Peaceful revolution is the outcome of peaceful thinking. Peaceful minds make for a peaceful world. Man was born in peace. Man must die in peace. Peace – man’s birthright – is God’s greatest blessing for human beings.
The present world is a world of differences. A reformer has rightly said that nature abhors uniformity. This means that difference is a part of nature. Difference is there in every aspect of life. We have to learn the art of difference management rather than the art of difference elimination.
According to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam observed: ‘The believer is like a gentle plant. Whenever the wind blows, it inclines accordingly, and when the wind stops blowing, it again comes back to its upright position. In this way, it saves itself from the impact of the wind.’
According to the Quran there are two faculties in every human being which are mutually antipathetic. One is the ego, and the other is the conscience. What the violent method invariably does is to awaken the ego, which necessarily results in a breakdown of social equilibrium. On the other hand, non-violent activism awakens the conscience, from which results an awakening and self-appraisal in people.
