Islam and Peace
The Spiritual Goal of Islam
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was possible only because he had attained the
highest state of spirituality. He had risen above all
negative feelings.
These examples make it clear what a peaceful soul
is. The peaceful soul is one which being on a higher
spiritual plane, can live in tranquility, regardless of
the circumstances. It subsists within its own self. No
external event can disturb its inner peace.
Nowadays people often tend to look at the history
of kings in order to understand Islam. But this is not
the proper way to study it. One needs only to study
the careers of today’s political leaders to be able to
understand the nature of the Muslim kings of
bygone days. Today’s political leaders are, in
reality, exploiters. In a similar way most of the
Muslim kings of the later phase of Islam were also
exploiters. To achieve their political ends, they
exploited the name of Islam. As such, these Muslim
kings were in no way the true representatives of
Islam.
To me, those known as Sufis or Muslim mystics
were far better representatives of the spirit of Islam.
The Muslim Sufis embraced such values of Islam as
