According to Islam it is a great sin to kill an innocent person, and anyone who does so will suffer great torment in the hereafter:
...So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills another person - unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth - it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages in the earth. (Surat al-Maida: 32)
As we can see from the above verse, killing one innocent person is regarded as equivalent to killing all of mankind. In another verse, the importance that the faithful attach to life is expressed in these terms:
"Those who do not call on any other god together with Allah and do not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except with the right to do so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does that will receive an evil punishment" (Surat al-Furqan: 68 )
In yet another verse, Allah issues the following commandment:
Say: 'Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made haram for you': that you do not associate anything with Him; that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your children because of poverty - We will provide for you and them; that you do not approach indecency - outward or inward; that you do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate - except with the right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that hopefully you will use your intellect. (Surat al-An'am: 151)
Any Muslim who believes in Allah with a sincere heart, who scrupulously abides by His holy verses and fears suffering in the hereafter will avoid harming even one other person. That is because he knows that Allah is the Lord of Infinite Justice, and will suitably reward him for all his deeds. In one of the hadiths, our Prophet listed the kinds of people who are not pleasing to Allah, 'Those who act cruelly and unjustly in the sacred lands, those who yearn for the ways of the ignorant and those who wrongly shed human blood.' (Bukhari)
By HarunYahya.com
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