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26 attention to them in detail. There is, ever, a very clear direction with regard to the rest of armed conflicts which might well be followed advantage in certain contingencies with which we find ourselves faced. It is in the following words: And if two parties of believers should fight against, other, make peace between them; then if after that one of them transgresses against the other, fight the party that transgresses until it returns to the command of Allah. . Then if it returns, make peace between them with equity and act justly. Verily Allah loves the just. ( Ch. 49: V10 ) This means that if fighting should break out between two States, other States should intervene and should settle the terms on which peace should be restored. If a party should refuse to carry out the terms proposed should be treated as an aggressor. If it persists intransigence, force should be used against it until it; to carry out the terms proposed. The peace terms proposed in accordance with this procedure, for the purpose bringing an armed conflict to an end, are described as, ‘the command of God’. Whe n the recalcitrant State submits to the award and carries it out, the matter be treated as concluded. No ulterior questions are to be raised as part of the settlement, nor are the intervening States to seek any advantage for themselves out of settlement. This is a very brief outline of some of the general principles on the basis of which Islam seeks to regulate racial, economic and international relations. If these other principles inculcated by Islam for the regulations and human intercourse were generall y