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Islamic Model of Peaceful Coexistence… MR. Dodhiya and M. Ghanbari (115

                  above a great part of our           human  being  depends  on
                  creation”. (Quran, 17: 70)          his good deeds, and not on

                                                      his wealth or position:
                  It  is  in  this  sense  that          “Oh mankind, we created
               Islam  teaches  respect  for              you  from  a  single  (pair)

               the  human  body.  Not  only              of  a  male  and  female,
               for  the  living  human  body             and  made  you  into
               but  also  for  the  dead,  as            nations  and  tribes  that

               exemplified by the prophet                you  may  know  each
               who stood up in veneration                other.  Verily  the  most
               for  the  passing  by  of  a              honored  of  you  in  the

               funeral of a Jew, at a time               sight of Allah (God) is he
               when  Jews  were  waging                  who is the most righteous
               war  against  him  and  tried             of you”. (Quran, 49: 13)

               to assassinate him and then
               poison him but failed. One                Based  on  this,  if  one
               of his companions exclaimed            intends  to  study  of  the
               it was only the funeral of a           creation of the universe and

               Jew.  The  Prophet  retorted:          mankind and also the status
               is  it  not  a  human  being?”         of human beings with God,
               (Bukhari, 1997)                        one  ought  to  invoke  the

                  The  unity  of  human               notion  of  love  in  Islam.
               beings  is  established  in            God is love and has created
               many  verses  of  the  Quran           the world out of love. Faith

               and  the  traditions  of  the          starts    with      love,    an
               Prophet.  The  value  of  a            overpowering love for certain
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