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TERRORISM: THE RITUAL OF THE DEVIL

the shoulders of the believers:
Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who forbade
corruption in the earth, other than the few among them whom We
saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of luxury that
they were given and were evildoers. (Qur'an, 11: 116)

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One of the most important traits of evildoers is the way they are
misled by their own passions and individual desires, instead of by the
morality of the Qur'an. However, being dominated by one's ego (an-
nafs) loses one in a terrible nightmare. When someone begins to act in
conformity to his lower self, it leads to internal mental chaos and a
complete lack of restraint. Instead of the peace of mind and tranquility
that come from listening to the voice of one's conscience, comes insecu-
rity, restlessness, worry and discontent. As God informs us in a verse of
the Qur'an, "…The self indeed commands to evil acts—except for those
my Lord has mercy on…" (Qur'an, 12: 53), the lower self continually en-
courages one to wickedness. It constantly encourages jealousy, envy,
anger, hatred, insensitivity, ruthlessness, disrespect, irresponsibility,
and other examples of poor morality. A believer, however, listens to the
voice of his conscience, not his lower soul, employs his free-will and
adopts a decent and pleasing morality. That is because, in the Qur'an,
God commands man to eschew the evils of his lower soul, a command-
ment which must be obeyed by making us of one's conscience. In other
words, since we know what is right and wrong, we also know how to
avoid it. This fact is expressed in the following terms in the Qur'an: