Jean-Mohammed: the Franciscan who Came from Islam
Photo from AmazonBeginning: OASIS, thanks to Dar Al-Masih: The bare name of Father Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil already suggests a rather remarkable existence: John (Jean), ‘the scholar whom Jesus loved’ according to the Christianity, and Mohammed, the only Seer of God according to the Koran. In these seasons, in which Christianity and Islamism are once again perceived as being in diversity, it is advisable to mirror upon the life and notice of this Franciscan religious who converted to Teachings of christ but who never really denied the values of the Muslim that which binds us to the practice of righteousness in which he had been born and brought up. Without ever falling into a easy syncretism, Abd-el-Jalil attempted, in over against fashion, to bring into being the profound values of the science of duty of his ancestors more excellent understood (1).
Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil was born in Fez in Morocco in 1904, to a submissive family, with origins that went back to Andalusia, which brought him up in the Muslim reliance of his ancestors. Fez was a incorporated town of ancient tillage in which Islam shaped the quotidian lives of all the inhabitants. The juvenile Mohammed thus followed the natural path of every baby who attended the limited Koranic gymnasium. At the age of ten he even accompanied his...
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