Islam and Peace
Western Civilization and Islam
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regarding them as such. For he knew that a third
possibility also existed. It was the latent potential of
Da’wah. Therefore, the Prophet decided to open a
door which had been closed to Da’wah by entering
into a peace treaty with his opponents.
Consequently, the possibilities of da’wah activism
began taking shape and within a short period of
two years the entire history of Islam was
transformed.
To my way of thinking, the case of Western
Civilization and Islam exactly parallels that of the
Hudaybiyya situation in modern times. Muslims
have once again fallen prey to limitations of
dichotomous thinking in these matters. Since
western civilization does not appear to them to be
friendly to Islam, they tend to regard it as an enemy
of Islam. Matters have so escalated that a section of
Islamic thinkers have even taken to calling western
civilization a manifestation of Dajjal.
If we could extricate ourselves from this rigid
pattern of thought we would find that western
civilization, was neither friendly nor hostile to
