Despite, race, creed, color, religion or age we are all neighbors, so why not reach out and say hello, I bet you’ll find you have more in common than you ever imagined.

I saw this video on Facebook this morning and it inspired me to research the similarities between the Bible and the Quaran.  As the world grows it becomes smaller and it becomes apparent we are all neighbors, we will work together or perish together, I really don’t see any other options.   “The earth is green and sweet and verily Allah has installed you as trustees in it to see how you act.”(Prophet Muhammad)  So I created a page with a few quotes and resources including a Tim McGraw video.  Hope you enjoy it.

Be kind, be good to each other and live like you were dying. – Steve

³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Similar quotes from the Quaran:
“O mankind! WeÖ..made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other).” (The Qur’an 49:13)

“He who sleeps on a full stomach whilst his neighbour goes hungry is not one of us.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“..man can have nothing but what he strives for.” (The Qur’an 53:39)

“A believer wants for his brother what he wants for himself.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“O People, regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your LORD, and that HE will indeed reckon your deeds.” (The last Sermon of Prophet Muhammad)

“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black, nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.” (The last Sermon of Prophet Muhammad)

“He (Allah) has set up the balance (of justice), in order that ye may not transgress (due) balance. So establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance.” (The Qur’an 55: 7-9)

“Pay Zakat out of your property, for truly it is a purifier which purifies you, and be kind to your relatives, and acknowledge the rights of the poor, neighbors and beggars.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“The best of you is he (or she) who is of most benefit to others.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“The world is beautiful and verdant, and verily God, be He exalted, has made you His stewards in it, and He sees how you acquit yourselves.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“If any Muslim plants a tree or sows a field, and a human, bird or animal eats from it, it shall be reckoned as charity from him.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and He forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion:” (The Qur’an16:90)

“Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity:” (The Qur’an 2:276)

“If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time till it is easy to repay. But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you, if ye only knew.” (The Qur’an 2:280)

“Truly he succeeds that purifies it, and he fails that corrupts it!” (the Soul) (The Qur’an 91: 9-10)

“He (Allah) it is that has made you inheritors in the earth:” (The Qur’an 35.39)

“Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day either speak good or be silent. Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day honor his neighbor. Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day honor his guest.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“Whoever of you see a wrong, he should change it with his hand; and if he cannot do that [he should change it] with his tongue; and if he cannot do that [he should change it] with his heart and that is the weakest of faith.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other).” (The Qur’an 49:11-13)

“Live in this world as if you were going to live forever; prepare for the next world as if you were going to die tomorrow.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“A true believer is one who does not hurt others with his thoughts, words or actions.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“All creatures are God’s dependents and the most beloved to God, among them, is he who does good to God’s dependents.” (Prophet Muhammad)

“Give just measure, and cause no loss (to others by fraud). And weigh with scales true and upright. And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land, working mischief.” (The Qur’an 26:181-184)

Similar quotes that make you say hmmmm:

“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach” – Woodrow T. Wilson

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa

“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks”- Marcus Aurelius

“Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.” – Stephen Wright

“You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism” - Bertrand Russell

“There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.” – Irish Proverb

“Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor” -Martin Luther

“Your neighbor is the man who needs you” -Elbert Hubbard

“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.”-Eric Hoffer

“I do not love my neighbor near,but wish he were high up and far.

How else could he become my star?”- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.” -Franklin P. Jones

“If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, “What are you going through?”- Simone Weil