Monday, October 11, 2010

‘Prophet Muhammad example of coexistence’

A symposium titled “Peygamber Yolu” (The Prophet's Path) was held in İstanbul over the weekend for leading Islamic scholars from around the world to discuss how best to follow the path of the Prophet Muhammad.



From Today's Zaman:
The common message emphasized by speakers at the two-day Prophet’s Path Symposium over the weekend was that the Prophet Muhammad exemplified how to live peacefully with “the societal other,” and that there are lessons people should draw from his life to secure peace in today’s world.

Delivering the opening speech for the İstanbul symposium, co-organized by the Turkish “Yeni Ümit” (New Hope) and Arabic “Hira” journals, on Saturday, Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa added that there are lessons people should draw from Muhammad’s life in regards to maintaining peace with adherents of different religions and non-believers. “The qualities of the societies he lived in or with did not matter for him as he always knew how to coexist. We have to draw lessons for own our lives by taking his words, state management and service into account,” Gomaa said.

2 comments:

Damien said...

Pastorius,

Yeah, coexistence as inferiors with no real rights, and no ability to even criticize their oppressors. Not really very tolerant now was it?

Anonymous said...

Prophet muhammed was a infidel and a liar he was no prophet just a regular man who had a 6 yr old jewish girl as his wife..All muslims should repent and pray and ask forgiviness from the one true god jesus christ, the son of man.