Tonight, we had dinner with Christians and Jews as well as other
Muslims. This marks the beginning of our new adventure. It is seven days of extensive
course with at least 20 other participants whose aim is to understand one
another.
Tonight’s session was quite interesting. Prof. Yehezkel Landau started
the class by giving us a container of pepper, salt and a bottle of a kind of
soy sauce. We will then pass it around and introduce ourselves and purpose here,
then group those three items earlier, anyway we sees it suit, as a
representative of our three faiths, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. We had
interesting views from all the participants. But the one I like the most was
from David, a Jew, saying that this brilliant exercise highlights that although
the container of pepper and salt is similar, but they taste differently. On the
other hand, soy sauce may have different container, but it taste somewhat salty
like salt, that’s how he sees our three religions are too. I have learnt
something new about the Jews just from tonight’s session. They too have time
for prayers after the sunset, a similar time with our Marghrib.
Tomorrow, we will have one long day. A 12 hours course from 9am to 9pm.
I believe there is so much to learn from everyone. I hope that this will strengthen
my faith with Allah s.w.t. Amin.
