“Our motto is love for all and hatred for none,” he said. “We’ve been denouncing terrorism on jihad for more than 100 years, we’ve been advocating that there is no such thing as violent jihad like this.”
Source/Credit: The Patriot Ledger
By Cody Shepard | July 9, 2014
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Boston is hosting a dinner on Friday, July 11 for religious, faith and community leaders as they break their Ramadan fast.
SHARON – Community, faith and religious leaders are getting together for dinner on Friday during the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Boston is hosting its third annual interfaith iftar dinner in Sharon at 7 p.m. for various leaders, including church pastors and fire and police chiefs. Although the community has held other interfaith dinners, this is the third during Ramadan, which began Saturday, June 28 and ends Monday, July 28. They fast from dawn to dusk.
Amer Malik, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for Greater Boston, said the dinner is purposely held during Ramadan.
“It’s a month of trying to improve yourself, and through that, you’re trying to improve the world,” he said. “We invite people from different religions to join us in the blessing of opening the fast. It’s a chance to introduce them to the community.”
Malik said that his community’s mission is to spread peace.
“Our motto is love for all and hatred for none,” he said. “We’ve been denouncing terrorism on jihad for more than 100 years, we’ve been advocating that there is no such thing as violent jihad like this.”
He said that this message is not something that the community just started spreading following the Sept. 2001 attacks or recent jihad.
“We try and do good work and have good relationships with everybody. We don’t hate anybody,” he said. “We stick up against negative things that happen in the world.”
The dinner aims to bring people together from various backgrounds, but Malik said it’s a learning time for his community as well.
“It’s to know each other, it’s an inter-communal time,” he said. “We normally gather on the weekend at the mosque, so we figured we should invite our community to the gathering.”
Malik expects that people from at least five different religious backgrounds will be at Friday’s dinner, not including the community leaders that will be present.
--- Cody Shepard may be reached at cshepard@ledger.com.
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Religious and community leaders have dinner during Ramadan at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's interfaith iftar dinner in 2013. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community photo
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