Indiscriminate Animosity
\r\n Al-Mumtahanah (The Tested Woman) - Chapter 60: Verse 8
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"God does not forbid you, with regard to those who did not fight you on account of religion and did not expel you from your homes, from treating them righteously and being just toward them. Truly God loves the just."
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\r\n Muslims are here encouraged not to treat an entire people as enemies, if only some of those people are in fact enemies. In this context, God does not forbid you is understood as a positive exhortation meaning, “God wishes you to do so”.
This verse was reportedly revealed in response to a specific incident when Asma, the daughter of Abu Bakr, refused to meet her mother, who had come from Makkah to visit her in Madinah, because her mother had remained an idolater rather than embracing Islam. When the situation was brought to the attention of the Prophet, this verse was revealed. Asma then received her mother in her house. In this context, that God loves the just indicates that God loves those who are able to discern between those who are enemies and those who are not, thus avoiding indiscriminate animosity.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n \"The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary\" - Seyyed Hossein Nasr