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  Written By:  Nasser Arrabyee      narrabyee@yahoo.com
  Article Date: December 10, 2007

 

Merry Christmas and Eid Mubarak. These two phrases will be used here there and everywhere by millions and millions of people during the month of December especially the last 10 days of it.

The Muslims and Christians, who represent more than half of the world's population, will be exchanging best wishes on thier respective occasions of Eid Al Adha and Christmas.

Officially, leaders of the States will be exchanging wishes through media as usual and individuals will have their own ways to do the same with their dears.

The Eid Mubarak and Merry Christmas wishes mean simply happiness, love, peace, and justice for all in this world.

It should be like a voting time on peace, tolerance and coexistence for this world, which suffers a lot due to lack of these things.

Isn't it the wish of everyone for the world to become happy and peaceful?

Certainly, the world will become happy if the wishes of Eid and Christmas are sincere. But sincerity is a relative value. What is sincere between two Muslims may not be sincere between two Christians.  So, the world (all humans)  never gets happy enough as long as wishes are conditional, not universal, not for all.

This means if Muslims want happiness and peace only for themselves during their Eid, and Christians also see happiness and peace only in Christmas, and then this is not peace and happiness for all.  It can be anything but not peace.

Undoubtedly, the world will get happier and more peaceful, if the Eid Mubarak and Merry Christmas wishes are sincere. First sincere  between Muslims themselves, and   Christians themselves on one hand, and then sincere  between Muslims and Christians on the other.

The world will get even more peaceful if sincere wishes come to Muslims and Christians from other believers like Jews Buddhists and other believers and from the non-believers.

 As a Muslim, I will get happier if I receive wishes Eid from Christians, Jews Buddhists  and other believers and   non-believers.

On my turn, my  best wishes now and every time to Christians on their Christmas and to all other believers on theirs, but without forgetting the non-believers on theirs.

With these wishes, the door of clash of civilizations will be closed for ever.  And everybody will say to Samuel Huntington:  You are   wrong Huntington.