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Moderation in Islam is one of the fundamentals that contributes to the establishment of a balanced society on the principle of liberties, respect of human dignity, and moderation as opposed to injustice and slavery for any possible reason. This paper explains the direct correlation between moderation and societal peace because when society losses moderation chaos and extremism prevails and refusal of other and dialogue dominates. Societal chaos shall revail leading to the destruction of the infrastructure of the state affecting all members of society regardless of their ethnicities and religious denominations, whether Muslims or non-Muslims.This paper also aims to focus on establishing the values of moderation and their role in building society and forming its societal culture that protects it from chaos, exaggeration, stray from right path. Islamic dogma is the first and foremost base of our Islamic life.The paper follows the analytical and deductive methods in the analysis of negative phenomena that should be addressed with wisdom, mind, power of law, respect of the state, and assign a role to the enlightened class to exercise its role in awareness and directing. The paper find that extremism and exaggeration are phenomena alien to our Islamic and Arabic society and do not reflect its truth. It also found that our nation still retains the potential for positive interaction and to participate in progress away from all aspects of backwardness and extremism. The correct understanding of our religion and the promotion of the middle path teachings of Islam is the ideal answer to all our problems of extremism and exaggeration
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