Islam is a religion of peace & love: Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Peace is Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI)’s major objective vigorously pursued from its very inception. Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a staunch believer in world peace. He believes that basically Islam aims at achieving peace in the world on the basis of human values like justice, equality, human dignity and upkeep of human rights everywhere and at all levels. He considers Islam as Din (religion) of peace, a charter of love, co-existence, tolerance, human dignity, veneration of human life and a charter of justice and equality for mankind. These are the main features of the Islamic doctrine. It holds all the concepts based on hatred and prejudice as heretic and blasphemous; it regards the innocent killings of human beings as brutal murder of mankind. According to MQI the destination of Islam can be reached only through love, harmony and co-existence and never through hatred and conflict.
Dr. Qadri countered the onslaught against the intellectual and conceptual fronts of Islam not in the spirit of antagonism or anger but at the level of erudition, scholarship and rationalism. The 9/11 calamity had not yet occurred when he pronounced while addressing the International Peace conference held at Oslo in 1999:
“So this is just a mention of what is the significance of peace in Islam. Islam, from its very beginning to its end is peace and nothing else. Anything detrimental to peace, anything damaging to peace, anything conflicting with peace, anything contradictory to peace has no, absolutely no concern with Islamic teachings. And whosoever may be, if he has any kind of terrorist or extremist character, any character detrimental to humanity, detrimental to global peace, detrimental to the societal peace of mankind that is absolutely anti-Islamic and opposed to our faith.” (Oslo, Norway, 13 August 1999)

Lectures of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri