Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on focusing on the rights of all communities, terming ‘negligence of the present facts’ the main cause of crises in the Muslim world.
Talking to thousands of Sunni citizens in southeastern Iran on May 29, 2015, Friday Imam of Zahedan said, “Today’s world is not realistic, but it is world of temptations and desires. Neglecting facts is the biggest challenge of the contemporary human society.”
“Due to ignoring challenges and facts in societies, many conflicts and disputes emerged. Mainly in Muslim states governments and different groups are stuck in regional and civil wars just because of closing eyes from the obvious realities.”
The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader further said, “It is regrettable Muslim rulers do not listen to their masses and nations on time. Most of them deny to focus on due demands of people. It is the basic reason of many conflicts.”
Modern weapons tested on Muslims
Pointing out to the current circumstances of the Muslim states, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid stated, “We are against interfering in the domestic affairs of other states. Now there is a rivalry among Muslim states to restore more weapons and buy heavy guns and missiles. The enemies of Muslims test their heavy and modern weapons by killing them day and night.”
“We have been hearing shocking reports about mass graves discovered from various places in some Muslim states. They suffer from political, cultural, economic and security crises. Takfir and extremism have been spread among different sects; these all emerged thanks to neglecting the facts by rulers and politicians,” the member of the MWL supreme council added more.
He underlined, “The ongoing regional and civil wars are in favor of some powers and our enemies like the sinister regime of Israel; they add fuel to the fire. On the other hand, Muslims cannot sit together and find out any solution to these calamitous conflicts.”
Criticizing policies in some Muslim countries, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said, “Unfortunately, rulers of Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan and some other states neglect the facts of their countries; they refuse to know on which kind of nations they rule and how they should behave with them.”
“Due to discriminative policies in those states, the present and previous rulers could not fulfil the demands of different ethnic and religious sects and communities. The policy of pressure has been utilized in these states. The ruling families and groups did not see fire under the ashes as now they suffer.”
Disputes of Muslim states, the biggest crisis
Mawlana Abdol-Hamid further said, “Disputes among different Muslim states is the biggest crisis in the current era for us. They cannot resolve their problems unless they sit together on the table of negotiation.”
“It is regrettable many neighboring countries are busy with proxy wars. Sectarian and religious conflicts leave the worst affects and consequences on the Muslim world,” he emphasized.
Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan called on all Muslim rulers to avoid interfering in domestic affairs of other states and said, “It is not advisable for any Muslim state to interfere in affairs of its neighbors and other Muslim countries. Neither it is in accordance with the national interests of Iran and Saudi Arabia nor other Arab and Muslim states.”
He said, “Now Israel is a safe heaven and this satanic regime enjoys seeing Muslims busy with regional fights. All Muslim statesmen and politicians must sit together to find any working solution to these crises.”
War is not a Solution
The eminent Islamic scholar made it clear, saying, “As I said previously, war cannot be solution to any crisis; rather it is another problem that exacerbates the situation. The neo-colonial powers never want to see Muslims united. Thus we should be vigilant. All conflicts should be over; because violence creates more violence.”
At the end, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid pointed out, “It has been my wish to see top Muslim scholars of the Muslim world, regardless to their sects, to constitute boards and strive to bring Muslim rulers closer to each other. Of course Muslim rulers can ensure peace of their countries and resolve crises when they are close to each other.”
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