How to Establish Peace in the Holy Land

That is, ideally, Islamic action is result-oriented action. According to this tradition of the Prophet, the Arab movement does not measure up to this Islamic criterion, as we all know that this movement has been going on fruitlessly for the last sixty years. Huge sacrifices have been made without any positive results and great harm has been done to the Palestinian cause. In such a situation, it has now become essential to make a reappraisal of this movement in a purely realistic way. 7. The Palestinian movement, having reached its final stage, has assumed intensely negative proportions, i.e. suicide bombing. This suicide bombing does not take place on a battlefield. It is carried out in public places and all the people who die are innocent men, women and children. This kind of suicide bombing is totally against the teachings of Islam. According to the Quran, ‘the killing of one person is like killing all mankind.’9 In suicide bombing, it is the innocent who die, and killing innocent people in the eyes of God is such a heinous crime that killing one person in this way is akin to killing all human beings. On this point, it would be appropriate to say that the Palestinian movement, having reached this last stage, has so totally deviated from the path of Islam that it can never be held deserving of divine succour. 8. One of the teachings of Islam is to try to find a common ground while dealing with the other party. This command has been given in the Quran in chapter no. 3: ‘Say: O People of the Book, come to a word (kalimah) which is common between us and you, that we shall worship none but God.’ 10 The command given in this verse relates to common ground of a religious nature. But the history of Islam tells