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Seventh Friday Sen11011 Nov 23, 1990 THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEVlNG OURANIC COMMANDS Thus the command of the Holy Quran to adopt Taqwa in relation to Allah, in the way that Taqwa merits to be adopted, and not die until you became Muslims, makes it incumbent upon the Muslilll. 5 to stand united in the obedience of Allah the Exalted, and collectively bold fast to the rope of Allah and cling to it so strongly that their grip on the "rope of Allah" should never slacken even for a moment. That is to say, on the one band they should be collectively holding fast to the "rope of Allah" while remaining absolutely united in their common goal. This is the true picture of the unity of the Muslim brethren presented by these verses of the Holy Quran. It is unfortunate that the Muslims who read the Holy Quran do not ponder over its meaning. Their majority is neither able to read the Quran nor ponder over its subjects. It is ironical that their leaders, after reading the verses of the Holy Quran, are bent upon distancing the Muslims from each other, instead of uniting them. The Holy Quran promises the Muslims, that if they collectively hold on to the "rope or Allah" t hey would be sheltered from all kinds of fire. Even if you were at each other's throats, by virtue of the blessing of the "rope of Allah", Allah the Exalted will pacify you. Through His blessings, the condition of enmity will give way to a state of closeness and it will forge ties of fraternity. What a splendid outcome is shown in consequence of adopting Taqwa. But, on the contrary, the Muslim Clergy is engaged in inciting hatred against one group or anotber,their mouths frothing in their frenzy, quoting 'references from the Quran' in the same breath. For eight years the world witnessed this farce that Iran advocated the killing of Iraqis by giving 'references from the Quran', saying that they were infidels, and killing them would make the Iranians religious heroes. And if the Iranians were slain at the hands of the Iraqis they would become martyrs. On the other band, the Iraqi Muslim divines were giving this glad tiding to the people of Iraq, with the same intensity, that if they were killed at the bands of the Iranian infidels, they would certainly enter Paradise and in the sight o f Allah, their status will be that of martyrs. But if they succeeded in killing the Iranians, they would accomplish the noble task of dispatching the disbelievers to their well deserved bell. Such inflammatory speeches and sermons were not a temporary outburst meant for the consumption of their peoples; these were news 130