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ISLAM AS AN EPITOME OF BEST OF MORALITY AND ETHICS REFLECTIONS ON DISSENT AND PEACE IN ISLAM THROUGH QURANIC VERSES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).10      10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).10      Published : Dec 2024

Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses

Abstract

    This paper explores the Islamic ideals of peace and dissent through the text of the Holy Quran. Prevailing Western talks about Islam portray the Islamic religion as being nontolerant of different beliefs. Notwithstanding, a nearby perusing of the Islamic canon, essentially the Holy Quran, shows that as opposed to this talk, Islamic standards fuse an ethic of peacefulness and claims dissent, quiet concurrence as well as, positive unification of opinions for contrasts and receptiveness to progress through discourse. The instances of contemporary Islamic strict ideas and social practices that encapsulate these positive standards show that this is not only a chronologically erroneous interpretation of the group but a functioning living Islamic practice. The paper concludes that the state's dysfunctional characteristics discourage dissent for its own political and social interests. However, Islam is a religion of peace and directs its followers to solve any matter through consent and mutual respect.

    Peace, Dissent, Islam, State, Dysfunctional

    (1) Saman Salah
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens' University (SBKWU), Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
    (2) Khair Un Nisa Azeem
    M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens' University (SBKWU), Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
    (3) Mehwish Khan
    M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens' University (SBKWU), Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Salah, S., Azeem, K. U. N., & Khan, M. (2024). Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses. Global Political Review, IX(IV), 114-119. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).10

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Salah, Saman, Khair Un Nisa Azeem, and Mehwish Khan. 2024. "Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses." Global Political Review, IX (IV): 114-119 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).10

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    HARVARD : SALAH, S., AZEEM, K. U. N. & KHAN, M. 2024. Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses. Global Political Review, IX, 114-119.

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    MHRA : Salah, Saman, Khair Un Nisa Azeem, and Mehwish Khan. 2024. "Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses." Global Political Review, IX: 114-119

MLA

    MLA : Salah, Saman, Khair Un Nisa Azeem, and Mehwish Khan. "Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses." Global Political Review, IX.IV (2024): 114-119 Print.

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    OXFORD : Salah, Saman, Azeem, Khair Un Nisa, and Khan, Mehwish (2024), "Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses", Global Political Review, IX (IV), 114-119

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Salah, Saman, Khair Un Nisa Azeem, and Mehwish Khan. "Islam as an Epitome of Best of Morality and Ethics: Reflections on Dissent and Peace in Islam Through Quranic Verses." Global Political Review IX, no. IV (2024): 114-119. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).10