islam and muslim ummah
FIRST, let me express my sincere appreciation to the government and to the Selection Committee in particular, for conferring on me the 1997 King Faisal International Prize for service to islam.
I am honoured and overwhelmed by this recognition and it is with pride and much humility that I accept this prize. This prize is also a great honour to Malaysia and its people, both Muslims and non-Muslims, without whose tolerance, sensitivity and respect for each other Malaysia would not be what and where it is today, a multi racial, multi religious, yet politically stable and economically prosperous country, which accepts Islam as the state religion.
But then the bases for these achievements were laid some 900 years ago, when Islam came to Malaysia.
Like all Muslims today, our distant ancestors were not Muslims.
In the Arabian peninsula too the idol-worshipping jahiliah became Muslims over 1,400 year ago.
The other Muslims were blessed with the religion at different periods after that, some through conquests, but many more through the exemplary behaviour and achievements of the Muslims who came in contact with them.
Even the Muslims conquerors influenced the conversion through their worldly success as much as their preachings on Islam.
And so the Spaniards and Europeans, Christians though the were, embraced Islam when Al-Andalus was under Muslim rule.
islam and muslim ummah FIRST, let me express my sincere appreciation to the government and to the Selection Committee in particular, for conferring on me the 1997 King Faisal International Prize for service to islam. I am honoured and overwhelmed by this recognition and it is with pride and much humility that I accept this prize. This prize is also a great honour to Malaysia and its people, both Muslims and non-Muslims, without whose tolerance, sensitivity and respect for each other Malaysia would not be what and where it is today, a multi racial, multi religious, yet politically stable and economically prosperous country, which accepts Islam as the state religion. But then the bases for these achievements were laid some 900 years ago, when Islam came to Malaysia. Like all Muslims today, our distant ancestors were not Muslims. In the Arabian peninsula too the idol-worshipping jahiliah became Muslims over 1,400 year ago. The other Muslims were blessed with the religion at different periods after that, some through conquests, but many more through the exemplary behaviour and achievements of the Muslims who came in contact with them. Even the Muslims conquerors influenced the conversion through their worldly success as much as their preachings on Islam. And so the Spaniards and Europeans, Christians though the were, embraced Islam when Al-Andalus was under Muslim rule.
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