Islamic Scholars: Islam Urges Tolerance, Mercy, Forbids Killing, Takfir
DAMASCUS-The Islamic Wahhabi thinking which sews the seeds of sedition and division among the people of the Islamic nation should be uncovered, said Awqaf Minister Mohammad Abdul Sattar Asayyed, stressing that this ideology is being promoted by Western countries to dominate the region.
Asayyed remarks were made during the Islamic Scholars’ 10th Forum, which was kicked off on Monday at the Dama Rose Hotel in Damascus under the title “Moslems between Westernization and Extremism..Western Hegemony and Takfiri Thinking”. The Forum was held by the Ministry of Awqaf in cooperation with the Union of the Levant Scholars and Imam Khamenei Office in Syria.
The minister pointed out that the takfiri thinking has led to disseminating the terrorism of which Syria has been suffering for three years.
“Islam is a moderate religion that calls for mercy and tolerance and has no relation to the acts of killing, the takfiri mindset and the incitement to commit massacres,” the minster asserted.
He urged awareness about the danger of this plague, calling on Western countries to stop financing, recruiting and sending terrorists to Syria.
For his part, Syria’s Grand Mufti Badr Eddin Hassoun stressed the importance of unity among Moslems and the need to promote amity and fraternity among peoples of the Islamic nation in the confrontation of the takfiri Wahhabi thinking which is destroying the world.
Head of the Levant Scholars Union Mohammad Tawfeek al-Bouti warned of the attempts of exploiting people in the name of Islam. He urged enhancing the sublime values of moderate Islam to avoid differences and sedition in Islamic societies.
Representative of Imam Khamenei in Syria Mujtaba al-Husseini pointed out that real Islam forbids takfiri thinking and extremism, stressing the need to promote the Islamic teachings which unify Moslems in the face of the anti-tolerant Islam invasion, which aims at showing Islam as a terrorist and takfiri religion.
H. Mustafa