Their building which they have built will not cease to cause uneasiness in
their hearts, until their hearts are cut in pieces. God is Knowing, Wise. Sura
At-Taubah (ix) 108-110.
The expedition to Tabuk was the last one commanded by Muhammad in person, and
now it seemed 'as if all opposition' was crushed, all danger over.1
There is a Tradition to the effect that the followers of the Prophet began to
sell their arms and to say, 'The wars for religion are now ended.' But when this
reached the ears of the Prophet, he forbade it saying, 'There shall not cease
from the midst of my people a party engaged in war for the truth, even until
Antichrist appear.'2 Whether the Tradition is a genuine one or not,
it shows at least the views which the early Muslims held as to religious wars
and is quite in accord with the Tradition already referred to, 3
Jihad will remain till the day of judgement.'
The compulsion of the Jews and Christians, after the expedition to Tabuk, is
sanctioned in some verses of Sura At-Taubah (ix), which the best authorities
place soon after that date:
Make war upon those who believe not in God, nor in the last day, and who
forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden and who profess not
the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be
humbled.