Minorities in an Islamic State — Page 24
24 َّ ٰۤا م َّ ی َلَّ تَّتَّخِذوْا عَّدوِی ْ و َّ عَّدوَّكم ْ اَّوْلِي َّٓاء َّ تلْقوْن َّ یهَّا الَّذِیْن َّ اممَّنوْا ِ ۚ ُی ْرِجوْن ِبَِّا ج َّٓاءَّكم ْ مِن َّ ا ْلَّْق ْ ؕ اِلَّيْهِم ْ بِا ْلَّْوَّدَّة ِ و َّ قَّد ْ كَّفَّروْا ّلل م ِ رَّبِكم بِا الرَّسوْلَّ و َّ اِیَّاكم ْ اَّنْ تؤْمِنوْا "O ye who believe! take not My enemy and your enemy for friends, offering them love, while they disbelieve in the truth which has come to you and drive out the Messenger and yourselves from your homes merely because you believe in Allah, your Lord'. (60:1) "This shows that this verse prohibits the Muslims to have relations only with those non- Muslims who compelled the Holy Prophet sa to migrate from his city by inflicting all kinds of cruelties on him and with those who did their most to persecute the Muslims. But there are others who are not like them and God does not forbid the Muslims to maintain good relations with, and to be generous to, them. Thus in another verse in the same chapter as the one quoted above God says: ْ ّلل م عَّن ِ الَّذِی ىكم ا م ْ َلَّ یَّنْه ْ ُی ْرِجوْكم ْ ِفِ الدِیْن ِ و َّ لَّم ن َّ لَّم ْ یقَّاتِلوْكم ُی ِب َّ ّلل م َّْ مِن ْ دِیَّارِكم ْ اَّن ْ تَّبَّوْهم ْ و َّ تقْسِطوْٰۤا اِلَّيْهِم ْ ؕ اِن َّ ا ا ْلْ قْسِطِی "Allah forbids you not, respecting those who