Muslims – Let’s Compare These – Jesus vs. Mo

Consider what Jesus taught: 

Love God

  • Matthew 22:37–38 — “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
  • Mark 12:29–30 — “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
  • Luke 10:27 — “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.”

Love Your Neighbor

  • Matthew 22:39 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Mark 12:31 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Luke 10:27 — “And your neighbor as yourself.”

Love One Another

  • John 13:34 — “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you.”
  • John 13:35 — “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
  • John 15:12 — “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
  • John 15:17 — “These things I command you, so that you will love one another.”

Love Your Enemies

  • Matthew 5:44 — “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
  • Luke 6:27 — “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
  • Luke 6:35 — “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.”

Love Those Who Cannot Repay You

  • Luke 14:12–14 — Jesus teaches to invite the poor, crippled, lame, and blind rather than only friends and family who can repay you.

Love Jesus

  • John 14:15 — “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
  • John 14:21 — “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.”
  • John 14:23 — “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word.”
  • John 21:15–17 — Jesus repeatedly asks Peter, “Do you love me?”

The Greatest Commandments Summarized

  • Matthew 22:40 — “On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
  • Mark 12:33 — Loving God and neighbor “is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

The Good Samaritan Example of Love

  • Luke 10:25–37 — Jesus defines neighbor-love through the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Love in Action / Mercy

  • Matthew 25:35–40 — Caring for the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and prisoner is treated as done unto Christ Himself.

Now Consider the Words and Teachings of Islam’s Prophet

Quran Passages Calling for Fighting or Warfare

  • Quran 2:190 — “Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress.”
  • Quran 2:191 — “Kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you.”
  • Quran 2:193 — “Fight them until there is no fitnah and religion is for Allah.”
  • Quran 4:74 — “Let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter.”
  • Quran 4:76 — “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah.”
  • Quran 8:12 — “Strike above the necks and strike from them every fingertip.”
  • Quran 8:39 — “Fight them until there is no more fitnah and the religion is entirely for Allah.”
  • Quran 8:60 — “Prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war.”
  • Quran 9:5 — “Fight and slay the polytheists wherever you find them…”
  • Quran 9:14 — “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands.”
  • Quran 9:29 — “Fight those who do not believe in Allah… until they give the jizyah.”
  • Quran 9:41 — “Go forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and your lives.”
  • Quran 9:73 — “O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites.”
  • Quran 47:4 — “When you meet those who disbelieve in battle, strike their necks…”

Hadith Passages About Fighting

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 25 — “I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshiped but Allah…”
  • Sahih Muslim 22 — “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah.”
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 2502 — “Jihad will continue until the Day of Resurrection.”
  • Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1713 — “The peak of the matter is jihad.”
  • Sahih al-Bukhari 2783 — “A single endeavor in Allah’s cause in the afternoon or morning is better than the world and whatever is in it.”
  • Sahih al-Bukhari 2926 — A prophecy describing fighting against Jews near the end times.
  • Sahih Muslim 1767a — Reference to military expeditions and reward for fighters.
  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3027 — “Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords.”