Terror, in its broadest
sense, is violence committed against non-military targets for political
purposes. To put it another way, targets of terror are entirely innocent
civilians whose only crime, in the eyes of terrorists, is to represent
"the other side".
For this reason, terror means subjecting innocent people to violence,
which is an act bereft of any moral justification. This, as in the case of
murders committed by Hitler or Stalin, is a crime committed against mankind.
The Qur'an is a true Book
revealed to people as a guide to the true path and in this Book, Allah commands
man to adopt good morals. This morality is based upon concepts such as love,
compassion, understanding and mercy. The word "Islam" is derived from
the word meaning "peace" in Arabic. Islam is a religion revealed to
mankind with the intention of presenting a peaceful life through which the
infinite compassion and mercy of Allah manifest on earth. Allah calls all
people to Islamic morals through which compassion, mercy, peace and love can be
experienced all over the world. In Surah Baqara, verse 208, Allah addresses
believers as follows:
O You who believe! Enter
absolutely into peace (Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is
an outright enemy to you.
As the verse makes clear,
security can only be ensured by "entering into Islam", that is,
living by the values of the Qur'an. The values of the Qur'an hold a Muslim
responsible for treating all people, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, kindly and
justly, protecting the needy and the innocent and "preventing the
dissemination of mischief". Mischief comprises all forms of anarchy
and terror that remove security, comfort and peace. As Allah says in a verse, "Allah
does not love corruption". (Surat al-Baqara, 205)
Murdering a person for no reason is one of the most obvious examples of
mischief. Allah repeats in the Qur'an a command He formerly revealed to Jews in
the Torah thus:
...if someone kills another
person – unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption
in the earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives
life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind... (Surat
al-Ma'ida, 32)
As the verse suggests, a
person who kills even a single man, "unless it is in retaliation for
someone else or for causing corruption in the earth", commits a crime as
if he had murdered all mankind.
This being the case, it is obvious what great sins are the murders,
massacres and attacks, popularly known as "suicide attacks",
committed by terrorists. Allah informs us how this cruel face of terrorism will
be punished in the hereafter in the following verse:
There are only grounds
against those who wrong people and act as tyrants in the earth without any
right to do so. Such people will have a painful punishment. (Surat ash-Shura,
42)
All these reveal that
organizing acts of terror against innocent people is utterly against Islam and
it is unlikely that any Muslim could ever commit such crimes. On the contrary,
Muslims are responsible for stopping these people, removing "mischief on
earth" and bringing peace and security to all people all over the world.
Islam cannot be reconciled with terror. Just the contrary, it should be the
solution to and the path to the prevention of terror.
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