Re: Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani assassinated
I don’t know anything about the victim Mr. Haqqani here but since you mentioned Islam the story of Ibn Ziyad and Muslim bin Aqeel came to my mind. Ibn Ziyad, governer of Kufa, was invited to the house of Shriq b Awar with a trap that he will be killed there (for good reasons). But as he sat in the house of Shariq, Muslim bin Aqeel who had the sword in his hand to kill Ibn Ziyad, never came forward to strike Ibn Ziyad. When Ibn Ziyad left Muslim bin Aqeel was asked why he held back when he the golden opportunity to finish off Ibn Ziyad? He responed by recalling what his Uncle Ali Ibn Abi Talib had told him and which Imam Ali said he had heard from Rasool Allah (saww); “Faith stops where murder begins; a faithful man does not murder others”.