Making a Friend out of an Enemy

The Non-Confrontational Methods for Peace ‘It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each [peacefully] gliding in its orbit.’ (21:33) It is this policy of mutual non-interference that has established total peace in the vastness of space. Every person is free to launch his or her own activities, the only restriction being that he or she should not become harmful for his or her fellow beings. This is the culture of the macro world. The same culture is also in evidence in the micro world. The atom, a tiny unit of the material world, has within it the same culture. An atom consists of a number of tiny particles, each one of which is constantly on the move. But there is no clash. So, there is the same peace in the micro world as we see in the macro world. There are about 50 million large and small animal species on the earth. Again there is total peace in the animal world. Wars such as the First World War and the Second World War have never occurred in the animal world. All these living creatures engage in numerous different activities. How is it then that there is total peace? The answer is that animals have also adopted the same culture—that of mutual non-interference. The only difference is that what the material world has adopted under the law of nature, has been adopted by the animal world as a result of its inborn instinct.