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Islamic Model of Peaceful Coexistence… MR. Dodhiya and M. Ghanbari (135

               and  violence  as  the  evil              pardons       and     makes
               way: (Ref: Quran, 2: 208)                 reconciliation, his reward

                  “Allah  invites  to  the               lies  with  Allah.  He  does
                  Home  of  Peace,  and                  not  love  the  unjust”.

                  guides  whomever  He                   (Quran, 42: 40)
                  wills to a straight path”.
                  (Quran, 10: 25)                         3.  The    Goodness       of
                                                             Peaceful Coexistence

                  Moreover, it suggests making        The teachings of  Islam  are
               peace  with  the  enemies  as          based       upon      peaceful
               well:                                  coexistence  and  call  upon

                  “But  if  they  incline             people  to  live  based  upon
                  towards peace, then incline         the  principle  of  peace  and

                  towards it, and put your            justice. Therefore, it can be
                  trust  in  Allah.  He  is  the      said  that  peace  in  Islam  is
                  Hearer,  the  Knower”.              an     eternal    constitution.
                  (Quran, 8: 61)                      Even  the  nature  of  war  in
                                                      Islam  is  a  defensive  one,
                  It calls upon its followers         not    an     offensive     one
               to  remember  the  greater             because  the  principle  of

               reward  with  God  and  the            Islam is peace and coexistence,
               pardon  and  excuse  the               not  conflict,  violence,  and

               wrong-does                             war.  War  in  Islam  is  a
                  “The retribution of a bad           secondary  principle,  not  a
                  action  is  one  equivalent         primary one.
                  to  it.  However,  whoever
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