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[Patience]

Islamic Tolerance with Jews and Christians


With Jews:

In the first Islamic state, in Medina, headed by Muhammad (peace be upon him), the constitution stipulated pluralism, justice and equality among all citizens regardless of their religion. Actually, Islam combined all the tribes making them integral units within the Islamic structure. It made all citizens, regardless of their religion, a unique structure seeking the prosperity of their state. The Islamic

dictionary does not include the word "Minority" as Islam considers the diversity of religions, tribes, nations, colors, races, tongues, methods, traditions and customs as the Way of Allah that will never change.


The constitution of the first Islamic state stipulated:


* Jews will adhere to their religion and the Muslims to theirs.


* The Jews who live under the Islamic state will have assistance and advocacy and they will not be dealt with unjustly.


* Jews will share the expenses along with Muslims as long as they fight jointly against any aggressors. Muslims have their expenses and Jews have theirs.


* Muslims and Jews should advise each other and cooperate to achieve the common good. Furthermore, they should not help each other in sin and transgression.

* Whoever earns sin; he earns it only against himself.


Thus, this constitution of the first Islamic state achieved unique and unprecedented equality, justice and tolerance. In spite of the political freedom and the atmosphere of democracy that they claim, the West has failed to achieve what Islam achieved fourteen centuries ago.

Source: http://itolerance.4t.com/custom.html

[Patience]

With Christians


Moreover, what increases the greatness of the Islamic achievements concerning tolerance, equality and justice is that Islam does not ignore other religions as secular countries have done. In addition, this equality and justice do not disregard the Islamic reference as the secularists tended to do. The Islamic constitution of al-Madinah asserted this Islamic reference: "When there are differences, disputes or struggles among the people of al-Madinah about anything, the matter will be referred for a decision to Allah and to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)."


When the Islamic state extended to include the Christians of Najran, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) sent them a letter in which he assured them of pluralism, freedom, Islamic tolerance, equality and justice.


The Pact of Najran included the following:


* Full protection is accorded from Allah and His Prophet (peace be upon him) to the Christian inhabitants of Najran regarding their life, land, nationhood, property and wealth, even to those who are residing as their dependants in the vicinity of Najran and to those living outside the country, their priests, monks, churches, and everything, whether great or small.


* No bishop or monk will be removed from his office. The intention being that no change in any form of every one will be made (the status quo shall be maintained).


* They will neither be subjected to military service nor be treated harshly.


* They will not be dealt with unjustly.


* I (prophet Muhammad) shall protect them and safeguard their religion, churches, places of worship, the houses of their monks, their belongings and their tourist places wherever they are, in the same way as I protect my Islamic nation and myself.


The rest of the pact and more issues concerning Islamic Tolerance in:
http://itolerance.4t.com/custom.html

[Robin Hood]

It just shows how unislamic the activites of the Saud familiy, Hamas, Ahmadinejad, the Muslim bortherhood, and Osama Bin Laden are.
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Thus, this constitution of the first Islamic state achieved unique and unprecedented equality, justice and tolerance. In spite of the political freedom and the atmosphere of democracy that they claim, the West has failed to achieve what Islam achieved fourteen centuries ago.

The consitution of the US is very similar to that document.

[Zeeman]

Reason wrote: It just shows how unislamic the activites of the Saud familiy, Hamas, Ahmadinejad, the Muslim bortherhood, and Osama Bin Laden are.
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Thus, this constitution of the first Islamic state achieved unique and unprecedented equality, justice and tolerance. In spite of the political freedom and the atmosphere of democracy that they claim, the West has failed to achieve what Islam achieved fourteen centuries ago.

The consitution of the US is very similar to that document.

Please dont confuse the actions of some muslims to be Islam..We dont do the same with followers of the Jewish faith,Chritian or any other faith or lack thereof...

Islam never tried to enforce its teachings down anyone's throat because in the end its your choice and will to believe or not.Whatever your choice is it is our duty to respect it if you would do the same to ours.

[Robin Hood]

Quote: Whatever your choice is it is our duty to respect it if you would do the same to ours.

You don't have to 'respect' it simply not prohibit it. If someone doesn't work and lives off of their friends I won't respect it, but I won't prohibit it. In fact I won't prohibit anything but prohibition itself.

Quote: Please dont confuse the actions of some muslims to be Islam..We dont do the same with followers of the Jewish faith,Chritian or any other faith or lack thereof...


I did say this: It just shows how unislamic the activites of the Saud familiy, Hamas, Ahmadinejad, the Muslim bortherhood, and Osama Bin Laden are.

Quote: slam never tried to enforce its teachings down anyone's throat because in the end its your choice and will to believe or not.

Islam is a religion not a person so it can't force anyone to do anything, that'd be impossible. On the other hand, som people professing to be Muslims have taken the aggression route before. This, I'm sure, makes you even more angry than it does me, because it brings the ideas that you hold true into disrepute.

[Zeeman]

It makes me angry because they arent educated and go against the essence of Islam..

BTW the Muslims vs ISlam things wasnt directed at you because I completely understood what you said.However it seems that only Muslims go through that sort of guilt by assossiation thing..

[Saracen]

Salaam, Patience. Good post. I hope the other readers will be interested in this. Oh, and don't forget the conquest of Jerusalem by Umar Ibn-Ul-Khattab (RAA). He took it without shedding one drop of blood, and ruled it under the Law of Islam: Shari'aa. And that law alone made Jerusalem a safe haven for EVERYONE regardless of religion.

[Patience]

Salam Moath, yes, u r right. Hope they will listen to that!

[eynon]

When the Arab armies took Palistine, Syria, and Eygpt from the Eastern Roman Empire, those places has been plauged for decades with sectarian violence between different chirstian sects such as the Nestorians and Arians, who were at odds with the Greek Church based out of Constantinople.

The Greeks has tried to homogenize the Christian faith in the Middle-East and were greatly intolerant of these divergent Christian sects, as well as Jews living in the empire.

The Arabs issued edicts of tolerance for all peoples of the book, and the different sects of Christians under Muslim rule were mostly at peace and flourished.

Many of Islams great cities such as Alexandria, Anticoch, Damacus, Algiers, Beruit, and Jaffa retained their Christian majorities long after the conquests of the 7th century.

It was only centuries later, under the Seljuk Turks and Maluks that the Christians were subject to any major percecutions by Islam.