An Invitation to Peace

Islam
An Invitation to Peace
Unlike all the other major religions, Islam is not named after a
particular historical figure like Christianity, a tribe like Judaism, or a
nation like Hinduism. This is because Islam is not a religion in the sense
that it is based around a certain person or the beliefs of a certain
people. Islam is the completion of the divine guidance that God has
sent down to people from the beginning of time, and it is the
expression of the divine guidance which God has created all people
upon, what we call human nature. How is this? Because Islam literally
means to submit, to surrender.
Submission is the natural state of everything in existence. Remember
how we looked at the amazing order and design at everything in this
vast universe, down to its most tiny yet incredibly complex particles?
What this means is that the whole of this vast universe, down to its most
tiny yet incredibly complex particles, is in submission. Islam is to enter
into submission in what you have been given a choice in, just as you
are in submission in what you have no control over.
Everything in nature obeys laws and so everything in nature is in
harmony. The word Islam also means to make peace. You’re in peace
with someone when you’re not contesting or opposing them. Entering
into submission before God is to enter into peace with the all-
Powerful, most Wise, the One whose Will the whole universe obeys.
This is what the purpose of religion has always been and what every
man of God has called towards. And this is the call of every person’s
nature too, and the reason you consider good as good and bad as bad.
Islam is therefore to enter into peace with your own nature too.
“Long before any thought that Islam might become my own faith
entered my mind, I began to feel an unwonted humility whenever I
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