The Importance of Peace
English book, p. 35
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Importance of Peace opportunities. Hate and violence act as trapdoors. To avail of the many opportunities that nature provides us, we must first end hate and violence to seal these trapdoors. Moreover, when this happens, we are deluged with a flood of all sorts of opportunities that we can avail of to achieve our goals. These opportunities can help us in both the secular and the religious spheres. They can enable us to engage in efforts to advance educationally and economically. We can also avail these opportunities for religious purposes—to invite people to God. Engaging in this dawah work, we can become eligible for Divine reward. The ‘Beautification’ of Violence Satan portrays wrong actions in seemingly beautiful words. By falling prey to Satan’s beautification, people take to violence. Shunning resultless action, one must seek God’s forgiveness and abandon the path of violence. Violence is in every sense a destructive action. The whole of human history is a testimony that no individual or group has ever secured any positive success through violence. Whenever an individual or group has taken to violence, it has only met with

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