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A Call for Unity

eous. The days of the blameless are known to the Lord and their
inheritance will endure forever... (Psalm, 37: 11, 17-18)
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and
all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for do-
minion belongs to the Lord. (Psalm, 22: 27-28)
For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will in-
herit the land. A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found. (Psalm, 37: 9-10)
... For the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord up-
holds the righteous... The wicked will perish: The Lord's enemies
will be like the beauty of the fields, they will vanish – vanish like
smoke. (Psalm, 37: 17, 20)
Wait for the Lord and keep his way... The salvation of the right-
eous comes from the Lord... The Lord helps them and delivers
them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because
they take refuge in him. (Psalm, 37: 34, 39-40)
As these passages make clear, the "dominion" described
in the Torah is not that of one specific group or lineage over
other communities, but that of sincere faith in Allah and of
the moral values of the true faith – commanded to everyone
by Allah – over the world. However, expressions of praise for
the believing Jews in the Torah are the good news imparted

to devout believers when the Torah was revealed. Therefore,
taking Torah passages referring to the dominion promised to
the People of Israel as the superiority of a certain nation,
without considering sincere faith in Allah, will not be a cor-
rect approach.
In fact, the concept of "the dominion of the moral values
of the religion (deen)," which exists in Islam and Judaism, is

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