Source: Twocircles.Net
By M Naushad Ansari for TwoCircles.net,,/b>
Patna: We are talking about Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and we should keep it in our mind that he is the greatest individual in history. If anyone wants to know about Islam, one should “Judge Islam by Prophet’s (SAW) life and his teachings,” said Swami Lakshmi Shankracharya, founder, Jan Ekta Manch.
Addressing a talk on ‘Seerat-un-Nabi’ at Anjuman Islamia Hall, Patna on January 26th, the Swami, in his enlightening speech, said that peace and humanity is the core teaching of Islam. But, unfortunately, most of the Muslims don’t follow Islamic teachings and they hardly learn from the life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). “it is the duty of every Muslim according to their religion to save and protect the humanity, Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) always forgave his enemies and showed patience when he was harmed by others, this was his moral teachings which made Islam an international religion”, he added. In particular he cited the stories of ‘Fatah-e-Makkah’ when enemies of Islam were given complete liberty despite being made prisoners of war by Muslims. On ‘Jihad’ he clarified that it has got nothing to do with innocent killings and terrorism. The first permission to take to arms was accorded in verse 22:39 of Holy Quran, which reads: “Permission (to take up arms) is hereby given to those who attacked, because they have been wronged.” The Quran further says : “Fight, for the sake of Allah with those that fight against you, but do not be aggressive.” He cited extensively from the Veda and Gita to substantiate that Islam’s endeavour to establish peace is not different from what Sanatan scriptures enjoin. Read more
Thank you Swamijee. And I profoundly thank the organisers of this event for having offered an opportunity to him to spell out the basic common tenets of these Great Religions. And I am sure even the Bible too prefers these tenets.
Terrorism on any pretext has never originated from any religion. In fact any ‘ism’ has no religion.
I pray that wisdom dawn on those erring. And peace prevail all over.
In my yesterday’s comment I failed to quote this telling-statement:
“We have just enough religions to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another” – Swift
With due respect and lots of apologies to Swift, I prefer it as:
“We have just enough ‘isms’ to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”