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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

importance. What is important is fairness, no one should be
treated unjustly, and to scrupulously implement the holy
verses of Allah. In another verse, it is commanded:

You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of Allah,
bearing witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a
people incite you into not being just. Be just. That is
closer to heedfulness. Heed Allah. Allah is aware of
what you do. (Surat al-Ma'ida: 8)

In that verse, Allah orders the faithful to always act
justly, even toward their own enemies. No Muslim can make
a spontaneous decision based on the fact that the person he is
dealing with has once harmed him or left him in a difficult
situation. Even when he is a personal enemy, if the other side
is genuinely in the wrong, every Muslim has a duty to
respond with good will and to display the morality Allah has
commanded.

Allah has issued the following commandment to
believers: "Allah does not forbid you from being good to
those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you
from your homes, or from being just towards them. Allah
loves those who are just." (Surat al-Mumtahana: 8) Here, He
informs Muslims how their relationships with other people
should be. These verses are the very foundation of a believer's

attitude toward others, formed not by the nature of the people
he is dealing with, but by Allah's revelations in the Qur'an.
That is why Muslims with pure hearts always support what is
right. Their determination on this matter is revealed in these

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