Page 69 - Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

... help each other to goodness and Allahliness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear
of Allah. Allah is severe in retribution. (Surat al-

Ma'ida: 2)
As that verse makes clear, the faithful struggle only for
what is good. They consider the words of Allah in the Qur'an:
"Whatever good you do, Allah knows it." (Surat an- Nisa:

127) They never forget that they will be recompensed for all
they do in the Sight of our Lord, but Allah reveals that
pleasing mutual aid needs to be in a framework of "good and
Allahliness." The meaning of goodness is also explained in the
Qur'an :

It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to
the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are those
who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the
Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love for
it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to

orphans and the very poor, and to travelers and
beggars, and to set slaves free, and who perform prayer
and pay charity tax; those who honor their contracts
when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and
illness and in battle. Those are the people who act
loyal. They are the people who guard against evil.
(Surat al-Baqara: 177)

True goodness, therefore, is rather different from the
way society in general perceives it. Those who do not live by
the morality of the Qur'an view good deeds as favors they

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