Muslims should read bible everyday, What do you think?

Question

I think instead of reading about counting other as enemies, killing and torturing people of other religion, Muslims should read the words of Jesus,like "Love your neighbour", "If someone slaps you right cheak, show your left as well". "Forgive seven seventy times", Though you dont believe in others religion, you should not forbid it. "Love your enemies".

Answer 1

Yes and likewise, Christians should read Bhagwad Geetha, the Hindu mythology.

Answer 2

Have you ever read the Koran or Torah for that matter.

You should read alot, for a long time, before you start to talk !

What you are saying , applies to all nations, USA for one ( a big one! ), when did USA " love thy neighbour" ? when did it "show the other cheek"? ever ?
Islam is about 1400 years old, apart from recent terrorism problems, it has had a very Rosy history compared to Christians ! Jews too, have had much better history than Christians also.
The recent problems is about land and power, don't get fooled that it has anything to do with religion !

Answer 3

I think that what's going on in the Middle East has nothing to do with Islam, and has a lot more to do with politics. I mean, Bush is waging wars left and right--maybe we should be quoting the Bible to him? Also, Europe and the U.S., so-called "Christian" nations have been some of the world's greatest oppressors and colonizers, historically.

For instance, during the Crusades, look at how people, in the name of Christianity, went after the so-called "heathens," the Muslims and Jews. Didn't they read the Bible?? Even then, Jews were small in number, and who protected them? The Muslims! For instance, in Muslim Spain, Jews and Christians were treated equally. They thrived in many disciplines. Some of the greatest Jewish scholars, such as Mainmonides, came out of Muslim Spain.

What I'm saying is, all societies have their ups and downs. All societies have their days of glory and their days of darkness. All societies have their own wars and wars with others. It's politics. It's human nature. It's not linked to theological practices.

Nonetheless, I think Muslims have pretty much all of those equivalents to the quotes from the Bible mentioned. And in Islam, war is not permitted except in self-defense or in the face of injustice or oppression.

Some examples...

"If anyone murders an (innocent) person, it will be as if he has murdered the whole of humanity. And if anyone saves a person it will be as if he has saved the whole of humanity."

"Ruined are those who insist on hardship in faith," and, "A believer remains within the scope of his religion as long as he doesn't kill another person illegally."

When you judge, between people, judge with justice: verily how excellent is the teaching which Allah giveth you!

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.

God has no mercy on one who has no mercy on others.

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

God does not judge you according to your bodies and appearances but He looks into your hearts and observes your deeds.

Answer 4

Sure. Just as soon as you make the Book of Shadows and the Talmudic scrolls mandatory reading for every Christian.

Or, does forcing people to be familiar with the tenets of other religions only apply when it's your religion that is being forced on others?

Answer 5

Nobody "should" have to read anything.
Christians have done their fair share of Murder and mayhem
And they ain't done yet.
stirring Christian rant from Adolf Hitler.

"My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago — a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people.

“Then indeed when Rome collapsed there were endless streams of new German bands flowing into the Empire from the North; but, if Germany collapses today, who is there to come after us? German blood upon this earth is on the way to gradual exhaustion unless we pull ourselves together and make ourselves free!

“And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exploited.”

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html

Answer 6

Sure pal go to Iraq bulls-eye painted on your forehead carring a sign that's says convert to Jesus! walk the streets of Baghdad you will find peace forever!

Answer 7

Quotes from the Quran about tolerance for people of other faiths:

...and nearest among them in love to the Believers wilt thou find those who say 'We are Christians' T.Q., Sura 5, The Table Spread, verse 82.

Those who believe (in the Quran) and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures) and the Christians and the Sabaeans, 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. T.Q., Sura 2 of 114, The Cow, verse 62.

Let there be no compulsion in religion, Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. T.Q., Sura 2, The Cow, verse 256.

Did not Allah check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure T.Q., Sura 22, The Pilgrimage. verse 40.

And dispute ye not with the People of the Book except with means better T.Q., Sura 29, The Spider, verse 46.

Repel with what is better; then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate! And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint none but persons of the greatest good fortune T.Q., Ha-Mim (Abbreviated Letters), Sura 41, verse 34.

]...There is a community among the People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah's Signs throughout the night, and they prostrate. They have iman in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the salihun. You will not be denied the reward for any good thing you do. Allah knows those who have taqwa. (Surah Al 'Imran: 113-115)

“Allah forbids you not respecting those who fight you not for religion, nor drive you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly. Surely Allah loves the doers of justice. Allah forbids you only respecting those who fight you for religion, and drive you forth from your homes and help (others) in your expulsion, that you make friends of them; and whoever makes friends of them, these are the wrongdoers” (60:8, 9).

I like this article by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), on tolerance in Islam: http://www.islamdoor.com/Tolerance.htm. It also talks about how Muhammad (SAW) treated people of other faiths during his lifetime with kindness and compassion.

Finally, my favorite quote from the Quran on tolerance is this:

Say, O you who do not believe! I do not worship that which you worship; nor do you worship that which I worship. Nor will you worship that which I worship; nor will I worship that which you worship. Thus to you be your religion, and to me mine.

All our books, whether the Baghvad Gita, The Bible, The Torah, or The Quran, say the same thing. What our government is doing contradicts the Bible, just as what others are doing contradicts the Quran.

Let's not impose our faiths on one another.

Answer 8

The one who should read the bible everyday es BUSH!"

Answer 9

Why not. They are just as insane as the Christians

Answer 10

Because your magic is better I suppose.