Publish date3 Jun 2017 - 14:51
Story Code : 270217

'Unity dialogue is dominant discourse in world of Islam': Ayat. Araki

Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought detailed his views on the prime importance of unity and its telling role the World of Islam.


Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki in an exclusive interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) detailed his views on the prime importance of unity and its telling role in the World of Islam. What follows here is the gist of his line on this issue.

QS: As we know on account of disputations and taken measures for sorting them out, in the world of Islam, during the span of 1400 years, the approach to the issue of rapprochement dated back to many a year ago. In the past one hundred years considering, new events occurred in the World of Islam and due to the presence of arrogance, unity movements have been forwarded more seriously. What is your line on this issue and please detail your views for us on the main reasons behind the current attention to the unity area.


As you mentioned, the inside religion disputations is not without precedent and during the human
recorded history, parallel to the very first movements forwarded by divine prophets, some divisive measures were advanced for countering the (unity related) movements. Thereupon, God Almighty announced countering dispersion as one the tasks upon prophets.


With this regard, his holy book stresses, "He has kept for you the same path of religion which he commanded Nooh, and what We divinely reveal to you (O dear Prophet Mohammad – peace and blessings be upon him), and what We had commanded to Ibrahim and Moosa and Eisa that, "keep the religion proper, and do not create divisions in it"; the polytheists find the matter what you call them to as intolerable; Allah chooses for His proximity whomever he wills, and guides towards Himself whoever inclines (towards Him).

Given the above lines, all divine religions and prophets were shouldered and commanded to refrain from dispersion. As such unity attempts, commanded in the religion, refer for fighting with any measure leading to disunity.

In the history of Islam, unfortunately since day one, the setback was observed in the Islamic World; of course the religious leaders tried in the uniform to battle against this divisive phenomenon and in the long run gained many a roadmap with this connection.

Through the above means and ways, the society was kept away from dispersion, we have been witness to a long history of integration within which religious thinkers and elites counteract and foil any schemes concocted by agents causing division.

Since 200 years ago, we observed
devastating impact of arrogant powers, such as British domination over India (all Indian subcontinents) and its fallouts in the whole region.
One of the policies followed by the Britain was provoking religious dispersion, creating faked religions and forwarding organized willful attempts. Such organized heresy engineered and financially or politically supported by main powers broke with precedent in the past.

Unfortunately the aforementioned willful attempts after the triumph of Islamic revolution and emergence of the Islamic Awakening movement have not been recoded up to date reaching its apex after the victory of Islamic revolution.

A new wave has been created in the world thereafter the victory of Islamic Revolution drawing attentions to the power of religion particularly the religion of Islam providing the way for Muslims to take it as an axis for liberation movements.


Qs: as you mentioned, Islamic Revolution, by its nature, was a rapprochement movement, for want of a better sentence, the late Imam Khomeini (RA) announced three clear issues high on the agenda, fighting arrogance stood inside of the country, battling against the existing arrogance out, and finally expressing opposition to the to the existence of Zionism regime as way for promoting unity in the World of Islam.
The late Imam (RA) and the Supreme leader of Islamic Republic, during the revolution, made
it a practice to bring dispersion into seclusion, the attempt was exemplified in the concept of "Pure Islam" against "American Islam" utilized by the late Imam Khomeini (RA), or the construct of "British Shiite" offered by the Supreme Leader. With this consideration, one of the baseless accusations proposed by the media whose policies run counter to Islamic Republic of Iran and its rapprochement approach is that the issue (rapprochement) is more a tactic rather than an overall Strategy. With this regard, please mention why Islamic Republic has an overall strategy in this area, and why the issue of proximity is not a short-term tactic in its logic?

First off, I should delineated more about American Islam and British Shiite, it should be clear that choosing the foresaid names are not propaganda, but the point of this fact is we have these real divisive movements in the World of Islam. The main objective of it is increasing dispersion in the Islamic World, providing the fertile ground for increasing violence and extremism among Muslims in this arena.

Today two wills are opposing one another in this region; one is the will of unity, and the other is the will of discord. For centuries, Britain has always been the source of wickedness and evil among nations of our region and British Shiism is fuelling the denominational showdowns in the World of Islam.

Muslims'
interests stand in the unity, the more united they are, the more powerful they will be. Unity damages no one and favors all Muslim nations. As God Almighy emphasized in his book, "You (O dear Prophet Mohammad – peace and blessings be upon him) have no concern with those who divided their religion and became several groups; their case is only with Allah – He will then inform them of what they used to do."

QS: If you have any point regarding the twenty-ninth anniversary of the leadership of Supreme Leader, you close relation with him, your position in the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought, and the Supreme Leader's view toward rapprochement and unity, we will be happy to hear.

The thought of rapprochement did not just belong to the time after Islamic Revolution, the issue of unity is deeply rooted in supreme leader's personality and we can say he has Unity-oriented characteristics.

I extend my gratitude to God for the presence of leadership and supreme Leader in our country, having sincere hope in the future Iran top unity body can advance the set objectives in the unity arena promoting rapprochement among Muslims in the World of Islam.


/SR
 
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