We are living in an
era in which the world is in need of peace, friendship, and solidarity
more than ever. The tensions and conflicts that defined the twentieth
century continue in this new century as well, and innocent people all
around the world continue to suffer from them.
Despite the urgent need for solidarity and cooperation,
certain circles are inciting conflict, particularly conflict between
the world's two greatest and deep-rooted civilizations. This issue
needs to be scrutinized, as the war of civilizations that they envisage
would have disastrous consequences for humanity. One of the best ways
of preventing such a disaster is to strengthen the solidarity and
cooperation between these civilizations. This is not a hard task, as
there are no fundamental differences between Islamic world and the
Western world. On the contrary, - as we will put forward the proofs
throughout this book- there is much common ground in between the
Islamic civilization and the Judeo-Christian culture that constitutes
the foundation of the Western civilization. Finding solution to the
problems of the world in cooperation will not be difficult by taking
this common ground as basis. Especially when taking the current
situation and the nature of the world's problems into consideration.
Today, ideological
struggles, indeed, continue to divide the world. However, Muslims are
not at one pole and Jews and Christians are not at the opposing pole.
In fact, one pole represents people who believe in the existence and
unity of Allah, and the other pole represents the unbelievers, who
believe in such anti-religious ideologies as materialism and Darwinism.
There is only one way to defeat the alliance of the various groups of
unbelievers on an ideological level: eradicate the negative and
destructive influences of Darwinist, atheist and anti-religious
materialism and further the cause of a society dominated by morality,
happiness, tranquility, security, and prosperity. This will be done by
forming an alliance of all conscientious people, namely, sincere
Christians, along with religious Jews and Muslims, who will come
together and unite in this common cause.
There may have been conflicts and disputes in between the
members of these three divine religions in the past with various
pretexts; that is a historical fact. But those were originated from the
erroneous reasoning and evil motives of certain states, nations, and
individuals, and most of the time from their pursuit of their own
economic and political gains; not from the fundamental beliefs of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. One of the common aims of these
divinely revealed three religions is to ensure the happiness, security,
peace, and tranquility of all people and every sort of opinion against
this aim, which stipulates conflict, is erroneous according to these
three religions.
Therefore, this cooperation and alliance will be based on the
sincere believers' quest for justice, peace, and support for all
people. The resulting alliance will not be restricted to meetings and
conferences, but will cement an alliance between people who advocate
common values, intellectual struggle for the same cause, and seek
permanent solutions to common problems. This alliance will be one of
the main contributing factors to tranquility at a time when the Prophet
Jesus' (peace be upon him) second coming is expected and Hazrat Mahdi
(pbuh) is present on Earth.
