Islam and Peace
Non-Violence and Islam
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Peaceful interaction will give Muslims the kind of
intellectual stimulation and variety of experience
which they must have if they are to tread the path
of progress.
Interaction will also facilitate the task of
dawah
on a
large scale. The natural result of this vast interaction
of Muslims and non-Muslims will be that
everywhere dialogue on Islam will be started,
formally as well as informally. In modern times,
because of the extremist and violent attitude of
Muslims, serious dialogue between Islam and non-
Islam has almost come to an end. Now when
peaceful interaction between Muslims and non-
Muslims takes place in a normal atmosphere,
serious dialogue will ensue on its own. The
beginning of serious dialogue between Islam and
non-Islam is, without doubt, a very great success
from the point of view of
dawah.
The Qur’an describes Sulh Al-Hudaybiya, in the
early period of Islam as a ‘clear victory’. It was a
‘clear victory’ in the sense that it established peace
between the believers in
tawhid
and believers in
