The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 124
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI benevolence and then like you treat your own kith and kin. Thus believers are taught three stages of good behaviour toward fellow human beings, each higher than the other. "Verily, Allah enjoins treating others with justice, and with benevolence: and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency and manifest evil and transgression. He admonished you that you may take heed. " (Quran 16:91). The Promised Messiah says: "The second aspect of devoting one's life to the cause of God Almighty is that one's life should be devoted to the service of His creatures and to sympathize with them and to sharing their burdens and sorrows. One should suffer pain to bring them comfort, and one should experience grief to bring them consolation. ". Terrorism has become so prevalent that there is hardly any country which is immune to it. There are Muslims who have become terrorists. Some of them think that they are serving the cause of Islam and the Muslims. What to say of Islam or Muslims, such persons are not even human beings, they are savages. Islam does not allow terrorism, no matter how good the object may seem. The real religion of the terrorists is the terrorism itself. There is no religion which allows or condones such inhuman and cruel actions that the terrorists perpetrate. Some of the terrorists, thinking that they will be rewarded with Paradise, blow themselves up along with their innocent civilian victims. Little do they realize that they are heading straight into hell. . Terrorism must be condemned by all nations and by all groups within the nations. It seems that this condemnation alone will not fully solve the problem of terrorism. Whenever possible, every effort must be made to eradicate the basic conditions which breed such desperate and violent persons or groups. Some of the causes are social and economic deprivation and hopelessness and unresolved political grievances, 124