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At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for God…Let us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Word of God: The Bridge Between Him, You, and Us” A Common Word p.116
As for the love of neighbor…Today, it cannot include for Muslims only Muslim neighbors, for Christians only Christian neighbors, or for Jews only Jewish neighbors. It must include followers of other religious communities, even nonreligious communities, and especially the nonhuman world. In fact, if Muslims and Christians, not to speak of other groups, do not extend their love of neighbor to the natural world, the consequences of the environmental crisis caused in fact by the lack of love of neighbor, in its larger reality, will make other efforts more or less irrelevant.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Word of God: The Bridge Between Him, You, and Us,” A Common Word p.116-117
Deep theological dialogue does not necessarily mean the surrender of one side to the other; it does, however, mean better understanding of the other and greater mutual respect…The truth resides in the world of meaning beyond forms, in what Rumi calls the “spiritual retreat of God.” But until we get there we must be able to come together, to know each other, to love one another, and to face together the many challenges posed by a world based on the forgetfulness of God.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Word of God: The Bridge Between Him, You, and Us” A Common Word, p. 114
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