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_ when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (_) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (_) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

Did he know that God loved him from the foundations of the earth? With a power far exceeding the immensity of the cosmos, He turned all His attention to creating that man and declared, "You are My child. I love you.

God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does!

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices were not an inherent feature of a predominantly Muslim country.

If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible for cancer, meningitis, millions of spontaneous abortions everyday, mass killings of people in floods and earthquakes-and too great mountain of other natural evils to list besides. It would also,as the putative designer of human nature, ultimately be responsible or the ubiquitous and unbeatable human propensities for hatred, malice, greed, and all other sources of the cruelty and murder people inflict on each other hourly.

If we ask a random orthodox religious person, what is the best religion, he or she would proudly claim his or her own religion to be the best. A Christian would say Christianity is the best, a Muslim would say Islam is the best, a Jewish would say Judaism is the best and a Hindu would say Hinduism is the best. It takes a lot of mental exercise to get rid of such biases.

Islam is not dark but very bright indeed. Islam is not depressing but instead, quite uplifting and inspiring. Islam is not about censoring but instead it is about voluntary submission.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

You__e been tested._ He advised me to try and __orgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God_ without my forgiveness being tied to the one who wronged me. __his is the Divine remedy,_ he emphasised, __emind your ego when it resists. Don__ you love for God to forgive you on the day, too?_ Reflecting on what the Shaykh said, his advice undid a knot in my heart and I resolved to work on my forgiveness purely for the sake of God. The Shaykh also recommended: __e careful about what you pray for in the future._ He promised to pray for me personally, asking God to send me a Muslim husband who would value and cherish me for who I am. Insha_ Allah!

Anyone seeking to draw closer to God needs to curb the horizontal and ascend to God vertically,_ he said. __nd this means giving oneself fully to God _ with all one__ heart, body, mind and soul. There mustn__ be any dark corners.__kimming the surface wasn__ an option, he stressed. __eople often tend to merely skate around the edges of religion, but what they really need is to plunge into its depths like deep-sea divers looking for treasures. Too many people nowadays make selective choices from various faiths _ the New Age approach, but never embrace any one of them fully,_ said Nasr.It was true, so many people didn__ believe in organised religion but liked to take the best from every religion or spiritual teaching. __he most direct means of communication with God,_ he concluded, __re prayer and dhikr.

Boys will always be boys,_ he said. __he relationship obviously wasn__ meant to be._ He told me I should trust that the break-up was for the best, even if I couldn__ see that yet. As with every form of suffering, heartache brings with it catharsis, and turns us into better human beings. __t is like an iron in the furnace that is beaten into shape,_ he said. These bad experiences were ultimately a good sign because God tests the ones He loves. That might be why He has so few friends,_ he added dryly. His words cheered me up a bit.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event.

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us.

Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.