Quran Promotes Peace: QUESTION: So tell us why you think that the Quran promotes peace as a whole? ANSWER: There are several factors in the Quran. First, the Quran speaks of a Universal God, so that breaks down barriers immediately. Second, the Quran speaks about the oneness of humanity, addressing all people as "Children of Adam", that too breaks down barriers. The Quran, in the same vein, speaks about nations and tribes, and languages and colors as being all manifestations of God’s glory and greatness in creation, and not cause for division, so this all speaks to the oneness of humanity. Third, the Quran addresses the sanctity of life, and the more people die naturally then war is not a good thing. In fact the Quran draws attention to this in that sometimes war falls upon you even though it is something you dislike. Nevertheless, despite the fact that this is something dislikable, it may hold some good that you may eventually find. So it’s a bad thing, but within the Quran world view even bad things may have some good coming out of it, otherwise God would not have permitted something that is absolutely and grossly evil to obtain in the world. We may mention fourthly that the Quran speaks about the plurality of religion as a given fact. And this has been lost to many Muslim commentators in the past, but it is there stark in the Quran in Surah 5 verse 48, and in many verses as well, it is clear that if God wanted, He could have made all the people of one religion, but He has left it such that people will follow a variety of religions, and then in the end He will judge them according to what they have been given. So what have they been given? They have been given either a moral conscience that should guide them to choose the good and shun the bad, or they have been given through some religious set of teachings a set of principles and ethical guidelines that they should have followed, and then they will be asked by God why did you not follow what you knew to be right? And of course most of us are given both; the inner conscious and the set of principles, whether it comes from a known religion or through some religious sort of impetus that comes to be manifested in many different societies over time. youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EubYUnxY0uQ
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:08:09 +0000
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