Publish date15 Apr 2014 - 10:34
Story Code : 156560

An interview bears no bias, with Head of Al Azhar

Egypt Nill Channel’s Exclusive interview with Head of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad Tayyeb
An interview bears no bias, with Head of Al Azhar


The following interview is, indeed, a solution for prejudice and close mindedness which plunge us to a stuff of nightmare. The talk if enriched from difference perspectives is able to put an end to the unremitting inhumane violence Islamic World wrestles with. It puts limit to vandalism and plunder, unmasking the latent ideology behind such measures, facing the extremists as well with fiasco in the long run.


Qs: Do you think there is something wrong with the Shia takes and thoughts?

- No, What problem, roughly 50 years ago, Sheikh Shalout issued a fatwa that said Shia is the fifth sect of Islam, like other sects.


Qs: Our children convert to the Shia denomination. What should we do?

- Well, let them to convert, do we level criticism at those who convert to Hanafi or Maleki? So they want to convert from the fourth to the fifth sect.


Qs: Shia people get married with our children, getting our relevant as a result.

- What is wrong with that? Marriage is allowed among people from different sects.


Qs: It is said the holy book of Quran belongs to Shias is different from ours?

- These are remarks spell out by people who are like superstitious old women. There stand no difference between our holy book of Quran and theirs. Even their style of handwritings is like ours.


Qs: 23 Saudi religious clerics issued Fatwa says Shia people are atheist.

- For Muslims Worldwide, only Al Azhar can issue Fatwa, so theirs have no credit.


Qs: So what are these conflicts and showdown between Shia and Sunni?

- These are foreign political differences and they (the enemies) want to make Muslims plunge into face off with each other.


Qs: Shia people do not believe in Aboubakr and Omar. How do you say they are Muslims?

- Yes they do not. But is believing to Aboubakr and Omar the main principle of Islam religion? The story of Aboubakr and Omar is a historical one and has nothing to do with the Islamic principles.


Qs (The interviewer got showed by the answer and said): There is another problem with Shia religion and that is they say their 12th Imam is still alive after 1000 years.

- Well it is possible. Why not. But we do not have to believe in that.


Qs: is it possible that an 8 year old kid be an Imam? Shia people believe the 8 year old kid was appointed as Imam.

- When a baby in a cradle was appointed as a Prophet, so it is not unlikely that an 8 year old kid was selected as Imam. Of course Sunni people do not believe in that but this issue does not hurt to their Islamic beliefs and they are still Muslims. 



Shojaei Fard, Ph.D holder, regarding to this interview said:

This interview was so interesting and I tried to contact Sheikh Tayyeb, appreciating him for his remarks. In the phone call I had with him I said he defended Shia in the best way possible and if a Shia cleric had been there, he might not have defended as he had done. I added he had even separated Aboubark and Omar from Islam. I said this had been so amazing and asked him why he had gotten involved with this discussion?


Shiekh Tayyeb answered:

When Iran Present, Mr. Ahmadi Nejad stood strongly against the US from one side, and When from the other side Seyyed Hasan Nazrollah and Hezbollah stood against the regime of Zionism, defeating the regime within 23days, I observed these were Islam’s victory. 

US along with its allied want to project Muslims as extremist, introducing Shia people as Rafezi not Muslim, keeping them away from this victory. So these are Muslims’ victory and our youth can be proud of that. We held 8 shows in TV to say Shia people are Muslims and no difference stands between them and others and Shia sect is the fifth sect of Islam religion. 

/SR
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