Ending Conflicts Through Inner Peace

In today’s world we see conflict everywhere. Conflicts between nations, between countries, between races, between tribes, between families, between brothers and sisters.

These conflicts are killing millions of people, they are causing poverty and hunger, are driving away people from their homes and lands, and nflicting damage on innocent people, animals, birds, the earth and the environment.

There are politicians and leaders of countries who thrive on conflict. Who actually owe their political careers to conflict. Whose raison d’etre is conflict. They will not survive as leaders and politicians a single day if they did not create conflicts.

The biggest and financially the most profitable industry and business is the weapons business. There are weapons that incinerate humans and animals into ashes, that evaporate metals and concrete. Nations and people do not hesitate in using such horrendous weapons. They have lost all feelings of guilt and have no conscience using these weapons on fellow beings.

Besides these obvious killer weapons, mankind uses other weapons, such as starving people to death, poisoning them with drugs and chemicals, and psychological warfare.

Newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media sell because of their screaming headlines of conflicts and wars. People pay hundreds of dollars monthly to buy newspapers, and watch violent TV programs and movies, that program their minds into becoming monsters.

We have become so conflict prone that we are totally insulated against the sufferings of others. We have no compassion and no mercy. We take pain, hunger, suffering and death of others in stride.

Nearly all conflicts are created for material wealth, greed and ego. As a result of these conflicts, today only 5% of the people or about 400 corporations and their share holders own 80% of the world’s resources and wealth. Acquired mostly by wars, manipulation of markets, outright theft, and murder.

Out of the 6 billion people on this earth almost 2 billion do not have access to continuous supply of clean water, or a decent meal a day. Billion or more are living in shacks and non permanent homes. Hundreds of millions have been turned into refugees in their own countries or had to flee their countries of birth. Everyday more and more people are becoming victims of this horror. Statistics show that around 250 million people have been killed by wars this century.

Eugenics is no more a secret or a taboo subject and is openly promoted by some people. They want to reduce the disenfranchised, and the robbed poor people of the world by wars, man-made diseases, hunger and starvation. There are people who now want to cull humans, just as they cull animals. America and Europe are deliberately using warfare on poorer people and nations to reduce their numbers.

In many countries there is a thriving trade in human trafficking, white slavery and prostitution, not only is there trafficking in live humans but children’s organs are sold to wealthy people for transplant purposes. Children are kidnapped and killed for their organs.

The modern monetary system which is based on credit and debt creation is leading to a handful of rich becoming richer and majority of world people becoming poorer, even the middle classes are going into poverty. The usury system which rewards capital but punishes those who have no capital, such as the workers, the small businessman and the peasants, is also causing high inflation which is making even basic necessities unaffordable for a lot of people.

Economies of countries are based on speculation and gambling. Governments make laws that promote speculation and gambling in order to increase tax revenue intake. Countries’ economies are like Casinos.

In the last hundred years the world has seen huge speculative bubbles of commodities, currencies, stock markets, land and property. These days many countries’ GDP temporarily expand as a result of speculative building and property boom.

Lands that could have been used to produce food for the hungry and to maintain the ecological balance is ripped up and instead luxurious homes are built on it that require millions of litres of water and huge resources of electricity, energy, wood, metals, and other products that are contaminating the earth and causing pollution. Prices of building materials rise, making it unaffordable for poorer people to even build a shack.

Then the insiders engineer a crash leaving behind poverty, hunger and dispossession, millions of people lose their homes, farms and lands while the insiders make fortunes.

Those people who participate in such speculation do not consider the consequences of their actions and what harm such behaviour and such greed causes to people, animals, birds and their habitats and the environment.

The main reason for this conflict is that mankind has become greedy, and fallen into the rat race of acquisition and consumption.

There can be no peace when everybody is scheming and fighting for these illusionary things. Every country, has joined this mad race that is being promoted by elites and capitalists. In the chase for this illusionary wealth, nations are willing to sacrifice their own people and subject them to the pressures of IMF and World Bank. In the end only a handful people in a country become very rich and others are left with illusions.

All these illusions are creating sick communities, sick societies, sick countries and a sick world.

In order to escape this matrix we will have to achieve inner peace.

Without achieving inner peace we will continue to be the pawns in a game created by the money masters and crooked politicians.

Without this inner peace in ourselves, our judgements will be clouded, without this peace we will have a miserable physical and mental life.

We will be suffering from the stress of this missing element called peace. Our minds and bodies will become diseased and we will be infecting others around us with negative energies.

Without this peace we will not understand the needs of our fellow beings, we will have no true compassion for our fellow creatures human or animal.

Inner peace is the greatest wealth that you can acquire, all other wealth is an illusion, a burden and a chain around your neck, not your protection, not your saviour.

Our physical body is an illusion that will one day vanish into nothingness. That all the material things are programmed to terminate, to die and to vanish. Nothing is everlasting except the only reality, the only truth and that is God.

To end all conflicts, avoid all conflicts. Walk away from arguments and conflicts, walk away from temptations and do not indulge in or participate in financial wizardry, economic oppression and injustice. Think of the visible and non-visible consequences and implications of your every act.

Work on achieving inner peace, it is the only way to prosperity and happiness and peace in this world.

May God Guide us towards this inner and outer peace.

O God! O our Master!

You are eternal life and everlasting peace by Your essence and your attributes.

The everlasting peace is from You and it returns to You.

O our Sustainer! Grant us the life of true peace and usher us into the abode of peace.

O Glorious and Bounteous One!

You are blessed and sublime.

Source: IslamServices.org