Home > Surah 9 - The Repentance
In the Quran, we find a strange and unusual command in Q9:111, in which Allah reveals that an aggressive command to war is binding upon the Christians and Jews due to the command being revealed to them from Allah in their scriptures!
Surah 9:111:
Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed. A true promise upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And that is the great attainment. (9:111)
The Quran views the content of the Gospel and Torah as accessible and authoritative at the time of Muhammad.
The specific wording—that this promise is written "in the Torah and the Gospel"—suggests that a physical, verifiable text existed which could be cross-referenced.
The 7th-century Gospel (which is the same as the modern one) does NOT contain the specific Islamic concept of "fighting and killing/being killed" for Paradise in the way the Qur'an describes, it creates a "mismatch" that fuels the dilemma.