Understanding between Faiths

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Understanding between Faiths

• Cape Town September 2006

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Understanding between Faiths

• May GOD bless us and keep us
• May GODs face shine on us and be gracious to us
• May GOD look upon us with kindness and give us
  peace
• Numbers 6 24-26

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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Introduction
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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family
• Islam is inclusive
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations
• No compulsion in Islam

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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family
• Islam is inclusive
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations
• No compulsion in Islam

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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.  O mankind! reverence your
Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single
Person, created, of like nature, his mate, and
from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless
men and women fear Allah, through Whom ye demand
your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs
(that bore you) for Allah ever watches over
you.  Quran 41
 O mankind! We created you from a single (pair)
of a male and a female, and made you into nations
and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that
ye may despise each other). Verily the most
honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who
is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full
Knowledge and is well-acquainted (with all
things).  Quran 4913
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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family
• Islam is inclusive
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations
• No compulsion in Islam

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Understanding according to Islam

• Islam is inclusive

 The same religion has He established for you as
that which He enjoined on Nuh - that which We
have sent by inspiration to thee - and that which
We enjoined on Ibrahim, Musa, and 'Isa namely,
that ye should remain steadfast in Religion, and
make no divisions therein to those who worship
other things than Allah, hard is the (way) to
which thou call them. Allah chooses to Himself
those whom He pleases, and guides to Himself
those who turn (to Him). . .  Quran 4213
The Messenger believeth in what hath been
revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of
faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His
angels, His Books, and His Messengers. "We make
no distinction (they say) between one and another
of His Messengers." And they say "We hear, and
we obey, (we seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and
to Thee is the end of all journeys. Quran 2285
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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family
• Islam is inclusive
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations
• No compulsion in Islam

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Understanding according to Islam

• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations

To thee We sent the Scripture in truth,
confirming the Scripture that came before it, and
guarding it in safety . Quran 548
There is, in their stories, instruction for men
endued with understanding. It is not a tale
invented, but a confirmation of what went before
it, a detailed exposition of all things, and a
Guide and a Mercy to any such as believe. .
Quran 12111
Say ye "We believe in Allah, and the revelation
given to us, and to Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq,
Ya'qub, and the Tribes, and that given to Musa
and 'Isa, and that given to (all) Prophets from
their Lord we make no difference between one and
another of them and we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
. Quran 2136
Those who believe (in the Qur-an), and those who
follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the
Christians and the Sabians, any who believe in
Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness,
shall have their reward with their Lord on them
shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve .
Quran 2136
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Understanding according to Islam

• Members of the same family
• Islam is inclusive
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism privileged
  relations
• No compulsion in Islam

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Understanding according to Islam

• No compulsion in religion

Let there be no compulsion in religion Truth
stands out clear from Error . Quran 2256
O ye who believe! stand out firmly for Allah, as
witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred
of others to you make you swerve to wrong and
depart from justice. Be just that is next to
Piety and fear Allah. For Allah is
well-acquainted with all that ye do . . Quran
58
Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom
and beautiful preaching and argue with them in
ways that are best and most gracious for thy
Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His
Path, and who receive guidance. Quran 16125
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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Islam and the West
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Islam and the West

• Abrahamic faiths and civilisation

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Islam and the West

• Abrahamic faiths and civilisation

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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Muslims in Europe

• The values of European societies
• Real situation of Muslims in Europe
• Muslims citizens commitment

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Muslims in Europe

• The values of European societies
• Real situation of Muslims in Europe
• Muslims citizens commitment

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Muslims in Europe

• European societies values
• Real situation of Muslims in Europe
• Muslims citizens commitment

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Muslims in Europe

• European societies values
• Real situation of Muslims in Europe
• Muslims citizens commitment

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Understanding between Faiths

• Introduction
• Understanding according to Islam
• Islam and the West
• Muslims in Europe
• Conclusion
• QA

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Conclusion
GOD is the light of the heavens and the earth
Quran
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