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CPS International, the Centre for Peace and Spirituality, as is apparent from its name, is an organization, which aims to promote and reinforce the culture of peace through mind-based spirituality. Non-profit-making and non-political in nature, it is engaged in promoting peace and spirituality through inter-faith efforts. Drawing inspiration from the Quran, the preserved word of God, and the Sunnah, the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, the Centre seeks to share the spiritual principles of Islam with the world and to reveal its true face, based as it is on peace, tolerance and co-existence.
Our Founder: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Centre was founded in January 2001 by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, an Islamic scholar who has adopted peace, spirituality and inter-faith harmony as the mission of his life. According to him, peace and spirituality are both, in fact, two aspects of the one truth. Positive thinking at an individual level is called spirituality; when this positive thinking reaches a collective level in society, it culminates in peace. The question is how should the message of peace and spirituality be spread? There are two ways of addressing people: one is at collective level and the other is at individual level. While most speakers prefer to address people en masse, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has – to the point of sacrifice – chosen to interact with people at individual level. According to him, addressing a crowd does not yield any long-term results, for, in very large groups, the individual’s mind is never properly addressed, and therefore individuals – the building blocks of society – are unlikely to change.
Maulana has throughout addressed individuals with the objective of re-engineering their minds, so as to bring about the kind of spiritual revolution in them, which will convert them into positive and peace-loving, spiritual beings. Through his efforts – spanning decades – the Maulana has created a team of individuals who have been spiritually reconditioned, by means of the simple formula: Change yourself – by living a God-oriented life – and you will be able to change the whole world.
The Ideology of Spirituality
The question that comes to mind is how does one start the process of building a positive and peaceful society? At CPS, we believe that there is only one way to do this and that is through spirituality. Although there are two major schools of spiritual discipline: one based on meditation and the other on contemplation, we subscribe to the school of contemplation. We believe that, as it is man’s mind that differentiates him from the rest of creation, it can only be through the development of his mind that man can attain true spirituality. Following this principle, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has developed a comprehensive Ideology of spirituality, based on contemplation – derived directly from the Islamic scriptures. CPS International and its global partners are striving towards the spread of spirituality by disseminating this ideology of contemplative spirituality and training individuals in its principles.
To help people focus properly on their spiritual existence, CPS imparts spiritual training in the art of clear thinking, the art of conversion, the re-conditioning of the mind, intellectual awakening and personality development; it also proposes aids to peaceful living such as practicing the art of difference management, and upholding the principles of avoidance and ‘status quoism’, etc. Once individuals undergo this training, they are able to re-focus their minds, unleash their spiritual potential and develop intellectually.
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