The True Jihad
Peace in the Quran
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“God grants to
gentleness what
he does not
grant to
harshness.”
—The Prophet
Muhammad
permits defensive fighting against violent
aggression, but only when all efforts at avoidance
and reconciliation have failed. The practical
example of the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be
upon him, provides an incontrovertible proof of the
value of this policy.
THE POWER OF PEACE
According to a
hadith
,
“God
grants to gentleness what He
does not grant to harshness.”
That is to say, peaceful activism
is distinctly superior to violent
activism. There is nothing
mysterious about the point made
in this
hadith
. It is a simple and a
well-known fact of life that in a
situation of war and violence, feelings of hatred and
enmity flare up between the two sides and, in the
process, the existing resources are destroyed.
People from both sides get killed and the entire
society turns into a jungle of negative feelings. It is
quite obvious that in such an atmosphere no
constructive and consolidated work can be done.
