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Quran ka Shanti Sandesh
A close reading with rapt attention of the Hindi version of the bilingual Urdu book of 190 pages, developed in six chapters, removes many misconceptions in the mind of the reviewer about Islam as religion based on the Quran, which is full of sermons for peace and do not promote terrorism of any kind as wrongly perceived by some with vested interests. It can safely be said that there is evidence on the basis of which the learned writer has been able to prove Quran as a comprehensive religious book promoting peace. It is full of lessons for the Muslims to be kind hearted, humble and faithful citizens to become true ambassadors of peace. The comprehensive discussions on the concept of peace with similar meanings of peace are fully explained in the first and second chapter. The importance of peace which flows from the Quran is the subject matter of chapter three. The methods to achieve peace have been fully explained in chapter four. The knowledge of the obstacles, hurdles and impediments in the path of peace can be obtained from chapter five. We can make every possible effort to create a peaceful society with the cooperation of the sermons from the Quran in chapter six. The bilingual nature of the book is the unique feature which is its beauty for strengthening the Hindu-Muslim relationship. Peace by peaceful means is positive peace as a process of life enhancement. Peace is the wholeness created by the right relationship with oneself, others, cultures, earth and the larger whole of which all are a part. Peace in every head and heart is essential in the present world of stress and tensions caused by commercialisation and spiritual bankruptcy. The domain of peace starts from an individual to, family, city or village, district, state, nation and the world levels. There is a direct correlation between peace and performance of any economy at all levels of operation. The peaceful societies ensure intra-generation, inter-generation equity and wellbeing freedoms with high level of per capita income. The price and value of peace in the present scenario of inflation is more than anything else which is capable of reducing costs, expansion of market with strategic planning for investment leading to inclusive growth in India. To serve the people, we need transformation (change in the mindset) in a big manner with higher investments in education and health which is capable of reducing other expenditures on police and prison personnel and to be called static peace. Let us encourage peace as an essential input of growth in various sectors of the economy. Let peace economics be identified as a separate branch of economics which justifies Nobel Prize for Peace to an economist like Mohammad Yunus (2006) of Bangladesh providing micro finance with empathy ( not sympathy) for the vulnerable sections of the society consisting of women and beggars. To help the peace process in India-Pakistan relations, we need to strengthen Hindu- Muslim relations within India. We need to be objective, dependable to know or to tell the truth by becoming humane and learning relationship management from the Quran, Bible, Guru Granth Sahib, Ramayana and Bhagvad Gita which is a religion-free treatise on welfare economics and management.
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For
world peace in the present times of materialist miseries, we need
citizen-based organisations like the Alhikmah Foundation for
multi-track diplomacy for preventing conflict of any kind at any level
of operation in any economy of the world, including India with Global
Peace Index based on 23 indicators. The measurement of the level of
peace as an index of progress and happiness in every nation,
state, district, village and city is the need of the day. We need to
place peace above everything which is the sermon of all religions in
the world.