(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Director General of the Islamic Educational, cientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, called for stronger solidarity-based relations between the components of the Muslim Ummah through prevention of conflicts and all sorts of discord that undermine the unity of the Ummah.
In a message to the Muslim World on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, he emphasized the need to overcome the increasing tensions among Muslims in many parts of the world as a result of futile yet uncontainable conflicts, coupled with a strong foreign influence that only runs counter to the supreme interests of the Muslim World, through the waging of a spiral of factional and ethnic wars fueled by historical old legacies.
In this connection, the Director General urged Muslims to transcend their often doctrinal yet futile discords if measured against the principles of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. In the same vein, he said that “Muslims constitute one Nation sharing one religion, one holy book, and one Qiblah. Unless they are not addressed properly, the challenges and threats they are facing could weaken the Ummah, spoil its potentials, and leave it in a permanent state of lethargy.”
By the same token, Dr Altwaijri urged the Muslim World to maintain the cohesion of its societies and unity of its countries, based on brotherly love, peace, cooperation towards virtue and righteousness, and supremacy of the Muslim Ummah’s interests over transient ones. He also stressed the need to pay utmost attention to boosting economic cooperation, promoting inter-State trade, implementing the resolutions of the Islamic Summit conferences and the relevant meetings of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers. This, he insisted, should be corroborated by enhanced joint Islamic action through the implementation of the resolutions of the specialized Islamic conferences pertaining to education, higher education, technology, innovation, culture, environment, childhood, tourism and Awqaf and Islamic affairs.
Similarly, the message pointed out that the strategies and plans devised by ISESCO and adopted by the Islamic Summit conferences provide a strong groundwork of development in the Muslim World, and called for implementing them and shaping the national policies of the Member States in light of their guidelines and objectives.
Moreover, the Director General noted the critical situation of the Muslim World at the present juncture which is marked by rapid global developments with a strong bearing on the Member States, particularly in the spheres of economy, finance, industry, science and technology, and called for a judicious response to such mutations in order to protect the supreme interests of the Muslim World.
Dr Altwaijri then underlined the obligation to support the Palestinian people to rise to the tough challenges they are facing, and insisted on the crucial importance of Palestinian unity and inter-Palestinian reconciliation for countering the hostile policies of Israel, its continuous occupation of the Palestinian territories, its blockade imposed on Gaza and its repetitive crimes against humanity perpetrated against Palestinians, their cultural property and their educational and scientific institutions. The liberation of Al-Quds Al-Sharif and all Palestinian territories, he concluded, is a sacred duty and prime responsibility lying with the whole Muslim World.
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