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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

difference if those others are totally innocent children. But
anyone who possesses reason and conscience and knows that

he bears a soul, given him by Allah, holds his anger in check,
no matter what the circumstances. His judgment and
conscience will always prevail. Never will he do the slightest
thing for which Allah might one day call him to account.
In the Qur'an (Surat ash-Shams: 7-10), Allah reveals that

Man is inspired by both evil and the will to avoid it.
Therefore, it is not some imaginary evolutionary process that
underlies moral degeneration and the commission of crimes.
Immorality and crime come from the evil side of human
nature, which can only be defeated by personal devotion to
the moral values that Allah has taught to humanity through

religion. If people have no faith in Allah and do not believe
they must ever account to Him for their actions, they have no
reason to avoid committing evil in the forms of personal
greed and dishonesty or social evils like wars, racist killings,

gang wars or ruthless skinhead assaults. On a less dramatic
level, it accounts for why people are left to starve, and for the
rampant injustice and ruthlessness in the world today. There
is no end to the cruelties of those who regard Man as only an
animal species, illogically believing that they, like animals,
are engaged in a struggle for survival. Not believing in Allah

and the hereafter, they induce others to forget about them too.
Every human being bears a soul breathed into him by
Allah, and is responsible to the Creator Who created him out
of nothing. In the Qur'an, Allah reminds those who think of

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