WHAT DOES THE KORAN TEACH?
These extracts are taken from The Koran translated by N.J Dawood – Penguin Classics 4th Revised Edition 1974 – reprinted in 1986 and reproduced in the Lutheran Christian News of October 1st, 2001. Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed. (Sura 2:178). Fight for the sake of Allah those that fight against you, but do not attack them first.” “Allah does not love the aggressors. Kill them wherever you find them … if they attack you put them to the sword … Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allahs religion reigns supreme … If any one attacks you, attack him as he attacked you.. (Sura 2:190-4). Fight for the cause of Allah. (Sura 2:444). Those that deny our revelations, we will burn in Hellfire … As for those that have faith and do good works, we shall admit them to gardens watered by running streams, where, wedded to chaste virgins, they shall abide for ever … the believers who do good works, whether men or women, shall enter the gardens of Paradise (S
