Hi everyone and welcome, this is The Apostate Prophet.
I hope everyone's having a great week.
Today I want to talk about one very important detail in the Quran
that especially critics of Islam care very much about.
And Muslim apologists usually find many
excuses about; The Sword Verse
Many moderate Muslims even think that something like The Sword Verse doesn't even exist.
But more knowledgeable and honest Muslims know
that The Sword Verse is an Islamic term given to a Quran Verse
Without wasting much of your time
Lets directly come to the first. It's chapter nine verse five;
And when the sacred months have passed.
And then killed the polytheists wherever you find them
and capture them, and besiege them,
and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush
but if they should repent establish prayer and give zakah.
Let them go on their way. Indeed, Allah is forgiving and merciful.
So forgiving and merciful.
When this verse is cited nowadays in Islamic discussions
The Muslim side usually wants us to add to read this in a context.
To read the former verses, or to read the first after this one.
So let's do what they asked
Bear with me for a minute
This is a declaration of dissociation from Allah and His Messenger
to those with whom you made a treaty among the polytheists
So travel freely (o disbelievers) throughout the land during four months
but know that you cannot cause failure to Allah, and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers.
And it is an announcement from Allah and His Messenger
to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage
that Allah is dissociated from the disbelievers,
and so is His Messenger.
So if you repent that is best for you
But if you turn away
Then know that you will not cause failure to Allah
and give tidings to those who disbelieve of a painful punishment.
Excepted are those with whom you made a treaty among the polytheists
and then they have not been deficient toward you in anything
or supported anyone against you;
so complete for them their treaty until their term has ended
Indeed, Allah loves the righteous. And when the sacred months have passed.
Then kill the polytheists wherever you find them
and capture them and besiege them
and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush
But if they should repent establish prayer and give zakah,
let them go on their way. Indeed, Allah is forgiving and merciful.
What you can see in these verses
is that Muhammad made a treaty with some of the polytheists in Mecca
and the chapter begins as a declaration to those polytheists
that the Muslims had a treaty with
the mentioned treaty is believed to be The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
A treaty that was signed between The Polytheists and Muhammad.
At some point Muhammad claimed that the polytheists broke the treaty
So Muhammad gathered an army and invaded Mecca.
In the following years when Muslims under Mohammed settled in Mecca
Or went to a pilgrimage in Mecca
Muhammad was very bothered about Polytheists still being around to the Kaaba
and worshiping their own way.
As explained in a former video.
Polytheists used to walk in to dance around the Kaaba naked or half naked.
Which was highly inappropriate for Muhammad and the Muslims
He didn't want to tolerate this and wanted to clearly dissociate himself
and his religion from the pagans
Which is why this chapter was revealed.
In the beginning of the verse the author of the Quran clearly
dissociates himself from those that the Muslims made a treaty with before.
Since according to Muhammad the polytheists broke part of treaties already.
In the second verse, Allah gives the Polytheists four months to do whatever they want
But not to wronged Muslims in any way.
Now in the third verse, Allah says that
Allah disassociated himself from the disbelievers.
Somehow exactly what Muhammad had in his mind about the Polytheists worshiping at Kaaba.
Looks like Allah and Muhammad had pretty much the exact same thoughts,
or Allah just lived in Muhammad's mirror?
In verse 4; Allah calms down and says fine
except those Polytheists that made a treaty with you
and stick to their treaty until their terms end.
And in verse 5; the terror begins;
Allah orders the Muslims to wait until the four months are over and then to attack
trick, besiege and to kill the polytheists wherever they are found.
Unless they convert to Islam and pray to Allah.
It's quite funny, this Quran verse proves that the polytheists had basically two choices
Convert to Islam or die
It's true, Muslims can't force anyone to accept Islam.
And they love to cite that there is no compulsion and religion,
but it's quite ironic.
The Quran basically says that you can't convert anyone forcibly
But you can kill them if they don't convert
Well-played Allah. Well-played...
Since the language of this verse is very harsh, a regular Muslim would normally tell me to
To go to a scholar or to look at an interpretation of the Quran
Let's do that. Ibn Kathir is one of the most influential interpreters of the Quran of all times
He's very highly respected
and his interpretations of the Quran are still read today
in his exegesis of this verse, Ibn Kathir says that this Quran verse is a clear order
to actively search for polytheists
and to fight and kill them universally
wherever they are found, which is why it says wherever you find them
At this point moderate Muslim apologists would cite other verses in the Quran where it is supposed to
Promise peace. which it doesn't
but scholars like Ibn Kathir tell us in their exegesis, that this verse abrogates all
kinds of approaches towards polytheists and orders to fight them
it says that this Quran verse abrogated every kind of treaty
every kind of term, any kind of peace with the polytheists
and Ibn Kathir even gives us the exact time when these four months ended
and an open war against polytheists had started.
That basically confirms what any non-muslim would think upon reading these verses?
not that we need an interpretation
As said Apologists would also ask us to read the next verse
which calms the situation a bit down. But it doesn't.
And if any of the polytheists seek your protection then grant him protection
So that he may hear the words of Allah then deliver him to his place of safety
that is because they are a people who do not know
In this Quran verse, Allah basically tells Muslims that polytheists can come to Muhammad
and ask him for protection, to listen to the words of Allah
But that's nothing special
Most Muslim scholars agree that The Sword Verse is an open war on polytheists
and that first six makes an exception for
polytheists only so that they can come
And listen to the Quran and maybe convert to Islam
if they don't convert to Islam, they can be escorted to a safe place
So that they can go home but outside of that they can still be attacked
they can be found and killed
As ordered in the former verse
first five the sword verse
The rest of the whole chapter basically confirms this
in the following verses Allah says that peace between polytheists and Muslims is impossible
Allah makes multiple excuses why Muslims should fight and kill them
and spouts hate for the polytheists and promises them hell
He never gets tired of that one.
Ini one verse, it even tells Muslims to break with their fathers and brothers if those are polytheists
In 28; It calls the polytheists filthy in orders Muslims not to let the polytheists approach the Kaaba ever again
an order that continued for over thousand years
and that today's infidel ban for Mecca is based on
What is also important to note is that in Islam what was revealed later
is stronger and more valid than what was revealed earlier in the Quran
and if two things contradict each other
Then what was revealed later is more valid than the first point
This chapter of the Quran called Tawbah or Bara'ah
Which is the ninth chapter in a traditionally ordered Quran
was the last major chapter that was revealed
Muhammad died not much later and even left this Quran chapter unfinished or unorganized
So this is the last big chapter of the Quran that deals with polytheists and infidels
and it's basically the most violent one
Which is probably understandable considering that Muhammad and his Muslim followers
Finally gained dominance over Medina, Mecca, into the Hejaz region
It was time now for Muhammad to show his true face.
Here Muhammad made clear that the future under Islam
for non-believers wouldn't be sweet and happy
and the future of Islam after Muhammad proved his point very much.
As you can see, the final mark of Muhammad in the Quran is extremely disgusting and very violent
I was once part of this religion with this violent book
that is basically an open war declaration to the world
I'm glad I'm not part of this anymore. No one should be,
everyone is better without this.
No one should deserve to be dragged down to such a state by this religion
No one deserves that, no one should allow that.
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Thank you again and stay away from Islam
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