Other rights in the light of the document Medina: Institutionalizing Islamic principle of coexistence

Abstract

The constant convergence of peoples and communities at the present time due to technological developments, and increasing numbers of human beings, making the friction between these peoples and communities on the rise permanently, whether on a physical level or intellectual level, was taken friction often style zero conflict with tendencies to confirm self-identity that fueled the challenges of globalization in its various dimensions. Remarkably in these circumstances is the emergence of religion as a critical factor in fueling conflicts or mitigate and possibly canceled, and show these facts clearly in areas of friction of civilization between different religions and ethnicities, as well as in countries which includes spectra cultural variety, making these conflicts serious threat to stability and national security and unity for many countries, as well as the threat to international peace and security. In such a reality highlights the urgent need to adopt the principle of coexistence as a way of civil peace, integration and social harmony, and grow the value of this principle when not limited effect on the creation of an appropriate environment to remove the effects of conflicts and wars from the minds of people, but be itself factor drying to the source of violence and extremism that lead to conflicts and wars. The latter role to the principle of coexistence is only through imparted sacred religious it, which does have prevent extremists to legitimize their actions, but disinterestedness of this legitimacy to consolidate ultimate goal of all religions, namely laying intimacy and love among human beings in the context of slavery God regardless of color , sex, tongue, social or economic status. The existence of the Islamic world in one of the most parts of the world cultural diverse, both at the level of the Islamic identity per level or other identities, requires initiative all institutions and the elites in charge in the Muslim countries to confirm that coexistence between these components of social different is not only possible, but is legitimate duty imposed by Islamic law, which it makes the diversity is divine , and that each call to hatred and enmity and cruelty in the relationship people to each other, is an illegal whatever arguments of those who say it, to avoid the risk of national divisions and social decay in Islamic societies in the absence successful to solve the problem of the prevailing cultural diversity. To confirm this trend and avoid this fate we must refer to the sources of Islamic essential legislation to derive correct rulings, and make them a platform for building a civil Islamic society respects the human dignity of all its members regardless of their beliefs and intellectual, ethnic affiliations, and in this way comes research in other right in the light document Medina, the fact that this document represents the first written constitution after Quran in Islamic history which emphasize the importance of coexistence between humans, and establishment of a civil Islamic state accommodate multi-cultural spectra, and this is illustrated in a special historical circumstances to formulate the document and the rules which derived from its paragraphs.

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