Editing Screen: Surah 8: al-Anfal (The Spoils Of War )

 

 

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Description <ol> <li>The Ayaat in this surah revolve around the theme of Jihad in the way of Allah, with the Battle of Badr being the first major battle of the Muslims.</li> <li>The moral lesson of the conflict between the Truth and falsehood has been enunciated and the qualities which lead to success in a conflict have been explained. The Surah gives instructions in regard to the spoils of war. The Muslims have been told not to regard these as their right but as a bounty from God. Therefore they should accept with gratitude the share that is granted to them out of it and willingly accede to the share which God sets apart for His cause and for the help of the needy. Then it also gives normal instructions concerning the laws of peace and war for these were urgently needed to be explained at the stage which the Islamic Movement had entered. It enjoined that the Muslims should refrain from ways of “ignorance” in peace and war and thus should establish their moral superiority in the world. It also meant to demonstrate to the world in actual practical life the morality which it had been preaching to the world from the very beginning of Islam and had been enjoining that practical life should be based on the same. It also states some articles of the Islamic Constitution which help differentiate the status of the Muslims living within the limits of ‘The Abode of Islam’ (Dar-ul-Islam) from that of the Muslims living beyond its limits.</li> </ol>

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