AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Top Iranian Shia cleric met with Pakistani grand mufti calling on the Sunni scholars to play effective role in boosting solidarity among Muslims and confront the Takfiri movements.
Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought met with mufti Raghib Naeemi, director of Naeemia seminary in Punjab in Cultural Center of Islamic Republic of Iran in Lahore.
Iranian cleric in this meeting stressed importance of close relations between the Shia and Barelvi movement to strengthen Islamic solidarity and confrontation with Takfiri (excommunication) groups.
Members of the Iranian delegation Mohsen Meschi, deputy of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Morteza Bayat, director of Taqrib News Agency (TNA), Esmaeil Noori, director of international affairs, Jafar Ronas, director of the Cultural Center of Islamic Republic were among the Iranian participants to this meeting.
Sheikh Hamid Shahriari counted ignorance and poverty as two serious challenges in the world of Islam and the reasons behind formation of extremist thoughts.
He said," Once we resolve improve the level of literacy in the Islamic countries, including Pakistan which is one of the most populated Muslim states, the negative impacts of poverty and ignorance naming extremism and terrorism."
Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought reiterated the role of Shia and Sunni clerics in improving the level of literacy and hailed the seminaries and scholars in Pakistan as a great potentiality for the country and the world of Islam.
Led by Sheikh Hamid Shahriari, a delegation of Iranian religious and cultural figures are in Pakistan in a bid to attend an Islamic unity event and meet with the leaders of different Islamic denominations in the country.
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