2- We must be equitable even in contact with enemies.

2- We must be equitable even in contact with enemies. " Whoever then commits aggression (by fighting) against you, attack him in like manner as he attacked you; ..." 3- The necessity of piety, even at the time of fighting, is another one of the Islamic training principles. 4- The order of legislation should not be in a manner that it becomes a means of despair for Muslims and boldness in disbelievers. The principle of similar reciprocation stands for this very sake.

5- At the time of fighting in similar reciprocation, if you do not violate the limits of justice and be of the pious ones, you will enjoy of the Divine help.

True it is that the most important effective factor of the fate of a war is the involving soldiers, but a soldier needs to be equipped. Hence, the verse emphasizes that the lack of spending wealth in this way is to bring themselves and other Muslims to destruction.

" And spend in the way of Allah; and cast not yourselves by your own hands into perdition:..." At the time of revelation, in particular, a great deal of Muslims were full of ardor and emotions for Holy War, but they were so poor that they could not prepare the artillery. As the Qur'an states, they used to come to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) and ask him to supply the necessary means in order to send them to the battle-field.

But they usually came back with sorrow and grief while their eyes were shedding tears because the required means could not be supplied. The statement of the Qur'an in Sura At-Taubah, No.

9, verse 92 is thus; "...they went back while their eyes overflowed with tears on account of grief for not finding that which they should spend." Spending, a Prevention of Destruction A general fact and a social rite can be taken from this holy verse in account of disbursing, although the subject is mentioned next to the 126 verses of Holy War.