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Spencer blogs koran: 3:1-32 Taqiyya
Full list blogged hereExceprt: Verses 28-32 is mainly concerned with warnings of Allahs judgment, but v. 28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as friends or helpers (َأَوْلِيَا a word that means more than casual friendship, but something like alliance), unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them. This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for guard in the Arabic is tuqātan (تُقَاةً), the verbal noun from taqiyyatan hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya. Ibn Kathir says that the phrase Pickthall renders as unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them means that believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers may show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda said, We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them. Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection. While many Muslim spokesmen today maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shiite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shiites, it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority of Quran 3:28. The Sunnis of Al-Qaeda practice it today. Posted by: ed 2007-07-24 |
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