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Quran 109:2 · Al-Kafirun

I do not worship what you worship

He is saying: Verses about Jews are a rhetorical warning, not a literal fate

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Quran 49:6 · Al-Hujurat

O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful

He is saying: Every Muslim should carry a pocket Quran translation · Riots erupt over rumors, not real desecration

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Sahih al-Bukhari 3533

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Doesn't it astonish you how Allah protects me from the Quraish's abusing and cursing?…

He is saying: Prophet's clever response to being insulted as Muzammam

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Quran 109:6 · Al-Kafirun

For you is your religion, and for me is my religion

He is saying: Quranic formula for you your religion for me mine · Mutual respect, not mutual recognition, ends religious conflict · Follow one and respect all, reworked Quranic verse

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Quran 4:46 · An-Nisa

Among the Jews are those who distort words from their [proper] usages and say, "We hear and disobey" and "Hear but be not heard" and "Ra'ina," twisting their tongues and defaming the…

He is saying: Misreading Quran's commands as enforcement breeds violence

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Quran 20:24 · Ta-Ha

Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed

He is saying: Sent to confront Pharaoh: the message and the gentle approach · Musa hears God's voice at the burning bush · Moses reformed his people and preached outward at once

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Quran 3:118 · Aal-Imran

O you who have believed, do not take as intimates those other than yourselves, for they will not spare you [any] ruin. They wish you would have hardship.…

He is saying: Misinterpretation of Quran verse about kafirs

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Quran 4:155 · An-Nisa

And [We cursed them] for their breaking of the covenant and their disbelief in the signs of Allah and their killing of the prophets without right and their saying, "Our hearts are wrapped".…

He is saying: Verses about Jews are a rhetorical warning, not a literal fate

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Quran 23:100 · Al-Mu'minun

That I might do righteousness in that which I left behind." No! It is only a word he is saying; and behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected

He is saying: claim of Islamic government solving everything debunked · Suicide bombing debate: a land war, not religion

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Sunan Abu Dawud 4336

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The first defect that permeated Banu Isra'il was that a man (of them) met another man and said: O so-and-so, fear Allah, and…

He is saying: Q&A: the double standard of fatwas over bombings · Scholars bear greatest responsibility

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Quran 9:13 · At-Tawbah

Would you not fight a people who broke their oaths and determined to expel the Messenger, and they had begun [the attack upon] you the first time? Do you fear them?…

He is saying: Maulana's controversial take: America is not oppressing · UP riot story: find who started it, then imagine standing before Allah

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Sunan Ibn Majah 4174

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Allah, the Glorified, says: 'Pride is My cloak and greatness My robe, and whoever competes with Me with regard to…

He is saying: Ego is the one barrier between man and God

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