PeaceQuest Centre for Human Excellence

  The real Jehad is connecting to the FORGOTTEN ASPECT OF OUR BEING for achieving human excellence. The real Jehad is reawakening your intrinsic nature, your true self, and aligning your ego with it. This Series is created as a gift to humanity by PeaceQuest Centre for Human Excellence. The series explains the holistic picture of Islam with all related components to highlight how Islam’s message, worship and the way of life are focused on one objective: To help us achieve human excellence, which is a pre-requisite for ultimate success. ‏‏ The series also talks about the most forgotten aspect of our being – our spirit, or Rooh. When who we are and what we do are not in alignment, we suffer and cause the suffering of others. A happier and contended world awaits us once we align our actions with our intrinsic nature (Fitra). There is a clear blueprint for that, provided we understand and follow it to achieve human excellence. This series explains the holistic picture of Islam with several

  The Value of Human Life and the Company We Keep ~ Abid Ullah Jan The value of human life and how our company shapes our perspective of others. This video discusses one of the root causes of our judgmental attitudes, our racist mentality, and our xenophobic attitudes; and explains how to rise from such a narrow mindset.

  It makes me cry – every single time I watch it. Probably enough for the description. How many of us go through how severe punishments – all because either they can’t prove their innocence or just don’t want to because they keep their good deeds secret – between them and their Creator – like the little boy in this story.

  IMPORTANT: We Need to Bridge the Gap Between Faith Community and Social Services Sector ~ Abid Ullah Jan A Conversation About the PeaceQuest's Approach  In our struggle to stem gun violence, youth joining gangs, drug dealing/abusing and stemming extremist tendencies, the most important protective factor that we are ignoring is the faith factor. For that we need to bridge the gap between social services sector and the faith organisations – particularly Muslim community centres/mosques. To understand Please also see: PeaceQuest in the broader context : Addressing gun violence and extremism in Ottawa through collective impact work Bridging the Gap: A conversation with Musleh Khan The Faith Factor: Attention Muslim Parents Developing a Counter Narrative A Note to CVE Training Designers

More God, Less Crime – A Leap of Faith or Matter of Fact ~ Abid Ullah Jan Religion and spiritualism can foster cooperation or foment strife, but does religion play a uniquely powerful and positive role when it comes to preventing crime and rehabilitating criminals? In his book,  More God Less Crime , noted Baylor criminologist Byron R. Johnson has amassed evidence that it does — evidence that he argues has hitherto been ignored due in part to elite academia’s secular biases. In this video, Johnson discusses and debates this vital topic with John J. DiIulio, Jr., Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania; Beverly Frazier, Assistant Professor in the Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers, whose faith-based anti-crime program in Boston was featured on the cover of Newsweek. The discussion is moderated by Robert P. George, McC

  The forgotten factor In Preventing Hate, Crime and Violence Abid Ullah Jan One of the interesting questions is: how do we know that nurturing our spiritual self is key to staying away from hate, crime and extremist tendencies? To answer this question, we need to look into credible academic research first to see the impact of mere involvement with religion on crime in general, and then deduct how profound the impact will be will be when a systematic approach is adopted to inspiring spiritualism and putting individuals on the right path to achieving human excellence. Richard Freeman 1  at Harvard University conducted a study in 1986 which was particularly helpful in turning our attention to religion as a factor helping at-risk youth become resilient youth — youth who stay out of trouble despite living in the neighbourhoods where crime occurs all around them and even though there was no specific content or delivered to those you. Freeman found that mere frequent church attendance was en