At first glance, the title would let you think it is purely a religious topic, but in fact it is not.
I have to mention first that I’m neither an Islamic scholar nor a preacher. I’m just presenting my view and you have all the right to agree or disagree with.
When I joined EC, it was very interesting and amusing to meet lots of people from all over the world. People who are from different countries and have different views, cultures, religions and backgrounds.
It was a great chance to know more about places I have never been and different lifestyles. The best part was that I could see these places through my friends’ eyes by how they saw and felt them. They didn’t give me ordinary descriptions of the places where they live, but instead they gave me the experience they witnessed in these places.
As EC allows us (people from all over the world) to be together, which is a great advantage. It also allows people who have opposite views to be together, which is also a good advantage if they learned how to handle it.
However, many of them fail to
tolerate with their differences
and act as if EC was the ring
and they have to knock
out their opponents.
They turn EC from a place to learn English, meet new friends and learn new things to a place in which they can declare wars, show their animosity and attack other people’s countries, cultures and religions.
EC is just a small example of
the world that we live in
and from this example
a few questions arise:
-Why don’t we all live in the same country and have the same culture and belief?
-Why do we have these differences?
-Which one of us has the best culture and view?
-Who is the best among us?
To answer these questions I will mention a verse from Quran:
“O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.” Quran [49:13]
Allah made us “peoples and tribes” to “know one another”
As man can’t live alone and needs a community to live in. He also needs a partner, parents and a family. Not only that, but also he can’t do all the jobs alone, he needs doctors, engineers, teachers…etc.
countries and cultures.
They need each other to survive,
in case of one of them falls
it passes the torch to
the other one to continue.
This is the purpose from this wide diversity.
This is why we have to “know one another”.
The best among us are ‘the most righteous” and only Allah knows who are they. So no one can say I’m the best.
Thus, we shouldn’t waste our time trying to prove which one of us is better than the other, but we have to work hard to “know one another” and that won’t happen unless we accept each other, tolerate with our differences, live together and exchange knowledge and experience.
That way we will fulfill the wisdom of Allah in creating us with this wide diversity.
As I have always believed … If there are thousands of reasons to hate each other … There are millions of reasons to love and live together.
Special thanks to (Tim New, noaslpls and sima)
Comments
@ Nora
I agree with you :)
@WM
Please granny don't make a mess in my blog :p
"once broken are broken for ever." alright i won't mend the broken heart ... i will mend the "broken for ever" :p
@WM
what an honor my granny commented twice on my blog :)
you bothered yourself to correct your sentence for just "to" ... hhhh is arabic laugh ?? first time to know that :p
awww, i'm sorry granny you have a big heart for all EC members. sorry for joking about your speed :(
*brings glue and mends his granny's heart* :)
the long waited comment of my granny :p ... hahahah
Feeling guilty is a terrible feeling i hope all the bad ppl here in EC act like you granny
... if they do that EC will be an amazing place :)
Thanks for your comment :)
@ arif
In your example i didn't find the harmony i was talking about in my blog. I can understand form your example that there are two people .. an oppressor (A) and a submissive person (B).
The harmony, the coexistence or “know one another” that i'm talking about in my blog is built mainly on admitting and respecting each other's rights ... The right to live .... the right to choose ... the right to believe ... the right to defend ourselves ... and the rest of these rights.
There will be no harmony unless we admit and respect these rights.
In your example this is not harmony and there won't ba any harmony between A and B.
unless B defends himself and A stops his abuses and pay for what he did.
after that we can talk about harmony.
No harmony before admitting ppl's right
arif, thanks for your comment .. it is always valuable one :)
I would not disagree with you on the whole context if you don't mean such kind of harmony as described in this story :)
" there are two man A and man B. Man A abuses man B. Man B reacts angrily over his abusive language. Man A: sarcastically says " you are not tolerant" Go to west and learn how tolerant they are!. People abuse each other, but no one react in that way. Man B: Ok boss, now I would not mind. Then man A starts abusing him. Man B keeps smiling. When man A sees he minds nothing. The next day man A comes to home to burn his (man B) house. Man B again reacts angrily. Man A reminds him " you forget the lesson I taught abou tolerance?" Man B oh I am so sorry I really forgot it. Pls go ahead and do your job, I assure you I won't mind. Then man A goes in house burns his house in front of him(man B), but he reacts nothing. He, at once, remembers that his wife and children were also in the house, he asks him "what about my wife and children?". Man A replies " yeah I saw them sleeping, but did not bother them". Man B it means they have died, then he was about to cry, but man A, at once, reminds him his lesson of tolerance. Man B says, while wiping out tears, I am not weeping, but asks " What can I serve you?" Man A: "No thanks". Man B: as the matter of fact, I can't serve you as you have burnt my kitchen too. Man A: I fond some valuables I m going by carrying them with me. Man B: I won't give you and tries to snatch them. Man A: be tolerant!. Man B ok boss then begins smiling.
See great example of harmony between attacker and so called defender. :).
If you press tail of cat, expecting it will not react is senselessness. Agree?
Summing up: we need to learn how to express our opinions and discuss our differences, I mean they should meet moral as well as ethical requirements.
The best quotation in my view is "Be yourself"
@ Eric
lol .. I like this >>> "blinders" :)
can i have one ? :p
@ Tim
I can't agree more ;)
Thanks for your great comment :)
Great comment Tim. I couldn't have said it better myself. We get out of life what we put into it. Opening your own mind and realizing that we all share the same heartbeat is the key to hapiness in my humble opinion. A closed minded attitude never gets the nourishment that it truely deserves to thrive and conquer this thing we all call life. Wearing blinders through our all too short existence causes social blindness. What you may have missed while dawning those contraptions just might have amazed you. ;)
One of the most important parts of truly understanding another person is to know and appreciate their views on religion, ethics, morals and life. So much of their life is shaped by their belief structure - what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad. One doesn't have to agree with another person's views to appreciate that they exist and shape that person.
I love learning about other cultures and that includes their views on life (and death), family relationships, religions, what is important in life or not important, social views, and generally everything that makes that culture different from others. It isn't about one being better or worse. Learn to appreciate the diversity in life. And learn to respect the views of others especially when they differ from your own.
One of my favorite quotes is from Jk Rowling. Many do not realize that an undercurrent in her Harry Potter books was about racism and bigotry. She wrote
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
JK Rowlings, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
She could just as easily have written "how he treats those who think differently from him rather than those who share the same views" The failure to tolerate differences and attempts to force others to "conform" to ones view is a primary cause of disharmony in the world today. You are entitled to your views and I am entitled to mine. They do not have to be the same.
To sum it up: "I should not try to force my views on you, and you should not try to force yours on me. Accept that differences are OK." Here I am using the "You" generically and not to mean AH_TK but rather people in general.
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