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Season of goodwill
MIND MATTER by RAJA ZARITH IDRIS (Sultanah of Johore)
If Yuletide is a jubilee of a bieing born of Isa (Jesus), a soothsayer respected as well as worshiped in Islam, is it so wrong to instruct a blessed day for those who applaud it?
DURING a days prior to Yuletide last year, you wished my friends who ! were celebrating it "Merry Christmas" in many a same approach they would instruct me "Selamat Hari Raya" or "Happy Eid".
I find it rsther than unhappy which such a elementary nod a single which you grew up with as well as which you have never regarded as something which would concede or de-value my own conviction is right away regarded as something so religiously incorrect for us Malaysian Muslims.
When you was during boarding propagandize in England , you had to go to church any Sunday since it was partial of a rules. My father suggested me to consider it as partial of my "education" as well as he had no doubt which a experience would strengthen rsther than than break my own faith.
I was able to see a similarities as well as differences in in between Christianity as well as Islam. you schooled some-more than a normal Malaysian Muslim would about Christianity. ! you learnt ! which just as you Muslims classify ourselves according to a 4 opposite schools of thoughts of a 4 Imams (Imam Malik, Imam Al S! hafi, Im am Abu Hanifa as well as Imam Ahmad Abn Hambal) as well as have been either Sunnis or Shias, so Christians as well have been divided in to opposite sects or churches.
Going to church did not have me less of a Muslim when you was a young girl, as well as conjunction does saying "Merry Christmas" have me less of a Muslim now. My conviction has not been shaken just since you wished a little friends a time of happiness with their families. Neither will you suddenly suffer from absentmindedness as well as dont think about what my sacrament is.
What you do not instruct to forget, however, is which there have been good, kind people who have been not of a same conviction as me.
As Harun Yahya, a Turkish bard (he was selected last year as a single of the! 500 most! influential Muslims in a world by a Royal Isla mic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan ) noted: "Islam is a sacrament of peace, adore as well as tolerance".
Today, however, a little circles have been presenting a fake image of Islam, as if there were conflict in in between Islam as well as a adherents of a dual alternative monotheistic religions. Yet Islam's view of Jews as well as Christians, who have been named `the People of a Book' in a Quran, is really friendly as well as tolerant.
"This attitude towards a People of a Book grown during a years of a bieing born of Islam. At which time, Muslims were a minority, struggling to strengthen their conviction as well as pang hardship as well as woe from a pagans of a city of Mecca . Due to this persecution, a little Muslims decided to rush Mecca as well as shelter in a protected nation with a just ruler. The Prophet Muhammad told them to take retreat with King Negus, a Christian king of Ethiopia . The Muslims who followed this advice found a really satisfactory administration department which embraced them with adore as well as apply oneself when they went to Ethiopia . King Negus refused a final of a n! on-belie ver messengers who asked him to obey a Muslims to them, as well as voiced which Muslims could live openly in his country.
"Such attitudes of Christian people which have been formed on a concepts of compassion, mercy, tact as well as justice, consecrate a fact which God has forked out in a Quran."
I do not instruct to be a egocentric Muslim who expects friends of alternative faiths to instruct me Selamat Hari Raya or, for those who have been not Malaysians as well as thus do not know about Hari Raya, a Happy Eid as well as nonetheless do not return their organization to help a poor when it is Christmas, Chinese New Year, Deepavali or Vesak Day.
Every year, friends who have been Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs or those without any conviction come to a home to applaud Hari Raya with us. They do so with frankness as well as as a symbol of apply oneself for a single of a many critical days in a Muslim calendar. Why should you not reciprocate their kindness, show them a same symbol of apply oneself f! or their ! sacrament as well as instruct them a same happiness on their holy days of celebration?
An Islamic scholar as well as techer additionally reminded me which as Muslims you must remember a significance of both a five Pillars of Islam as well as in a six Pillars of Iman (Faith), which are:Belief in Allah;
Belief in a angels;
Belief in a suggested Books (which include a Bible, a Torah as well as a Holy Quran);
Belief! in a Prophets (May Peace be Upon Them);
Belief in a Resurrection as well as a events of Kiamah, a Day of Judgement; and
Belief in a predestination (Qada' as well as Qadar) by Allah in all things.
The prophets include not just Muhammad (May Peace Be Upon Him) as a last soothsayer as well as as a Messenger of Islam, though additionally in a twenty-four earlier ones who have been referred to in ! both a B ible as well as a Quran. Four of them have been Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Daud (David), as well as Isa (Jesus).
So, if Yuletide is a jubilee of a bieing born of Isa (Jesus), a soothsayer respected as well as worshiped in Islam, is it so wrong to instruct a blessed day for those who applaud it?
We have been right away in a second decade of a 21st century. Surely, you should, right away some-more than ever, be far some-more enlightened during a time when report of any sort as well as of all kinds have been so straightforwardly available to us.
What is many critical is which you regard a single an additional as associate adults as well as treat any alternative with respect, regardless of a competition or religion.
The bard is Royal Fellow, School of Language Studies as well as Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), as well as holds a BA (Honours) degree in Chinese Studies, University of Oxford .
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