Iran, Iraq Can Serve as Models for Unity in Muslim World: Cleric
Hojat-ol-Islam Hamid Shahriari made the remark in an address to an international Islamic unity conference held in Baghdad on Saturday.
He underlined the need for development of cooperation among Muslim world scholars and said regional and international conferences held with the participation of Sunni and Shia scholars are meant to highlight the fact that enemy attempts aimed at fomenting discord in the Muslim Ummah will never be successful as long as scholars are at the service of Islam and Muslims.
He expressed hope that the outcome of the conference in Baghdad will be the strengthening of the brotherly ties among Muslims and the spirit of rapport and kindness in humanity.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the cleric reiterated Muslim world scholars’ attention to the issue of al-Quds and Palestine as a pivotal issue in the Islamic Ummah.
He also said in order to eradicate terrorism, there should be efforts to tackle its roots such as reactionary ideologies.
The one-day international conference on Islamic unity was held at Al-Mansour Hotel in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.
Religious scholars, thinkers and political figures from different countries attended the event, which was organized under the supervision of Iraq’s Sunni Awqaf Department with the cooperation of a number of the country’s religious institutions.
‘Muslim, A Brother of Muslim’ was the motto of the international event.
Concept of unity from Islam’s viewpoint; peaceful coexistence in the Quran and Sunnah; issue of Takfir in Islamic Fiqh (jurisprudence); was for confronting bids for normalization of ties with the Israeli regime; role of media in strengthening Islamic unity; and role of religious sermons in boosting Muslim unity were among the topics discussed by the participants.
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