Moulavi Gerágh Ali

“ It was only said in self-preservation and war of defence, and concerned only those who had taken up arms against the Moslems.
The verses—Suras II, 189; and VIII, 40—have been quoted above in paras. 17 and 37 (pp. 18, 21, 44 and 45) , and they fully show by their context and scope that they only enjoined war against the Meccans, who used to come to war upon the Moslems. The object of making war is precisely set forth in these verses, and appears to mean that civil feuds and persecutions be at an end. But Sir W. Muir wrongly translates "Fitnah" as opposition. ”