On the International Day of Peace, the Muslim Peace Fellowship offers both a prayer and a commitment — because our tradition declines to separate them.
The prayer is the one our teachers taught: O God, You are Peace, and from You comes peace. We say it for the war-torn and the war-weary; for refugees on every road; for soldiers who wish they were home and civilians who wish the soldiers were; for the mediators, medics, and protectors who stand in between.
The commitment is the Fellowship’s standing one, renewed in public today: to document the tradition of Islamic nonviolence, to teach it wherever we are invited and some places we are not, and to bear witness — patiently, without despair — that peace rooted in justice is not a utopian’s hobby but a command addressed to us all.
A day is a small thing against a world of conflict. But the tradition is fond of small persistent things: the daily prayer, the drop that carves the stone, the mustard seed of faith. We keep the day, and the days after it.