Page 99 - Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

he preceding section considered the Qur'an's
calls by Allah for people to live in love and

security, emphasizing that Islam is a religion
of peace. We have seen how an understanding,
reconciliatory and humane model that respects freedom of
thought and attaches great importance to human rights will
appear in a society that lives by the moral values of the
Qur'an. Like the other Divine religions, Islam proposes a
model society of compassionate, mature, moderate, mild,

gentle, kind, sympathetic, loyal, understanding, forgiving
people who avoid fighting and conflict. In the Qur'an Allah
also commands believers to strive to bring such a society
about.
Divine books revealed before the Qur'an may have
undergone a number of distortions, but they still contain
sections that agree with it. These books are the Torah and
the Gospels. Today, although mixed with human words and
thus distorted, they make up the core of what is called the

Bible. The Bible's two basic parts, the Old and the New
Testaments, are based on the Torah and the Gospels
respectively, including many other books and letters. Both
the Torah and the Gospels favor love, peace and
understanding, as well as prohibiting terror and oppression.
In this section, we consider how Jews and Christians from
all over the world must take action in light of these

commands to oppose terrorism.

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