Islam frankly accepts the right of other living beings apart from human beings to treatment worthy of not only man’s soul but the spirit which is manifested in all life.
Such were the dreams, the teachings of the outstanding figures of the past. Such have been the yearnings of most ordinary mortals from time immemorial, and yet what is history except on rare occasions one long, long story of war and warfare? In Islam during the greater part of the golden age of Omiyyas [Umayyads] in Syria and Spain [and] my own ancestors’ in Egypt [were] periods of peace, in all the odds and ends, made up together some hundred years of peace, but not in one extension. With those rare occasions, 30 to 40 years here and 30 to 40 years there, there has never been peace. In Rome there was a glorious period of some 60 years’ peace. But that is about all. The Middle Ages and the age thereafter consisted of minor and constant struggles. The horrors of the Mongol invasion of Western Asia of Genghis Khan and Tamerlaine are well-known facts, which leave us with something like the impression of a nightmare. The bloody battles of the Crusades, which in the name of the noblest, led to untold miseries for East and West are glaring fads.“
- His Highness Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III
Lecture to the Dar es Salaam Cultural Society, ‘World Peace and Its Problems’ (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), 3 August 1946
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