This page contains quotes from the Quran pertaining to the subject of peace. I have divided it into the following categories: Peace as an Attribute or Name of God, Peace from God on Man, Peace with God, Peace among Men, Peace in One's Heart, and Eternal Peace.
Peace as an Attribute or Name of God
He is the only Lord, the King, the Holy, the Peace, the Forgiver, the Watchful Guardian, the Majestic, the Dominant, and the Exalted. God is too exalted to have any partner. (Quran 59:23, Muhammad Sarwar)
Peace from God on Man
The slumber that overcame you was from God that brought you peace. He showered water from the sky over you to clean you, remove satanic wickedness from you, strengthen your hearts, and grant you steadfastness. (Quran 8:11, Muhammad Sarwar)
Then Allah sent His peace of reassurance down upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down hosts ye could not see, and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (Quran 9:26, Pickthall)
If you do not help (the Prophet, remember) God had helped him when the infidels had forced him to leave (and he was) one of two. When both of them were in the cave, he said to his companion: "Do not grieve, for God is with us." Then God sent divine peace on him, and invisible armies for his help, and made the unbelievers' purpose abject. Most exalted is God's word, for God is all-mighty and all-wise. (Quran 9:40, Ahmed Ali)
Accept the offerings they make from their wealth in order to cleanse and purify them for progress, and invoke blessings upon them. Your blessings will surely bring them peace, for God hears all and knows everything. (Quran 9:103, Ahmed Ali)
Noah was told, "Get down from the Ark. Your Lord's peace and blessings are upon you and your followers. Your Lord will grant favors to other nations and then afflict them with a painful torment." (Quran 11:48, Muhammad Sarwar)
Peace be upon him, the day he was born, and the day he dies, and the day he is raised up alive! (Quran 19:15, Arberry)
Peace be upon me, the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I am raised up alive! (Quran 19:33, Arberry)
Peace be with those who follow the right guidance. (Quran 20:47, Muhammad Sarwar)
God has promised the righteously striving believers to appoint them as His deputies on earth, as He had appointed those who lived before. He will make the religion that He has chosen for them to stand supreme. He will replace their fear with peace and security so that they will worship God alone and consider no one equal to Him. Whoever becomes an unbeliever after this will be a sinful person. (Quran 24:55, Muhammad Sarwar)
Say: "Praise belongs to God, and peace be on His servants whom He has chosen." What, is God better, or that they associate? (Quran 27:59, Arberry)
Peace on Noah among all men. (Quran 37:79, Ahmed Ali)
Peace be on Abraham. (Quran 37:109, Ahmed Ali)
Peace be on Moses and Aaron. (Quran 37:120, Ahmed Ali)
Peace be on Elijah and his people! (Quran 37:130, Wahiduddin Khan)
Peace be upon the Messengers. (Quran 37:181, Wahiduddin Khan)
He it is Who sent down peace of reassurance into the hearts of the believers that they might add faith unto their faith. Allah's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is ever Knower, Wise. (Quran 48:4, Pickthall)
Allah was well pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance unto thee beneath the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down peace of reassurance on them, and hath rewarded them with a near victory. (Quran 48:18, Pickthall)
It is He who kept peace between you and the people of the valley of Mecca after having given you a victory over them. God is Well Aware of what you do. (Quran 48:24, Muhammad Sarwar)
When those who disbelieve had set up in their hearts zealotry, the zealotry of the Age of Ignorance, then Allah sent down His peace of reassurance upon His messenger and upon the believers and imposed on them the word of self-restraint, for they were worthy of it and meet for it. And Allah is Aware of all things. (Quran 48:26, Pickthall)
Peace with God
And why should I fear those you associate with Him when you fear not associating others with God for which He has sent down no sanction? Tell me, whose way is the way of peace, if you have the knowledge? They alone have peace who believe and do not intermix belief with denial, and are guided on the right path." (Quran 6:81,82, Ahmed Ali)
This is the path of your Lord and it is straight. We have explained Our revelations to those who take heed. They will live in peace with God. God protects them as a reward for their deeds; He is their Guardian. (Quran 6:126,127, Muhammad Sarwar)
Nor can you lead the blind when they have gone astray. You can make none hear except those who believe in Our signs and have come to peace and submission. (Quran 27:81, Ahmed Ali)
Will he whose breast has been opened up to peace (not be) in luminescence from his Lord? Alas for those whose hearts have been hardened to God's remembrance! They wander (astray) in clear error. (Quran 39:22, Ahmed Ali)
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Peace among Men
And when Abraham said: "O Lord, make this a city of peace, and give those of its citizens who believe in God and the Last Day fruits for food," He answered: "To those will I also give a little who believe not, for a time, then drag them to Hell, a dreadful destination!" (Quran 2:126, Ahmed Ali)
O believers, enter the peace, all of you, and follow not the steps of Satan; he is a manifest foe to you. (Quran 2:208, Arberry)
Do not make God a pretext, when you swear by Him, to avoid doing good, being righteous and making peace between people. God is all hearing and all knowing. (Quran 2:224, Wahiduddin Khan)
The true way with God is peace; and the people of the Book did not differ until knowledge (of this revelation) had come to them, out of mutual opposition. But those who deny the signs of God (should remember) He is swift in the reckoning. (Quran 3:19, Ahmed Ali)
If they withdraw from you, and do not fight you, and offer you peace, then God assigns not any way to you against them. (Quran 4:90, Arberry)
You will also find persons who, while wishing to live in peace with you as well as with their own people, turn to civil war the moment they are called to it. If they do not keep away from you, nor offer you peace nor restrain their hands, seize them and kill them wherever they are. We have given you a clear sanction against them. (Quran 4:91, Ahmed Ali)
If the person slain is one of those with whom you have a peace treaty, the penalty is the same as that for a slain believer. (Quran 4:92, Muhammad Sarwar)
Their confidential counsels are seldom for the good, save of those who talk of charity or goodness or peace among men. Whosoever does so for the pleasure of God, We shall give him an ample reward. (Quran 4:114, Ahmed Ali)
If a woman feareth ill treatment from her husband, or desertion, it is no sin for them twain if they make terms of peace between themselves. Peace is better. But greed hath been made present in the minds (of men). If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do. (Quran 4:128, Pickthall)
People of the Book, now there has come to you Our Messenger, making clear to you many things you have been concealing of the Book, and effacing many things. There has come to you from God a light, and a Book Manifest whereby God guides whosoever follows His good pleasure in the ways of peace, and brings them forth from the shadows into the light by His leave; and He guides them to a straight path. (Quran 5:15,16, Arberry)
When those who believe in Our revelations come to you, say, "Peace be upon you. Your Lord has taken it upon Himself to be merciful. So that if any one among you does evil in ignorance and repents thereafter and makes amends, then He is most forgiving and ever merciful." (Quran 6:54, Wahiduddin Khan)
And why should I fear those you associate with Him when you fear not associating others with God for which He has sent down no sanction? Tell me, whose way is the way of peace, if you have the knowledge? They alone have peace who believe and do not intermix belief with denial, and are guided on the right path." (Quran 6:81,82, Ahmed Ali)
They ask you of (benefits accruing as) spoils of war. Tell them: "The benefits belong to God and His Messenger." So fulfil your duty to God and keep peace among yourselves. Obey God and the Prophet, If you really believe. (Quran 8:1, Ahmed Ali)
Mobilize your (defensive) force as much as you can to frighten the enemies of God and your own enemies. This also will frighten those who are behind them whom you do not know but God knows well. Whatever you spend for the cause of God, He will give you sufficient recompense with due justice. If they (the unbelievers) propose peace, accept it and trust in God. God is All-hearing and All-knowing. (Quran 8:60,61, Muhammad Sarwar)
Can a man who knows what has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, and one who cannot see, be the same? They alone take warning who are wise, who fulfil their covenant with God and do not break their agreement, who keep together what God has ordained held together, and fear their Lord and dread the hardship of the Reckoning, who persevere in seeking the way of their Lord, who fulfil their devotional obligations, and spend of what We have given them, secretly or openly, who repel evil with good: For them is the recompense of Paradise: Perpetual gardens which they will enter with those of their fathers, spouses and children who were virtuous and at peace, with angels coming in through every door. (Quran 13:19-23, Ahmed Ali)
Remember when Abraham prayed: "O Lord, make this a city of peace, and preserve me and my progeny from worshiping idols." (Quran 14:35, Ahmed Ali)
But when you enter houses, salute one another with a greeting of peace, a greeting from your Lord full of blessings and purity. (Quran 24:61, Wahiduddin Khan)
The true servants of the Gracious One are those who walk upon the earth with humility and when they are addressed by the ignorant ones, their response is, "Peace." (Quran 25:63, Wahiduddin Khan)
(Some of) the followers of the Bible believe in the Quran. When it is recited to them, they say, "We believe in it. It is the Truth from our Lord. We were Muslims before it was revealed." These will receive double reward for their forbearance, replacing evil by virtue, and for their spending for the cause of God. When they hear impious words, they ignore them, saying, "We shall be responsible for our deeds and you will be responsible for yours. Peace be with you. We do not want to become ignorant." (Quran 28:52-55, Muhammad Sarwar)
Those they call upon, apart from Him, have no power of intercession, save such as have testified to the truth, and that knowingly. If thou askest them, 'Who created you?' they will say, 'God.' How then are they perverted? And for his saying, 'My Lord, surely these are a people who believe not' -- yet pardon them, and say, 'Peace!' Soon they will know. (Quran 43:86-89, Arberry)
If two parties among the believers start to fight against each other, restore peace among them. If one party rebels against the other, fight against the rebellious one until he surrenders to the command of God. When he does so, restore peace among them with justice and equality; God loves those who maintain justice. Believers are each other's brothers. Restore peace among your brothers. Have fear of God so that perhaps you will receive mercy. (Quran 49:9,10, Muhammad Sarwar)
Peace in One's Heart
Their prophet said to them: "The sign of his kingship will be that you will come to have a heart full of peace and tranquility from your Lord and the legacy left by Moses' and Aaron's family supported by angels. This shall be a token for you if you really believe." (Quran 2:248, Ahmed Ali)
Those who believe and find peace in their hearts from the contemplation of God: Surely there is peace of heart in the contemplation of God! (Quran 13:28, Ahmed Ali)
We said: O fire, be coolness and peace for Abraham. (Quran 21:69, Pickthall)
Another of His signs is that He created mates of your own kind of yourselves so that you may get peace of mind from them, and has put love and compassion between you. Verily there are signs in this for those who reflect. (Quran 30:21, Ahmed Ali)
Eternal Peace
God calls man to the home of peace and He guides whom He wills to a straight path. (Quran 10:25, Wahiduddin Khan)
Except for those who repent and believe and do good deeds. These will enter Heaven, and they will not be wronged in the least. Theirs shall be the Gardens of Eden, which the All Merciful has promised to His servants without their having seen them, and most surely His promise shall be fulfilled. They will not hear therein anything vain, only greetings of peace. They will receive their provision there morning and evening. (Quran 13:60-62, Wahiduddin Khan)
Except for those who repent and believe and do good deeds. God will change the evil deeds of such people into good ones: He is most forgiving and most merciful. He who repents and does good deeds has truly turned to God. And those who do not bear false witness, and when they pass by frivolity, they pass by with dignity; who do not turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the signs of their Lord when they are reminded of them; who say, "Lord, grant us joy in our wives and children and make us a model for the righteous." These are the ones who will be rewarded with lofty mansions in Paradise, for their steadfastness. They will be received therein with greetings of welcome and salutations of peace. (Quran 25:70-75, Wahiduddin Khan)
Only they believe in Our revelations who, when they are reminded, bow in adoration, and give praise to their Lord, and do not become arrogant. Their backs do not rest on their beds, and they pray to their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of what We have given them (in charity). No soul knows what peace and joy lie hidden from them as reward for what they have done. (Quran 32:15-17, Ahmed Ali)
It is not your wealth or your children that will confer on you nearness to Us. It is those who believe and act righteously who will be doubly rewarded for their good deeds, and will dwell in peace in the high pavilions [of paradise]. (Quran 34:37, Wahiduddin Khan)
The people of Paradise shall be happily occupied on that Day, they and their wives, shall recline on couches in the shade. They shall have fruits therein, and all that they ask for. "Peace!" shall be the greeting from the Merciful Lord. (Quran 36:55-58, Wahiduddin Khan)
Surely those who fear and follow the straight path will be in a place of peace and security. (Quran 44:51, Ahmed Ali)
The pious ones will be in a secure place amid gardens and springs, clothed in fine silk and rich brocade, sitting face to face with one another. We shall unite them to maidens with big black and white lovely eyes. They will be offered all kinds of fruits, in peace and security. (Quran 44:51-55, Muhammad Sarwar)
O soul at peace, return unto thy Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing! Enter thou among My servants! Enter thou My Paradise! (Quran 89:27-30, Arberry)
Note: Allah is the Arabic word for God. Jewish Arabs and Christian Arabs call God Allah. Arabic Bibles have the word, Allah, as the word for God in them.
