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Al-Ma’idah 5: 50–2

(50) (If they turn away from the Law of Allah) do they desire judgement according to the Law of Ignorance?38 But whose judgement can be better than Allah’s for those who have certainty of belief?

(51) Believers! Do not take Jews and Christians for your allies. They are the allies of each other. And among you he who takes them for allies, shall be regarded as one of them. Allah does not guide the wrong-doers.

(52) Indeed you see that those afflicted with the disease of hypocrisy race towards them, saying: “We fear lest some misfortune overtakes us.” And it may happen that Allah will either bring you a decisive victory or bring about something else from Himself and then they will feel remorseful at their hypocrisy which they have kept con- cealed in their breasts, ▶

38 The word jahiliyah (literally “ignorance”) is used as an antonym of Islam. Islam is the way of [ilm (true knowledge), since it is God Himself Who has shown this way and His knowledge embraces everything. In contrast is the way that diverges from Islam – the way of Ignorance (jahiliyah). The pre-Islamic period in Arabia is designated as jahiliyah because this was the era when human beings derived their norms from either superstitious beliefs, conjectures and imagination or from their desires. Whenever such an attitude is adopted, it is bound to be designated as Ignorance.

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