Al-Azhar Scholar to Launch Islamic Proximity Society in Egypt
According to the website of the Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Sheikh Karima said he will go on with his plan despite all the pressures from Takfiris.
“The movement toward Islamic proximity began by Dr Shaltut (a previous president of al-Azhar) and late grand Ayatollah Borujerdi (a former Shia source of emulation) and we will, God willing, revive it so as to foil the plots of the US, Mossad and their cronies in the region.”
This comes as Egypt’s judiciary has decided to put Sheikh Karima on trial for visiting and giving lectures at a Shia seminary in Iran.
Karima was suspended from al-Azhar’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs– led by Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb – for giving lectures at a Hawza (Shia theological seminary) in Iran without the council’s permission.
He paid a visit to the holy city of Qom, Iran, in September and learned about the activities of Qom Seminary.
In his meetings with scholars in Qom, Karima called for cooperation between Qom Seminary and Al-Azhar and holding joint conference for confronting extremism.
Instead of striving to enhance unity among Shia and Sunni Muslims, some Egyptian Sunni personalities and institutions, under pressures from Salafists and Takfiris, object to any interactions with Shias.
Earlier this year, Egypt's Association of Quran Reciters called for the country's Quran reciters to be banned from travelling to Iran.
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