Abstract
REASONS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AMONG MORMONS AND MUSLIMS
Both Mormonism and Islam are in the world’s fastest growing religions. Mormonism, as number of its adherents is relatively low, is in the fastest growing religions when annual growth in percentage of converts is considered. Islam is in the fastest growing religions when both percentage of absolute growth and annual growth of the number of new followers are considered. Although it is occurring in the mind firstly that a competition exists between adherents of these religions, conversely, their relationships are always enhanced in mutual respect and understanding ways. Certainly, main reason of this understanding is that there is no objection in Mormon faith to accept Muslim’s prophet as a prophet also. Another reason for mutual understanding is that practice of these religions has expressed similar regulations. For instance, Mormons and Muslims approaches are similar for polygamy which is almost criticized by western world. Additionally, the goods which Mormons are avoided to consume or utilize are also similar with the goods are forbidden for Muslims. Another reason which can be added is that any remarkable historical event recorded between the adherents of both religions to lead them to be prejudiced or negative against each other. In this paper, briefly, general information about Mormons is given, the relationships between Mormons and Muslims are expressed, and main reasons which lead the adherents of both religions to enhance relationships in mutual respect and understanding are examined.
Keywords
Mormonism, Islam, mutual understanding, relationships
