Page 83 - Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Compassionate), Salam (the Author of Safety), Tawwab (the
Accepter of Repentance) and Wahhab (the Bestower).
Believers know that they are under our Lord's protection

and are aware of His infinite goodness and kindness. For that
reason, they are eager to become the kind of servants that are
pleasing to Him, who merit His mercy, and paradise. As we
have seen, one characteristic distinguishing believers is they
are full of love and compassion. A believer behaves very

gently, always treating others kindly. Allah has offered our
Prophet's (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) gentle
nature as an example to all believers (Surah Al'Imran: 159):
It is a mercy from Allah that you were gentle with them.
If you had been rough or hard of heart, they would

have scattered from around you. So pardon them and
ask forgiveness for them, and consult with them about
the matter. Then when you have reached a firm
decision, put your trust in Allah. Allah loves those who
put their trust in Him.

In that verse Allah describes how our Prophet's (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace) gentle, moral nature
exerted a positive influence on people, whereby they grew
even more devoted to him. In the Qur'an Allah gives the
gentle natures of other loving prophets as role models. As

revealed in one verse, the Prophet Jethro (peace be upon him)
was sent by Allah to the people of Midian, they told him, "...
You are clearly the forbearing, the rightly-guided!" (Surah
Hud: 87) The superior morality of the Prophet Abraham

81