Signing "Human Brotherhood" Document

By Dr. AbdlHak Azzouzi

CAIRO, Feb. 18 (SEE) - His Eminence Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and Pope Francis the Father of the Catholic Church signed the document "Human Brotherhood" in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi during the meeting of the brotherhood of humanity.

The document read, "Through these sincere fraternal talks that took place between us, and in a meeting full of hope for a bright future for all human beings, the idea of a" fraternity of human brotherhood " was brought to existence.

The signatories worked on it with sincerity and seriousness to be a joint declaration of good and sincere intentions to invite all those who believe in God and in human brotherhood to unite and work together for this document to become a guide for future generations; it should lead them to a culture of mutual respect and in an atmosphere that make all people realize the great pine blessings by God who created them as brothers. "

We do understand, through this document, and as we have repeatedly wrote in our books, essays and international forums, which I have organized in Fez on the Alliance of Civilizations and Cultural Diversity, that the theories of "clash of civilizations" and "war of cultures" are false and tendentious. It is based on the incarceration of inpiduals and groups in their cultural and civilizational identities.

It is not possible for any civilization to develop in isolation from the components of other civilizations and cultures. Western civilization benefited from the Arab Islamic civilization and the Islamic civilization has achieved its breakthrough by mixing with Persian, the former and contemporary Byzantine civilizations.

One of the reasons for the creation of human beings is their differences. It is impossible to cite this great reference vision and disagreement on common interests. They are two factors for a single balancing equation. How can we believe in the reality of human difference without understanding about the common interests? The difference is inevitable. The goal is acquaintance and harmony. The acceptance, rejection and their reward in respect to an inpidual's belief and his religion are referred to God Almighty based on the verse «You do not guide who you loved but God guides whom he wants».

The language of coercion does not exist in the Qur'an. "There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Right Path has become distinct from the wrong path.." This is the nature of the Qur'anic and peaceful approach to the phenomenon of difference between human beings. This is because the opposite will lead to conflict and dispute It was named <> since it encompasses interfaith coexistence between religions and openness to the fruits of multiple human civilizations.

The official policies of the Western media contribute in distorting the image of Islam and Muslims in an intelligent and latent way. These policies keep attributing the terrorist acts of some young Muslims to the nature of the Islamic religion. It also link some of the exceptional periods that Muslims have experienced to the type of Arab-Islamic civilization. The teachings and history are two different things. Religious teachings are the ones that guide the actions of the people they do in the name of religion and not vice versa.

The Quranic verse that says, "That was why We ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever killed a soul, except for a soul slain, or for sedition in the earth, it should be considered as though he had killed all mankind; and that whoever saved it should be regarded as though he had saved all mankind." is the one that shows the punishment of a terrorist who blows himself up among the innocent people whether they are Muslims first.

There is no doubt on this verse. If any person fails to surrender to the authority of this verse, the Koran determines his punishment: « The recompense of those who make war against Allah and His Messenger and spread corruption in the land is that they are to be killed or crucified, or have their hand and a foot cut off on opposite sides, or be expelled from the land. For them is shame in this world and a great punishment in the Everlasting Life; except those who repent before you have power over them. For you must know that Allah is Forgiving, the Most Merciful."

Based on these concepts and visions, it is inconceivable that the Islamic religion will clash with the Christian religion or that the Islamic culture will clash with American, French or Chinese culture. Overall, these religions and cultures can coexist on the basis of mutual acquaintance and recognition of various interests.

Moreover, the large and deliberate slippage is the burden of the miserable conditions that are defined by various regions as being specific to the cultural, religious, or religious specificities, or to these particularities as promoted by Israeli politicians to justify their abusive policies towards the Palestinian people. Western politicians and strategists ignore the role of international policies in the political, economic, social and cultural fields which often led to "the integration of the world into a single movement and the resulting inequitable distribution of material and moral resources."

In respect to the subject of privacy, even some prominent Muslim thinkers were involved in it, where the following expression emerged: the Jewish Western civilization and the global conspiracy on the Islamic. All these literature emerged over several years about the Islamic privacy, which finds itself in confrontation with the world, and accept to draw schemes of the Islamic system completed from all directions.

Since the 1950s, Christian and Muslim Arabs have taken the view that the conflict with the West in general and with Israel in particular is a civilizational and religious conflict and that the international system is a corrupt system with double standards.

Muslims have felt that they are targeted by the civilizational, cultural and religious conflicts. They have worked for decades on this argument, and the West exploited this situation and framed it in the form of intellectual molds and academic theories of rapid spread and consumption in universities, institutions, decision-making centers and mass media.

Politicians exploited this historical fallacy to pass their foreign policies or the interpretation of some international crises based on the factor of cultural, religious and cultural specificity.

The problem is therefore not in the Islamic-Christian, Islamic-Jewish or Islamic-Christian-Jewish dialogue exclusively, but the dialogue is more general and comprehensive. It requires faculties and specifics in religion, politics, economics, culture and social fields