The True Jihad
Non-Violence and Islam
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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 was this peace treaty, paving the way
for peaceful constructive activities which ultimately
made possible the conquest of
Makkah and the whole of Arabia.
4. At the end of the pious caliphate,
a bloody encounter had taken 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.
“The religion
of Muslims
has
conquered
where their
arms had
failed.”
