If the rebels submit and surrender they should be pardoned...

If the rebels submit and surrender they should be pardoned, but if they do not give up and only pretend to avoid themselves defeat, by finding fresh time to make another assault and to up rise once more then in view of the following verse: 'Hold on. Do not accept his excuse". The diagnosis of all this is for the people themselves. The Quran wishes the Muslims sociological and rational maturity, and on the bases of that maturity they must distinguish between Man of the Right and Man of the Wrong.

The Quran has not come to so deal with men as guardian of minor, deals with the ward, nor it should deal with the details of life as a guardian of person and explain every special subject with physical symbols and indications. Basically identifying men, evaluating their worth, knowing the extent of their merits and their commitment with Islam and, ascertaining their intrinsicality is itself an obligation and perhaps we are indifferent to this obligation.

( 142 ) Ali (PBH) says: "You can never identify the truth, and you cannot adopt the right course unless you with objectivity identify the right course". That is to say, only the knowledge of the fundamentals and the basic principles will not be enough, unless it is applied in letter and spirit.

Because it is possible that for having misunderstood the individuals and personalities and for having not identified the objects you may (prima facie) be acting in name of Allah and Islam but in fact to the benefit of falsehood. In the Quran, tyranny and tyrant, justice and truth have occurred, but the conformable to them are to be seen.

We should not tell (Right' for injustice and injustice for 'Right', lest with these very principles and injunctions of the Quran-because of our whims-We undo truth and justice. Previous…