Islam and Peace
Non-Violence and Islam
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rejected by contemporary thinking. Now only that
system is worthy of consideration and acceptance
the teachings of which are based on peace and non-
violence.
Modern thinking, for example, has rejected
communism. One of the major reasons was that
communism had to be sustained by violence. And
under no circumstances is violence acceptable to the
modern mind. Nazism and Fascism too have been
rejected on similar grounds. Modern man,
therefore, disapproves of religious and non-
religious extremism, because they lead man, willy
nilly, to violence.
But Islam is a religion of nature. It has held violence
as inadmissible from the outset. Islam has been an
upholder of peace, not violence, from day one.
In the past, Islam played a great role in the
development of humanity, as a result of which
human history entered a new age of progress and
development. The time has come today for Islam to
play a great constructive role, leading human
history once again into a new age of progress.
