Indian scholar urges for Islamic unity, UN active role to resolve Palestine issue

Sayyed Muhammad Kauthar Ali Ja'fari, speaking at the tenth webinar of the 38^th Islamic Unity Conference counted the ways for the Muslims to settle the issue of Palestine and liberate the holy al-Aqsa Mosque, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

He made the remarks at the first part of the annual conference held by Iran’s World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought.

The theme for the conference underway is “Islamic Common Cooperation to Achieve Common Values Based on Palestine Issue”.

He said the holy al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holy place in Islam and a very important holy site for Muslims; hence, they should be asking the United Nations to end the ongoing war and Israeli occupation of the holy mosque.

The Indian elite counted fundraising, educational activities, cultural conferences, and seminars as the ways that contribute to settle the issue of Palestine.

Sayyed Muhammad Kauthar Ali Ja'fari also highlighted the joint diplomatic plans, economic developments and establishing organizations as well as using the media as other strategies to unite the Islamic countries for supporting Palestine in face of the occupying Israeli regime.

The prominent Indian thinker expressed his views in an address to several Shia and Sunni scholars from across the globe on the first part of the 38^th Islamic Unity Conference held on September 16-18.

The second part of the conference is held with hundreds of the religious figures and officials attending the event in person in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 19-21.