To Kill or not to kill is the issue..

[bob_chasm]

Re: To Kill or not to kill is the issue..

@minah_pa

I have a question here… kind of in relation to this.

If I am a person (usually a young angry man) who follows and believes this, I do a suicide mission and kill some civilians (knowing that I was going to kill both civilians and soldiers) along with soldiers and myself. Let us leave the soldiers out of it, but now it is a time of judgement for me. If I was taught and believed that I would go to heaven, do I? Or do my actions in ignorance count against me? Assume I was never taught any different.

Also, is suicide a sin, even as a weapon against invaders.

I am curious about this. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dumb it down for me, don’t throw all the technical Islamic jargon out there and expect me to understand. Plain words as simply as possible works well for me. Thanks (AQ- mainly that was for you, I know most people understand you and agree with your points, but you lose me all the time, my fault entirely, but this I really would like to know about)

Hello minah,

Here is why they mislead and are misled:

[al-Baqarah 2:8] And of mankind are some who say: We believe in Allah and the Last Day, when they believe not. [al-Baqarah 2:9] They think to beguile Allah and those who believe, and they beguile none save themselves; but they perceive not. [al-Baqarah 2:10] In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.[al-Baqarah 2:11.10] And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only.[al-Baqarah 2:12.6] Are not they indeed the mischief-makers ? But they perceive not. …[al-Baqarah 2:13] And when it is said unto them: believe as the people believe, they say: shall we believe as the foolish believe ? are not they indeed the foolish ? But they know not.

Here is what will happen to those who mislead and are misled into corrupting the earth:

[as-Saffat 37:27] And some of them draw near unto others, mutually questioning.
[as-Saffat 37:28] They say: Lo! ye used to come unto us, imposing, (swearing that ye spoke the truth). [as-Saffat 37:29] They answer: Nay, but ye (yourselves) were not believers. [as-Saffat 37:30] We had no power over you, but ye were wayward folk. [as-Saffat 37:31] Now the Word of our Lord hath been fulfilled concerning us. Lo! we are about to taste (the doom). [as-Saffat 37:32] Thus we misled you. Lo! we were (ourselves) astray. [as-Saffat 37:33] Then lo! this day they (both) are sharers in the doom. [as-Saffat 37:34] Lo! thus deal We with the guilty.

[al-Ahzab 33:66] On the day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they say: Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed His messenger!
[al-Ahzab 33:67] And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our princes and great men, and they misled us from the Way. [al-Ahzab 33:68] Our Lord! Oh, give them double torment and curse them with a mighty curse.

4.97: Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged ? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah’s earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein ? As for such, **their habitation will be hell, **an evil journey’s end;

On the other hand, Allah is a just and merciful Lord, capable of forgiving too. He will judge each individual under the mitigating circumstances of their life experiences and capacity. I should point out that these are my conclusions based on my reading of the Quran.

regards,

bob