Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 319
319 “Surely, Allah has purchased of the believers their persons and their property, in return for the Garden of Allah’s pleasure that they shall have (they fight in the cause of Allah and they slay and are slain) a promise that He has made incumbent upon Himself in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Quran ⎯ and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice, then, in your bargain, which you have made with Him. That indeed is the supreme triumph. Those with whom God has made His covenant are the ones who return to Him in repentance, worship Him, praise Him, go about in the land serving Him, bow down to Him, prostrate themselves before Him, enjoin good and forbid evil and watch the limits set by Him” (9:111 ⎯ 112). If in the course of war any of the enemy should seek shelter with the Muslims, he must be given shelter because he would thus have an opportunity of listening to Divine revelation and of learning the wholly beneficent character of the teachings of Islam. Then should he wish to return to his people, he must be conducted back to them in security. “If any of the enemy should seek asylum with thee, grant him asylum so that he may hear the word of Allah; then convey him to his place of security. This is because they are a people who lack knowledge” (9:6). If at any time the enemy should propose a truce or should show an inclination to agree to a cessation