Scholar Invites Al-Azhar Chief to Visit Iran
Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (WFPIST) made the call during a Friday interview with Almayadeen Arabic TV channel.
He also said the WPFIST is also ready to embark on a Cairo visit. “We are also ready to travel to Cairo with a delegation from World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought to talk with the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and study Muslim-Muslim dialogue.”
“Inviting Al-Azhar chief adds an important issue to equations as we can resist and defend enemies’ plots aimed at sowing discord among Muslims,” Shahriari said.
Iran supports any invitation for creating and strengthening unity in the Muslim world, stressed the scholar.
Back on November 7, Shahriari wrote a letter to al-Tayeb, welcoming the Egyptian scholar’s call for Shia-Sunni dialogue.
“Your expression of readiness to host this dialogue with the presence of scholars of Al-Azhar shows your readiness in this issue and that you seek to reach these aims with honesty and pure intention and with the aim of approaching God,” he wrote.
WPFIST has always voiced its support for “civilizational and pioneering calls” for setting differences aside and considering the “interests of the Ummah” atop personal interests, added the Shia scholar.
Speaking on November 4 in Bahrain, Al-Tayeb said, “I and major scholars of Al-Azhar and Muslim Council of Elders are ready with open arms to sit down together on one roundtable with our Shia brothers to put aside our differences and strengthen our Islamic unity.”
Such a dialogue, he maintained, will aim at chasing away any talk of hate, provocation and excommunication and setting aside ancient and modern conflict in all its forms.
“I call on my brothers, Muslim scholars, across the world of every doctrine, sect and school of thought to hold an Islamic dialogue,” al-Tayeb stressed.
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