revelation<br />

As has been written in the previous paracraphs that the<br />

AhI-e-Kitab use4 to aceept Golf and perfoIlII good dee4s.<br />

Even then, the Muslims (under special circumstances) were<br />

cmiere4 to waJC war apinst infidels and polytheists<br />

(mushrikeen). At the time of this order a chlqe sheet was<br />

levied apinst the AhI-e-KitaD. Examine closely and<br />

critically the way this order was liven to the Muslims in<br />

the 'Que'In:<br />

In adjfttfon to polytbelsts (mIlSArlkee,,),<br />

there are Abl-e-Kltalt, who· o,pose tbe<br />

Divine Order In Uke maDDer. They do not<br />

truly bave C41nvletlon.(lmln) In Au.Jt and<br />

.. tbe Ufe bereafter. Nor do they C41n.lder<br />

H.rIm (unlawful) the thlnas tbat AlMA<br />

and tbe Messenaer (paUB) term H."..<br />

(unlawful). They live within tbe<br />

Mundaties of tbe. <strong>Islam</strong>ic system as non­<br />

MusUm...d enjoy full bum.. rilbts Itut<br />

do notadbere to tbe laws, whlcb a"ly to<br />

tbem. There Is, tberefore, no alternative<br />

Itut to Debt with them until tbey<br />

surrender ..d acree to pay "a<br />

C41mpeusatlon for tbe ,reteetlon<br />

afforded" (./IQ1Ir) with a wlUlne baud after<br />

havlnclteeJl subdued In tbe war (': 1').<br />

This JIl.Rd verse ofthe Qur'In rilakes the followinC matters<br />

clear.<br />

•<br />

I. Whereas the Ahl-e-Kittib claimed (and are still<br />

claiming) to believe in God and the life

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