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A Call for Unity

logue. Agitating words, expressions of anger and heated
protests are incompatible with His code of preaching and
morality.
Therefore, all Muslims must refrain from a harsh, angry,
and challenging approach, for these are contrary to the
Qur'an's method and essence. Instead, Muslims must adopt
the affection-filled, moderate, calm, and rational approach
described in the Qur'an. In other words, they must be role

models, with their maturity, lovableness, humanity, modera-
tion, humility and calm for humanity and earn people's ad-
miration for the morality of Islam and themselves. Muslims
should also make great progress and produce superb works
of science, culture, art, and aesthetics, as well as live Islam in
the best way, and thus represent it to the world.

What Should Muslims' Perspective towards

Terror Be?

All forms of terrorist attack are roundly condemned in
Islam. According to the Qur'an, it is a great sin to kill an in-
nocent person, and anyone who does so will suffer great tor-
ment in the Hereafter:

… If someone kills another person – unless it is in retal-
iation 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 giv-
en life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them
with Clear Signs, but even after that, many of them com-
mitted outrages in the earth. (Surat Al-Ma'ida: 32)

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