Collardgreenmuslim.com Website Review

on the occasion of the inter-religious family dinner: november 11, 2017. i am so pleased to be here tonight representing my diverse faith community, and within it, the islamic society of baltimore. thank for this outreach to our community. it is a very kind gesture that will remain long in our hearts. this occasion is ripe for reflecting on one of my favorite verses from the qur’an, the text which muslims believe god revealed through the. o humankind! we have created you from a single male and female, and made you into tribes and families so that you may know one another.. surely the noblest, most honorable of you in god’s sight is the one best in piety, righteousness, and reverence for god. surely god is. o humankind! it says. not o muslims! o humankind. it addresses everyone on earth, not only the community of muslims. i am being addressed along with all of the members of my human family. we are connected by origin, by membership in the human race. connection is a vital ingredient in a meaningful and pleasurable life. the need to connect socially is powerful. our emotional and even our physical health depends on the quality of our human connections. in languages around the word we use the language of pain to identify social pain. so, we say, “he broke my heart.” or “she hurt my feelings.” we are biologically “wired” to connect. i believe we limit well-being if we limit our connections to people who look like us and worship like us. we have the freedom to expand our connections to all of humankind! then the verse says: “created you from a single male and female,” which is our common ancestry in adam and even. our jewish sisters and brothers may refer to the misnah, sanhedrin 4:5 which states, “furthermore, the first person was created alone for the sake of peace among men, so that no one could say to another, ‘my ancestor was greater than yours.” when we view our individual selves on a continuum dating back to our first mother and father, the idea of racism, is dumb, even laughable.