Let us follow in the footsteps of our Masters

By Dr. D. Engelbrecht

One day when I visited the prison in order to comfort some of the inmates, a certain inmate who was very troubled handed me a book with the name of "Joy". I was eager to read the book, but very soon I was shocked by the brutal forces applied in order to convert people and other beliefs into a certain group of doctrine: Like the denial of education, no employment, victimization, churches gone ablaze while people worshipping within, little children murdered in schools. It is very good to support your forerunners for example the Muslim support Muhammad or Buddhist supports Siddharta the Buddha and the Christian supports Jesus Christ the son of God, but it was not the intention of one of them that we have to kill innocent lives just because they don't like to join our believes or doctrines. I studied the lives of these three Great Masters and cannot point to one single event where any of these three Masters propagate the killing of their oppositions of faith or doctrine, they handle all their enemies with the greatest respect and most of all with sympathy and empathy, even when their enemies were hungry they feed them, when their enemies were thirsty they gave them water without any form of agenda behind it "I have given you and now it is payback time; join my doctrine or". I know that many new converts who lived an ungodly life, after conversion entered the mission fields and like to change the whole world upside down in one day, they made many mistakes and enemies along their journey, because they were not trained in the different doctrines and cultures, otherwise they would not have made such fatal mistakes and enemies in their lives (Al-Baqara 2:62-140.). Those converts and don't know how enormous the grace and mercy of God is, neither do they understand the true meaning of the words, otherwise they rather go about and educate the nations as Muhammad, Siddharta and Jesus did, and if no one likes to convert to Christianity or Islam or Buddhist or whatever the doctrine may be, they just accept the differences and walk off like all the other Masters did. Everyone will bear the consequences or benefits of his decision. The Muslim shall not be given account if the Christian or the Buddhist do not like to convert to his doctrine, neither shall the Christian be given account because the Muslim or the Buddhist does not like to convert to his doctrine, likewise the matter with the rest. Every person shall be hold accountable for his own decisions. If you like a Mercedes Benz you buy it, and after a long and pleasant drive you can inform me about the features of the Benz, but it is still my choice whether I would like to buy it, if I like a Rolls Royce I can only tell you what a splendid vehicle it is, after some personal experience with it for some time, but I cannot force you at gunpoint, burn down your house and kill your children, to buy yourself one just because I likes it. It is insane to reason like that. Why don't we tolerate one another like our Masters did? By fervently studied the lives of these renowned Masters on my journey to seek some solutions. I find the most powerful similarity in all of them, and that is the power of love, compassion, empathy and sympathy these Masters emanates towards their oppositions in doctrine. Let us build on their foundations of Gold.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505829496
• ISBN13: 9781505829495
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"