Today, Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the face of the earth. Let me tell you a clear explanation of the ,(Surah Al Tawbah ,Chapter- 9 ,Verse -5)
Which says as follows:-
"So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."(Quran 9:5)
One of the famous critics of India, Arun shoury, He wrote a Book called
"World of Fatwa" and he quotes the Quran from: SURAH Al TAWBA Chapter:- 9 ,verse number:- 5 and says as below:-
In his book ,it says as follows
{Quran says : "Wherever you find a kaafir *(Hindu),You kill him, You wait for him in every stead before"}
*Kaafir means an "Unbeliever" but inorder to provoke them he writes as Hindus.
Imagine If a innocent Hindu reads his book they will believe what he said in his book and immediately there would be a reaction then the person would start going against Islam, The problem is that selected few people for there own motives because of there writings and quote the same verse, Which is quote by the Orientalists and after quoting "verse number 5", He jumps to "verse number -7" Directly,
Any intelligent person can understand why he skipped one verse , "Verse number -6" has the key to reply to what he had quoted from "verse 5"
Infact if you read the Surah tawbah the first two verses talks about the Peace treaty between the Muslims and the mushriks of Makkah ,This peace Treaty was unilaterally broken by the mushriks of Makkah ,By the time, Almighty God reaches the verse number -5,He says in the battlefield "Wherever you find your enemy (Kaafir means the unbeliever, The enemy) you kill him", IT IS IN THE BATTLEFIELD
If anyone takes out of contest, It would sound absurd,
Imagine a few decades earlier, There was a war between USA and Vietnam and if the army general of USA tells the American soldiers in the battlefield "My soldiers don't be scared where ever you find a Vietnamese, You kill him"-It is said to boost up the soldiers, but if today someone quotes that the Army general of America said to kill the Vietnamese ,It would be foolishness,
Those verse are taken out of contest and quite natural any army general to boost up the moral, They will tell to support there solders, Similarly Almighty god says in the Quran ,when the enemies come to kill you ,Don't get scared, You kill them, So what's the harm in it?
And see the next verse -6 (Which arun shoury skipped) says-"If the unbeliever, if they seek silence if they seek peace, Escort them to a place of security, So that they may hear the word of Allah"
See the beauty of the Quran, The Quran did not tell them to "go AWAY TO SOMEWHERE if they want peace" .Quran says to "ESCORT them to a PLACE OF SECURITY."
Today the most generous Army general would tell "If the enemy want peace let them go". Which army general would say "Escort them to a place of security, But this is what the Quran says!!
"whosoever killed a human "¦"¦"¦"¦., it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whosoever saved the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind" [Quran 5:32]