Terrorism in Islamic Perspective

                                                         

                                                          Lu’liyatul Mutmainah

Terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. In my opinion terrorism is immoral thing and there is no command in Islam to become terrorist but infact the most of terrorist are moslems and they do the terrorism in the moslem countries that contents of many moslems people.

The Extreme religious interpretations of the Qur’an and the movement of Islamic Revivalism influence the emergence and progression of violent jihad in contemporary times. The Qur’an systematizes use and relate them to other aspects of Shariat  through its discourse on revivalism. Based on the Qur’anic principle of Ijtihad.

Some people or most of people have  negative view about Islamic Jihad. They don’t know about what  the real Ijtihad is. Actually  the terrorists have a good side too in their heart even they do the murder, robbery, violent and so on.

Beside that there are so many people hope about erasing terrorist because they are not needed by the human in the world, just like what The President of the General Assembly in United Nations Commemorates the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 said: “We want to be here to express our compassion and solidarity for all the victims of terrorist acts who are attacked randomly and without respite throughout the world. We are here to express our indignation at the cowardice of terrorism, condemn it firmly and categorically, combat it and see that the guilty are punished.” And The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations also said: “The attacks targeted more than one single country; they were an assault on humanity itself, and on the universal values of peace and dignity that the United Nations was created to promote and defend.”

In The Holy Qur’an: "And abuse not those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest they, out of spite, abuse Allah in their ignorance. Thus unto every people have We caused their doings to seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return; And He will inform them of what they used to do." ( Qur’an 6:108). The Quran states that Moslems may "Fight in the cause of God against those who fight against you, but do not transgress limits. Lo! God loves not aggressors…" (Qur’an 2:190).

Dr. Maher Hathout examines (In Pursuit of Justice, 2006) core democratic and human rights principles from an Islamic perspective. Subjects include justice, constitutionalism, democracy, sanctity of life, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the status of women, non-Muslims, property rights, citizenship, freedom of association, freedom of movement, children, security of person, slavery, and social services.

Actually The reason of the terrorist do the violent is they want to be exist in their keeping as good moslem, but they do violent too. It’s not good solution., Islam has the best way to solve the problem without violent. Islam command to the human to respect each others.