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About the words of GOD Almighty Allah: Quran: al-Baqarah 2:256: There is no compulsion in religion.
And in the same time, The Prophet (PBUH) says: Sahih Bukhari: 2:24: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah ...."
So we want a clarification for this misconception
As in fact, we read wrong and also understand wrong, and fear from such misconception being said.
So we come to the people of knowledge, to clarify these misconceptions among people (Against Islam)!
May Allah reward you, In The name of Allah, praise be to Allah, and Peace be upon the Messenger of Allah.
In fact, It is an important topic, and I am afraid that it be reduced in a few words, which may not the viewer understand it fully!
So no problem to discuss topic in more than one part, so the viewer understands fully and be aware of the meaning.
As you pointed out, that these misconceptions are repeated many in the Western media.
And this is the face of the Muslims, especially Muslims living in Western countries.
Or who they meet in the debates with non-Muslims
Until we see insulting cartoons of the Prophet, a turban on his head by a bomb or a sword!
Unfortunately, currently the most raised misconception against Islam that it was spread by the sword, and it is a very old misconception among the Orientalists since a very long time.
And they point to the Hadith which you mentioned, and it is Hadith in Saheeh Al-Bukhari.
An it is a Hadith in the highest degree of Reliability.
Sahih Bukhari: 2:24: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, ...."
This apparently, is contrary to the Holy Quran and the words of God Almighty Allah: Quran: al-Baqarah 2:256: There is no compulsion in religion.
Or The Words of GOD Almighty Allah: Quran: al-Kahf 18:29 And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve."
In fact, I want to tell to viewers and observations at the beginning:
That Muslims should not volunteer to explain or give an interpretation of the Hadith or any the Quranic verse without the knowledge!
Beacuse it is a complete system!
Where it should when I come to interpret the Quranic Verses or the Hadith, I must have a full background of all others Verses and Hadiths that came in the same position.
And being taken together as a system full.
We should not be cut off a Hadith or a Verse out of the context and its relationship to other Verses and Hadith.
And by the way: It is the mission of the Faqih (The Jurist: an expert in Islamic Law)
As the Muhaddith (The narrator: an expert in Hadith), may only mention the Hadith and its reliability.
But for the Faqih (The Jurist: an expert in Islamic Law), takes all the verses and Hadiths side by side.
The second point is: I must apply the Hadiths through the life of the Prophet (PBUH).
And I must also apply the Quranic verses on the life of the Prophet (PBUH).
And how the Prophet himself applied these Verses and Hadiths.
After all of that, When I come to such Hadith, which say: Sahih Bukhari: 2:24: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah ...."
Did The Prophet (PBUH) raise the sword on the people, and told them: You should believe, or be killed through all of his life?!
He never done that through all of his life at all, Peace Be Upon Him!
But all of His life, He let the people believe as they want, Quran: al-Baqarah 2:256: There is no compulsion in religion.
He was only fighting when they fight him.
And bring him and his companions into trial many times.
So He was only defense, and we spoke previously that there was many provocations against Muslims, by the non-believers, to force them to war.
So what is the meaning of these Hadith?!
In fact it has more than one interpretation.
But I find the rest, in the commentary of Imam (Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani), in his book: (Fath ul-Bari fi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari).
When he pointed to that: the word "The People" in the Hadith, doesn't mean all the people.
But it only means "The Arabs" who were living in the Arabian Peninsula.
The People, who have already waged war against the Prophet.
So in these time, the Prophet was ordered to fight against the people who have already waged war against Him, and they worthy to be fought.
Fighting not Killing!
So here; Fighting those have already fought us, and tried many times to but the companions on trials;
And get us out of our homes, and took money and wealth, so they worthy to be fought!
Quran: al-Hajj 22:39 Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged.
All those people have wronged the Muslims.
But for those who have not wronged the Muslims among those people; So the Prophet (PBUH) never fight them.
So these Hadith, is specified to the people of the Arabian Peninsula;
And as a Practical application, even the Prophet, when he migrated to the Madina;
He signed the (Constitution of Medina), with the Jews, who didn't beleive in: There is no GOD but Allah; Even with their full knowledge that; He is a true Prophet.
However, The Prophet never raised a sword to fight them, but only when they betrayed The Treaty.
He never fought the Roman empire, but only after the Roman empire killed the messengers of The Prophet to them.
When "Al-Harith bin 'Amir" was killed by them, the Prophet directed by army to the roman empire;
But at the beginning it was a message of love to them.
He sent them at the beginning, a very lovely message: calling them to Islam, without any tension or violence in the words.
So only those people, were worthy to be fought.
But the rest of all the companions when they when to Persia or the Greater Syria;
Were they raising a sword against people! NO, however, they are the highest people in application of the way of the beloved Prophet (PBUH).
Especially, it was the era of (Abu Bakr), (Umar), and (Uthman), who were the first of the (Rashidun: The Rightly Guided Caliphs);
But there was a problem at the time of (Ali ibn Abi Talib). which late some thing al-Fatuhat al-Islamiyya (The Muslim conquests).
As al-Fatuhat al-Islamiyya (Muslim conquests), at the time of the first Rashidun: which was the time of best of the people, and the best centuries.
And it was a life application, to each word, of the words of the beloved Prophet (PBUH).
Did they raise the sword, and forced the people to change their religion, or let them on their faith, and what they wish?!
Muslims were taking the (Jizya: tax) even from the Magi in Iraq, not only the people of the book.
And even in: Sahih Bukhari 53:384 Allah's Apostle had taken the Jizya from the Magians of Hajar. In Bahrain, eastern Arabia.
In Hajar there was a group of Magians, and the Prophet let them on their fire worship!
So the life of the Prophet, is a practical example, that Muslim never fight any one, but only those who fight him;
But for those Peaceful non-Muslims, the Holy Quran orders us in:
Quran: al-Mumtahinah 60:8 As for such [of the unbelievers] as do not fight against you on account of [your] faith, and neither drive you forth from your homelands, God does not forbid you to show them kindness and to behave towards them with full equity: for, verily, God loves those who act equitably.
So it is so clear now, that all the life of The Prophet, never called to any kind of violence.