Sat Jun 24, 2017 7:04 pm
I don't pretend to speak for any Muslim here, but from what I was taught about the major religions, there isn't any religion that views suicide as an acceptable action. The common tenet is that the Supreme Being granted life and only it has the power to take it away.
In the conservative circles of Islam, suicide was merely called by another name: martyrdom. If you killed yourself for an Islamic cause, you gained honor. Some circles went further with the whole "virgins in heaven for you". However, until the perversion of Islam by militant groups, all schools of Islam had rules on how to carry out these suicide attacks (no harm to innocent people being the most common one): suicide was forbidden UNLESS it was necessary or it was fighting an enemy (similar to a Samurai and Seppuku).
TL;DR version: Islam says "no" to suicide, as do other religions.
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky."