Ideology of Peace
PEACE IN ISLAM
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“God is the Being from Whom all people feel
safe and secure. From Whom people have the
experience only of peace, not of violence.”
(Al-Qurtubi, Part 18, p. 46)
God has set the highest conceivable standards. That
is, when God’s dealings with human beings are
based on peace and security, then man should also
deal with other human beings in a peaceable
manner, and not with harshness or violence.
NO EXTREMISM
In the fourth chapter of the Quran the following
injunction has been given:
“Do not go to excess in your religion.” (4:171)
The same point has been made in a hadith. The
Prophet of Islam observed:
“You should restrain yourselves from
committing excesses (ghulu) in religion. For it
was due to their having gone to extremes in
religion that the previous communities were
destroyed.” (Al-Nasai, Ibn Majah, Musnad
Ahmad, 1/215, 347)
