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Some societies have accepted the message and followed the right path
while others have denied and swerved from it. This also holds true for
the present day. Some people will side with the righteous, whereas
some others will plunge into mischief. This is the law of God. Those
who believe should also adopt such an outlook and never forget that
there may be sincere, pious people who have fear of God among the
members of all religions as well as those who are far removed from the

religious tenets.
Our hope is that a world will be established in which people will
be able to live together in peace, no matter what race or religion they

belong to, in which every racist perversion will be rejected, everyone's
rights will be safeguarded and everyone will be respected. The strug-
gle that will have to take place on intellectual grounds against radical-
ism and anti-religious ideologies will hopefully establish the peace that
has been longed for. Of this God relates the following in the Qur'an:

Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one another. If
you do not act in this way (be friends and protectors of one another)
there will be turmoil in the land and great corruption. (Qur'an, 8:73)

Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good among
the generations of those who came before you, who forbade corrup-
tion in the earth, other than the few among them whom We saved. …
(Qur'an, 11:116)