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The Age of Peace

solved by war was solved through peace. Narrating this story
the Lebanese American scholar Philip K Hitti (1886 – 1978)
observes,

‘The religion of the Moslems had conquered where their
arms had failed.’
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This history of Islam sends out a strong message to
Muslims—that is, having failed to achieve their goal through
a violent struggle, the time has again come for Muslims to
abandon all kinds of violence and attempt to achieve their
goals by a peaceful method.
War depends entirely on the aggressive use of weaponry
and can only be a source of destruction. Nothing constructive
can be achieved through war and violence. On the contrary,
peace, based on education and positive planning, inevitably
leads to progress and development. The whole of human
history testifies to this fact.

This history of Islam sends out a strong message to
Muslims—that is, having failed to achieve their goal
through a violent struggle, the time has again come for
Muslims to abandon all kinds of violence and attempt to
achieve their goals by a peaceful method.

War is perpetrated under the influence of negative
thinking, and so its result is also negative. On the other hand,
peaceful planning is engaged in under the influence of positive
thinking. That is why the peaceful method invariably proves
to be successful.
If studied objectively, history has valuable lessons for us.
It has never been possible throughout history for anyone
to achieve positive results through war, just as no one has
ever obtained negative results by following a peaceful course
of action.
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