By Memoona Sajjad, Contributor Muslim Writers SocietyFeatured Article Globalization has hardly made us one global village. Concepts of racial and national distinctions, rivalries, hatred of 'the other' and fanatical loyalty to your own narrow creed has only built up consistently. Tolerance, co-existence, respect for humankind are still things to be dreamt of merely. The media's 'global village' is a dangerous place. It has barbed wire, minefields and war zones spread throughout its length and breadth. It is far from being a warm little community. Something has gone wrong somewhere.
One Ummah Network fully endorses The Amman Message, which contains the following three points, crucial to Muslim unity and the future of the Islamic Ummah:
1. That all Muslims of traditional Islamic schools of thought, including both Sunni and Shi'a schools, are Muslim, and their blood is sacred to all other Muslims.
2. It is impermissible to declare any Muslim an apostate (the practice of takfir).
3. Only those with proper religious education (i.e. scholars) may pronounce fatwas (edicts).
In recognition of Quds Day (the last Friday in the month of Ramadan), One Ummah Network presents this video in expression of our solidarity with the Palestinian people. May Allah liberate them from oppression and shower them with His mercy.
And Solomon was David's heir. He said: "O people! We have been taught the speech of birds, and on us has been bestowed (a little) of all things: this is indeed Grace manifest (from God.)"
And before Solomon were marshaled his hosts,- of Jinns and men and birds, and they were all kept in order and ranks. At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said: "O ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you unknowingly."
Globalization has hardly made us one global village. Concepts of racial and national distinctions, rivalries, hatred of 'the other' and fanatical loyalty to your own narrow creed has only built up consistently. Tolerance, co-existence, respect for humankind are still things to be dreamt of merely. The media's 'global village' is a dangerous place. It has barbed wire, minefields and war zones spread throughout its length and breadth. It is far from being a warm little community. Something has gone wrong somewhere.
In recognition of Quds Day (the last Friday in the month of Ramadan), One Ummah Network presents this video in expression of our solidarity with the Palestinian people. May Allah liberate them from oppression and shower them with His mercy.
And Solomon was David's heir. He said: "O people! We have been taught the speech of birds, and on us has been bestowed (a little) of all things: this is indeed Grace manifest (from God.)"