Re - "Rumi said "I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish Synagogue
and the Christian church and see one altar."
Good for him.
As the librarian at the synagogue library explained to some visiting
school kids, "There are some people who have never been to a synagogue
before and are surprised when they do not find Jesus hanging on the
cross over an altar."
In the spirit of ecumenism some of the participants are in a
hurry(leap-frogging) to equate religions (the good, the bad or veil) –
and mind you, Ninian Smart could think of gardening as a possible
religion, linking man to his maker, lump together all the religions
that you can think of including San Francisco's First Church of
Satan, lump them all together as equals in the one basket under the
same God !
But, pluralism/Universalism to the extent that a synagogue or the Beit
Hamikdash or the Temple Mount can replace the Muslim house of prayer?
In that case, in a spirit of goodwill Muslims can start praying in
churches en masse, fraternity with Christianity! Share the bread !
Skip the wine! (Haram!) Pay no attention to the holy rap especially
when it gets intense at collection time.
In the church instead of the mosque? The Church with all it's lights
and paraphernalia incorporating the mortal flesh cast in marble, the
holy water, the holy Eucharist etc. surely comrade,the Muslim must
feel ill-at-ease with all the heavily loaded symbolism to the full
glory of all of its representative arts...
Of some relevance :
http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2011/04/opinion_may.html
http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2011/12/rabbis.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_antisemitism
http://ohr.edu/ask/ask272.htm#Q1
On 14 Aug, 20:05, "Abdul Bangura" <th...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Muslims and Entering a Church
>
> Abdul Karim Bangura
>
> As Mwalimu Toyin Adepoju has put it, no one can know everything. Thus, it is with sincerity that I ask whether anyone on this forum is aware of any precept in the Qur'an or the Hadith that prohibits a Muslim from entering a church, as I am quite baffled by the Nigerian official's refusal to enter a church, especially when citizens of his country he is representing are bereaved. While I pride myself as an avid student of the Torah, the Bible, the Qur'an and the Hadith, I might have missed such a prohibition.
>
> I lean more toward the great Sufi Rumi or Jalaluddin Balkhi on matters dealing with Abrahamic connections. As I state in my book in progress tentatively titled Rumi on Judaic-Christioan-Islamic Connections, Rumi's reverence for all faiths is captured in the poem titled Only Breath as follows: "Christian or Jew or Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen all belong to the beloved...."
>
> As I also note in the work, in the midst of the crusades and violent sectarian conflict, Rumi said "I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish Synagogue and the Christian church and see one altar." As I further mentioned, in December of 1273 when Rumi died, representatives of every major religion---the Pope, etc.---attended his funeral.
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