THE RELIGION HISTORICAL

April 2006 is the 1435th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad who is described in the Qur’an as “mercy for the whole world”. The Prophet preached to humanity the religion of God, Islam, which means both submission to God and peace. He therefore was the preacher of peace and divine mercy in an environment of chaos, ignorance, violence and hatred. It is really disturbing to see that the world again experiences such problems. Throughout world such problems as terror, violence, discrimination, hatred as well as poverty, natural disasters and the drug problems threaten human future. Especially violence and hatred between diverse cultural structures are serious problems which humanity to cope with. Various reasons of violence and hatred such as political, economical, cultural and historical could be mentioned. Whatever reason it has every violent action or feeling is mainly based on prejudice since the prejudices against different cultures and traditions have always been effective in struggles and mutual hate in diverse groups.