{"id":15192,"date":"2025-05-29T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:11:08","slug":"does-islam-promote-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/does-islam-promote-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Islam promote violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No, Islam does not promote unprovoked violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islam governs by a primary set of principles (known as\u00a0<em>maqasid ash-shariah<\/em>): the preservation of religion, life, intellect, progeny, and property. The value of human life is emphasized in Islam\u2019s sacred texts, the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah. The Qur\u2019an equates a single murder with the killing of humankind at large, and equates saving a single life with rescuing all of humanity. The Prophet Muhammad \ufdfa defined the faithful as \u201cthose most restrained from violence\u201d. Islam even forbids sports that use animals as targets, or involve striking the face of a fellow human being.<\/p>\n<p>But since tyranny and crimes against humanity are an unfortunate fact of the human condition, Islam engages this reality by sometimes allowing physical force as a deterrent, and regulating it with ethical parameters, to ensure the best possible outcome for society and the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Islam does not promote unprovoked violence. Islam governs by a primary set of principles (known as\u00a0maqasid ash-shariah):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15193,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions\/15193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}