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Does Islāmic law permit or encourage terrorism or suicide bombing?
Under no circumstances is suicide, let alone suicidal terrorism and bombing, permitted in Islāmic law. The Qur'ānic prohibition against killing (al-An’ām, 6:151) and suicide ( “And kill yourselves not [la taqtulu anfusakum], for God is merciful to you” – al-Nisa’, 4:29) is supported by various sayings of the Prophet ﷺ. Elsewhere the Qur'ān addresses the believers to “throw not yourselves into the mouth of danger,” (al-Baqarah, 2:195) be it out of despair, ignorance or adventurism. These prohibitions subsume all forms of violence and self-destruction, including suicide bombing.
The exquisite and illuminating juristic edict against terrorism perpetrated on civilians written by the eminent Sunni jurist, philologist, philosopher and theologian based in Oxford University Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti titled 'Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians' has clearly stated that Suicide bombings are unislāmic. So have many other Scholars in numerous books, talks, articles etc. Acknowledging this fact, Juan Carlos Antunez and Dr. Ioannis Tellidis of the Department of International Studies, Kyung Hee University writes:
"Many Muslim scholars have attributed Islam's association with terrorism to ignorance among Muslims (al-Atharee, in Silber and Bhatt 2007, 13), misunderstanding (DeLong Bas 2004, 278-279) and sometimes insincere research and even deliberate misleading (al-Jazaa'iree, in Spechard 2011, 9-2) by different Western interests and agendas. They have made statements that affirm terrorism is in violation of Sharia law and aids the enemies of Islam (Silber and Bhatt 2007; Salafipublications 2003). Numerous fatwas (an Islamic scholar's authoritative legal opinion) condemning suicide bombing as haram (legal term for what is forbidden or inviolable under Islamic Law) have been published by Islamic scholars worldwide. According to them, terrorism must be condemned without any excuses or pretexts: "They [terrorists] can't claim that their suicide bombings are martyrdom operations and that they become heroes of the Muslim Umma. No, they become heroes of hellfire, and they are leading towards hellfire." (Casciani 2010)."
Source: Antunez, J. C. & Tellidis, I. (2014). The power of words: the deficient terminology surrounding Islam-related terrorism. in Harmonie Toros & Ioannis Tellidis (eds), Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 123
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