King Abdullah urges Muslim Ummah to resist extremist ideology
07 December, 2005
MAKKAH, Dec 7 (Online): King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, custodian of the two Holy Mosques has urged the Islamic Ummah to transform itself for meeting the challenges of present era and resist the extremist ideology in all its forms and manifestations
Addressing the Third Session of the Extraordinary Islamic Summit Conference which began in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday the Saudi King said, \" Let us bid farewell to the age of division and disintegration in order to usher in a new era of unity and dignity by relying first on Allah and then on patience and hard work\".
Islamic Unity will not be achieved by bloodletting as the miscreants in their misguided waywardness insist on claiming, he said .
The Saudi King said Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance.
\"It is here that the Islamic Fiqh Academy, with its overhauled makeup, comes in to assume its historic role and responsibility in resisting the extremist ideology in all its forms and manifestations. Further more a gradual approach to this end is the way forward to ensure success, which starts in consultation in all walks of life_ political, economic, cultural, and social domains to reach a stage of solidarity and, God willing to a true and fortified unity worked through strong institutions so as to restore the Ummah to its rightful place in the balance of power\", he said .
The real nature of the Muslim lies in his faith and then in his knowledge, principles and morality, of which the Prophet of Mercy has said: I have been sent to further establish the loftiest virtues of morality. You may agree with me that developing educational curricula and improving them is a fundamental prerequisite to building a Muslim personality, he said .
Steeped in tolerance, such a personality would lay the foundations for a society that rejects isolationism and turns it back on courting hostility to the other by interacting with all humanity, adopting what is good and rejecting what is bad, he said .
He said united Muslim Ummah and good governance can eliminate injustice and oppression for comprehensive Muslim development that eradicates destitution and poverty.
He said he looks forward to the spread of moderation that embodies the Islamic concept of tolerance.
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