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               matters you differed about.            all human beings and their
               (Quran, 5: 48)                         ethnic and linguistic plurality

                                                      together  enable  us  to
               - If your Lord had pleased,            engage with and understand

               He  would  have  made  all             one another:
               people a single community,                In  addition,  indeed  we
               but  they  continue  to  have             have       honored        the
               their  differences-  except               Children  of  Adam,  and

               those  on  whom  your  Lord               We have carried them on
               has  mercy-  for  He  created             land  and  sea,  and  have
               them  to  be  this  way.  (Ibid,          provided  them  with  al-

               11: 118-19)
                                                         Tayyibat  (lawful  good

                   2.  Honoring       Human              things), and have preferred
                      Beings                             them  above  many  of
               Erol  and  Kurucan  (2012)                those  whom  We  created
               in  book  “Dialogue  in                   with a marked preference.

               Islam”,  observes  Muslims                (Quran, 17: 70)
               positive  engagement  with                Based on the divine will

               their  fellow  human  beings           for honoring human beings,
               from  different  cultural  and         we  have  to  share  our
               religious background. Dialogue         humanity          with       all
               is  a  natural  manifestation          individuals and communicating

               of  our  humanness,  as  both          them  to  reach  a  peaceful
               the  Quran  and  the  life  of         coexistence.  This  honored
               the Prophet make it clear.             human  being  in  is  created

                  The  Quran  tells  us  that         not only to connect to other
               the fundamental oneness of
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