'Preserving unity is required more than any other times'
“Preserving unity in the here and now is required more than any other times,” underlined Iran President Hasan Rouhani.
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Giving speech in the opening ceremony of the 29th eddition of the Islamic Unity Confernce , Iran Presidnet Hasan Rouhani extended his congradulation on Islam Prophet’s (PBUH) and Imam Sadeq’s (PBUH) anniversary birthday, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
“We celebrate Islam Prophet’s (PBUH) birthday in a mulieu that preserving unity and rapproachement is required more than any other time,” pointed out Rouhani.
Iran President beckoned to enemies’ willful attempt in projecting a faked image of Islam Prophet (PBUH) and concocting various plots to plunge Muslims in a plagued situaions and trigger showdown among them.
President highlighted melignant measures of Takfiri and extrimist groups in bombarding Muslims nations and shedding the blood of defenceless people stressing, “In this critical situation, religious clerics are shouldered by a heavy reponsibilities.”
According to Rouhani, only through unity Muslims can team up and counter enemies’ moves in the region and in the World of Islam.
"The real danger starts when this kind of discourse is based on violence and extremism," underscored the president stressing, "if people fail to follow a fair, moderate tone of discourse that is far from any kind of extremism, the practical output will only be violence."
Elsewhere in his remakrs, Presidnet underscored, "Takfiri thoughts are definitively caused by lack of moderation and are productions of dogmatic minds."
"The world is witnessing a situation where a Muslim country is using the flag of Islam to shower Muslims with bombs," he mentioned adding, "the Islamic world is not going to stop looking at the Zionist regime as the main aggressor."
The Iranian President further said the enemies had always been trying to depict Islam as a religion of violence while regretfully a small group from within the Islamic Ummah is now helping them prove their point claiming Jihad.
The 29th edition of the International Islamic Unity Conference opened in Tehran on Sunday morning with hundreds of Shiite and Sunni scholars as well as ministers of Muslim countries in attendance.
Attendees at the conference include educated Muslim figures, ministers of Islamic countries, clerics, scholars and representatives of scientific and cultural circles from Iran and across the world. The main purpose of the event is to discuss ways to promote unity and solidarity in the Islamic world and bring closer views of Muslim clerics and scholars’ on diverse religious issues.
The gathering will also focus on problems that have beset the Islamic world, particularly the threat posed by the Takfiri thoughts and sectarianism.
