Islam Rediscovered
11. Non-Violence and Islam
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It is Muslims’ religious and secular leaders who are
actually responsible for this violent approach on the
part of Muslims today. In modern times when
Muslims have had to undergo the experience of
defeat, almost all the religious and secular scholars
as well as intellectuals followed one single line, that
of awakening the spirit of
jihad
(in the sense of
qital
)
among Muslims. The entire Muslim world
reverberated with such slogans as
‘jihad
is our way
and
Jihad
is the only solution to our problems!’
The entire world has witnessed a great number of
large and small movements in violent response to
the problems faced by Muslims. If you go to
Palestine, you will hear the youth singing a song, no
doubt taught to them by their elders:
Let’s make war, let’s make war,
For war is the way to success.
In modern times, the violent approach of our
intellectuals and leaders of movements, is the sole
reason for the present violent mentality among
Muslims all over the world. It is as a result of this
mentality that, if anyone writes a book against
