ABROGATE

Then when the Hurum Months have peeled off, you may kill the mushrikeen wherever you find them. Seize them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every lookout position. But if they repent, observe the Salat and give the Zakat, you shall let them go their way. God is Forgiver, Merciful. 9:5

Due to the profound effect of the corrupt interpretation of the so-called 'Verse of the Sword', this case will be presented in more detail. Due to its corrupt interpretation we find that 9:5 has been largely used by the enemies of the Quran to claim that the Quran advocates the killing of all the infidels wherever and whenever they are encountered. Ultimately, they reduced Islam to being labelled 'the religion of the sword'!

Likewise, the corrupt scholars have also misinterpreted the meaning of this verse. They claim that this single verse (9:5) has abrogated specific phrases and Quranic laws in no less than 114 Quranic verses!

Yes, they claim with all audacity that divine Quranic revelation in no less than 114 Quranic verses have been abrogated by one single verse!

They commit this sinister crime despite God's clear confirmation that no words of the Quran are abrogated:

The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. None can change His Words. He is the Hearer, the Knowledgeable.6:115

With this in mind it becomes unclear who is the more sinister of the two parties, the enemies of the Quran who call it the "religion of the sword", or in fact the corrupt Muslim scholars who are responsible for the invention of the lie of Quranic abrogation!

The corrupt Muslim scholars claim that 9:5 makes it the lawful duty of Muslims to kill the idol worshippers at anytime, as long as it is outside the sacred months, if the idol worshippers do not repent, observe the Salat and give the Zakat.

They also claim that since Sura 9 was the penultimate Sura in the order of revelation, if any of its laws contradicts laws in previous Sura's then the law in Sura 9 abrogates the law of the earlier Sura's.

Their ignorance is manifested not in the issue of the sequence of the revelations, but in the fact that the claimed contradiction between 9:5 and any other Quranic revelation is in fact non existent!

Abrogated:

They claim that specific words in 114 verses, and often whole verses are abrogated! These 114 verses appear in 50 Sura's.

As numerous claimed words are repeated in more than one verse, the following are the unrepeated cases of such claimed abrogations, which cover 100 verses:

2:256 / 3:20 / 3:159 / 4:63 / 4:80 / 4:81 / 4:84 / 4:88 / 4:90 / 4:91 / 5:3 / 5:13 / 5:99 / 6:91 / 6:106 / 6:107/ 6:108 / 6:112 / 6:135 / 6:137 / 6:159 / 7:180 / 7:199 / 8:38 / 8:61 / 10:41 / 10:99 / 10:102 / 10:108 / 11:121 / 11:122 / 13:40 / 15:3 / 15:85 / 15:88 / 15:94 / 16:82 / 16:106 / 16:127 / 17:15 /17:54 / 18:29 / 19:39 / 19:75 / 19:84 / 20:130 / 20:135 / 21:56 / 23:54 / 23:96 / 24:54 / 25:63 / 27:92 / 28:55 / 29:46 / 32:30 / 33:48 / 34:25 / 35:23 / 37:174 / 37:175 / 37:178 / 37:179 / 38:70 / 38:88 / 39:3 / 39:15 / 39:22 / 39:36 / 39:39 / 39:46 / 40:55 / 40:77 / 41:34 / ✔️42:6 / ✔️42:15 / ✔️42:48 / 43:83 / 43:89 / 44:59 / 45:14 / 46:35 / 50:39 / 52:48 / 53:29 / 60:11 / 68:44 / 68:48 / 70:42 / 73:10 / 73:11 / 73:19 / 74:11 / 76:24 / 76:29 / 86:17 / 88:21 / 88:22/ 95:8 / 109:6 /

Each one of these Quranic revelations is a testimony to the magnitude of this horrendous crime. Each one of these verses utters the same truth that nothing shall abrogate God's Words.

Any unbiased reader will immediately wonder how can God reveal 114 Quranic revelations, then change His mind and invalidate all of them with one single verse.That does not say much for God's consistency, does it? Such is the magnitude of the insult that has been directed at Almighty God!

The truth is that none of these verses have ever been abrogated. This abrogation invention is utterly and categorically false.

To demonstrate the truth of this matter, it is essential to present the genuine meaning of 9:5. To do so, it is important to read the first 6 verses of Sura 9 and not just verse 5.

SURA 9

Verse 1

This is a declaration of disassociation from God and His messenger, to the mushrikeen with whom you have entered into a treaty.

Verse 2

So roam the land for four months, and know that you cannot thwart God, and that God disgraces the disbelievers.

Verse 3

A proclamation from God and His messenger to the people on the day of the greater Hajj, that God is disassociated from the mushrikeen and so is His messenger. So if you repent, it would be better for you, but if you turn away, then know that you cannot thwart God. Give news of a painful punishment to those who have disbelieved.

Verse 4

However, with regards to the mushrikeen with whom you have entered into a treaty, then they did not fall short on any of its terms, nor banded with anyone against you; you shall fulfil your treaty with them to its full term. God loves the reverent.

Verse 5

Then when the Hurum Months have peeled off, you may kill the mushrikeen wherever you find them. Seize them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every lookout position. But if they repent, observe the Salat, and give the Zakat, you shall let them go their way. God is Forgiver, Merciful.

After reading all five verses, the following matters becomes apparent:

1- Revelations that confirm that there is no compulsion in religion. The messenger (and all believers) are to warn with the Quran, but never to forcefully enforce the faith on anyone.

2- Revelations that prohibit fighting those who offer peace.

3- Revelations that advocate the call to Islam through sound advice, good reasoning and with the wisdom of the Quran, and not through chopping heads off!

4- Revelations that advocate mercy and forgiveness towards the disbelievers and hypocrites.

5- Revelations that assert that the punishment for idol worshippers and atheists lies with God and not with man.

Resurrection." Unquestionably, that is the clear loss. 39:14-15

Once again the command here is to leave the idol worshippers to worship whoever or whatever they wish, and that their punishment is not in the hands of the believers, but with God on the Day of Resurrection. Once again, these Quranic words are a sharp contrast to the corrupt notion of chopping heads off!

13- For you is your religion, and for me is my religion. 109:6

This verse outlines words that the messenger (and all believers) should direct to the disbelievers who reject Islam. The believers are simply to say to the disbelievers "For you is your religion, and for me is my religion." Once again, confirmation that there is no compulsion in religion.

The message of no compulsion in religion is once again emphasised in these Quranic words.