THE KORAN ON THE KAFIRS
CHAPTER 2
THE KORAN ON THE KAFIRS - A.Ghosh
The following are only a few of the important sayings
from the Koran, dealing with kafirs or infidels. There are
many more similar sayings throughout Islam's holy book. The
message is the same. The numbers of chapters and verses are
indicated in Roman and Hindu (or Arabic) numerals on the left.
The injunctions are clearly spelled out so that there is no
misunderstanding in the minds of simple believers.
VIII/12:
When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying:)
I am with you. So make those who believe
stand firm. I will throw fear into the
hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite
the necks and smite of them each finger [1].
VIII/36:
Lo! those who disbelieve spend their
wealth in order that they may debar (men)
from the way of Allah. They will spend it,
then it will become an anguish for them,
then they will be conquered. And those
who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell.
IX/5:
Then, when the sacred months have passed,
slay the idolaters wherever ye find them,
and take them (captive), and besiege them,
and prepare for them each ambush. But if
they repent and establish worship and pay
the poor-due, then leave their way free.
Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
IX/28:
O ye who believe! The idolaters only are
unclean. So let them not come near the
Inviolable Place of Worship after this their
year. If ye fear poverty (from the loss of
their merchandise) Allah shall preserve you
of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is
Knower, Wise.
IX/73:
Oh Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers
and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them.
Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless
journey's-end.
XCVIII/6:
Lo! those who disbelieve, among the People
of the Scripture and the idolaters, will
abide in fire of hell. They are the worst of
created beings.
X/5:
Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a
promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produc-
eth creation, then reproduceth it, that He
may reward those who believe and do good
works with equity; while, as for those who
disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and
painful doom because they disbelieved.
LXIX/30-37:
(It will be said): Take him and fetter him
And then expose him to hell-fire
And then insert him in a chain whereof the
length is seventy cubits.
Lo! he used not to believe in Allah the
Tremendous,
And urged not on the feeding of the
wretched,
Therefore hath he no lover here this day,
Nor any food save filth
Which none but sinners eat.
LXVIII/14-16:
It is because he is possessed of wealth and
children
That, when Our revelations are recited
unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men
of old.
We shall brand him on the nose.
LXVII/6:
And for those who disbelieve in their Lord
there is the doom of hell, a hapless
journey's end!
XLVII/12:
Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and
do good works to enter Gardens underneath
which rivers flow; while those who dis-
believe take their comfort in this life and
eat even as the cattle eat, and the Fire is
their habitation.
XLIV/43-50:
Lo! the tree of Zaqqum [2],
The food of the sinner!
Like molten brass, it seetheth in their
bellies
As the seething of boiling water.
(And it will be said): Take him and drag
him to the midst of hell,
Then pour upon his head the torment of
boiling water.
(Saying): Taste! Lo! thou west forsooth the
mighty, the noble!
Lo! this is that whereof ye used to doubt.
XXXVII/67-68:
And afterward, lo! thereupon they have a
drink of boiling water
And afterward, lo! their return is surely
unto hell.
V/33-34:
The only reward of those who make war
upon Allah and His messenger and strive
after corruption in the land will be that
they will be killed or crucified, or have
their hands and feet on alternate sides cut
off, or will be expelled out of the land.
Such will be their degradation in the world,
and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful
doom;
Save those who repent before ye overpower
them. For know that Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful.
V/72-73:
They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah
is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah
(himself) said: O Children of Israel, wor-
ship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Lo!
whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, for
him Allah bath forbidden Paradise. His
abode is the Fire. For evil-doers there will
be no helpers.
They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah
is the third of three; when there is no God
save the One God. If they desist not from
so saying a painful doom will fall on those
of them who disbelieve.
XXII/19-22:
These twain (the believers and the dis-
believers) are two opponents who contend
concerning their Lord. But as for those
who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut
out for them; boiling fluid will be poured
down on their heads.
Whereby that which is in their bellies, and
their skins too, will be melted;
And for them are hooked rods of iron.
Whenever, in their anguish, they would go
forth from thence they are driven back
therein and (it is said unto them): Taste
the doom of burning.
LXXVI/4:
Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers man-
acles and carcans and a raging fire.
Footnotes
1. N.J. Dawood translates in his 'The Koran': 'Strike off
their heads, maim them in every limb!'
2. Zaqqum tree: a tree that grows in the heart of hell
bearing fruit like devils' heads.
(c)A.GHOSH 1999
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