{"id":1336,"date":"2025-09-23T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:37:36","slug":"quran-violence-relation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Qur\u2019an and Violence: Any Relation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some non-Muslims claim that the <strong>Qur\u2019an<\/strong> is the book that promotes <strong>violence<\/strong>, disorder, and anarchy in the World. They also claim that the followers of this book are responsible for spreading violence through the world. They think that the <strong>Qur\u2019an<\/strong> guides its followers to punish and kill those who do not accept <strong>Islam<\/strong>. They wonder how Islam could be a religion of peace while there are explicit verses in the<strong> Qur\u2019an<\/strong> which ask <strong>Muslims<\/strong> to kill non-Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>There are some Muslim extremist groups who think that it is their duty to either conquer the world or at least force the people to implement <strong>Islam<\/strong>. These groups derive their evidences from the <strong>Qur\u2019an<\/strong> and claim that Prophet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/\">Muhammad<\/a> (peace be upon him) used to punish those who do not accept<strong> Islam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We ask non-Muslims to understand <strong>Islam<\/strong> not from the actions of <strong>Muslims<\/strong> nowadays, but from the <strong>Qur\u2019an<\/strong> directly. They should not interpret Islam on the basis of what Muslims do.<\/p>\n<p>Ustadh Nouman Khan explains the following verse which a lot of non-Muslims think that it is a clear invitation to kill them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;padding-right: 30px\"><strong>\u2026Kill them where you find them\u2026<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/recitation-of-surat-an-nisaa-3\/\">An-Nisa\u2019 <\/a>4:89)<\/p>\n<p>Ustadh Nouman sheds some light on the reason of its revelation and how the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) dealt with his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Islamic Center of Irving.\u00a0 <\/em><a href='https:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-violence-relation\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Qur\u2019an ask its followers to kill non-Muslims? Is Islam a religion of violence? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[69,1544,1545,9,1546,1547,1548,1549,11,78,1550,1551,299,1552,1553,1554,1555,576],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-quran","category-learn-the-quran","tag-about-the-quran","tag-does-the-quran-promote-violence","tag-extremists","tag-featured","tag-fighting-non-muslims","tag-islam-is-peace","tag-jihad-in-islam","tag-kill-them-if-you-find-them","tag-learn-the-quran","tag-learning-quran","tag-misconceptions-about-islam","tag-religion-of-peace","tag-study-the-quran","tag-understand-islam","tag-understand-quran","tag-ustadh-nouman-khan","tag-violence-in-islam","tag-violence-in-the-quran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}