An Analysis of What Quran Says about Fighting Zionism/4

Why War, Not Negotiation?

IQNA – Iran stood at a crossroads between two paths — war or negotiation. Most people preferred diplomacy, yet fate decreed war.

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Date: 09 March 2026 - 13:05

According to Islamic narrations, the Holy Quran “flows like the sun” — meaning it rises anew each day and remains ever relevant. In analyzing today’s conditions, one of the clearest parallels in the Quran is the story of the Battle of Ahzab, which began with the Battle of Badr.

When the Muslim army set out, it faced two caravans: one was commercial, and the other was the armed force of Quraysh. The Quran says:

“And when Allah promised you one of the two parties that it shall be yours and you loved that the one not armed should be yours, and Allah desired to manifest the truth of what was true by His words and to cut off the root of the unbelievers.” (Verse 7 of Surah Al-Anfal)

The Muslims were outnumbered three to one and had little military equipment. Naturally, they preferred to seize the trade caravan, yet God willed that they confront the enemy’s army — so that truth would be strengthened through divine decree and the roots of disbelief cut off.

The phrase “Allah willed (intended)” indicates that this was a divine strategy meant to bring the matter to completion and eliminate the enemy’s line: “and cut off the roots of the disbelievers.”

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In today’s situation, the Iranian nation likewise faced two paths — negotiation and war. Negotiation seemed rational and desirable, given the destructive consequences of conflict for both Iran and the region. Yet divine destiny determined otherwise: the enemy overturned the negotiations irrationally and committed acts such as the assassination of the Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, as well as children, women, and Iranian commanders.

According to God’s unchanging law, honor and sovereignty ultimately belong to the people of faith, and the entire military backbone and remaining forces of the Zionist child‑killing regime and its allies will be destroyed.