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GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

join the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They
are among the righteous. (Surah Al ‘Imran: 113-114)
The duty of devout Muslims is to embrace people who live by such
moral virtues with affection and compassion, and to show them love and
understanding. To reiterate, therefore, the Muslim attitude toward the
Jews is based on the moral values revealed in the Qur’an and imple-

mented by our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). The
revelation of the errors of irreligious, Godless Zionism or various super-
stitious traditions incompatible with the morality of true faith and the crit-
icism of mistaken practices do not alter that fact.

Not All Masons Should Be Held Responsible for

Atheistic Masonic Activities
In the same way that is a violation of good conscience to hold the en-
tire Jewish people responsible for the actions of a few atheist Zionists, so
the blame for the actions of atheist freemasons cannot be laid at the door
of all masons. There are people within freemasonry who believe in the
One Allah, who oppose the oppression implemented by and known to
stem from senior masons in certain lodges, and who seek peace and good
among all people. These people are trying to turn freemasonry from being

an organization that stirs up disorder and acts against religious moral val-
ues to being one that strives to spread moral virtue. This work is exceed-
ingly important and essential. And this situation should not be ignored as
the negative activities of freemasonry are identified and criticized.
As one reads the pages that follow, it must not be forgotten that it is
atheist freemasonry that is being criticized. All these criticisms are aimed
at the atheist aspect of freemasonry, ideas opposed to religious moral val-
ues and the oppression that this aspect causes. And the aim behind this

criticism, as well as to enable people to see where the danger really comes
from, is to spur freemasons, who are unaware of this aspect or who wish
to change it, into intellectual action. A readjustment from within freema-

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