অর্থ
What does "fitnah" mean here?
উত্তর
Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:
- It means polytheism [Ibn Masʿūd, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, Qatādah] i.e. the polytheism of those people is worse than your killing of them in the Sacred Precinct.
- It means to renege on Islam and return to idolatry [Mujāhid], i.e. the apostasy of a believer is worse for him than to be killed while following the truth.