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eridani

(51,907 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:50 AM Jun 2015

What was so significant about Muslims and Jews praying together?

http://www.upworthy.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-group-of-jews-and-muslims-gathered-for-the-most-basic-gesture-of-faith

For starters, group prayer usually only involves people of the same faith. Then there's the who. This gathering confronts the specific, pervasive narrative of Muslims and Jews not getting along, revealing the possibilities beyond just "getting along" in the process. When these prayer participants were in it for the first time, they found deeper meaning in the experience than they could have imagined.

And under the glow of the moon, they concluded their prayer expedition with, well, a prayer:

"Grant us courage to walk this righteous path, praying side-by-side and yearning together for peace."

Interfaith alliances aren't anything new, but to see followers of different faiths practicing together is kind of revolutionary.

What if every person of faith were to do the same? How might the world be different? Would it be kinder and capable of more than basic tolerance? Because that's a future worth praying (and fighting) for.

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What was so significant about Muslims and Jews praying together? (Original Post) eridani Jun 2015 OP

Very cool. cbayer Jun 2015 #1

I love seeing this, eridani. brer cat Jun 2015 #2

Theatre of the absurd? AlbertCat Jun 2015 #3

Nothing. AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 #4

Oh, it's worse than that: they are not even consistent with their religious teachings Yorktown Jun 2015 #5

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

1. Very cool.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:08 AM

Jun 2015

Would love to see more of this. The reactions at the link are really positive.

brer cat

(24,673 posts)

2. I love seeing this, eridani.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 09:32 AM

Jun 2015

Thanks for posting. K&R

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. Theatre of the absurd?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 12:41 PM

Jun 2015

I prefer Ionesco.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

4. Nothing.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:51 PM

Jun 2015

Because they are doing nothing.

I suppose doing nothing together peacefully is an improvement over doing nothing separately and with hostility towards each other.

Pretty fucking low bar though.

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)

5. Oh, it's worse than that: they are not even consistent with their religious teachings

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 09:08 PM

Jun 2015

Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 791:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle [Muhammad] saying, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' "

Until Judgment Day:

Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

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