When Peace Is Greater Than Victory

About this lecture

In this lecture, Sheikh Ammar Alshukry explores the famous hadith in which the Prophet ﷺ praised his grandson al-Hasan ibn Ali as a chief through whom Allah would bring peace between two groups of Muslims — a prophecy fulfilled decades later in the landmark reconciliation known as Aam al-Jama'ah, the Year of Unity. Drawing on the historical context of the early Muslim civil wars and the biography of al-Hasan ibn Ali, Sheikh Ammar extracts five timeless principles for peacemakers: sincerity, listening to both sides, justice-based reconciliation, freedom from resentment, and the importance of negotiating from a position of strength.