Quran: “God calls to the Home of Peace.”(10:25) This means that according to the creation plan, peace and harmony should prevail in human society. God Himself is Peace (Peace being an attribute of God). He

imposed upon it by God, whereas man has to adopt this path of peace of his own free will. This has been expressed in the Quran in these words: “Are they seeking a religion other than God’s, when every soul

artificially imposed upon man. Peace is inherent in nature itself. The system of nature set up by God already rests on the basis of peace. If this system is not disrupted, it will continue to stay the

that patience is the key factor in maintaining the desired system of God. In the words of the Quran the patient man is the helper of God (61:14). 2. The other injunction, designed to maintain peace in human

deserving of Paradise, one must discover the glory of God in the present world and acknowledge it from deep within his heart. Glorifying God means discovering God through thinking and reflection, as the Lord of

established between God and man through a psychological relationship. Tazkiya is not achieved through any intermediary between God and man. Tazkiya is a blessing which one directly receives from God. A religious

such consciousness as enables a person to attribute everything to God; every experience becomes a means of bringing him closer to God. It is through these experiences that a personality develops which

whole matter is one of right or wrong attribution. Wrongly attributing events to anyone other than God is to pollute one’s soul. This is to deprive oneself of the opportunity to purify oneself. On the contrary

pondering over or thinking about oneself and the universe, and receiving intellectual sustenance for God realization. As stated in the second chapter of the Quran, one of the duties of the Prophet vis-à-vis

to purify himself.Without purification, that calibre of personality, which is called in the Quran a God-oriented personality (3:79), cannot be developed. The truth is that purification alone can lead man

same is true of the purification of man. In this sense tazkiyah also covers intellectual development. God has created man with great potential, and this potential of the human personality is actualized by

traceable to the misuse of freedom granted to man by God. Revoking human freedom is tantamount to revoking the Creator’s plan. That is why God has designed man’s case to be individual-based rather than

from a study of the Quran. In chapter 4 of the Quran there is a verse as follows, “Whoever obeys God and the Messenger will be among those He has blessed: the messengers, the truthful, the witnesses,

veneration of objects other than God was equivalent to shirk or associating partners with God. This they believed would go contrary to monotheism, or the belief in the oneness of God. However, in razing down

veneration of objects other than God was equivalent to shirk or associating partners with God. This they believed would go contrary to monotheism, or the belief in the oneness of God. However, in razing down these