PEACE IN ISLAM

PEACE IN ISLAM ~ 119 ~ PEACE IN ISLAM The Quran is undoubtedly a book of peace. It is not a book of war and violence. This can be judged from the fact that all of the Quran’s pronouncements are directly or indirectly related to peace. Its opening invocation is: “In the name of God, the Most beneficent, the Most Merciful” and this verse has been repeated in the Quran no less than 114 times. This is an indication that the greatest attribute of the Supreme Being who sent this book to mankind is mercy. Indeed, the theme of this entire holy book is God’s all-embracing compassion. The greater part of the scriptures, either directly or indirectly, strongly advocate peace. Of the 6666 verses of the Quran, there are hardly forty verses, which deal with the injunction to wage war, and then only in self-defence; that is, even less than one percent. To put it more specifically, only 0.6%. Those who accept the Quran as the Book of God will be regarded as true believers only when they follow its admonitions and become peace-loving in