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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

Today, we can find part of the Torah's divine
commandments in the Old Testament, directing people to
avoid evil, tyranny, theft, corruption, falsehood and cruelty

and to display proper morality. In fact, Allah states in the
Qur'an that:
He [Allah] said, "Moses, I have chosen you over all
mankind for My Message and My Word. Take what I have

given you and be among the thankful." We wrote about
everything for him on the Tablets as an admonition and
making all things clear. "Seize hold of it vigorously and
command your people to adopt the best in it. I will show
you the home of the deviators!" (Surat al-A'raf:144-145)

ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AND
OPPRESSION ARE FORBIDDEN

The Torah describes in considerable detail the fate

awaiting those who commit evil and want to spread it, and
warns people against going down that road. Flying into a rage
and harming others, trying to turn them away from the true
path, shedding blood and quarrelling are all described as
forms of behavior displeasing to Allah and which He has
forbidden. He condemns all those who go down the path of
evil and oppression, revealing that such people will never be

saved. Some Torah accounts emphasize this:
Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in
their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter their council; let
not my honor be united to their assembly; for in their anger

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