Fitnah in Quran and Nakhla Raid
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The first verse of the Quran which mentions Fitna was revealed in the Nakhla Raid, when Muslims captured some polytheists in the forbidden month and killed them, it states:
| “ | "They ask you concerning fighting in the sacred months (i.e. 1st, 7th, 11th and 12th months of the Islamic calendar). Say, ‘Fighting therein is a great (transgression) but a greater (transgression) with Allâh is to prevent mankind from following the way of Allâh, to disbelieve in Him, to prevent access to Al-Masjid-Al-Harâm (at Makkah), and to drive out its inhabitants, and Al-Fitnah is worse than killing." | ” |
According to Ibn Qayyim, he said "most of the scholars have explained the word Fitnah here as meaning Shirk"
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