The role of Al Hathees and Thirukkural in bringing social harmony among Hindu and Muslim societies

Abstract

Every religion in the world is bound to create unity and harmony between the communities with their teaching and guidance. Religions play a major role in clarifying and systematizing human life patterns, rights, morals, philosophical thinking of the man. The need of the hour is to establish social harmony through religious teaching among the Tamil speaking community in Sri Lanka. Without no doubt, this will bring a chance to eliminate the conflict situation and create social harmony in society. Whenever a man was found going astray, he was guided to the right path for prophets and Messengers. Each Messenger was sent by God to every community. The Messengers belonged to their respective communities and spoke their relevant languages. The Lord has provided them with peculiar scriptures and gospels. In this fame, the sayings used by prophet Muhammad (sal) and the thirukkural which were widely accepted and followed in Islam and Hinduism respectively occupied a remarkable place. It is noteworthy mentioning that there are many types of research been carried out on this regard, of a prophet been sent to the Tamil speaking community and a scripture been given to him, also is there a possibility for Thiruvalluvar to be the prophet sent by the God? In these two scriptures, it generally focuses on many important aspects. For example. The Social unity, the hospitality, the humanist acts, neutrality towards the groups, staying away from backbiting, charity, kindness, about negligence, about forgiveness, about enviousness of the evil, supports to the social unity and Harmony. We must follow all the neutral features and the common features of the various scriptures to build racial and religious harmony in this multinational country where Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam remain as the three main religions. It is important to be interested in the common characteristics that we all share in the common believes and the common virtues that we all share to live and make this country living heaven for the people. This study has been subjected to sociological, comparative and descriptive research method. The first and the second sectors have been used. In the 1st sector hadees etc were used. And in the second sector books and magazines and papers were used. Thereby, there can be a much-attained possibility to create a positive and healthy environment and to live as a unified Sri Lankans in the society.