Islam Rediscovered
11. Non-Violence and Islam
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killed all mankind (5:32),’ he said that he was so
moved that he could not believe that it was there in
the Qur’an.
This incident is broadly indicative of the thinking of
non-Muslims on Islam. On seeing the actions of
Muslims, people today find it hard to believe that
Islam may be a religion of peace. But if Muslims
stop engaging in violent activities and give people
the opportunity to appreciate Islam in its original
form, then certainly a great number of people
would realise as they never before had that Islam
was a peaceful religion and they would rush to it,
saying that it was exactly the religion which their
souls had been seeking all along.
