To avoid or slacken the conflict of Racism by establishing or conducting IFTAR among the non-Muslims in the month of Ramadhan.

In this ongoing the blessed month of Ramadhan, I would try to write and suggest the idea of establishing the IFTAR [The breaking of Fast] among the non-Muslims as how to avoid the controversial episode of conflict among our multi-racial and multi- religious community this days. To be a devout Muslims, we should call upon other Muslim brothers to avoid or slacken the conflicts in a manner of Islamic way of life that is to establish or conduct the Iftar among the Muslims and non-Muslims in this auspicious blessed month of Ramadhan. Let us observe and try to refer to the two verses in Al-Qur'an surah Al-Mumtahanah verses 8 and 9 mentioned below:

Surah Al-Mumtahanah verses 8 and 9: (The women to be examined)

Verse 8 - "Allah does forbid you to deal justly and kindly with who fought not against you on account of religious nor drove you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity."

Verse 9 - "It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religious, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them. And whoever will be befriend them, then such are the Zalimun [wrongdoers - those who disobey Allah."

From the above those two verses surah Al-Mumtahanah, no doubt any acts of wrong-doing among the Muslims especially the unjustifiable and conflict of religion faith and racism would jeopardize the peaceful living condition of the people in our country. Such ingratitude and misconceive of religion Islam among the non-Muslims to understand the true Islam and to let them acknowledge that Islam is the religious of tolerance, peaceful and brotherhood in the living as Muslims umah.

Further, this is why in this blessed month Ramadhan as quoted by an Islamic scholar Dr.Abdul Fatah Ashoor of University Azhar stated that Iftar comes after observing the fasting whereas non-Muslims do not observe fasting in their religion. As to avoid or at least to slacken the conflict of racism in our multi-religious community, it is dully appropriate and utmost preferable to establish or conduct the Iftar together with the non-Muslims. Thus, it is the Islamic way of life, meaning to strengthen those relationship among the difference ethnic in multi-religious community in our peace loving country.

We, devout Muslims realized that Islam was not spread by force but it is spread by means of intermingling with non-Muslims of various races . In dealing with this multi-religion, I quote as an analogy to apprehend the concept of multi-religion and racism, we should take the example of the Sun that shines and melts the darkness in our everyday living that lead and give us peaceful and harmony way of living in a community of multi-religious Society.

Finally, in our every day of livelihood we are suppose to avoid the feeling of racism within our different religion in our multiracial community as we considered they are a peace loving citizen and abide by our legal Constitution. Hence, we should hider from bias, hypocrite, slanderous, suspicion of proselytizing of one's religion. As a peace loving nations living in harmony, we should avoid and condemn this sort of wrongdoings in our Society.

Allah SWT is All-Mighty and Most Merciful.