Islam works towards proliferating and disseminating security...

Islam works towards proliferating and disseminating security, safety, peace and tranquillity throughout the world, and equally endeavours to extinguish the hostility of war, put out its flames, root out its cause from amongst the people through uprooting and 211 The determination of this is in the hands of the Council of the Jurist Authorities – Shawra al-Fuqaha>’ al-Maraje’.

212 In parallel, and as a long term policy, it is also mandatory to prevent the manufacture and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons that harm all of humanity, for “there is neither harm nor being harmed in Islam”. [Wasa>’el al-Shi‘ah, vol.26, p14] 213 The Qur’an, Public Estate (8): 60 214 The Qur’an, The Heifer (2): 208 destroying the factors that cause wars, and instead seed the elements that encourage love, harmony, peace and good will.

Islam pushes for abandoning war and promotes truce even if the enemy calls for them out of trickery, for the Almighty instructs, .and if they [the enemy] incline towards peace, then you incline towards it [too].215. At the same time, Islam prohibits violence, terrorism, treachery, and assassination, and fights anything that leads to fear and apprehension, terror and trepidation in the people. Freedoms in Islam Q. Is there freedom in Islam? A. Yes. Islam provides the best form of freedom.

A freedom that the world has not dreamt of even in the best of civilisations it has come across. Q. What are the Islamic freedoms? A.

They are many and we shall only mention a few in the following: Freedom of Earning and Trade Freedom in career and trade, in which every member of the nation can choose for himself any career, profession or job he wishes in order to earn his living; so he can earn through hunting, mining for any ore or precious stone or product, procurement of any of the permissible and suchlike. For example, one can import or export any goods he wishes, and buy or sell without restrictions at all.

There are no custom charges or tariffs, and no conditions, in Islam. Of course, there is the condition that the goods must be lawful for buying and selling and not prohibited like liquor, and that there is no usury involved, or that the transaction is unlawful. 215 The Qur’an, Public Estate (8): 61 The trader may not monopolise, or that it does not constitute harm to the people and their economy. Freedom in Manufacture and Agriculture Freedom in manufacture and agriculture.