CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN ISLAMIC LAW

Conflicts are very common and almost inevitable, some are beneficial while others are not. The line that distinguishes the two is a thin one and not constant. But it usually depends on the culture, tolerance and ability to take stress. This prompted Mu'awiyyah, the founder of the Umayyad Caliphate to say thus:-"if there were one string of hair linking him to the people, it would not be cut. If the people relaxed it, he would pull it, and if.they pull it he would relax it”