Iran Invites Sheikh of Al-Azhar to Visit Country

The Secretary-General of the International Council for Rapprochement of Islamic Sects, Hamid Shahriari, called on the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb who in turn called for the establishment of an Islamic-Islamic dialogue, to increase Iran to discuss the foundations of this dialogue.

Yesterday, Friday, Shahriari praised the call made by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, to establish an Islamic-Islamic dialogue.

Commenting on this, he said in a press statement that "security and tranquility are what should prevail in the Islamic world, and they are the result of the Islamic-Islamic dialogue."

"We are prepared to go, through a delegation from the Academy for Proximity of Islamic Sects, to Cairo to meet the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, and to discuss the issue of Islamic-Islamic dialogue."

According to Shahriari the invitation of the el-Tayeb will add important matters, because through it "we are resisting the theses and projects of the enemy, which seeks to sow discord among Muslims."

Shahriari stressed that the arena for dialogue is very wide, and it is far from the doctrinal aspect. The issue of atonement is a political issue more than it is a jurisprudential issue, pointing out, "We need rapprochement between peoples, disavowing division between them, preventing fighting between Muslims, in addition to preventing the economic blockade, as happened with Qatar."

El-Tayeb had appealed to Shiite Muslim scholars to hold an Islamic-Islamic dialogue, aimed at rejecting "sedition and sectarian conflict", at a time when several countries in the region and the world are experiencing tensions over sectarian backgrounds.