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Surah Mumtahina
Perhaps Allah will put, between you and those to whom you have been enemies among them, affection. And Allah is competent, and Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.60:7
The tafsir on this verse says that Allah may guide them to Islam so in that way love will be created, why love between people be created on accepting islam only? But if they stop being hostile and don’t accept Islam can’t love be induced by God in them?
Similarly in first ayat of this surah Allah says that you send them love but they have disbelieved and in the same surah Allah says that the best example for you is in hazrat Ibrahim when he said that their will be hatred between you and us until you believe.
Ghamidi Sahab said that Allah himself tells when prophets are present when to cut your ties with someone and it is the time when he is about to punish the nation, so did Allah asked hazrat Ibrahim to say these words? Or he said it himself when he saw that people aren’t accepting the truth.
So my question is that is love between Muslim and disbelievers not possible?
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Surah Mumtahina
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You read the fourth verse and then the seventh one. Why did you ignore the other verses in the Surah?
Our Lord! Do not subject us to the persecution of the disbelievers.
Forgive us, our Lord! You alone are truly the Almighty, All-Wise. (Qur’an 60:5)Allah does not forbid you from dealing kindly and fairly with those who
have neither fought nor driven you out of your homes. Surely Allah loves
those who are fair. Allah only forbids you from befriending those who have fought you for your faith, driven you out of your homes, or supported others in
doing so. And whoever takes them as friends, then it is they who are the true wrongdoers. (Qur’an 60:8-9)Your query is already answered in the same Surah if you had only taken into consideration the context rather than taking verses in isolation.
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The word used in first verse is mawadah but in 9 where Allah says I don’t stop you from befriending… Is yatawalahum so I am a bit confused that what’s the difference between two and if one of them is present the other is present too? That’s why Allah hasn’t used the term mawadah again?
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You looking too deep into it. If you read the first verse entirely, you will understand:
O you who have believed, do not
take My enemies and your enemies as allies, extending to them affection
while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth, having
driven out the Prophet and yourselves [only] because you believe in
Allah , your Lord. If you have come out in My cause and
seeking means to My approval, [take them not as friends]. You confide to
them affection, but I am most knowing of what you have concealed and
what you have declared [war secrets of believers]. And whoever does it among you has certainly
strayed from the soundness of the way. (60:1)If they gain dominance over
you, they would be to you as enemies and extend against you their hands
and their tongues with evil, and they wish you would disbelieve. (60:2)Now you must read these verses with verse 60:8-9 and realize that Allah is forbidding believers from making friends with kafir during war. But those who do not persecute the believers, there is nothing forbidden between them, so mawadah is implied. However reason the word love or affection is used in first verse is that believers should not mingling with people who persecute them, leak information to them to get on their good side, trying to show love and affection in this form. The verses should be understood in the Surah’s context.
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Ahh ok thank you so much
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