Hospitality in the Qu'ran

In This Wise, the New Testament calls for the highest standard of reputation, ethics, training and conduct for us as help givers.-If we will be the channel of Gods healing to the populations wherein we live.

In this last chapter, Appiah discusses the ‘stranger kindness’ predicament in which there is a dilemma about how, and when strangers should commit acts of kindness

Willow’s experiences in Tura with Muslims demonstrated the Muslim response to Western culture. In Tura, she is surrounded by a much more conservative group of people than were in Cairo. She felt the “anger” that people had towards the West (120). Between the West and Arabic cultures, there was “a pit full of dangers: poverty, terrorism, wars of attrition, racism, colonialism, and malice” (119). This bred distrust, and it was palpable to Willow. Between many of the inhabitants of Tura to Willow, there was a lack of compassion or care given to her. One

Along with loyalty, hospitality was valued heavily in Ancient Greek.Hospitality is the generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home and/or associates of the person bestowing guest-friendship. Examples of hospitality can be found throughout Homer's epic. One example of hospitality can be seen when Odysseus went to the Cyclops's cave. When Odysseus approaches the Cyclop,Odysseus says, ”as the custom, is to honor strangers” (Homer 764). This tell the readers that for the greek sculpture honoring strangers is valued

One of the major things the gods stress is the relationship between guest and host. On the adventure in search of his long lost father, Odysseus, Telemachus was a guest in the house of King Menelaus. Menelaus gave Telemachus and the son of Nestor both a place to stay, food, and bath, and many gifts.“… shared to the full hospitality/ of others. Now unhitch their horses: lead /our quests into the house, to share our feast” (IV.45- 47). If this code or rule were kept than, man would be able to live in peace. Beggars as well, are also part of the gods’ laws. If a beggar were to come to a house, begging for food, money, or clothing, the owners would be obligated to help the beggar. Zeus, the ruler of all gods watches out for the beggars and knows if they are turned away. During the great Trojan War, the Greeks led a victory against Troy after ten years of continuous battle. However throughout the war they were given much help from the gods, and they gave nothing to them in return. The Greeks were punished at sea for not sacrificing to the gods. If man at the time were able to sacrifice to the gods for the great assists, and listened to the gods, than man would be able to live peacefully.

In the beginning, God provided Adam and Eve with a garden to live in with no house to go home to as the sun set each day. Americans today have the opportunity to live in a home where their lives carry on day after day. Adam and Eve were in a sense homeless, yet God did not love them any less. The homeless in America today are seen as less than everyone else in society, yet God does not love them any less than those of us who live in a home. As Christians, we are told to share with the homeless. Luke states in Luke 3:10-11, “And the crowds asked him, ‘What then shall we do?’ And he answered them, ‘Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.’.” The Bible tells us to share with the poor, despite

The theme of the Odyssey that I’m gonna talk about is Hospitality. In The Odyssey, Hospitality is used many times from when they left Ithaca to when they come back from Troy and other places they had to cross upon. Example of Hospitality is when Ulysses with the Phaeacians, When Telemachus in Sparta, Circe and Circe and Calypso, and the last one when Penelope to the suitors. When Ulysses with the Phaeacians is the example of Hospitality because when they found Ulysses next the sea shore they didn’t know he was the king of Ithaca but they still treated him kindly and gave him food and clothes. They even took him to Ithaca without him even saying a word about him being a king or Ulysses.

Jesus loves and cares for the poor and sick, he praises those who help the poor and condemns those who do not show compassion to those in need. Throughout the New Testament, there are many stories of Jesus showing empathy towards the poor. In the miracle story of the feeding of the five thousand, the disciples tell Jesus to send the multitudes away to go and buy food. Jesus replied: “They don’t need to go away.

“I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give anything or not, and show them the list of who have given; and lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of those you may be mistaken.”

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities.

From the Christain Church to the Islamic Mosque, these establishments have encouraged donation and charitable acts of kindness to others. The Islamic faith, one of the most important principles of the Five Pillars of Islam is zakat. Zakat is the practice of setting aside a part of ones fortune to be given to the less fortunate. The size of one’s zakat depends on the size of one’s fortune, and Muslims can give additional items as a sadaqa. On the other side, Christians perfrom acts of charity often through a church. From donating various amounts of money, to physical work to serve or aid the less fortunate, the Christain faith is encouraged by the church and bible to perform acts of charity throughout life. One thing both of these religions charitable acts have in common is to not brag or promote the charitiy performed by someone. In the Five Pillars of Islam Faith, it is said to perform these acts to benefit those less wealthy than to promote one’s image or veiw on something. In the bible, it is said to perform charitable acts of kindness out of the kindness of one’s heart rather than to recieve praise and approval from

Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;

     Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Many people today seem to look over the poor and needy. The people who are the poorest may be the happiest. We have to be able to look at these people and see how wonderful they really are. They may not ask for anything but when someone offers to give them something they truly do cherish it. Even if it is just a slice of bread or a pair of old shoes, or even a blanket. Today we can give to charities to help these people because somewhere someone is getting that blanket you did not want and it is the thing that is keeping him warm all winter.

Religious beliefs soon formed new values as the importance of gift giving became a ‘tradition’ among religions. In most religions helping others who could not help themselves was already a steadfast belief. As people’s values of wanting to help and give to others started to intertwine with the calendar holidays many people started to look for newer and better gift ideas for their loved ones and soon strangers as well. Christian’s predominantly could be found buying minuscule little gift items, such as notebook paper, pencils, and ribbons, for the homeless children, their families and the poorer community that could not provide for themselves during the holiday seasons.

Several Islamic guidelines instruct Muslims to give their wealth to those who don’t have wealth themselves. The most evident teaching is the third Pillar of Islam or Zakat. Zakat teaches that well off Muslims must pay a welfare contribution for the needy. It is paid once a year based on a person’s cash savings, gold, silver and jewellery. Zakat often takes the form of a tax collected by a government but in the eyes of the contributor it is not simply a tax to pay but holds spiritual significance in that through paying Zakat Muslims try to gain Allah’s favour. Zakat is clearly an ethical guideline that teaches Muslims to help the poor and needy.