THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM

Peace in the Quran ~ 37 ~ Islam believes in turning one’s enemy into a friend through peaceful means, instead of declaring him an enemy and then waging war against him. with whom one is at war, for the purpose of destroying the enemy, and in the process killing oneself deliberately, is totally un-Islamic. This can in no way be termed ‘shahadah’ (martyrdom). According to Islam we can become martyrs, but we cannot court a martyr’s death deliberately. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ENEMY AND THE AGGRESSOR Under the scheme of the divine trial of human beings, man has been granted freedom by God. Due to this freedom, enmities may develop between people (20:123), which sometimes lead them to war. But Islam makes a clear difference between enmity and war. Believers do not have the right to wage wars against their enemies. What the believers have to do as regards their enemies is far from waging war. Their duty is to peacefully convey to them the message of Islam. The Quran