"Help for Allah Is Near and a Speedy Victory Is Assured"

Why, whatever could this quotation, part of a mural located in an ethnic Toronto neighbourhood, mean? Tarek Fatah has a go at 'splaining it (h/t MH):

It’s part of a Quranic verse that has over centuries been a battle cry of jihadis and the armies of the Islamic world.

The mural, at the west end of Toronto’s Little India on Gerrard Street, has verse 13 of the Qur’an’s chapter 61 “Al-Saff” (The Battle Array) painted in tasteful Arabic calligraphy.

It reads: “Help from Allah (is near) and a speedy victory (is assured).”

The words are innocuous and otherwise poetic.

Islamists will insist they are harmless, but it would be a falsehood to suggest the verse is not associated with doing battle with the infidel enemy. After all, these same words were once inscribed on the handles of Islamic swords and are today sung as Islamic battle songs by Jihadis.

According to Ibn Katheer, the 14th century Islamic scholar, in the verse “The Battle Array” (Al-Saff) Muslims are told that if they are willing to sacrifice their lives and possessions in the service of Allah, then not only will they find Paradise after death, but the conquest they desire over their enemy will be theirs very soon after they confront the enemy.

Another contemporary Islamic scholar, Mufti Muhammad Shafi in his nine-volume “Comprehensive commentary on Holy Qur’an”, had this to say about this verse.

“There is one blessing that will be granted (by Allah) in this world. Which is the Divine help and imminent victory, that is conquests of enemy territories. If the word Qarib (near) is the opposite of Hereafter, it would include all later Islamic conquests of Arab and non-Arab territories.”

Which begs the question. Who is the enemy this Toronto mural wants Muslims to fight against? Where is this non-Arab territory that this mural wishes us Muslims to conquer and be victorious over? Could it be Canada?

You can bet your bottom shekel it could be. Canada and every other place where the "kuffar" yet rules.