Islam and Peace
Non-Violence and Islam
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religions would be divested of their former
influence. This abolition of oppressive systems and
the freeing of people’s minds from superstition
naturally led to free scientific enquiry, a process
which Islam has continued to foster over the
centuries without interruption, and which has
culminated
in
the
unparalleled
scientific
achievements of the present day.
The technological advance which have been made
possible by this scientific revolution have in turn
provided Islam with an improved means of
propagating
Islam,
namely
modern
communications. By making use of the media, those
engaged in
dawah
work can spread the word of God
much further and much faster than ever before.
According to a hadith, a time was to come when
God’s word would enter all the homes in the world.
(Musnad,
Ahmad). This was indirectly a prediction
of the advent of our modern age of
communications.
In ancient times, the study of religion could be done
only as something sacred and as a matter of dogma.
That is why established and unestablished religions
