Writing in Snow

Contemplations on the Second Sunday in December 2017

Jamál (Beauty), 18 Qawl (Speech) 174 B.E. - Sunday, December 10, 2017

On December 2, 2017, the International Seerat Conference took place in Pakistan. According to an article on the Baha'i News Service1, titled "Faith and peace explored in Pakistan"2, over 1,000 individuals from four faiths attended. At this conference, which was organized by "the Pakistan Government's Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony"3, were people from Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Baha'i communities. Today, across the world all faith communities have to deal with prejudice and intolerance. It is conferences that this one that helps these communities confront these challenges. Those of us, at the grass roots level, working for tolerance and understanding have to emphasize the fact that "The violence being perpetrated in the world in the name of religion has nothing to do with true religion."4

Intolerance
and prejudice,
a cancer eating at society,
has nothing to do with religion.

Footnotes
1  http://news.bahai.org/
2  http://news.bahai.org/story/1226/
3  ibid.
4  Suzan Karaman, who represented the Baha'i International Community at this conference.