Page 35 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Therefore, in order to understand Sharia, we need to look to
the Qur'an, not at the practices of countries who claim to be applying
the Sharia of Islam. Islam came with the Qur'an. Therefore, the only
Islamic Sharia is in the Qur'an, and it is very clear. It is impossible for
a country that does not apply the systems of justice, democracy and
liberty in the Qur'an to be a role model on the subject of Sharia. It

would therefore be wrong for anyone to suggest, "But this is how it
is applied in this country, so Islam will bring savagery with it." The
system that needs to be accused here is the false one applied in the
name of Islam. It is not the system in the Qur'an. (Surely the Qur'an

is beyond that.)
The failure to apply the true system of the Sharia in the Qur'an,
which would bring with it the delights cited above, and the savagery

being misrepresented as the Sharia of the Qur'an is of course a very
terrible thing: Blaming Islam is not the answer, however. Those who
blame Islam do grave harm by trying to eliminate it as the sole
answer to radicalism, violence and savagery. They are actually

smoothing the radicals' path by striving to weaken Islam. It is not
their accusations or the weapons they manufacture that will elimi-
nate radicalism and the false beliefs propagated under the name of
Islam. The only way is the conception of the true Islam. There is a
problem of a false belief here. And false beliefs can only be done
away with by replacing them with true ones.

The True Jihad in the Qur'an

The word jihad comes from the Arabic word "jahd." Its meanings
are 1) To work, to strive, to exhibit determination and persistence or
self-sacrifice and 2) To control one's lower self. On the basis of these
definitions, waging jihad in Islam means to inform the other side, to

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