Islam and Peace
Asian Muslims And Modern Challenges
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certainly change for the better. They would
themselves benefit as has been expressed in the
Qur’an in these words: Good and evil deeds are not
alike. Requite evil with good, and he, between
whom and you is enmity, will become your dearest
friend (4:34).
The opportunities to revive this da’wah process of
Islam have increased to an extraordinary degree.
The scientific study of religions has proved that all
other religions besides Islam have lost their
credibility. No other religion is historically credible.
Whereas in every scientific analysis Islam has
proved to be authentic. In this way Islam is in a
position to gain an unopposed victory.
So far as human ‘isms’ are concerned, they have all
been failures, the most obvious example being the
collapse of the communist empire. While it was still
in existence, the world was under the
misapprehension that it possessed an ideology. But
this false conviction gave way when the communist
empire fell apart in 1991. Now, all over the world
there is an ideological vacuum. And it is the kind of
vacuum which can be filled only by Islam. Now the
