Ayatollah Araki Urges Formation of Islamic Countries Union
Speaking at a seminar titled “Unity of UmmaH” on Saturday, October 10, Ayatollah Araki expressed hope that Muslim world scholars will pursue the formation of such a union seriously so as to make unity a widespread demand in Muslim countries.
If just five countries establish this union, other Muslim states will join it later, he added.
The seminar was held in Lahore, Pakistan, with the participation of Sunni and Shia scholars.
Ayatollah Araki underlined that unity is among the most important issues in the Muslim Ummah, saying that the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) Sunnah enjoin unity and proscribe discord and disunity.
He noted that there are not many differences between Shias and Sunnis when it comes to Islam’s political, economic and cultural systems.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Araki referred to the crises in countries like Syria and Yemen, saying that one should not judge the situation in the two countries through what Western media say.
Western media try to portray every event in the Muslim world as a Shia-Sunni conflict, he said, stressing that it is not so as the truth is that in Syria, for example, the war is between the axis of resistance on the one hand and the US and Zionist regime on the other.
He suggested that the participants in the seminar invite Syrian and Yemeni scholars to tell them the truth of what is happening in the two countries.
