A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Chapter 12/111

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[Sidenote: 111. Early Moslem legists quoted against Jihád.]

That the Koran did not allow war of aggression either when it was revealed, or in future as the early jurisconsults did infer from it, will be further shown from the opinions of the early Moslems; legists of the first and second century of the Hegira, like Ibn (son of) Omar the second khalif, Sotian Souri, Ibn Shobormah, Atá and Amar-bin-Dinar. All these early legists held that the fighting was not religiously incumbent (wájib), and that it was only a voluntary act, and that only those were to be fought against who attacked the Moslems.[1]


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  1. ↑ Vide Kázee Budrudeen Mahmood bin Ahmed Ainee's (who died in 855 A.H.) Commentary on the "Hedaya" called Binayah, and generally known by the name of Ainee, Vol. II, pp. 789-90, "Book of Institute."
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