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Assad: Clergymen, Scholars Have Pivotal Role Against West Attempt

Assad: Clergymen, Scholars Have Pivotal Role Against West Attempt
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Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said clergymen and scholars have a pivotal role in consolidating true concepts against wrong words, as the most dangerous attempts which target the region and Islamic world are the West attempt to strike ideology and faith in society through gradual change in terms, in a meeting in Syria as SANA reported on Wednesday.

Assad: Clergymen, Scholars Have Pivotal Role Against West Attempt

In a meeting with a group of scholars, clergymen, and mosque preachers in Damascus on Wednesday, Al-Assad affirmed that stances of clergymen who have showed courage and high national responsibility in face of the big pressures to which they were subjected to in order to change their stances or abandon the word of right are appreciated stances.

He added that scholars' steadfastness was a basic factor in the Syrian society struggle.

Al-Assad said an example on the west's attempt to change the terms is to separate Arabism with its human and civilized concept, not ethnics from Islam, aiming at creating a state of destabilization on the social and political levels.

He also affirmed that the plague which hits the Islamic world is the plague of political Islam, adding that its collapse has returned Islam to its normal role, namely, Dawah (inviting to true Islam).

He further said combating terrorism and extremism will not only be through condemnation or refutation, but through consolidating principles of true Islam, though innovating the religious mentality to keep up with society development through using brain, logic and dialogue which is open to the other, is based on conviction, not intimidation.

Al-Assad pointed out that the basic role of scholars and clergymen in Syria and Bilad al-Sham is to achieve this goal in light of the fact that Islam in Bilad al-Sham was and still is the basis which protects the true Islam.

He affirmed the need for institutionalizing the religious work away from individualism to create a broader vision and overcome mistakes. He further added that the first step taken in this regard was establishing jurisprudence of the crisis in order to strengthen the common ideological bases as Muslims in the face of fatwas of sedition which try to divide our societies.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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