Islam Rediscovered
11. Non-Violence and Islam
~ 152 ~
have been buried right there in Makkah shortly
after its inception.
3. After the emigration, his antagonists took the
unilateral decision to wage war against him.
Consequently such bloody encounters as those of
Badr and Uhud took place. Then the Prophet
made a 10-year peace treaty known in history as
Sulh al-Hudaybiyya, by accepting all the
conditions of his opponents. This has been called
a ‘clear victory’ in the Qur’an. It is this peace
treaty, paving the way for peaceful constructive
activities which ultimately made possible the
conquest of Makkah and the whole of Arabia.
4. By the end of the pious caliphate, a bloody
encounter took place between the Banu Hashim
and the Banu Umayyah. This stopped the
advance of Islam for a period of ten years. What
set this process in motion once again was the
voluntary withdrawal of Hasan ibn Ali (d. 50
A.H.) from the battlefield. This was undeniably a
practical form of non-violent activism. This
peaceful move on the part of Hasan ibn Ali re-
opened to Islam the locked doors of progress.
