نوع مقاله : علمی _ ترویجی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
Historical interfaith dialogues, often marred by violations of reciprocal rights and human dignity by Muslim theologians, led to a prohibition of religious discourse by scholars of other faiths. This study employs a descriptive–analytical methodology to demonstrate that: Imam Reza (A.S.) transcended these detrimental practices. His approach exemplified a framework of reciprocal rights that upheld human dignity. Key manifestations of this dignified engagement in his conduct include: facilitating high-level dialogue, mandating responses from all societal strata to religious opponents, accepting interlocutors’ preliminary conditions, extending invitations for dialogue, eschewing polemics and bias, guaranteeing a secure environment for debate under his patronage, affording precedence to non-Muslim scholars in disputations, employing the vernacular of the interlocutor, grounding arguments in irrefutable evidence, demonstrating respect for social standing while abstaining from invective, extending hospitality and gifts to participants, acknowledging the validity of widespread transmission and consensus within other religious communities, affirming reason as a universal instrument for comprehension, identifying commonalities between Islam and other religions, avoiding the invocation of historical grievances and contentious matters, refraining from personal inquiries, refraining from highlighting an opponent’s deficiencies, restricting arguments to points acknowledged by the interlocutor’s tradition, validating testimony from non-Muslim witnesses, defending the tenets of non-Islamic religions against critiques, and refraining from compelling defeated parties to convert to Islam.
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