There Is No Better Word to Describe Islam Than Peace?
By
Noor A. AlNaboud
September
14, 2020
Do you
believe that we have a lot of prejudices against other religions? I think our
perception of this is changing in general for the better day by day.
One of the
best ways to understand ourselves and discover new things is by interacting
with people who neither speak our language nor understand our culture and it is
fun to expand and grow, noting the beauty and the contrast of the environment
to identify new things we need and want.
Thus, we
need to find a common ground with people around us, regardless of their race, gender,
and culture. The equation is so simple, it only needs some understanding and
sometimes empathy, or putting ourselves in place of others to see things from
different angles.
We can also
let go of everything said by others and to give ourselves time to begin to try
hearing the story of others from your own experience with them. You are worthy
of being a source for stories! We need to fundamentally change how our culture
perceives other religions.
Therefore,
it’s very important here to highlight the great role made by Etidal, a Saudi
organization that seeks to expose, combat and refute extremist ideology and
emphasize the importance of achieving world peace and the remarkable efforts
made by the Intellectual Warfare Centre with the Saudi Ministry of Defense. IWC
aims to confront the roots of extremism and promote the true understanding of
Islam.
Islam is a
religion based on simply loving and welcoming each other. We learned from our
holy book that gender, class, race, and physical traits make life different,
but they don’t make us unequal. Unfortunately, we do that to each other, I
laughed so many times when I read/listen others’ impression on this subject as
they are turning them into cautionary tales, and I prefer to not argue with
that at all because they seem to be completely forgetting that main mission of
our religion that is to accept and welcome others.
I believe
that pointing out differences will only serve individuals but not deliver peace
to this world, we need the best of everyone, the people we know and the people
we don’t know, and always remember the fastest and the most effective way to
influence is kindness as it was the secret key of our Prophet Muhammad (peace
be upon him).
Honestly, I
can see our focus has shifted from individuality to community, which means the
new generation is going forward and it will be more open. I truly believe that
everyone should be an agent of change in this world.
Original
Headline: Is there a more suitable word to describe Islam better than peace?
Source: The Saudi Gazette
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-spiritualism/there-no-better-word-describe/d/122857
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