Page 42 - Age of Peace Goodword.indd

Making a Friend out of an Enemy

peaceful dawah work, that is, by conveying the message of
God.

According to the law of nature all men and women are
children of Adam and Eve. That is, all human beings have
a common ancestor. This means that mankind is a global
family. All men and women are blood sisters and blood
brothers. In the present day, this biological phenomenon has
become a scientifically established fact. Now, it is no longer a
mysterious story of Adam and Eve. Rather, it is a fact affirmed
by anthropological research.
2
The acceptance of this biological fact makes it possible, at
least in terms of theory, for all men and women to live as a
global family, rather than as rival groups. Now there is virtually
no justification for tribal or national or any other kind of war
in human society.
We seldom hear of fighting having broken out between
members of the same family. Theoretically, this ought to be
true for the whole of mankind, for, according to scientific
research, all of mankind is a single family, and so, the old
kinds of hostilities should come to an end. The time has now
come for all of mankind to live on earth in harmony as a
single family. Living in harmony is no longer simply an ethical
principle. Rather, it is a way of life, the veracity of which has
been proved through scientific studies.
In the present age, the scientific community has abandoned
several ancient theories. For example, the heliocentric theory
has replaced the old geocentric theory. The same approach
is applicable to war and peace. The demands of a realistic
assessment of current affairs and scientific thinking should
make people give up violence and adopt the peaceful method
as their only possible course of action.
The fact of common ancestry has forever done away with
the equation of ‘we and they’. Now the only valid equation

41