Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein IRead
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Fundamentalism is a global issue that transcends any single religion, and dialogue among faiths can foster understanding and peace.
King Hussein I highlights that fundamentalism is not limited to one religion but is a broader phenomenon that affects various parts of the world. He expresses hope for a dialogue among the followers of the three major monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—as a pathway to combat and reduce the divisive nature of fundamentalist ideologies.
Themes
FundamentalismDialogueReligionPeaceUnderstanding
In practice
Example use cases
In an interfaith gathering, one might use this quote to emphasize the need for mutual understanding among different religions.
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All quotes →I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
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Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
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In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
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