AhlulBayt News Agency: Speaking to Quran news Agency, Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, head of the central committee for commemorating the Islamic Unity, stressed that unity is a strategic policy to which Islam pays a lot of attention.
It has not only a political dimension but also a religious basis, he said.
Citing Verse 103 of Surah Al Imran, “And hold fast to the Bond of Allah, together, and do not scatter,” and Verse 46 of Surah Al-Anfal, “do not dispute with one another lest you should lose courage and your resolve weaken,” he said Islam lays emphasis on unity in the Muslim Ummah.
He said followers of different Islamic denominations should remain united and believe in Islamic unity if they want to worship God.
If there is discord or disunity appearing in any corner of the Muslim world, all elite figures and scholars must strive to confront and eliminate it, Hojat-ol-Islam Akhatri stated.
He said lack of unity is one of the problems facing the Islamic Ummah today and that is what prevents Muslims from defending one another.
It is the responsibility of all Muslims to support Palestinians who are being massacred by the Israeli regime and order to fulfil this responsibility properly, there needs to be unity among them, he went on to say.
If that happens, the Zionist regime will no longer be able to continue its atrocities in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in Palestine, he concluded.
The 17th day of Rabi al-Awwal, which falls on September 21 this year, is believed by Shia Muslims to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), while Sunni Muslims regard the 12th day of the month (Thursday, September 16) as the birthday of the last prophet.
The interval between the two dates was declared the Islamic Unity Week by the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, in the 1980s.
The occasion is marked this year as Muslims in the besieged Gaza Strip are facing genocidal attacks by Israeli forces. The Israeli regime launched its devastating war on October 7 last year after a retaliatory operation by Palestinian resistance forces. More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed and above 95,000 others, mostly women and children, injured in the Israeli attacks in the war on Gaza.
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It has not only a political dimension but also a religious basis, he said.
Citing Verse 103 of Surah Al Imran, “And hold fast to the Bond of Allah, together, and do not scatter,” and Verse 46 of Surah Al-Anfal, “do not dispute with one another lest you should lose courage and your resolve weaken,” he said Islam lays emphasis on unity in the Muslim Ummah.
He said followers of different Islamic denominations should remain united and believe in Islamic unity if they want to worship God.
If there is discord or disunity appearing in any corner of the Muslim world, all elite figures and scholars must strive to confront and eliminate it, Hojat-ol-Islam Akhatri stated.
He said lack of unity is one of the problems facing the Islamic Ummah today and that is what prevents Muslims from defending one another.
It is the responsibility of all Muslims to support Palestinians who are being massacred by the Israeli regime and order to fulfil this responsibility properly, there needs to be unity among them, he went on to say.
If that happens, the Zionist regime will no longer be able to continue its atrocities in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in Palestine, he concluded.
The 17th day of Rabi al-Awwal, which falls on September 21 this year, is believed by Shia Muslims to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), while Sunni Muslims regard the 12th day of the month (Thursday, September 16) as the birthday of the last prophet.
The interval between the two dates was declared the Islamic Unity Week by the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, in the 1980s.
The occasion is marked this year as Muslims in the besieged Gaza Strip are facing genocidal attacks by Israeli forces. The Israeli regime launched its devastating war on October 7 last year after a retaliatory operation by Palestinian resistance forces. More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed and above 95,000 others, mostly women and children, injured in the Israeli attacks in the war on Gaza.
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