The Concealed Peace: How the Monetary System Hid Islam

By GLENN CHIN

Every human being is searching for peace - and almost no one finds it where they're looking.

The Concealed Peace begins with a simple observation: wealth doesn't satisfy, power doesn't settle the heart, pleasure fades faster than it arrives, and the addictions and distractions we reach for instead only deepen the ache. Meanwhile, an answer has been sitting in plain sight for over a thousand years - quite literally named after the very thing being searched for. Islam, from the Arabic root S-L-M, means peace.

So why has it been so widely overlooked?

This book traces the historical forces that have concealed Islam's original, plainly stated message: centuries of sectarian fragmentation, the slow entry of interest-based finance into religious life, the collapse of the Prophet's ﷺ own treasury system, the profitability of war, the fear-driven economics of modern media, and the manufactured distractions of consumer culture. Each of these, this book argues, traces back to a single root - an economic system built on compound interest - and each has, in its own way, buried a message that was never actually lost, only obscured.

Grounded directly in the Qur'an rather than centuries of accumulated dispute, The Concealed Peace is both a work of historical and economic analysis and an invitation: to look past the noise, and rediscover the peace that was there all along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H888JBGG
• ISBN13: 9798186507468
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"