Most terrorism by factions in or at the edges of the Islamic world(s) is usually occasioned by fanatics who act in defense of Allah against heretics, the religious "other," and "infidels" who are seen or claimed to be blasphemers.
"In Iraq, where Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni Muslims are struggling to build a pluralistic new order, other Muslims, claiming to act in the name of Allah, are indiscriminately butchering people, without a word of condemnation coming from Muslim spiritual or political leaders.
"We are not gods on earth, and we do not have this right to act in the name of Allah," he added.
Niyyah is the Islamic concept of performing an act for the sake of Allah.
Both praised terrorists and encouraged others to commit acts in the name of Allah.
The 15-year-old teenager attacked the teacher with a machete and later claimed he had acted "in the name of Allah" and on behalf of the Islamic State.
The man who was Cat Stevens ran Islamic schools for children, spreading the word of Allah, and acted as a spokesperson for Islam.
A non- mukallaf adult can retain awareness and perform this act of worship: "Those who remember Allah [God] (always, and in prayers) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides" (The Quran n.d., 3 191).
Adebolajo had claimed he was a "soldier of Allah" and the killing was an act of war.
This state could be guided by a learned clergyman, a faqih, who would act as the representative of the imam, and, by implication, of Allah.
