It hurts the feelings of all Muslims when they see their brethren themselves causing harm to Islam, King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, said here Monday in an address to participants of an Islamic conference organized by the Muslim World League in Makkah. While it causes pain to us, it provides an opportunity to the enemies of Islam to gloat over the unfortunate trend, the King told the delegation, which was led by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Aal Al-Sheikh and Secretary General of MWL Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki. The three-day conference, which concluded Monday, urged scholars, intellectuals and all Islamic organizations to cooperate in intensifying Da'wa work and education programs. The aim of these programs, the conference said, should be for enlightenment of Muslim communities, particularly youth, on the objectives of Islamic Shariah as also on its significance in various walks of life. King Abdullah welcomed the participants of the conference and called on them to abide by the Islamic creed (Aqeedah). The Monarch said it was the duty of all Muslims to defend the Aqeedah. The Monarch also called on the participants to exert more efforts to present the true message of Islam. “There is a group among Muslims which is destroying the Muslim world by discrimination and matters that have nothing to do with the Islamic Aqeedah,” the Monarch said. “Now you the sons of Islam are responsible before Allah, your people and the world. Thanks to Allah Islam is victorious. Over 400 to 500 people embrace Islam every month despite the destruction taking place in the Muslim World regrettably due to our own sons. Therefore, you should reject them and abide by the correct Islamic Aqeedah, the creed of love, sincerity, loyalty and belief. You, the sons of Islam should shoulder the responsibility. I wish you all success. We are ready to give whatever is required of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to serve Islam and Muslims.” The King asked the Muslim World League secretary general to make the meeting an annual occasion. A communiqué at the end of the conference in Makkah, which was read out by Dr. Abdur Rahman Abdu Zaid, Assistant Secretary General of the MWL, in general reaffirmed on the importance of inculcating the values of Islam into young generations and securing means that assist them to understand its objectives. The communique warned people against disunity and its subsequent elements such as sectarian calls, narrow party tendencies that break down ranks of Muslims and negatively impact their formidable unity. The participants urged the scholars and political leaders of the Ummah to cooperate fully among themselves in addressing the problems with Islamic viewpoints. Security and stability of Muslim communities will be a priority, it said, to confirm the inviolability of people's lives, dignity and property according to Islamic Shariah that safeguards the achievement of security via the establishment of justice as well as combat of injustice and corruption. The conference, the communiqué said, has reviewed the complications of problems in certain Muslim countries, which led to “bloodshed, exodus of population, insecurity, and destruction of property,” and stressed on the importance of cooperation and unity among all sections of society to stop needless bloodshed. Furthermore, the conference called upon the Muslim countries, Arab League, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), international institutions to take every possible step to prevent these acts of seditions, which entailed killings, tortures and forced migration. The conference “thoroughly reviewed” the newly emerging situations in the Muslim World and understand that there is a huge gap in relations between the rulers and the scholars and the peoples in some of the affected countries and underlined the importance of a united stand for reform. The conference also praised King Abdullah's initiative on dialogue between monotheistic religions. “It (the initiative) has a positive impact on understanding, cooperation and peaceful coexistence among different nations”, it said. The conference participants considered it significant for Muslim countries to adopt the same formula of dialogue as means for surmounting disagreements and a way for finding effective solutions to the challenges confronting the Ummah. Addressing the media later, Dr. Al-Turki said the conference was a wakeup call for the Muslim countries to get their houses in order and take into consideration the unabated unrest due mainly to unemployment and bad economy. “People too have their responsibility toward their rulers,” Dr. Turki said and cautioned them not to fall prey to act of sedition. He assured that the conference was not coming to an end but is a beginning as “we will hold this conference on annual basis and all of you will remain members in the effort to bring succor to Muslim Ummah including its peoples and leaders in bringing their countries back to normal.” Caption : King Abdullah receives one of the participants of the Islamic conference in Jeddah, Monday. Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, is on the right.
