Islam and Peace
Islam: An Ideological Movement for a Peaceful Co-existence
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traders and took with them the message of Islam.
Similarly, Muslim and non-Muslim interaction
today is making it possible again for the former to
present Islam to the latter on an unprecedented
scale.
I commented while talking to some resident
Muslims here over the fact that they left their
countries in search of economic opportunities and
many of them have found such opportunities and
prospered here (in the United States and the
Western world in general). Now all they have to do
is to turn their intentions for the sake of Islam;
continue to strive in whatever they do in making an
honest living, just intend to do it for the cause of
Islam and there they will find themselves spreading
Islam in all kinds of situations.
My feeling is that there is a
dawa
explosion
everywhere nowadays. Everywhere there is talk of
Islam. For example, someone mentioned that he
went into a bookstore in Chicago and asked the
salesperson about the number of copies that were
sold of the Satanic Verses. The answer was “three.”
Then he asked, “how many copies of the Qur’an
