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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

here, and immortal youth; try to win them!" It turns their
tears into laughter. It shows its favorable effects in every
group, particular and universal, and illuminates them.
Sociologists and moralists, who are concerned with the
social life of mankind, should take special note. If the rest of

the thousands of benefits and advantages of belief in the
hereafter are compared with the five or six we have alluded
to, it will be understood that only belief is the means of
happiness in this world and the next, and in the lives of
both. 58
As these examples suggest, once people live by religious
morality, it is easy to advise them, forbid them to commit evil

and turn them to the true path. Bediuzzaman often said that
terror and anarchy could be destroyed only if people live by
the morality of the Qur'an, commanding love, understanding,
peace, forgiveness, affection and compassion and standing
against all forms of evil and wickedness. These words of his
call on Muslims to embrace the truths of the Qur'an, again
emphasizing that only prevailing religion can end anarchy in

the world:
The only solution to the ruin and destruction caused by
anarchy, which menaces and has wreaked terrible
calamities on mankind, is the eternal and timeless truths of
a sacred and divine religion. 59

Bediuzzaman frequently stressed that the morality of the
Qur'an, and its interpretation in the Risale-i Nur made a great
contribution in eliminating terror and anarchy, and would

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