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Suicide Bombing

doubt about the fact that those Muslims who kill themselves
in suicide bombing will die an unlawful death. No heaven is
waiting to welcome them.
Islam believes that the whole world including the Muslim
world is dar al-insaan (the abode of human beings). It is
Muslims’ bounden duty to regard all human beings as God’s
creatures. Once, in Madinah, the Prophet of Islam, on seeing
the funeral procession of a Jew, stood up in deference to it.
When one of his companions asked him why he did so, he
replied:
‘Was he not a human being?’
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The Prophet Muhammad thus recognized a commonality
between himself and a Jew—that the God who had created
him had also created the Jew. This is the real basis of human
equality.

According to Islamic teachings, there is absolutely no
doubt about the fact that those Muslims who kill
themselves in suicide bombing will die an unlawful death.
No heaven is waiting to welcome them.

Today the armament industry is one of the most flourishing
enterprises in the world. The question is, who has turned the
armament industry into a flourishing business? It is clearly
the buyers of arms who have done so. These customers are
God’s creation and God gave them minds so that they might
use it for a healthy purpose. But they have instead used them
for a destructive purpose, which is against the divine will. The
Creator will ask them about how they used their minds—to a
constructive end or a destructive end? The Creator will point
out to them that He had given them their precious minds to
be used for constructive purposes, but they used them instead
for destructive purposes. Will they have any answer to this?

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