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Friday, March 19, 1999 was the last day of tennis lessons for Ilona Scheter and Peter Berini before their mid-term holidays. They were two nine-year-olds in the tennis development programme at the Fila Sports Club, Long Island City. The club complex is located across the eastern shore of the East River, with a view of the United Nations Building and Nigeria House amidst sky scrapers of midtown Manhattan. I asked Ilona where she was going for her holidays. Her answer generated a dialogue.

“Really? One day, either here in this world or in the hereafter, you will come to know that the cross you sketched on the clay-court is the sign of truth in all Creation, which is what you know as heaven and earth”. Whether we know about it or not does not alter what it is.” “You can find out when you’re old enough. From the earliest times, God sent prophets to reveal the truths of life to all mankind. But we human beings, especially the leaders of existing religious tradition, always oppose extensions to knowledge. This strange human habit is lamented in the Qur’an in which the question is posed: ‘Why is it that whenever a message comes from Allah , you behave arrogantly and reject it, even slaying the prophets?’ This fault is still with us today.

Other people labeled them followers of Jesus. They, however, considered themselves to be Jews who had merely extended their knowledge of God by adding the message given by Jesus. That was how ‘another’ religion emerged. Jesus himself said that he came to fulfill the laws. Prophets and teachers from God do not come to start new religions but to extend knowledge of life’s truths. In America, today, you have a group called ‘Jews for Jesus Christ’.

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