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               90  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (32): 61-97, Autumn. 2022
                  One      of     the    main         religious     and      political
               concerns  of  the  Prophet             leader  in  order  to  solidify
               was  to  establish  social             the  foundations  of  the
               justice  among  all  people,           newly  emergent  Islamic
               (Ref:  Quran,  57:  25)  and           community  and  provide

               this  required,  on  the  one          spiritual  support  for  it.
               hand, the collapse of social           However,  the  revelation  of
               classes,  and,  on  the  other         the  goodwill  verse  showed

               hand,  an  establishment  of           that such a relation was, in
               close relations and affinities         addition to being a political
               among individual people.               strategy     to    unify     the

                  Thus,       the     Prophet         Islamic  nation,  part  of
               established  the  relation  of         Islamic doctrines legislated
               religious  brotherhood  as  a          by God.

               practical  strategy  to  form
               brotherhood  and  equality                 •  Procedures of Making
               among         all       people.               a Pact of Brotherhood
               (Encyclopedia  of  Islam,              Making  this  notion  more

               1948: V0l. 11)                         applicable for peacemaking
                  Before  the  brotherhood            process        by      Muslim
               verse (Ref: Quran, 49: 10)             peacemakers, we bring here

               was revealed, it would have            the     procedure      through
               been  thought  that  the               which  Islamic  brotherhood
               establishment  of  religious           may  take  place.    To  begin

               brotherhood  was  merely  a            with  the  pact,  two  men  or
               wise and intelligent strategy          two  women  shake  each
               by  the  Prophet  as  a                other's  right  hands,  with
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