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89 of the Hell Fire. ” When the battle started, that fellow fought so valiantly and bravely that he received plenty of wounds. Some of the people were about to doubt (Prophet Muhammad’s sa statement), but the man, feeling the pain of his wounds, put his hand into his quiver and took out of it some arrows with which he killed himself (i. e. committed suicide). Then some men amongst the Muslims came hurriedly and said, “O Allah’s Apostle sa ! Allah has made your statement true; so-and-so has committed suicide”. Prophet Muhammad sa said, “O so- and-so! Get up and make an announcement that none but a believer will enter Paradise and that Allah may support the religion with an unchaste (evil) wicked man. 6 If the extremists had read these few verses and A ḥā d ī th, they would have understood that there is no such thing in Islam as suicide during warfare, justified or not. An article by the Pew Research Centre stated, “Recent surveys show that most people in several countries with significant Muslim populations have an unfavorable view of ISIS, including virtually all respondents in Lebanon and 94% in Jordan”. 7 These surveys show that even if all Muslims may not be well-versed in their faith, they do know that ISIS or