Shaikh Abdul Hamid imam and Khateeb of Friday for Sunnis in Zahedan, the head of Darululoom Zahedan at the end of nineteenth annual ceremony of Darululoom Zahedan’s graduates delivered a speech regarding to the blessed occasion of honoring graduates of Darul Uloom Zahedan on Thursday, 8th July. Thousands of the participants who came from different areas of Iran participated this holy meeting at Thursday evening.
Pointing out towards the importance and reality of this ceremony he said, “This ceremony is a cultural and religious gathering, it should not be considered a political meeting; as political parties generally based on political demands and at the end of their processions they express their political objects and finally they issue any statement and ask people to accept their subjects, rather we never base our meetings on political demands. I assure the establishment that it is an Islamic and spiritual gathering.”
Explaining the aims of the ceremony Shaikh more said, “Our ceremony is a popular religious celebration and it is subjected to provide the learning opportunities to the audience, as well as to make them aware morally and socially, and such gatherings are the source of preaching Islam and spreading out the Islamic message, certainly Darululoom Zahedan has emphasized on this point in the past years also and made the officials assure.”
Shaikh continued pointing out to some of the baseless charges to the Sunnis saying, “Some opportunistic Shiite extremists accuse us of being Wahhabis. We are inhabitants of Iran for many years, we are not separatists, as we are proud of our religion Islam as well as we are proud of our country, surely we are not sectarian and we do not like inciting sectarianism. Although some Sunnis have their own views but we are not responsible for their point of views.
The Grand Shaikh expressed the importance of Sunni religious schools and centers saying, “These schools are also being claimed by some of the extremists; I make them sure that such religious schools are neither a threat to the country nor to the Shiites. These religious meetings are held to honor the graduating students; so it must not be taken as a risk for any one. We hold these meetings because we believe that knowledge and scholars should be honored; as Almighty Allah says that the total honors go to God and his believers. We want the respect of this world and the respect of Hereafter, we realize our responsibility towards our people and other Sunni regions in Iran, and we have to insure our responsibility according to the constitution of the country.”
Shaikh also expressed his regret that some elements prevented the delegations, some great Islamic scholars, who were invited from Syria and Malaysia to attend this ceremony saying, “We became very much sad that our invited guests from Syria and Malaysia could not attend our program in Zahedan, we hope the officials would bear us.”
The head of the largest Sunni university regretted the preventing of some scholars, professors and other people to attend this ceremony and more added, “As I expressed my regret regarding the preventing of some our brothers who were scheduled to say their words and share their ideas with the audience in this ceremony, I announced quite frankly that the relation between the Sunni community and relationships with each other is not a danger to the state and to the Shiite sect, and no Any loss will occur to the state due to these relations and links with foreigner Sunni communities inside and outside of Iran.”
Religious schools are not a threat; do not need to be regulated by the government
While talking to hundred thousands of Sunnis in the south east of Iran, Mawlana Abdul Hameed condemned the charges which published in some national newspapers saying, “I saw in some newspapers it published that the largest meeting of Wahhabism would be held in Zahedan! Once they accused us by Wahhabism, then others attack by the issue of the government’s decision to control Sunni religious schools. I say the officials and maker of this resolution act, as we stressed in the past that our religious activities are not threats to anyone, our schools are organized and there is no need of the government’s reorganization. We do not want to pay the expenses of our schools, government must avoid from interference.”
Shaikh continued saying, “If Iranian government seeks the services of the Sunni community so they are requested to select their children in the police and the armed forces and utilize the college graduates of Sunnis in other departments to serve side by side along with their Shiite fellows, in this way they can defend the sovereignty of the country’s territory in the better way.”
Shaikh discussed the matter of employments as well and added, “The government did not employ the Sunnis in senior government positions, rather the share of employments with the balance is necessary, but the average of employments in government departments in which they are assigned to us is very little, and every one should clear their mind that we are not Pakistanis and foreigners, and history is witness that our fathers fought the British to defend this border and we inherited the these assigned to us, for that the balance in employments and justice in the issues of other matters and the inauguration of positions among the inhabitants is very necessary.”
Shaikh continued saying, “Our approach is a moderate approach, we are not extremists, and we hope the officials do not listen to the reports of extremist elements of Shiite, but they must follow justice.”
“We ask the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenehi to resolve the problems of Sunnis personally and we believe that there are problems that neither the president nor the Shura Council (Parliament) is able to resolve them, it can be solved only by the supreme leader. We have pursued our matters through these channels but we have not seen any result,” Shaikh added.
His Eminence Shaikh at the end of his sermon telling everyone further said,” My advice to everyone, especially the scholars is that to follow their cases and the rights with legitimate methods, logic, rationality and moderation, and avoid roads that are leading to disputes as well as empty and baseless slogans.”
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