Non-Violence and Islam
Non-Violence and Islam
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situation. Now, in the wake of the scientific
revolution it has become possible to begin a serious
and beneficial dialogue between Islam and
non-Islam, the result of which will necessary be in
favour of Islam.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
1. Since direct argument cannot be applied to
religious beliefs pertaining to the unseen world,
these can be supported only by indirect or
inferential argument. Educated people had
therefore come to believe that religious realities
belonged only to the domain of dogma, and that
they were not academic or scientific realities. But
after the breaking up of the atom the science of
logic has undergone a change, and it has been
accepted that inferential argument too, in its
nature, is as valid and reliable as direct
argument. It has subsequently become possible
for religious realities to be established on an
academic level, i.e. exactly on the same level as
material or non-religious theories. (For details
refer to
Religion and Science
)
