ألقصر الجمهوري في النمسا يحتفل في عيد الفطر السعيد
On the third day of Eid Al-Fitr, in which Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan, the hearts, feeling and emotions of Muslims and Christians were united in peace closer to God in one place, without making distinction between the Christian Priest and the Muslim Sheikh, between black and white, man or woman, who all sat together in the residence of the Austrian Republican Palace, at the offices of Chancellor Werner Faymann, celebrating the Eid.
On evening August 21 2012, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann received the representatives of the Muslim minority in Austria as well as the heads and representatives of various religious communities of Christian and Jewish orientation. The occasion was the Eid Al-Fitr, which this year was celebrated by Muslims on Sunday August 19.
Unity, brotherhood, peace, humanity, equality and respect between the three religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism was the theme during the Chancellors invitation. Dr. Faymann presided over the event and sat at a round table which brought together the heads of the three monotheistic religions in Austria as well as important personalities from politics.
Among the attendants was Secretary of State Dr. Josef Ostermayer, the head of the Catholic Church in Austria Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Landessuperintendent Mag. Thomas Hennefeld for the Evangelic Church (H.B.), the Archbishop of the Armenian Church Prof. Dr. Mesrob Krikorian, the Bishop of the Evangelic Church (A.B.) Prof. Michael Bünker, Dipl. Ing. Omar Al-Rawi, Rabbi Prof. Chaim Eisenberg, the president of the jewish community in Vienna Oskar Deutsch, the President der Islamic Faith Union in Austria (IGGiÖ) Dr. Phil. Fuat Sanaç, the emeritus President of the Islamic Faith Union Dr. Anas Al-Shaqfeh, the former president of President of the Islamic Community in Austria (IGGiÖ) from 1987 to 2011, the Bishop of Feldkirch Benno Elbs, and many others.
Muslims, Christians and jews sat around the table without discrimination, they all were united in friendship during this celebration of the Eid al-Fitr under the auspices of Chancellor Faymann. The beautiful picture seen during this dinner event can be seen as a good example of how coexistence between human beings in all countries of the world should be.
Chancellor Faymann delivered a speech before his guests in which he welcomed the representatives of the various religious communities. In his short speech, Faymann spoke about community or solidarity in the EU and in Austria and he underlined that the social security of the individual in a community is concomitant with the level of solidarity in the community. He also emphasized the fact that several religious communities are able to live together and in mutual respect in Austria.
Faymann warned in his speech against hurling accusations against to the followers of a religion and describing them as enemies of the nation or the Austrian community. In this context, Faymann strongly condemned all attempts and activities of incitement and slander that affect certain groups of the Austrian society and their representatives.
Engineer Omar Al-Rawi delivered a brief speech which was met with enthusiastic applause by the attendance. Without solidarity society is nothing according to Al-Rawi, and the dinner of Eid Al-Fitr is one possible way to express ones solidarity with different people.
He also used the occasion to thank the various religious communities for their shown solidarity during the recent nation-wide discussion about circumcision. Al-Rawi has built strong relations with all Muslim minorities in Austria, among them the small Shia’a community, whose representatives he invited to the dinner.
It must be said that Al-Rawi was responsible for the organization of the Eid Al-Fitr dinner of the Chancellor, and he worked hard to assure its success. Over 200 persons attended the evening ceremony, which was well organized and offered the attendance a friendly meeting venue.
The speech delivered by Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann during the event of Eid Al-Fitr on 21 August 2012 at the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
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Do you mean that as they all have the same deity, then they no longer have to fight over that?
Which brings up some pertinent questions. We are told that the illiterate Mohammed received 6,346 verses from Jibriel, (Gabriel), the messenger. OK so he precisely remembered all, and, as many point out, even a 5 year old can recite the verses correctly.
Then.
Was Gabriel a human, to have passed on these verses to M, verbally or by thought transfer, and not in writing as we are told M was illiterate?
If he was a human, where did he come from, as he was obviously ‘not of this planet’?
How did he get here, for surely you need beyond light-speed tech for that as there are no inhabited planets in our solar system.
Who sent him here, was it a human or a ‘consciousness. ie a deity?
How did that consciousness communicate with and why choose Gabriel?
And lastly, If that consciousness was/is so powerful as to be able to instruct Gabriel, (presumably by thought transfer, as we asume Gabriel was human and it wasnt), and the deity is ‘everywhere.’ then why did that deity not directly contact M, or even better, spread the word/thought to all who needed it, with his telepathetic/other powers?
Maybe you can help on the above Qs. Kawther, as I dont really know from where to get these answers. I tried, ‘Ask the Mullah’ websites and was greeted with silence. Is it in some way not acceptable to ask such?
I don’t deal with religious issues here, as you may have noted. The article was simply a report on a social event with some relevancy to the politics of this city and country.
A general answer to your questions would be that all religions, not only the Abrahamitic religions, are based on certain “articles of faith”, and the followers of the various religions “accept” the articles of faith propagated by their religious authorities as fact, such as for example the existence of certain personalities, that certain events happened, that certain bonds with divine beings exist, or that certain acts are moral or indecent for a follower of the religion. This is called “faith” or “belief”. The followers of a religion are called “believers” because they believe (mostly without questioning) what their respective religious authorities propagate as facts, as opposed to checking such assertions in order to know by their own witnessing and discernment whether they are materially true or not.
I understand that in Christian theology there is a distinction between “theological truth” and “worldly truth” in order to explain to an inquisitive populace the discrepancies between what is true in Christian dogma and what is true in the material world, and it is possible that in other religions there exist similar concepts.
Ultimately I think that religious authorities or a theological faculty could answer your questions far better than I could, and perhaps you are lucky and succeed in convincing them of your standpoint.