Not doing a thing

008:012
Sahih International:
[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, "I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.

This is the English translation. It does not condone 'striking' necks or 'striking' from them every fingertip. This is not what this is saying. What it is saying is to correct, to rebuke, to discipline, to reprove.

I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved. When the Qur'an was completed, the majority of those living in those communities turned away from their self-ways to begin following the way(s) of Allah. Many turned away from cannibalism and other acts after the Law and Word(s) of Allah came to them.

30. When the disbelievers plotted against you, to imprison you, or kill you, or expel you. They planned, and God planned, but God is the Best of planners.

58. If you fear treachery on the part of a people, break off with them in a like manner. God does not like the treacherous.



[7:51] Those who took their religion lightly, and in jest, and whom the worldly life deceived. Today We will ignore them, as they ignored the meeting on this Day of theirs, and they used to deny Our revelations.


[2:114] Who is more unjust than him who forbids the remembrance of God's name in places of worship, and contributes to their ruin? These ought not to enter them except in fear. For them is disgrace in this world, and for them is a terrible punishment in the Hereafter.


[3:64] Say, "O People of the Book, come to terms common between us and you: that we worship none but God, and that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords besides God." And if they turn away, say, "Bear witness that we have submitted."


[4:153] The People of the Scripture challenge you to bring down to them a book from the sky. They had asked Moses for something even greater. They said, "Show us God plainly." The thunderbolt struck them for their wickedness. Then they took the calf for worship, even after the clear proofs had come to them. Yet We pardoned that, and We gave Moses a clear authority.


[5:72] They disbelieve those who say, "God is the Messiah the son of Mary." But the Messiah himself said, "O Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates others with God, God has forbidden him Paradise, and his dwelling is the Fire. The wrongdoers have no saviors."



Mary is Mary
Elizabeth is Elizabeth
Mary is not Elizabeth
Elizabeth is not Mary.

God IS God
The Father IS The Father
The Messiah IS The Messiah.

God is not The Father
The Father is not The Messiah
The Messiah is not God


Angels are angels
Humans are humans
Angels can be humans
Humans can be angels.

Holy angels are holy angels
Angels are angels
Holy angels are not angels
Angels are not Holy Angels.
Humans cannot be holy Angels
Holy Angels cannot be humans.


008:012
Sahih International:
[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, "I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.


The Lord is talking to 'the angels'.


Revelation 3:14
"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;"

32. aggelos
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
angel, messenger.
From aggello (probably derived from ago; compare agele) (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor -- angel, messenger.