The Servanthood and Submission of Jesus and Prophet Mohammad peace be upon them

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The Servanthood and Submission of Jesus and
Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon them)
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Organised by

• Australian Intercultural Society
• Ecumenical and Interfaith Commision of the
  Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission Catholic
Archdiocese of Melbourne
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• This event is organised in light of the
  Memorandum Of Understanding signed by the
  Australian Intercultural Society and the
  Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the
  Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.

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The Servanthood and Submission of Jesus and
Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon them)
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• Prayer facilities have been organised for our
  Muslim guests that would like to perform the
  Maghrib (Evening) Prayer after the completion of
  this program

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Welcome

• Fr John Dupuche
• Chair
• Catholic Interfaith Committee

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Reading from Holy Quran

• Al-Ahzab (The Confederates) 3339-45
• Al-Anbiya (The Prophets) 21106-107
• Al-Baqarah (The Cow) 2136
• Recital by Hafiz Adem Soylemez

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• Surah Al-Ahzab (The Confederates) 3339-47
• 39.(The Prophets are those) who convey Gods
  Messages and feel great awe of Him and they hold
  none but God in awe. God suffices as One Who
  reckons and settles the accounts (of His
  servants).
• 40. O believers, (know) that Mohammad is not the
  father of any man among you, but he is the
  Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets.
  God has full knowledge of everything.
• 41. O you who believe, remember and mention God
  much
• 42. And glorify Him in the morning and in the
  evening.

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• 43. He it is Who (in return for your remembrance
  of Him) bestows His special blessings upon you,
  with His angels (praying and asking His
  forgiveness for you), that He may lead you out of
  (all kinds of intellectual, spiritual, social,
  economic, and political) darkness into light. He
  is All-Compassionate toward the believers.
• 44. On the Day when they meet Him, their greeting
  (from those who welcome them will be), Peace.
  And He has prepared for them an honourable,
  generous reward.
• 45. O (most illustrious) Prophet! We have surely
  sent you (with a mission of Messengership) as a
  witness and as a bearer of glad tidings and a
  warner.

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• Surah Al-Anbiya (The Prophets) 21106-107
• 106. Surely in this (Quran) there is the
  explanation (of every truth necessary) for Gods
  servants devoted to worshipping Him.
• 107. We have not sent you (O Mohammad) but as an
  unequalled mercy for all the worlds.
• Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow) 2136
• 136. (O Muslims! You) declare We have believed
  in God and that which has been sent down to us,
  and that which was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael,
  Isaac, Jacob, and the Prophets who were raised in
  the tribes, and that which was given to all other
  Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction
  between any of them (in believing), and we are
  Muslims (submitted to Him wholly and
  exclusively).

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Prof. Ismail AlbayrakFethullah Gülen Chairin
the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic
RelationsAsia-Pacific Centre for Inter-religious
DialogueAustralian Catholic University
Servanthood and Submission of the Prophet
Mohammed (peace be upon him)
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Salutations

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• Lead by Hafiz Adem Soylemez
• I respond to Your call,
• Here I am at Thy service O Lord, here I am. Here
  I am at Thy service and Thou hast no partners.
  Thine alone is All Praise and All Bounty, and
  Thine alone is The Sovereignty. Thou hast no
  partners
• (repeated 3 times)
• Reference Imam Malik, Muwatta, II.484

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Salutations

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• O Allah! Shower Your blessing upon
• Our beloved master Prophet
• Muhammed and also send Your
• blessings upon his household and
• Companians.
• (repeated 3 times)
• Reference Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzi

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Sufi Music

• Australian Sufi Music Group

Please be quiet during the music and, as a sign
of respect, please do not applaud. Thank you
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Sufi Music

• Silence please during playing of Sufi Music.
• Sufi music functions as an aid to meditation on
  the manifestations and actions of God. As stated
  by Rumi
• Music is the nutrition of the souls of the
  servants of the Lord, Since, in music, there is
  the hope of reaching God.

Therefore, music, when combined with meditation
and contemplation, is seen as being an important
way to reaching God.
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Reading from Holy Bible

• Book of the Prophet Isaiah, 5213 - 5312.The
  Song of the Suffering Servant
• Read by Lorraine Lipson

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Isaiah 5213 5312

• 13 See, my servant shall prosper he shall be
  exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
• 14 Just as there were many who were astonished at
  himso marred was his appearance, beyond human
  semblance, and his form beyond that of mortals15
  so he shall startle many nations kings shall
  shut their mouths because of him for that which
  had not been told them they shall see, and that
  which they had not heard they shall contemplate.
• 531 Who has believed what we have heard? And to
  whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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Isaiah 5213 5312

• 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
  and like a root out of dry ground he had no form
  or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in
  his appearance that we should desire him.
• 3 He was despised and rejected by others a man
  of suffering and acquainted with infirmity and
  as one from whom others hide their faces he was
  despised, and we held him of no account.
• 4 Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried
  our diseases yet we accounted him stricken,
  struck down by God, and afflicted.
• 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
  crushed for our iniquities upon him was the
  punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises
  we are healed

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Isaiah 5213 5312

• 6 All we like sheep have gone astray we have all
  turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on
  him the iniquity of us all.
• 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
  did not open his mouth like a lamb that is led
  to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before
  its shearers is silent, so he did not open his
  mouth.
• 8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
• Who could have imagined his future? For he was
  cut off from the land of the living, stricken for
  the transgression of my people.
• 9 They made his grave with the wicked and his
  tomb with the rich, although he had done no
  violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
• 10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him
  with pain.

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Isaiah 5213 5312

• When you make his life an offering for sin, he
  shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his
  days through him the will of the Lord shall
  prosper.
• 11 Out of his anguish he shall see light he
  shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
  The righteous one, my servant, shall make many
  righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
• 12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the
  great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
  strong because he poured out himself to death,
  and was numbered with the transgressors yet he
  bore the sin of many, and made intercession for
  the transgressors.

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David SchützExecutive OfficerEcumenical and
Interfaith Commission of the Melbourne Catholic
Archdiocese
Servanthood and Submission of the Jesus Christ
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Christian Music

• David Schütz and Fr John Dupuche will lead the
  Christians present in singing some music from the
  liturgy for Holy Week.

All who wish to join in singing are invited to do
so. Please do not applaud the singing of these
hymns.
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Ubi Caritas

• This traditional Latin song is chanted during the
  washing of the feet in the Liturgy for Holy
  Thursday.
• It recalls Jesus commandment given on that night
  to love one another as I have loved you.
• The Antiphon will be sung by David first, and
  then those who wish to do so may join in singing
  it together and after each verse.

The translation of the antiphon is Where there
is charity and love, God is there.
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Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.Ubi caritas et
amor, Deus ibi est.

• Verse (Sung by David and John)
• Congregavit nos in unum Christi amorExultemus,
  et in ipso, jucundemur,
• Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum,et ex corde
  diligamus nos sincero.

(Translation Christ's love has gathered us into
one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us
fear, and let us love the living God. And may we
love each other with a sincere heart. )
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Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.Ubi caritas et
amor, Deus ibi est.

• Verse (Sung by David and John)
• Simul ergo cum in unum congregamurNe nos mente
  dividamur, caveamus.
• Cessent iurgia maligna, cessent lites.Et in
  medio nostri sit Christus Deus.

(Translation As we are gathered into one
body,Beware, lest we be divided in mind.Let
evil impulses stop, let controversy cease, and
may Christ our God be in our midst. )
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Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.Ubi caritas et
amor, Deus ibi est.

• Verse (Sung by David and John)
• Simul quoque cum beatis videamus,Glorianter
  vultum tuum, Christe Deus
• Gaudium quod est immensum, atque probum,Saecula
  per infinita saeculorum. Amen.

(Translation And may we with the saints
also,See your face in glory, O Christ our God
The joy that is immense and good, unto the ages
through infinite ages. Amen. )
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Stay with Me

• This modern chant is sung in a style that has
  been made popular by the mixed Protestant and
  Catholic monastic community at Taize in France.
• It is based on Jesus words to his disciples in
  the Garden of Gethsemane.
• John and David will sing the chant through once
  and then those who wish to do so are invited to
  continue singing with John as David plays the
  recorder accompaniment.
• This chant is intended to be sung a number of
  times as a meditative song.

Stay with me, remain here with me. Watch and
pray. Watch and pray.
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Buzz Session

• You are invited to spend the next five minutes
  talking about this evenings presentations with
  your neighbours.

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Intentions

• We place these statements of intention before one
  another and before God.

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Intentions

• We have heard the Word of God speaking to us in
  our sacred scriptures.
• We commit ourselves to be servants of the One who
  speaks to us in mercy and gentleness.

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Intentions

• We worship God who is creator of heaven and
  earth.
• We commit ourselves to treat the world with care
  and so give faithful service to the Creator.

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Intentions

• None has faith who does not have love of
  neighbours.
• We commit ourselves to serving our fellow human
  beings in truth and justice.

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Intentions

• In the prophets of all the ages, the One Master
  speaks who rules over all.
• We commit ourselves to receive with submission
  the will of God for our lives.

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Intentions

• The Will of God guides our journey into the
  future.
• We commit ourselves to the future of our
  relationship together and to serve our fellow
  human beings along the way.

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Exchange of Gifts and Vote of Thanks
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Concluding remarks

• Emre Celik
• General Coordinator
• Australian Intercultural Society

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Thank you
May our respect for one another continue to
blossom
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