With the most intensive manner, the Qur’ān invites people unto Holy Struggle.

With the most intensive manner, the Qur’ān invites people unto Holy Struggle. Sometimes it applies some encouraging words, and sometimes some scorning words, and sometimes it threatens them. It addresses people differently and through various ways in order to make them ready. Here, in this verse, at first it says: “O’ you who have Faith! What (excuse) have you that when it is said to you.

‘Go forth in Allah’s way’, you should incline heavily to the ground?…” Then, with a reproaching tone, and, referring to the life of this fleeting world and also the vast eternal life in the coming world, it says: “…Are you contented with the life of this world instead of the Hereafter?…” Did you do it while the advantages and the amount of the life of this world in comparison with the life in Hereafter is very little?

The verse says: “…But the enjoyment of the life of this world, compared with the Hereafter, is but little.” How might a wise person submit such a detrimental exchange? And how does he lose an extraordinary worthy thing for reaching to a worthless little thing? Surah At-Tawbah – Verse 39 إِلاَّ تَنْفِرُوا يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَاباً أَلِيماً وَيَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْماً غَيْرَكُمْ وَلا تَضُرُّوهُ شَيْئاً وَاللّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ 39 ***.

“If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement, and He will substitute in your place a people other than you, and you will not harm Him anything, for Allah is All-Powerful over everything.”*** Then, the Qur’ān promotes the reproaching tone higher into an earnest form of threat and implies that if Muslims do not move towards the battlefields of Holy Struggle, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment.

The verse says: “If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement…” So, if they think that by their going aside and turning their backs to the battlefields the wheels of the development of Islam may stop and the light of the religion of Allah will tend to be extinguished, they are in a tremendous error, because Allah can substitute a group of people other than them who will be faithful, decided, and obedient to the command of Allah.

The verse says: “…and He will substitute in your place a people other than you…” These people will be a group of persons who are different from them from any point of view. They will be different from them not only from the view point of personality, but also from the view points of faith, decision, courage, and obedience.

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