News from Al-Madinah: Imam Ahmad Al-Tayeb, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and a Shiite sect scholar from Bahrain, made an appeal to Shiite sect scholars to engage in interfaith dialogue in order to reject “sedition and sectarian conflict” at a time when tensions are rising in several countries in the region and around the world over sectarian issues.
“A call to Islamic religious scholars around the world in various doctrines, sects, and schools to accelerate with a contract A serious Islamic Islamic dialogue, in order to establish unity, rapprochement, and acquaintance,” Al-Tayeb said in a speech at the conclusion of the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue on “East and West for Human Coexistence,” where Pope Francis was present.
) that specifically rejects the root causes of sectarian warfare, sedition, and division.
The Imam Al -Azhar, the largest Sunni institution in the world, said, “This call, as I go to our Shiite Muslim brothers, I am ready, and with great scholars of Al -Azhar and the Council of Muslim wise, to hold like this meeting with open hearts and supported hands to sit together at one table.
By “bypassing the page of the past and promoting Islamic affairs and the unity of Islamic positions,” Imam Al-Azhar concluded the meeting’s purpose. He suggested that his decisions stipulate “the suspension of mutual hatred letters, the methods of provocation and atonement, and the need to overcome historical and contemporary struggles with all their bad problems and deposits.
“He also emphasised the need for Muslims to be forbade from listening to the calls for division and discord, and to warn against falling into the tampering with the stability of the homelands, the exploitation of religion in stirring up national and sectarian strife, interfering in states’ affairs, undermining their sovereignty, or raping their lands.
After years of conflicts in the Middle East and the area, such as those in Yemen and Syria, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar made an appeal for dialogue.
Iran, the main Shiite power, and Saudi Arabia, the Great Sunni power, have a fierce regional rivalry in politics and religion that is reflected in many of the region’s nations.
To strengthen relations between the two regional rivals, the two nations started a dialogue more than a year ago with assistance from Iraq.
AFP.
Shiite intellectuals are urged by Sheikh Al-Azhar to engage in an Islamic dialogue and reject sectarian strife.
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