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We made them leaders, summoning to the Fire, and on the Day of Rising
they will not be helped. We pursued them with a curse in this world and on
the Day of Rising they will be hideous and spurned. (Surat al-Qasas: 41-42)

The Roots of Violence
When we scrutinize closely the underlying reasons behind men
massacring one another, yet without being consumed with guilt, we
encounter materialist thinking, which had a profound impact on the
philosophical life of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Materialistic philosophy
maintains that there is nothing but matter. Matter has existed for all
eternity and will remain so for all eternity. Starting out from this premise,
it denies the existence of Allah and all values pertaining to the spiritual
life as well as good morals. Again, this distorted rationale argues that man
exists to survive, and he is not responsible to anyone for anything.
Therefore, materialists say, he should only pursue his own interests.
The theory of evolution advocated by materialist philosophers is the
pillar on which this distorted understanding is founded. At the time the
theory of evolution was first proposed, it supported the materialist
standpoint, and thus it laid the basis for the cold-blooded thinking behind
mass murders and massacres. In the concept of the "survival of the fittest",
Darwin suggested that the weak would
always be eliminated while the strongest
would survive. The view called "Social
Darwinism" became the basic tenet of the
racist views prevalent in 19th Century
capitalism. According to this view, the weak,
the destitute and the disabled, and even whole
races of people were defined as creatures
whose evolutionary status is such that they
must serve the interests of the 'fittest'.

At the roots of many acts of
cruelty in the modern world lies
the Darwinian theory.