We often quote examples of the use of the word "messenger" in Muslim writings for persons who are not, of course, rasul in Islamic theology. Our friend Rashid Jahangiri has noted such an example on the website of the English edition of Al-Jazeera. Please see the following link:
english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
If you scroll to the foot of the above page then in the left hand column you will see the following:
If you click on the square icon which is to the left of the title "Messenger of Peace" (on Al-Jazeera's webpage itself), then an animated cartoon is played showing the pope looking at the world spinning around him and his reaction as he sees various famous recent events passing by.
The Pope is thus called the Messenger of Peace by this Muslim cartoonist in this well-known Arab news organ.
A "still" from this animation, which I captured to keep for the record, is as below:
This brings to mind the incident in 1956 when the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru, while visiting an Arab country, was greeted with the caption:
Marhaba rasul-us-salam
meaning, Welcome, O Messenger of Peace.
--- Zahid Aziz
english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
If you scroll to the foot of the above page then in the left hand column you will see the following:
If you click on the square icon which is to the left of the title "Messenger of Peace" (on Al-Jazeera's webpage itself), then an animated cartoon is played showing the pope looking at the world spinning around him and his reaction as he sees various famous recent events passing by.
The Pope is thus called the Messenger of Peace by this Muslim cartoonist in this well-known Arab news organ.
A "still" from this animation, which I captured to keep for the record, is as below:
This brings to mind the incident in 1956 when the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru, while visiting an Arab country, was greeted with the caption:
Marhaba rasul-us-salam
meaning, Welcome, O Messenger of Peace.
--- Zahid Aziz
