English book · The True Jihad

CONCLUSION

English book, PDF p. 106

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Conclusion ~ 106 ~ themselves so thoroughly that they had no need to wage war to attain justice. Japan’s industrial cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were destroyed by atom bombs in 1945. After the holocaust, Japan abandoned violence and adopted a peaceful course that it termed a “reverse course” for its national development. Consequently, within forty years, without any return to militarism, Japan became a great economic superpower. Violence and peace both have wide connotations. Violence is a concomitant factor in everything from personal hatred to all-out war, whereas peace is marked by every positive virtue from tolerance to love. Peace is synonymous with normalcy, and normalcy provides all such opportunities as favour the growth of a healthy environment. All kinds of achievements are possible in an ambience of peace. While peace is a Japan abandoned violence and adopted a peaceful course which helped it become a great economic super power.

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