Islamic scholar urges Muslims to adopt tolerance to other faiths
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Professor Siddiqui
Scotland’s top female Islamic scholar will use a high-profile international platform in Rome next month to call on Muslims to be more tolerant towards other faiths and world views.
As part of her speech to the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Professor Mona Siddiqui will say that the future of the religion depends on Muslims moving away from viewing Judaism and Christianity as “corrupted” revelations.
“Each faith sees itself as the final answer,” she said. “But we have to be quite humble about the fact that we don’t really know anything about what we believe in. We can trace it historically, talk about its emergence, critique how people of faith live their lives, but at the end of the day there are so many people living their lives according to their faiths in so many different ways that I think it would be simple arrogance to say this is the only way Muslims should see Islam.”
Muslim theologian Dr Amanullah De Sondy agreed with Professor Siddiqui’s call for more humility within Islam, but also challenged Muslims in Scotland to do something about it.
“Notions of being humble have to formalise into something,” said the Glasgow-born academic, now based in the US. “What are they formalising into in Scotland? It is not about giving abstract talks to universities, and I am guilty of this too. Who is doing that? That is what I’m interested in, not just some abstract notion.”
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