Controversial Questions about Islam

Controversial Questions about Islam and Comments
deserve rewards and the bad, which deserve punishment, especially
in the Hereafter. Thus the struggle between the followers of the
truth and the followers of falsehood, and between the supporters
of justice and the supporters of injustice is vital. Allah says in the
Holy Quraan: {Did not Allah check one set of people by means of
another there would be surely have been pulled down monasteries,
churches, synagogues and mosques, in which the name of Allah is
commemorated in abundance measure.} (1)
Terrorism sometimes occurs unintentionally, or even against the
will of the person who causes it. But if he is reminded of what he is
doing and persists in doing it, he is considered an aggressor, and so
is the one who knowingly helps him.
Because Islam invites to comprehensive peace in this life and the
Hereafter, it condemns using terror to cause injustice to any person
and assigns an appropriate punishment for it, but only after making
sure that it has been unjustly used as a means of aggression.
However, Islam, also, considers it a necessary means to remove
aggression and to help the helpless innocent people. This is what
Muslims call “Jihad” or “fighting in the cause of Allah.” Allah says:
{Permission to fight is given to those who are oppressed…} (2) and
says: {And what stops you from fighting in the cause of Allah and
for those week, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women and
children.} (3) Allah also says in a Divine tradition: {O my servants I
have forbidden injustice to Myself and I have forbidden it among
you.} (4)
In other words, “Jihad” in Islam is not an oppressive act, but a
legal defensive act, which is approved by all laws, including those of
the “democratic countries” and others. It is the legal justification for
building strong armies and developing highly destructive weapons.
(1) Holy Quraan, 22: 40.
(2) Holy Quraan, 22: 39-40.
(3) Holy Quraan, 4: 75.
(4) Muslim: al-Bir was Silah; A divine tradition is a tradition which meaning from God
but wording is of the Prophet.
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