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The Seeker’s Guide
In the Quran God is referred to as:

‘the Source of Peace’. (Quran 59:23)

The practical example of the Prophet Muhammad
provides an incontrovertible proof of the value of this
policy of avoidance and non-confrontation. He never
lifted the sword in aggression or for territorial conquests.
Only under extreme circumstances of defence did he
allow defensive battles. Additionally, all the battles
fought at that time were actually skirmishes and not wars
as none of them lasted even for a day.

44 Is the media to be blamed for
social disharmony?

he media is not on a mission to create social
Tdisharmony, it is a profit-based institution of news
reporting. What we often refer to as ‘negative articles’,
is nothing but an outcome of the evaluation done by the
media industry to offer the news that their readers ask
for. The readers seek sensational news and the media
supplies it. If the media industry does not sensationalize
news, their newsworthiness would decrease among the
followers. Hence in order to survive in the competitive
environment, they resort to this modus operandi. So, the
media cannot be blamed.
In such a situation, the audience should realize that the
media should not become an influencer for them. If people
develop the wisdom to not take the news appearing in

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