Words from the Koran about Jews, christians and Israel

Some people have read or heard that according to the Koran, you may beat your wife if she is disobedient:

Sura IV. 35. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and illconduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds and beat them; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).

XVIII. 65. O Messenger rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers: for these are a people without understanding.

XLVII. 4. Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.

In Some countries and specially in the Middle East these verses are used against Jews and Christians. Many people think that these "unbelievers" are the Jews and the Christians and that they all have to be killed in a "holy war".

1. If Jews and Christians follow the Jewish Scriptures they have nothing to fear and will receive everlasting life!

II. 62. Those who believe, and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians, any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

II.82. Those who have faith and work righteousness, they are companions of the Garden: Therein shall they abide (for ever).

III. 113-115. Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book are a portion that stand (For the right)...

They believe in Allah and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the ranks of the righteous.

Of the good that they do, nothing will be rejected of them; for Allah knoweth well those that do right.

VII.170. As to those who hold fast by the (Jewish) Book and establish regular prayer, never shall We suffer the reward of the righteous to perish.

II. 40. O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your covenant with Me as I fulfil My Covenant with you, and fear none but Me.

II. 47. Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all other (for My Message).

XVII. 122. O Children of Israel! call to mind the special favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all others (for My Message).

IV. 131. To Allah belong all things in the heavens and on earth. Verily we have directed the People of the Book before you, and you (o Muslims) to fear Allah. But if ye deny Him, lo! unto Allah belong all things in the heavens and on earth, and Allah is free of all wants, worthy of all praise.

V. 6 The food of the People of the Book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them.

V. 21,22. Remember Moses said to his people: "O my people! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples.

VII. 137. And We made a people, considered weak (and of no account), inheritors of lands in both east and west, lands where on We sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy, and We leveled to the ground the great works and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride).

VII. 71. We delivered him (Abraham) and (his nephew) Lut (and directed them) to the land which We have blessed for the nations.

XVII. 101-104. To Moses We did give Nine Clear Sings: As the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to him: "O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by sorcery!

Moses said, "Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening evidence: and I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to destruction!"

So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth: but We did drown him and all who were with him.

And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.

II. 248. And their Prophet said to them: "A Sign of his authority is that there shall come to you the Ark of the covenant, with (an assurance) therein of security from your Lord, and the relics left by the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, carried by angels. In this is a symbol for you if ye indeed have faith."

ISLAMIC PROFESSOR SUPPORTS JEWISH RIGHTS ON THE LAND AND EVEN THE TEMPLE MOUNT

"There is nothing in Islam that negates Israeli and Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount," according to Professor Abdul Hadi Falatchi, Head of the Islamic Institute in Rome. Prof. Falatchi was participating in an international seminar on Jewish Law, organized by the Ministry of Justice. He also attacked the Arab objections to Jewish aliyah, saying that it has nothing to do with Zionism, but that "the Bible commands Jews to live in the Holy Land." Falatchi said that he is not afraid to make these remarks publicly, and that most Moslem religious leaders in Italy agree with him.

5. Though not all the Children of Israel were faithful Allah Himself will judge them!

X. 93. We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwellingplace, and provided for them sustenance of the best: it was after knowledge had been granted to them, that they fell into schisms. Verily Allah will judge between them as to the schisms amongst them, on the Day of Judgment.

XXXIII. 23. Among the Believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah. of them some have completed their vow (to the extreme), and some (still) wait: but they have never changed (their determination) in the least:

II. 51,52. And remember We appointed forty nights for Moses, and in his absence ye took the calf (for worship), and ye did grievous wrong.

6. The Bible, as given to the Jews is called "Allah's revelation" and contains guidance and light!

VII. :45. It was We who revealed the law (to Moses): with therein guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the prophets who bowed to Allah's will, by the rabbis and the doctors of law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah's book, and they were witnesses thereto: therefore fear not men, but fear me, and sell not my signs for a miserable price. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) Unbelievers.

XXXIII. 7. And remember We took from the prophets their covenant... from Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary: We took from them a solemn covenant.

XXXVII114-122. Again (of old) We bestowed Our favour on Moses and Aaron, And We delivered them and their people from (their) Great Calamity; And We helped them, so they overcame (their troubles); And We gave them the Book which helps to make things clear; "Peace and salutation to Moses and Aaron!" Thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For they were two of our believing Servants.

III. 3. It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong).

III. 187. And remember Allah took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it;

VII. 69. Say: "O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord, that increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not over (these) people without Faith.

XL. 16,17. We did a foretime grant to the Children of Israel the Book the Power of Command, and Prophethood; We gave them, for Sustenance, things good and pure; and We favoured them above the nations.

And We granted them Clear Signs in affairs (of Religion): it was only after knowledge had been granted to them that they fell into schisms, through insolent envy among themselves. Verily thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Judgment as to those matters in which they set up differences.

XL. 53,54. We did aforetime give Moses the (Book of) Guidance, and We gave the book in inheritance to the Children of Israel,- A Guide and a Message to men of Understanding.

II. 63. And remember We took your covenant and We raised above you (The towering height) of Mount (Sinai) : (Saying): "Hold firmly to what We have given you and bring (ever) to remembrance what is therein: Perchance ye may fear Allah."

VII. 70. Those who believe, those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians, any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

XXIX. 46. And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better (than mere disputation), unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong (and injury): but say, "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one; and it is to Him we bow."

Last updated December/Kislev 1996