The 21st Century Unified Muslim Society:
Able Community presents the “RIAMEEN (Rahmatal-lil-alameen) (رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينْ) "Mercy for the Worlds": Interfaith Platform”
Platform’s Overview
The 21st Century Unified Muslim Society in North America needs learning, understanding, and adhering to the “pure” and “true” Islam in an educated, respectful, collaborative, and practical manner in order to meet the highly diversified social and economic life in the 21st century.
Al-Anbiya 21:106
إِنَّ فِى هَٰذَا لَبَلَٰغًا لِّقَوْمٍ عَٰبِدِينَ
(Indeed, in this [Qur'an] is notification for a worshipping people.)
Al-Anbiya 21:107
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ
(We have sent you ˹O Prophet˺ only as a mercy for the whole world. )
On the “RIAMEEN (Rahmatal-lil-alameen: "Mercy for the Worlds") Interfaith Platform”, we are enabling an environment to opening the Abrahamic Faith’s Educational, Practical, and Spiritual Experience by sharing our faith, solutions-driven platforms, and spirituality with all other Abrahamic Faith believers.
Platform’s Vision
Reviving the “pure” and “true” Islam in the 21st Century Unified Muslim Society by discovering the ultimate “purity” and “truth” by walking the path of the noble Abrahamic Faith.
Platform’s Core Programs
On the “RIAMEEN (Rahmatal-lil-alameen: "Mercy for the Worlds") Interfaith Platform”, we are enabling an environment to opening:
- The Abrahamic Faith’s Educational Experience by visiting, studying, and sharing our faith.
- The Abrahamic Faith’s Practical Experience by sharing memorable moments and solutions-driven platforms.
- The Abrahamic Faith’s Spiritual Experience by sharing the “spirituality” through our experience and arts.
The Abrahamic Faith’s Educational Experience
Overview
Muslims learn about the other Abrahamic Faith in order to strengthen our own faith, by joining any of the programs below:
“Visit the Abrahamic Faith” program
• Judaism: Shabbat service at a synagogue, celebration (e.g., Bar Mitzvah), high-holidays (e.g., Hanukkah, Pesach (Passover), Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot, Sukkot, Yom Kippur)
• Christianity: Sunday service at a church, celebration (e.g., Baptism), high-holidays (e.g., Palm Sunday, Easter, Pentecost)
• Islam: Jumu’ah with Khutbah at a mosque, celebration (e.g., Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha), high-holidays (e.g., Ramadan, Isra and Miraj, Nuzul Al Quran, Ashura)
• Baha’i: ….
“Study the Abrahamic Faith” program
Strengthen our own faith, find commonality and differences,
• Judaism: Torah study
• Christianity: Bible study
• Islam: Quran study
• Baha’i: ….
“Share the Abrahamic Faith” program
Children by different age group, study the commonality of faith together, share differences of each faith group, help them to study their own faith
• The Baha’i model for children of age 6 – 10; 11 – 13; 14 - 19
- The Abrahamic Faith’s Practical Experience
Overview
Muslims walk the path with the other Abrahamic Faith believers in order to embrace love with all children of our fore-father Abraham (a.s.w.), by joining any of the programs below:
“Love thy Neighbor as thyself” program
Gospel of Matthew
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
— Matthew 22:35-40
Gospel of Mark
In the Gospel of Mark, the Shema is included:
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
— Mark 12:28-31
Gospel of Luke
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.
— Luke 10:25-28
Gospel of John
When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.' A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
— John 13:31-35
• a practical way to share a happy or meaningful moment, develop friendship and to learn other faith through community activity (e.g., picnic, charity work, community work, etc),
• And the fourth interaction is more of personal neighborly interaction to be part of one's neighborhood grouping so families understand and mingle together, understand each others’ culture, faith and aspirations. Usually kids are the bridging connections and parents take over to make friendship with their neighbors and etc.
“Finding Solutions Together” program
• RIAMEEN is a platform that allows Muslims, Abrahamic Faith, and non-Muslims joining the other platforms on Able Community, thus creating an environment where we are learning the skills, building friendship, and learning about other faith, all at the same time.
The Abrahamic Faith’s Spiritual Experience
Overview
Muslims share our spiritual connection to the “Oneness of God” with the other Abrahamic Faith believers in order to seek the ultimate “purity” and “truth”, by joining any of the programs below:
“Spirituality as One” program
• Share our understanding and experience of “spirituality”, the oneness among all Abrahamic Faith
• Share how to connect to spirituality, which is encoded in our DNA, and present in our souls
“Spirituality through Arts” program
• Individual Abrahamic faith artist showcase their love to God and worship
• Different Abrahamic faith artists complete a piece of Art together showing our ways of loving and worshipping God
Platform’s Collaborative Programs with Other the 21st Century Unified Muslim Society’s Platforms
On the “RIAMEEN Interfaith Platform”, we are enabling a practical approach to allow Muslims and other Abrahamic Faith believers collaborating and/or participating in other solutions-driven platforms: