the Chairman of the IICO:: Institutional deliberation promotes the values of security, peace, and goodness
the Chairman of the IICO, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Abdullah Al-Maatouq, called for concerted efforts of Islamic countries in spreading moderate Islamic thought and working to combat all forms of ignorance and extremism.
This came in a press release on the sidelines of chairing the first scientific session of the 33rd International Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in the presence of great scholars.
In this context, Dr. Al-Maatouq said in the session entitled “The Importance of Ijtihad (Deliberation)” that “Kuwait is one of the first countries that have confronted extremism, terrorism, and other abnormal ideas”. As he referred to its establishment of the Global Center for Moderation, which presented through its products, conferences, and seminars the moderate Islamic approach to many countries of the Islamic world.
In this regard, he pointed out that the Prophet, peace be upon him, did not choose between two things without choosing the easiest one, and that the Islamic religion is based on ease and not on extremism, stressing that extremism is not part of the Islamic religion.
He pointed out the keenness of the State of Kuwait to participate in all Islamic conferences that encourage righteousness, goodness, and piety, stressing the importance of cooperation and communication between Islamic countries to spread moderate Islamic thought and work to eradicate extremism and terrorism.
Dr. Al-Maatouq stressed that Muslims have the courage to practice the virtue of self-criticism, and to confront all forms of intellectual anomalies and deviation from the limits of Islam.
In this regard, he explained that Arab and Islamic countries do not hesitate to denounce terrorist incidents that occur here or there, calling on other countries to denounce and condemn the persecution of Muslims on their territory.
On the topic of the conference (ijtihad, the necessity of the age, its images, controls, men, the need for it), Dr. Al-Maatouq stressed that Muslim scholars unanimously agreed on the need to renew religious discourse to keep pace with the spirit of the times and accommodate its developments without excess or negligence.
He added that the Islamic Ummah is full of eminent scholars with whom Allah, the Almighty, protects the Islamic religion from abuse and exaggeration, pointing to the importance of collective and institutional deliberation in serving the Ummah. As well as clarifying the bright image of the true Islamic religion, promoting the values of security, peace, and goodness, and keeping pace with the times and its developments.
Delegations, ministers, and muftis from about 55 countries participated in the work of the conference. The conference witnessed the discussion of 41 research papers on many topics, which dealt with: Ijtihad is an urgent necessity in our time, forms of ijtihad and its controls, mujtahids and their preparation, selected models of institutional ijtihad. As well as urgent modern models in the economic, medical, veterinary, environmental, and other fields, such as trading in virtual currencies, smearing the animal before slaughtering, and the damage to the environment among the Sharia rulings.
