The Importance of Peace

destruction and not with any real benefit or progress. However, despite this, why is it that some people routinely resort to violence? it is because of what is called ‘Satanic beautification’. The Quran (15:39) tells us that Satan has a particular method—of portraying a wrong action in seemingly beautiful words. Satan gives strife the name of ‘reform’. In this way, he influences people’s minds. He entangles them in the false belief that whatever they are doing is not violence but, rather, a holy jihad. It is the path to martyrdom that will take them straight to Heaven, he tells them. Falling prey in this way to Satanic beautification, people take to violence. They engage in wrong actions, and Satan deludes them into believing that they are engaged in good works. There is only one way to save oneself from this ‘Satanic beautification’—and that is, to judge one’s actions in terms of their results. One should realise that violent actions that lead to destruction and that destroy available opportunities are a result of Satan’s ‘beautification’. One must, therefore, implore God for His forgiveness and abandon this path. Violence in itself is entirely undesirable. It can never bring about any reform. It only works to inflict more