SECRET KEY TO PEACE!

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اَلَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوْا اِيْمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ  اُؤلآئِكَ  لَهُمُ الْاَمْنَ وَ اُؤلآئِكَ هُمُ الْمُهْتَدُوَنَ
“And those who believed and didn’t contaminate their faith with zulm (wrong doing) they are the people of peace and they are the ones who are the guided ones.

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——SECRET KEY TO INNER PEACE——

Did you ever FEEL that despite of having EVERYTHING in life, there is still SOMETHING MISSING?

When you ponder deep, you do realize it’s the INNER PEACE.

But here is the real question!

HOW DO I ATTAIN THIS INNER PEACE?

WHAT IS THE REAL SOURCE OF THIS INNER PEACE?

You’ll be glad to know that Our Creator Allah created us, and he knows us better than ourselves.

He says in his Glorious Quran (16 سورة ق اٰية)

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ وَنَحْنُ اَقْرَبُ اِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيْدً

“And indeed we have created the human being and we are aware of the thoughts that come unto him and we are closer to him than his jugular vein.”

So, since he knows that we STRIVE for PEACE, and if peace is there, we don’t want anything but if peace isn’t there everything else is meaningless. Therefore, he gave us a clear guideline which is the KEY to attain PEACE.

So, what is it?

He says in سورة الانعام

اَلَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا وَلَمۡ يَلۡبِسُوۡۤا اِيۡمٰنَهُمۡ بِظُلۡمٍ اُولٰۤٮِٕكَ لَهُمُ الۡاَمۡنُ وَهُمۡ مُّهۡتَدُوۡنَ

“And those who believed and didn’t contaminate their faith with  ظُلْم(wrong doing), they are the people of peace and they are the ones who are the guided ones.

Now the question arises, what does ظُلْم  mean? Is it the one that we use in Urdu?

The word ظُلْم   has the following meanings

1. Darkness
2. Not placing/keeping something where it deserves to be (ظَللمْتُ السِّقَائَ، ظَلَمْتُ الْاَرْضَ)

Both these meanings are linked because when you place something where it doesn’t deserve to be or in simple words you DON’T GIVE ITS DUE RIGHT, then this causes a DARKNESS IN YOUR HEART.

I think it becomes self-explanatory now. So, whenever you and I don’t fulfil the rights of something, then we do ظُلْم   and the FIRST thing that happens to us is that a DARKNESS comes into our heart and we LOSE our INNER PEACE.

That’s why the prophet ﷺ said that when someone does a sin, a black dot appears on his heart and when he continues to do sins over sins then a time comes that his heart becomes completely black (Tirmizi 3334). In short ظُلْم   takes over the HEART and it is now disturbed and all the INNER PEACE IS GONE.

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا أَخْطَأَ خَطِيئَةً نُكِتَتْ فِي قَلْبِهِ نُكْتَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ فَإِذَا هُوَ نَزَعَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ وَتَابَ سُقِلَ قَلْبُهُ وَإِنْ عَادَ زِيدَ فِيهَا حَتَّى تَعْلُوَ قَلْبَهُ وَهُوَ الرَّانُ الَّذِي ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُون

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So what Allah is telling us is something really profound that in order to ACHIEVE PEACE, you should fulfil the rights under the FOUR categories:

1. Rights of Allah
2. Rights of our body
3. Rights of our soul
4. Rights of other human beings

So here are the key takeaways:

1. ANALYZE yourself in all the FOUR categories and evaluate in which areas do you lack.
2. INCORPORATE – Once analyzed then incorporate some daily activities in your routine where you can fulfil those rights that you currently are not fulfilling. For example, if you are not keeping up family ties then take out time to connect with your family members.
3. Act – Start acting on these things from the very next day.

May Allah protect us from ظلم enable us to fulfil all the rights due upon us and therefore grant us inner peace. Ameen