Every religion is a way or a
style of living. People have the freedom and right to choose what they think,
what they do, what they feel and which religion they follow. There is also an
Afghan proverb which says that:
عیسی به دین خود، موسی به دین خود.
عیسی به دین خود، موسی به دین خود.
Eisaa ba deen khud,
musaa ba deen khud.
Which means “Jesus to his religion and Moses to his.” There are many
religions in the world and all of them ask people to do good deeds and to avoid
bad ones. I have lived in different societies and I think most of the religions
are similar and they all have some basic principles in common.
I think crimes are different and they are in every society which is
totally a different issue and there are many criminals who do wrong and bad
things in different countries but mostly people and media write them under the
name of religions.
It is better to explain here the main similarities between the two
biggest religions in the world which are Christianity and Islam.
These two religions have some basic principles in common which can
build and bridge cultural and religious cooperation among the followers of the
two religions.
I am not personally a religious man and I think there are many people
in every society who think beyond religions and what matters for them is
humanity and respect for the people from all religious groups.
The two biggest religions of the world have their own respective “Holy
Books” which are The Bible written in Hebrew and Koran written in Arabic. These
books are the principles and instructions believed by their followers to be the
messages received from God. There lies the main idea as a “super invisible
power” called “God” or Allah in Arabic in the center of the two Holly books of
the two respective religions. There are rewards and punishments for doing good
and bad in the two books called as Heaven and the Hell. Both books explain the
idea of Eve (Hawa in Arabic) and Adam (Adam also in Arabic) and say that all
human being are born from the same mother and father.
Both Holly Books say the story of Adam and Eve as well as many other
prophets (saints) Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic), Jacobs (Yaqoob)... Etc, exactly
the same way with slightly difference in names or order of actions.
Almost every Afghan student studies the story of the Jesus the Christ
from Koran where a whole chapter of Koran is about his life and that chapter is
called by his name “Ees-Ibne-Maryam” which means Jesus the son of Mary. Jesus
the Christ is given the same position as “Mohammad” and he is called a prophet
of God who could give life to the death. Koran says that Jesus is alive and he
is with the God. Jesus did not die on the cross, but he was one of his friends
put in the cross. All Muslims believe that Jesus, Moses and many other prophets
were sent by God to show the right way to the people of the world. In the
textbooks of schools in Afghanistan, you will find more than a hundred times
the name of the Jesus the Christ as “Eesaai Masseh” or Massihaa which means
“life giver” in Dari. Every time when students say his name, they would not say
it alone because they respect him and they would add a phrase after his name
“Alaaihe-salam” which means “Peace be upon him”. They also add the same phrase
when they say the name of Moses and it will be like Musaa “Alaaihe-salam”.
If all the people of the world bring their children up with the same
mutual respect as the students of Afghanistan have for other religions, I think
the world would live in peace for ever.
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