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Originally Posted by halla
wrong. let us hear from islam's most perfect man, mohamed.
Volume 1, Book 2, Number 35:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostles, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr). Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind any sariya going for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allah's cause and then made alive, and then martyred and then made alive, and then again martyred in His cause."
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First, that's a hadith, I believe, not the Quran. There's a lot of dispute about the veracity and meaning of many hadiths, and in any event hadiths are less authoritative than the Quran.
In any event, the quoted bit is about how a Muslim will be rewarded for fighting in defense of Islam. Nowhere does it justify terrorism or aggressive war.
Not being a Quranic scholar, I can't comment on any other contexts that might be missing.
Islam, having been born during a violent time and then been under almost constant attack during its early years, has a lot of verses about fighting and combat. But many of those verses are either descriptive or else only apply in very narrow circumstances. Sometimes they only applied to a specific historical circumstance.