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JIHAD IN THE KORAN
The Enemy
Your Flesh and Blood
What about children? God will not spare them in the Hereafter, so you should not spare them in the here-and-now if you don’t want to join your progeny in Hell.
60:3 Your kinsmen or your children will not profit you on the Day of Resurrection. He shall separate you one from the other; and Allah perceives well what you do.
God’s poster child for hating your flesh and blood is Abraham, who, as aforementioned, disowned his own father.
9:114 Abraham asked forgiveness for his father, only because of a promise he had made to him; but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of Allah, he disowned him. Indeed Abraham was compassionate, forbearing.
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60:4 You have had a good example in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people: “We are quit of you and what you worship apart from Allah. We disbelieve in you. Enmity and hatred have arisen between you and us forever, till you believe in Allah alone; except for Abraham’s word to his father: ‘I will ask forgiveness for you, although I have no power from Allah to do anything for you.’ Lord, in You we trust, to you we turn and unto you is the ultimate resort.
60:5 “Lord, do not cause us to be a temptation for those who have disbelieved, and forgive us. Our Lord, You are indeed the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.”
60:6 You have indeed in them a good example; that is for whoever hopes for Allah and the Last Day. Whoever repents, surely Allah is the All-Mighty, All-Praiseworthy.
The enemy within!
64:14 O believers, in the midst of your wives and children, there is an enemy of yours, so beware of them. Yet, if you pardon, overlook and forgive, surely Allah is forgiving, All-Merciful.
64:15 Your possessions and children are surely a temptation, and with Allah is a great reward.
64:16 So, fear Allah as much as you can, listen, obey and spend freely (in the Cause of Allah). That is best for you. He who is guarded against the avarice of his soul – those are the prosperous.
Moududi on the enemy within:
[One meaning] relates to those special circumstances which most of the Muslims were facing at the time these verses were sent down, and today also they are faced by every person who embraces Islam in a non-Muslim society. At that time in Makkah and in other parts of Arabia a situation that was commonly being experienced was that a man would embrace Islam, but his wife and children would not only be disinclined to accept it but would try their best to press him to give up Islam … Then, it is said: "Beware of them." That is, "You should not ruin your eternal life for the sake of their worldly life.”
You may forgive your children for being a temptation to you wanting the present life instead of the Hereafter, but not if they will not accept Islam. This makes them a bad influence that can only be removed by killing them, and in that you have the example of Khidr who was, for a time, Moses’ spiritual adviser. On a journey to the Red Sea, he would kill a boy in cold blood, leaving Moses somewhat perplexed.
18:74 Then they departed; but when they met a boy, he (Khidr) killed him. Moses said: “Have you killed an innocent person who has not killed another? You have surely committed a horrible deed.”
Later during their journey, before going their separate ways, Khidr would explain why he killed the boy, and why God approves.
18:80 “As for the boy, his parents were believers; so we feared that he might overwhelm them with oppression and unbelief.
18:81 “So we wanted that their Lord might replace him with someone better in purity and closer to mercy.
Before the murder of the boy, Khidr also caused the death of “some poor fellows who worked upon the sea.”
18:71 So, they set out; but no sooner had they boarded the ship that he made a hole in it. He (Moses) said: “Have you made a hole in it so as to drown its passengers? You have indeed done a grievous thing.”
Khidr, God’s mouthpiece in these acts of cold-blooded killings, justifies the mass murder of innocent people because it would deny an enemy a sought-after prize.
18:79 “As for the ship, it belonged to some poor fellows who worked upon the sea. I wanted to damage it, because, on their trail, there was a king, who was seizing every ship by force.