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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

terms: "Among those We have created, there is a community
who guide by the Truth and act justly according to it." (Surat
al-A'raf: 181)
Other verses in the Qur'an on the subject of justice read:

Allah commands you to return to their owners the
things you hold on trust and, when you judge between
people, to judge with justice. How excellent is what
Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-Hearing, All-
Seeing. (Surat an-Nisa: 58)

Say: "My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face
Him in every mosque and call on Him, making your
religion sincerely His. As He originated you, so you
will return." (Surat al-A'raf: 29)

Allah commands justice and doing good and giving to
relatives. And He forbids indecency and doing wrong
and tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully, you will
pay heed. (Surat an-Nahl: 90)

All over the world, people are subjected to cruel
treatment because of their race, language or skin color. Yet
according to the view of justice as set out in the
Qur'an, a person's ethnicity, race or gender are of no

Racial and national differences between
people are not an element of conflict, but
a source of cultural wealth.

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