Does Islam allow taking revenge by indiscriminately killing the innocent people or violent reaction to injustice?
Terrorism is a problem that confronts all nations, races and faiths. Terrorist acts run against laws and reason and they are contrary to all religious teachings and customs. It knows no land, race, religion, sect, time or place. All people reject and condemn it and its perpetrators. This is the pattern of terrorism and its destructive effects which the whole world is putting up efforts to fight. It is therefore incumbent on everybody irrespective of his race, creed or class to wage war against it.
The Muslim, While condemning terrorism should only do so in the light of Islamic injuctions that forbid killing of innocent souls unjustly. Allah says: “And those who invoke not any other god along with Allah nor kill such person as Allah has forbidden , except for just cause’ (quraan 25:68)HTTP://www.touristangle.blogspot.in
I must clearly say that violent reaction has no place in Islam. Islamic principles on the basis of Quran clearly states that you cannot take revenge of something committed by son from his father and a son will not be responsible for a crime committed by his father. Likewise if people from a particular place have done something wrong to its natives, Islam does not allow taking revenge from the people at some other place. The best way for addressing the grievances is to get them punished by the court. On this basis the kind of violence we have recently seen in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country is totally un-Islamic. Islam has nothing to do with these kinds of brutal acts. Don’t you think that at least at some places in Pakistan and somewhere else in the world, some people are indeed there who encourage youths for taking arms in the name of religion and Jihad? Is this the kind of Jihad that has been allowed in Islam? Jihad is indeed a holy war in Islam. But the kind of activities we are
