How to Establish Peace in the Holy Land

approach is to find solutions to problems which are at best workable; that is, which may feasibly be put into practice. Keeping this basic principle in view, I have derived from Islamic teachings what I consider to be a practicable solution. I would like to present it at this international conference in the Holy Land in the form of ten points. The Arab-Israel controversy, which started in 1948, led directly to the total disturbance of peace in the Middle East and indirectly to disturbances all over the world. This 60-year old bloody struggle, far from solving any problems, has created grave, unsolvable problems. Now the time has finally arrived for a reassessment of the whole issue in a purely realistic manner, and for a search for a new strategy which could ensure peace in the region. Although the name of Islam has repeatedly been invoked in this campaign, there has never been any serious effort made to apply the Islamic formula to this controversial matter. I have studied Islamic scriptures to discover the solution to this problem in the light of Islam. What I have found from my study of Islam can be summed up thus: the central idea of Islamic planning is that it is based on opportunities rather than on problems. 1. When we study the life of the Prophet of Islam, we find that a controversial matter arose between Prophet and his opponents which was very similar in kind to the Arab-Israel problem in the Holy Land. At that time, in 6AH, the agreement made by the Prophet Muhammad with his opponents was arrived at by his unilateral acceptance of the conditions demanded by the other party. This has been recorded in Islamic history as the Hudaibiyya agreement. Why did the Prophet agree to such a pact? It was