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FATWA ON SUICIDE BOMBINGS & TERRORISM
Islam; rather, they are blasphemous acts. This has
always been the opinion unanimously held by all the
scholars that have passed in the 1400 years of Islamic
history, including all the eminent Imams of Tafseer
and Hadith and authorities on logic and jurisprudence.
Islam has kept the door of negotiation and discussion
open to convince by reasoning, instead of the taking
up of arms to declare the standpoint of others as
wrong, and enforcing one’s own opinion. Only the
victims of ignorance, jealousy and malice go for
militancy. Islam declares them rebels. They will abide
in Hell.
2. Q: The second question in this regard is: what are the
rights of the non-Muslim citizens in a Muslim state?
A: Islam not only guarantees the protection of life,
honour and property of Muslim citizens of an Islamic
state, but also assures the equal protection of life,
honour and property of non-Muslim citizens and of
those people too with whom it has entered into a
peace treaty. The rights of non-Muslim citizens enjoy
the same sanctity as those of Muslim citizens in an
Islamic state. There is no difference between them as
human beings. That is why Islamic law metes out equal
treatment to both Muslims and non-Muslims in the
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