- ‘If religions practised forgiveness and reconciliation, there wouldn’t be any family conflict.’
In your answer you should refer to at least one religion.
- Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion.
- Give reasons why some people may disagree with you.
- Yes I do agree with this, that’s mainly because in Islam you have to forgive instead of raising a conflict between people in your family, the people in your family are more than other people that walk outside our own brotherhood. If they would forgive their family there will be no conflict between them, just like Mohammed did in the story of the Quraish, they are supposed to do this even without any practise.
ii. Some people might disagree with me because they would say, yes it is stated in the Holy Qur’an but not many Muslims actually follow the book, so some even raise conflicts without even thinking about the consequences.
Also they would say not all Muslims think about forgiveness, some think it’s right to seek revenge and hurt their family member.
2 – A. What is meant by forgiveness?
Forgetting someone’s mistake and accepting them back as a friend or family member.
B. Religions cause conflicts in families.
Do you agree? Give two reasons for your point of view
Yes I agree with this, because they mostly cause arguments between families, for example, a Christian family, might have a member which doesn’t want to be a Christian, that might be because since the member has learnt about different religions at school or maybe on the internet or their friends. He might be interested in the new religions he’s learnt about and believes he can obey the rules of the other religion easier than Christianity. When he informs he’s parents about the change he wants to do, wanting to change his religion, the parent’s reactions would be being very shocked and angry because they have brought him up to be a Christian but now he decides to become part of a different religion. So then a conflict will get raised between the parents and the child in their family, they might kick him out of their house and don’t let him in again since their disappointed in that member of the family and wouldn’t want to see their face anymore again, with that adding up to leaving him with no family, because of religion.
C. Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain its attitude to war.
Islam’s attitude towards war is negative, Islam mainly about being peaceful not to fight, they certainly wouldn’t think a war would help solve problems; instead forgiveness would solve it in a better way, discuss and forgive. Just like Mohammed did to josephs brother and the Quraish, Allah would be happier if forgiveness takes place rather than fighting.
As in the holy war they have a different perspective since they are holy fighting in the Cause of Allah or any other kind to make Allah's Word superior.
Muslims refer to a greater and a lesser Jihad this gets messed up often lost in the media, in part because some Muslims deliberately misrepresent the concept of Islam.
Muslims disagree among each other as to what is or is not acceptable in 'lesser Jihad.' For instance, while many Muslims speak out against terrorist acts committed in the name of Islam, others approve of such acts under certain conditions, like if someone else has done something wrong to them.
D. Religions should be able to solve the problem of bullying.
In your answers you should refer to at least one religion.
i. Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion.
ii. Give reasons why some people may disagree with you.
i. Yes I agree with this point because most religions teaches peace like in Islam, by peace they meaning taking care, respecting, being nice to everyone, so it wouldn’t be right to hurt another person because god has said we are all equal and should treat each other in a good way. That’s what Islam’s main point is, it teaches to be nice to your other human beings instead of hurting them.
ii. People would disagree with me because they could say that the other person might not be religious (the bully) and he might not have learned anything about peace and love, so the bullying would still take place. They might also say, the person might be religious but he/she don’t follow their religion so they wouldn’t treat everyone equal and nice, instead being bad towards them.