This is the goal of fighting and jihad against the enemies of the faith; it is to ward off their evil from the faith and to defend the religion of Allah, Who created people to follow this path, so that it will be supreme over all other religions.
Source, in full
Abdur-Rahman Nasir as-Sadi, Tafsir as-Sadi , Nasiruddin al-Khattab, trans. (Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House, 2018), III, 377. quoted in The critical qur’an: explained from key islamic commentaries and contemporary historical research. (2021). . Bombardier Books.
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about Quran 8:39