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If I am Jewish and about to visit KSA, will I be treated according to the following verse from the Koran?

Al ma'eeda (The Dinner Table) [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

I just need unbiased explanations of the verse please.

Thank You

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Kidman is right, it doesn't mean "taking them as friends"...neither lead exactly, in Arabic it's "Yatawalla" and I can't find an equivalent word in English..something like when 2 groups of ppl are having a quarrel, one of each is a Muslim group while the other isn't, supporting the non-Muslims here is what the verse refer to..also it could mean "copying" and "immitating" non-muslims for their daily lives, even the things that contradict with our teachings...these were examples of what the verse could mean..however it's complicated and Qur'an is very hard to translate, the translation you wrote isn't accurate...and we can befriend with non-muslims so long as this doesn't affect our faith in a bad way, mostly nobody is gonna treat you bad, and even if, that would have nothing to do with Islam, some ppl wouldn't be comfortable dealing with you only because of the impression we had about Jews ( because of their atrocities in Palestine), the worst thing you would recieve there is a refusal stare from some people, but don't worry, they will not kill your children, they will not murder your family, and they won't demolish your house and leave you homeless like some people do.. Source(s): "賵賱丕鬲噩丕丿賱賵丕兀賴賱丕賱賰鬲丕亘廿賱丕亘丕賱鬲賷賴賷兀丨爻賳 .. 廿賱丕丕賱匕賷賳馗賱賲賵丕賲賳賴賲 .. 賵賯賵賱賵丕丌賲賳丕亘丕賱匕賷兀賳夭賱廿賱賷賳丕賵兀賳夭賱廿賱賷賰賲賵廿賱賴賳丕賵廿賱賴賰賲賵丕丨丿賵賳丨賳賱賴賲爻賱賲賵賳"

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I do not know anything about either of the religions, but they wont know that your jewish unless you tell them. Like with the bible, people follow it but not everything. Though they are more strict over there...i dont know what to tell you. good luck though
They misinterpretted "Friends" with "leaders". Wali, in Arabic, means Leaders, so we shouldn't take somebody that believes something different than us, as a Leader.. we can have Christians and Jews as friends, we can even get married to Christians and Jews.

The Quran is really deep, and can't really be translated in a way that makes sense in another language, it really hard.

Kidman
Difficult question. .. try to ask from someone who has deep studies on holy Quran. good luck
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