Page 83 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)

It is of course very suspicious how the
radicals and opponents of Islam who distort
this verse ignore this rather important provi-
sion. The verse explicitly grants Muslims only
the right to self-defence: The verse is not therefore com-
manding warfare and aggression.

Another important element in the verses is revealed as fol-
lows: "Fitna [sedition, strife] is worse than killing." Inciting com-
munities, encouraging hatred, spreading hatred, anarchy and ter-
ror by engaging in slander and outright falsehoods thereby pro-

ducing hostile masses of people is fitna, and the verse tells us that
fitna is worse than killing; thus, the communities that attack
Muslims are the ones that engage in actual, psychological and
covert fitna and the harm they do is very great. Muslims natural-
ly defend themselves when their aggression rears its head.

The way that some fanatics are taken in by hearsay or supersti-
tion and declare individuals, societies or faiths to be spreading fitna
and then seek supposed evidence for their perversions from verses of
the Qur'an is exceedingly wrong. Fitna involves actions that will lead
to corruption, such as spreading division among Muslims, leading
them into loss and sin by inflicting all kinds of troubles on them, then

establishing the infrastructure for mass rebellions and engaging in
physical and verbal assaults on Muslims. Therefore, in order to be able
to accuse someone of fitna, they have to have committed one or more
of these actions. Those who seek to accuse the members of another sect,
or especially Jews or Israel by branding them as engaging in fitna thus
fly in the face of this verse.

According to the Qur'an, it is a sin to accuse all Jews or
Israel of engaging in fitna. People who spread fitna
may emerge from any religion or country. Yet
in the same way that it is impossible to brand