Today September 24 2015 is Eid al-Adha / Bakr-Eid
विनोबा भावे:
"स चाशीर्वादमर्हति- महंमद सर्वांचा आशीर्वाद इच्छितात. म्हणतात की श्रद्धावंत हो, महंमदाला शांती आणि शरणता प्राप्त होण्यासाठी आशीर्वाद द्या. ही नम्रता आहे. ज्यांच्यापाशी लोक आशीर्वादासाठी जातात तेच सर्वांच्या आशीर्वादाची याचना करीत आहेत. ही फार मोठी गोष्ट आहे."
(कुराण-सार, c 1962)
Denise A. Spellberg:
"At a time when most Americans were uninformed, misinformed,
or simply afraid of Islam, Thomas Jefferson imagined Muslims as future citizens
of his new nation. His engagement with the faith began with the purchase of a
Qur’an eleven years before he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson’s Qur’an survives still in the Library of Congress, serving as a
symbol of his and early America’s complex relationship with Islam and its
adherents. That relationship remains of signal importance to this day..."
The title page of Jefferson’s Qur’an, now in the Library of
Congress
courtesy: 'Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders' by Denise A. Spellberg, 2013