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The book’s title: Where from?. My reading of the Qur’an has convinced me that the basis of Islam is not violence but is unadulterated peace. It regards forbearance as superior to vengeance. The very word “Islam” means peace, which is nonviolence.
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The book’s title: Where from? My reading of the Qur’an has convinced me that the basis of Islam is not violence but is unadulterated peace. It regards forbearance as superior to vengeance. The very word “Islam” means peace, which is nonviolence. —Mahatma Gandhi
You will continue to uncover treachery from all but a few of them, but be forgiving and pardon, for God loves the kindly. [Qur'an 5:13] If anyone kills another without a just cause…it is as if he has killed the whole of mankind. And whosoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved the whole of mankind [Qur’an 5:32] God commands you to treat (everyone) justly, generously, and with kindness. [Qur’an 16:90] There is no compulsion in the name of religion. Right and wrong have become distinct. Those who wish so may believe and those who may wish otherwise may disbelieve. [Qur’an 2:256] God forbids you to fight those who fight not your faith and who do not drive you out. Be just and kind to them for God loves the just. [Qur’an 60:8]
Scholars of Islam: • “The Qur’an is adamantly opposed to the use of force in religious matters. Its vision is inclusive, it recognizes the validity of all rightly guided religion, and praises all the great prophets of the past.”—Comparative Religionist Karen Armstrong • “The fact is that the conflicting Qur’anic verses cannot prove an evolution of the concept or sanction for religiously authorized warring in Islam from a nonaggressive to a more militant stance. To suggest that they do is nothing more than an interpretation applied to the obvious problem of disparity in the Qur’anic revelations treating war.”—Professor Reuven Firestone • “Peace is far more fundamental to Islam than war.”—Indian scholar Asghar Ali Engineer. • “Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible.”—Qur’an translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali • “In Islam, war is restricted to the purpose of defense.”—Turkish scholar Ergun Capan
Andalusia, Spain • “Scholars have long since disposed of the image of Islam being spread by the sword but that has not altered popular imagination.”—Zachary Karabell
The Ottoman Empire in 1800 The Ottoman Emperor “permits every man to live according to his conscience and suffers four diverse religions: Jews, Christians, Greeks and Mahometans.” –French philosopher Jean Bodin
The Sufi idea of peace is rooted in the concept of tawhid or unity in which feminine and masculine qualities are of equal importance. Rabia al-Adawiyya Model of selfless love—tried to dispel the notion of paradise or hell so that people followed God out of genuine sense of love. Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi “The perfect kind of witnessing God has given to a human being is in a woman.”
Sufism: Emperors Akbar the Great Dara Shikoh
The Sufis and other Pacifist Muslim Sects Mirza Ghulam Ahmad • Sai Baba Jalaluddin Rumi
The Mahatma’s Colleagues Maulana Azad Dr. Zakir Husain
