We are a group of Iranian women living in England. I'm Christian; everyone else is Muslim. We met at the school gate, collecting our children. Since we were all, back then, lonely in a foreign land, we became family to each other. They remember me during their festivals and during my holidays. But this Christmas, after the tragic events of the fall, they're remembering not just me but people everywhere.
One woman says, "I pray that we are able to forge a new unity on equal understanding and respect for each other's culture and traditions. That we can abolish distrust and suspicion. I pray at Christmastime for the families that have lost their dear ones. I pray for the brotherhood of all races and nations. Neither Prophet Muhammad nor Jesus came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in one God, but rather to confirm and renew it."
Through my Muslim women friends, I've come to know and respect their faith, and they've come to appreciate mine. About 11 years ago, when I began reading Science and Health, my friends witnessed the incredible healing of both of our children, who had been very sickly. The other mothers were curious. They believed in miracles, but they hadn't thought of healing as a divine law, applicable to everybody.
