The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 321
Jihad with the Sword 321 cheerful and loving heart. This attitude of humility and steadfastness encouraged their enemies to intensify their persecution and they made this holy community their quarry. Then God who does not permit that cruelty and mercilessness should exceed all bounds turned with compassion towards His persecuted servants and His wrath was kindled against the wicked, and He informed. His servants through the Holy Qur'an that He was a witness to everything that had been inflicted upon them and that He now gave them permission to oppose their opponents and that He was Mighty and would not leave the wrongdoers unpunished. This was the commandment which was designated Jihād. The original text of this commandment is there in the Holy Qur'ān, which is as follows: أذن لِلَّذِينَ يُقْتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلى نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِيرُه الَّذِينَ أُخْرِجُوا مِنْ دِيَارِهِمْ بِغَيْرِ حَقِّ 3 113 [Government Angrezi Aur Jihād, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 17, pp. 3-6]. If the Christian missionaries would listen to me I would counsel them to refrain from raising objections which can be directed against their own scriptures also. For instance, one of their principal criticisms of the Holy. Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be on him) is directed against the battles that he had to wage under. Divine command against those disbelievers who persecuted him and his companions for thirteen years at. Mecca and inflicted every kind of torment upon them, 113 Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged and Allāh indeed has the power to help them. Those who have been driven out of their homes unjustly. . . Al-Hajj, 22:40-41 [Publisher]