﴿سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبٍّ رَّحِيمٍ﴾
[And] "Peace," a word from a Merciful Lord. (Quran 36:58)
Love, happiness,
and notably peace, are all sentiments we seek to soothe our hearts, ease our
pain, and live with content. Throughout our life, we are constantly seeking
peace through various sources such as people, activities, and sometimes even through
money. Little do we know that the comfort we are on the lookout for is already
planted in our hearts. As Muslims, our belief in Allah submits us to a religion
that is by definition titled as peace. Therefore, deep within our hearts we
have inherited peace as the basis of our faith, yet we still set out on
life-long journeys in search of serenity which is within arm’s reach.
We experience
countless difficult situations in our lives. Challenges that elevate anxiety, obstacles
that instigate hopelessness towards our dreams, people who are out to hurt us,
others who fail to understand us, pain, loss, grief, and in particular, insecurity. Hence, we spend
days and nights trying to find comfort in so many different ways; we endeavor
to acquire inner peace. Peace that helps us crush our challenges, build
courage, and refuel our faith. To live with contentment in our hearts and sense
inner peace within our souls we must come to realize that Allah has created us
and brought us into this world with a blessing some of us have unfortunately
failed to notice. A blessing that it is meant to provide us with the support
our lives entail, alleviate us from our worries, heal our pain, establish
happiness into our lives, and bring
tranquility to our hearts. A blessing that He, the Merciful, the Generous, the
Source of Peace, has bestowed upon us to promise us that even if He is
physically not with us, He has planted His love in our hearts in the form of
peace. The inner peace that is essential to our comfort and joy is with Him; it
is what He has granted us, it is what He created us for,it is what our faith is
founded upon, it is our practice as Muslims, and it is our purpose in life.
As long as our
belief in Allah is true and sincere, we should recognize that He has already
conferred upon us the inner peace that we are seeking and that we should
demonstrate this peace internally in our hearts and externally in our lives. It
is from Allah's mercy that He shares love with us by means of peace, and we are
to share this peace among each other in this world. From a Merciful Lord,
peace; it is the love that He comforts us with, the language He speaks to us in,
and the one word that our faith inspires us to live by.
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