How Can Islam Motivate Adherent To Work For Peace

The religious traditions of Islam and Christianity provide multiple teachings that motivate its adherents to seek peace both within the world and themselves. The following will analyse the extent to which the principal teachings of submission and justice in Islam as well as the Kingdom of God and salvation in Christianity can motivate adherents to work for peace.

Islam advocates the teachings of submission and justice, drawing on the concept of Suratil Mustaqueem - the Straight Path - and Al-Mizan - the Balance - to motivate adherents to find peace. Ultimately, in Islam, peace is about the striving to submission to the one God "and those who strive hard” will be guided on the ‘straight path’. (Surah 29:69). Thus, a life lived in submission

Men and women have the same religious and moral duties and responsibilities and they both receive the rewards for their deeds (Qur'an 4:124). The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) established in 2013, released a statement on the 27th of August 2015 where the organisation called for American mosques (masjids) to work harder to be more inclusive of women and provide better conditions. This Sunni Islam organisation has also gained support from the Fiqh Council of North America, an organisation composed of renowned and respected Islamic scholars. Hence, peace is vital to promote gender equality and a balance in religious and moral duties. Therefore, the pursuit for salvation on Hajj in alignment with submission to God, coupled with the proactive response to gender inequality drawing on notions of the straight path and the balance respectively, evidence ways in which Islamic teaching motivate peace within the individual and the

The Christian concept of the Kingdom of God is the central premise and image at the core of all of Jesus’ teachings that addresses an ever-present calling and an eschatological hope. This is a challenge to believers to identify that the "Kingdom of God is within" (Luke 17:21) themselves in order to work for peace and justice in their world. The Bible teaches adherents to “make every effort to live in peace with everyone” (Hebrews 12:14) regardless of social and cultural differences. An example would be when a group of European Orthodox bishops from the Council of the European Bishops Conferences, travelled to the Holy Land from September 11-16 to show closeness to adherents in the Middle East and aim to call for peace based on the teaching of the Kingdom of God being within all adherents. The European bishops are using their sense of solidarity and understanding of the Kingdom of God, to empower the marginalised to seek peace to establish a united community. Thus, through uniting adherents with the teaching of the Kingdom of God, peace can be established for the