The main session of the conference \u00abThe Kingdom's Efforts in Consolidating the Values of Moderation and Civilizational Coexistence: Concepts and Practices,\u00bb organized by the university, represented by the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, was held yesterday morning, Tuesday, 24\/6\/1441 AH. The session was held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Dr. Faisal bin Mishaal bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Al-Qassim Province. The session was chaired by His Excellency Professor Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Al Turki, Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and member of the Council of Senior Scholars, in the presence of a number of academics and scholars from several Islamic countries.
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\"Al-Turki,\" at the beginning of the session, spoke about the Kingdom's interest in consolidating the values of moderation and civil coexistence, which is of utmost importance. It is well-known that the Kingdom's policy, dealings with others, and all its endeavors are fundamentally based on Islam, and it is a state founded on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet. It has implemented Islamic Sharia, cared for Islam and the Two Holy Mosques, in addition to Islamic centers and mosques in various countries around the world, most of which were built and supported by the Kingdom. He pointed out that the Kingdom realizes that the message of Islam is a universal message to mankind, and the Kingdom follows this approach, which has been a clear approach since its establishment, from the first era to the era of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz \u2013 may Allah protect him \u2013 and his Crown Prince \u2013 may Allah protect him.<\/p>
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His Excellency Dr. Osama Al-Sayed Al-Azhari, Religious Advisor to the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, spoke during the session about our institutes, universities, and scientific colleges, stressing that they are in dire need of reconsidering educational curricula that rebuild an integrated world, which roots urban development, and roots love for homelands. He emphasized that the relationship between peoples and homelands is not one of conflict and clash, but rather based on mutual recognition, as stated in the Wise Remembrance. Muslims should go out into the world with coexistence, moderation, knowledge, prosperity, and technological advancement, and Muslims should contribute to all sciences and arts that the world respects.<\/p>
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Next, Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Fawzan, Secretary-General of the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue, discussed in his speech the importance of meeting, which is an innate human instinct as individuals cannot meet their needs on their own. This is because we need everyone in their various fields to interact together in managing our life affairs and achieving the cooperation we all need. He pointed out that human congregation is the way of God in this universe, with diversity and multiplicity in understanding, convictions, visions, and perceptions. Therefore, we must exchange interests and benefits among ourselves as peoples. If God had willed, He would have made this diversity a single type. However, this diversity is the source of human creativity. He emphasized that if these different components do not accept and coexist with one another, it will lead them to conflict, bloodshed, emigration, and displacement, which is what we are now witnessing in many Arab countries.<\/p>
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On his part, Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim Abd El-Baeth Ghoneim, a member of the International Rabita of Azhar Graduates, stated that the Arab and Islamic nation has never in its history suffered from divisions and conflicts like those it has experienced, which resulted from confused interpretations of divine texts, starting from the Great Fitna of the Khawarij. They took verses revealed concerning polytheists and applied them to Muslims, and this is the problem that has led to the differences we see in our society today. Undoubtedly, the approach of scholars and jurists is to examine the current reality and its changes, and then delve into the vastness of the texts, where the diversity of their discourse provides a means to deal with these changes, emphasizing the importance of understanding the texts.<\/p>
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Professor Zayed Saeed Saif Al Shamsi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Lawyers Association, also delivered a speech during the main session, in which he spoke about tolerance and ensuring rights and duties in society. He pointed out that tolerance in Islamic Sharia is based on three standards to achieve it: equality, justice, and acceptance of others. This meaning can lead us to conclude that tolerance is the opposite of extremism and terrorism in particular. Arabs did not force anyone to convert to their religions before Islam, and it is not reported that the people of Quraish forced anyone to convert to their religions. Visiting Mecca was open to various faiths. Throughout the existence of the Islamic state, we found that all followers of heavenly religions, including Judaism and Christianity, lived among Muslims with dignity and equality in rights with Muslims.<\/p>
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At the conclusion of the session, Professor Sheikh Mohamed Al-Mukhtar, the Dean of Lawyers in Mauritania, spoke and emphasized that the Kingdom is the center of Islam, its beating heart, and the source of true Islamic values, free from extremism and fanaticism, and based on coexistence, tolerance, and moderation, and far removed from the distorted images propagated by extremists and religious merchants. He explained that Mauritanians are the best to speak about the role Saudi Arabia has played in spreading the values of moderation and civilizational coexistence, during the last century and continues to play to this day, noting that Shenqiti scholars were appreciated in this country and enjoyed the respect of rulers and the people, and speaking about the mutual efforts between the two countries, successive initiatives, and the firm stance towards combating extremism and terrorism.<\/p><\/p>
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عُقدت الجلسة الرئيسية من مؤتمر «جهود المملكة في ترسيخ قيم الاعتدال والتعايش الحضاري: المفاهيم والممارسات»، الذي نظمته الجامعة، مُمثلة بكلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية، صباح أمس الثلاثاء الموافق 24\/6\/1441هـ، برعاية صاحب السمو الملكي الأمير الدكتور فيصل بن مشعل بن سعود بن عبد العزيز، أمير منطقة القصيم، حيث ترأس الجلسة معالي الأستاذ الدكتور عبد الله بن عبد […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[447],"topofweek-line":[],"sdgs":[116],"post-setting":[],"departments-list":[],"class_list":["post-13065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-null","sdgs-sdg16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"topofweek-line","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topofweek-line?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"sdgs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sdgs?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post-setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-setting?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"departments-list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments-list?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}