<b>Guidance from the Hadiths:</b><br> 1) The property, life, and honor of a Muslim are inviolable. He who dies as he defends any of these is a martyr.<br> 2) We should defend religion with our own lives, and he who dies doing this is a martyr. How far from this are Muslims nowadays! Some of them treat religion as something insignificant and worthless.<br> 3) We should adopt an approach of gradation as we confront an attacker. Our goal should be to repel him, not to kill him. But, if we cannot repel him except by killing him, the Shariah permits us to do so.<br> 4) The Shariah is keenly concerned with preserving and defending five necessary things: religion, life, mind, honor, and property.