Note 31 — Chapter I · Ibrahim’s Rise
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“And when ye meet those who misbelieve, then strike off their heads until ye have massacred them, and bind fast the bonds.” “Then either a free agent (liberty) or a ransom until the war shall have laid down its burdens.” Koran (Palmer’s translation, vol. ix, of Sacred Books of the East), Surah, XLVII, vs. 4–5.
“The reward of those who make war against God and His Apostle, and strive after violence in the earth, is only that they shall be slaughtered and crucified, or their hands cut off, or their feet on alternate sides, or that they shall be banished from the land, a disgrace for them in this world, and for them in the next a mighty woe, save for those who repent before ye have them in your power.” Ibid., Surah V, vs. 37.
“The spoils are God’s and the Apostles’; fear God and settle it among yourselves.... Fight them then, that there should be no sedition, and that the religion should be wholly God’s; but if they desist (to disbelieve) then God on what they do doth look. But if they turn their backs, then know that God is your Lord ... and know that whenever ye seize anything as a spoil, to God belongs a fifth thereof, and to his Apostle and to kindred and orphans and the poor the wayfarer.” Ibid., Surah VIII, vs. 1, 40–42.