Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 736
CHAPTER 30 Standard Bearer of Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience 736 Chapter 30 Standard Bearer of Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience The founder of Islam sa taught the highest values of justice, religious tolerance and freedom of conscience to the world which was full of cruelty, barbarity and prejudices. His teachings are unparalleled in the religious history of the world. To judge the beauty of Islamic teaching, it would be enlightening to compare it with the teachings of other religions. The Jews and Christian were taught in the Bible:- "When the Lord, thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goes to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Pevizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord, thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shall smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. Neither shall then make marriages with them; thy daughter then shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall then take unto thy son.