Ideology of Peace
PEACE IN ISLAM
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PEACE IN ISLAM
The Quran is undoubtedly a book of peace. It is not
a book of war and violence. This can be judged
from the fact that all of the Quran’s
pronouncements are directly or indirectly related to
peace. Its opening invocation is: “In the name of
God, the Most beneficent, the Most Merciful” and
this verse has been repeated in the Quran no less
than 114 times. This is an indication that the
greatest attribute of the Supreme Being who sent
this book to mankind is mercy. Indeed, the theme of
this entire holy book is God’s all-embracing
compassion.
The greater part of the scriptures, either directly or
indirectly, strongly advocate peace. Of the 6666
verses of the Quran, there are hardly forty verses,
which deal with the injunction to wage war, and
then only in self-defence; that is, even less than one
percent. To put it more specifically, only 0.6%.
Those who accept the Quran as the Book of God
will be regarded as true believers only when they
follow its admonitions and become peace-loving in
