Many Islamic scholars from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan will participate in the annual meeting, which is being held via video conference this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The participants are discussing the problems of the Islamic world and the systematic efforts to spread atheism among the Kurdish people.

At the beginning of his speech, HÜDA PAR Chairman Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu thanked ITTIHADÜL ULAMA (the Union of Islamic Scholars and Madrasahs) for organizing the meeting.

“We would desire to hold this meeting in person so we could have hugged each other, sit next to each other, consulted, and benefited from each other. Unfortunately, the meeting is online due to the coronavirus pandemic,” Yapıcıoğlu said.

Underlining that there are many problems in Muslim countries, Yapıcıoğlu stressed that the biggest problem of Ummah is disunity. “The conflicts among Muslims have reached such a level that Muslims are fighting with each other and preparing armies against each other, leaving their sacred values. As a result, Muslims see their enemies as friends and their brothers as traitors.”

“Actually, the disagreement is a mercy for the ummah but today it has been the cause of the disunity with all its dimensions. The disunity emerged among Muslims as a political, religious, and sectarian conflict. Scholars’ and jurists’ difference of opinions is a mercy for the Ummah. But the current conflict among Muslims is not scholarly disagreements. The solution to the disunity among Muslims is the ijtihad (the independent or original interpretation of problems not precisely covered by the Quran, Hadith) of Islamic scholars,” Yapıcıoğlu said.

Emphasizing that he attaches importance to the meeting of scholars, which was held for the 6th time this year, Yapıcıoğlu went on to say: “I hope that the meeting will be instrumental in many good things and will also be an important step for the convergence of the Islamic world and the Kurdish people. The presentations made in the meeting are important in terms of content. Important presentations were made on the spread of atheist movements in the Kurdish society, the fundamental rights of the Kurdish people, the liberation of Masjid al-Aqsa, the normalization talks with the Zionist occupation entity, and the attacks against Muslims in the Western countries.”

“The duty of the Islamic scholars is important in solving these problems. We can even say that the most important task and duty in the solution of these problems belong to the scholars. In this respect, this meeting and the presentations made are important and blessed. May Allah not waste our efforts and make us among those who work in his own way,” Yapıcıoğlu concluded. (ILKHA)