Experts Discuss Quran’s Role in Muslims’ Unity
Titled “Clinging to Quran; a key to unity and dignity”, the forum was held on Monday night in Tehran’s Mosalla. A host of guests addressed the event which also had online participants.
Sheikh Aziz Babaei, a Sunni Muslim scholar from Tehran, said that enemies of the Quran have tried their best in the 20th and 21st centuries to eliminate the holy book from all fields. Enemies want to limit the use of the Quran to events such as mourning ceremonies, he said.
Hafiz Saeed Reza Baghdadi, a lecturer on Quranic sciences from Pakistan, was the next speaker who pointed to numerous seditions and challenges that Muslims face in the current era. Using their misleading thoughts, infidels seek to destroy Islam and the Quran, he said.
Getting away from the Quran is one of the reasons for division in Islamic Ummah, he said, adding, “One of the miracles of the Quran is that all Muslims memorize and recite it similarly and there is no distortion in it. So why do not we have unity despite the fact that the concept of unity has been mentioned in the Quran?”
Effat Shariati, a member of the Iranian Parliament, noted that trying to realize the goals of the Muslim world is one of the great duties of the Muslim Ummah. She highlighted the need to put aside differences and use the Quran as a guide in this path.
Secretary-General of Union of Resistance Scholars Sheikh Maher Hammoud from Lebanon lamented that some Islamic countries pay attention to publishing the Quran and offering the book as a present to others but fail when it comes to implementing it.
Pointing to the resistance of the oppressed Palestinian nation against Zionist military forces in the holy month of Ramadan, Hammoud added that many Muslims and Islamic rulers seem to forget the Palestinian issue.
Those who have compromised with the occupying regime have sold their religions and Quran cheaply.
Hojat-ol-Islam Hamid Shahriari, secretary-general of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (WFPIST), was the last speaker at the event who stressed the need to confront Takfirism. If Muslims determine the Quran as the criterion for solving differences, there will be no takfir, he said.
