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Living in a New Age

qualities, it is against the creation plan of the Creator for a
man just to fight and get himself killed. Every human being
must rather live and make a healthy use of his abilities. All
the progress seen in the world was not achieved by those who
fought and were killed: it was achieved by those who made
good use of the life given to them by the Creator. Had people
all over the world engaged in warfare, there would have
been no developments in human life; even the modern-day
resources which are made use of by militants today would not
have come into existence.

Every human being having been endowed with unique
qualities, it is against the creation plan of the Creator for a
man just to fight and get himself killed.

Even today, innumerable Muslims are influenced by the
kind of thinking which inspired the Libyan fighters. Indeed,
Muslim violence in the present age stems from this turn of
mind. The Muslim groups that perpetrate terror are very well
aware that the other side is so strong that their violence cannot
seriously affect it in any way. Yet, they continue to engage in
acts of violence. The motivation behind this violence is that
Muslims falsely believe that if they indulge in violence in the
name of jihad, and in the process get killed by their enemies,
they will become martyrs and be led straight to heaven.
This is a false belief. No person or group wants to kill
Muslims. Rather, Muslims have themselves developed the
theory that there is a conspiracy to harm or kill them. This
unnatural and unfounded fear causes them to engage in
violence, the result of which is but a further deterioration in
their own situation. All such cases are instances of attacks
being carried out by Muslims causing others to retaliate.
The well-known Syrian poet Khairuddin al-Zirikli (d. 1976)

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