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Allah Has 99 Names, None Stand For Violence: PM Modi Says At World Sufi Forum

Darpan News Desk IANS, 17 Mar, 2016 12:37 PM
    Denouncing terrorism at the World Sufi Forum today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Allah has 99 names and none of them stands for violence.
     
    And without naming Pakistan, he said, "When spirit and love of Sufism and not violent force of terrorism flows across the border, this region will be the paradise on earth that Amir Khusro spoke about."
     
    Terrorism, the Prime Minister said, "divides and destroys us".
     
    "When terrorism and extremism have become the most destruction of our times, the message of Sufism has global relevance," he said at the inauguration of the four-day meet.
     
     
    Denouncing terrorism at the World Sufi Forum today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Allah has 99 names and none of them stands for violence. And without naming Pakistan, he said, "When spirit and love of Sufism and not violent force of terrorism flows across the border, this region will be the paradise on earth that Amir Khusro spoke about."
     
    Terrorism, the Prime Minister said, "divides and destroys us".
     
    "When terrorism and extremism have become the most destruction of our times, the message of Sufism has global relevance," he said at the inauguration of the four-day meet.

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