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THE HUMAN FAMILY
All in Good Faith
PRAYER
for Victims of Land Mines
NOTRE DAME DE BON SECOURS BRUSSELS
24 JUNE 1997
BAHA'I
Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself. - Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'ullah, 71
BUDDHISM
A state which is not pleasant or enjoyable for me will also not be so for him; and how can I impose on another a state which is not pleasant or enjoyable for me? - Samyutta Nikaya, V
CHRISTIANITY:
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. - Matthew 7.12.
CONFUCIANISM:
Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you. - Analects 15:23
HINDUISM:
This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. - Mahabharata, XIII:114
ISLAM:
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. - an-Nawawi, 40 Hadith, 13
JAINISM:
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. Mahavira
JUDAISM:
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the law: all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31a
NATIVE AMERICAN:
Respect for life is the foundation. - The Great Law of Peace
SIKHISM:
Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone. - Guru Arjan Devji 258, Guru Granth Sahib
ZOROASTRIANISM:
That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self. Dadistan-i-Dinik, 94.5
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