The Ideology of Peace

PEACE IN ISLAM ~ 121 ~ “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)