The Sufi Paradigm of Peace-Making
There are three stations of peace in Sufism and the traveller on the spiritual path enters one of these stations according to his spiritual state. Of course the dweller at a lower stage has no access to the upper stations, and due to differences in rank, a single criterion is not to be applied to the dwellers of each station.
These three stations consist of peace at the stage of Islam (submission, abandonment to the Divine will), peace at the stage of Iman (the Divine peace that enters the believer’s heart), and peace at the stage of Ihsan (the Sanctifying Virtue through which the sovereignty of evil comes to an end).
Peace at the stage of Islam pertains to the corporeal and social aspects of human beings, whereas at the stage of Iman it pertains to the heart and the microcosm, and finally at the stage of Ihsan peace pertains to the Spirit and to the macrocosm.
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