Page 57 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 55

a sin to blow oneself up in a restaurant. Those who drive their vehicles
into people waiting on a bus stop or shopping in a marketplace do not
wage jihad by doing so; they are committing an unlawful act. Those
who honour and glorify such things and imagine that the person has
become a "martyr" are applauding murder, not jihad. Killing defence-
less civilians together with himself is not jihad, but murder.

Jihad means to strive through knowledge and science to bring
someone to the truth and to establish communication with love and
respect; not to kill him.

Martyrdom means losing one's life while striving on the path of
God, while seeking to spread the love, friendship and brotherhood
demanded by Islam using fine words and through goodness. Killing is

a murder and a sin. It is not a virtue to be honoured. And those who
perpetrate attacks that target innocent civilians do not attain the rank
of martyrdom; they are only committing the unlawful act of murder.

But suicide bombers and their supporters spread the propaganda
of a religion that commands others' deaths. And their religion is not the
religion of God, either. Very few of those who follow that faith may
realize that. There are many people who imagine this false religion to
be true and who seek to adhere to it.

The real problem is this: People who do not know their own reli-
gion are being diverted toward nonsense. And unless they learn their
own religion and the true love in the Qur'an, there will continue to be
suicide bombers and those who encourage and even honour them. Mil-
itary precautions are not the way to teach them the truth. The only way

is correct education. And in order to provide a true education, people
of love from among sincerely devout Muslims, Christians and Jews
must all come together. Once the power of unity has been established,
then those people on the wrong path will begin to follow the right
path.