Islam and Peace
Non-Violence and Islam
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It was during this period that peaceful dawah work
was started in various countries and the disciplines
of hadith, fiqh and other Islamic sciences came into
existence on a large scale after a long period of great
ideological struggle. All the precious books which
adorn our libraries, all the classical literature of
Islam are the result of these peaceful activities.
For instance, the hadith as a source of shariah is
second only to the Qur’an in Islam. These traditions
now exist in the form of printed books. These books
are so precious that, without them, it would not
have been possible to develop Islam into a complete
system as it exists today. During the Umayyads and
Abbasids, when the political system had begun to
deteriorate, where were these tens of thousands of
traditions. All of them existed in the memory of the
religious scholars, whose names are mentioned in
the books as chains in the link of authorities who
have handed this legacy down to us. Had they
adopted the principle of violent activism and
clashed with the ‘oppressive’ rulers, they would all
have been slaughtered by them and the entire
legacy of traditions instead of finding a place on the
pages of books, would have been buried along with
