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King of Morocco: Interfaith dialogue is a way to spare human strife and pain

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King Mohammed VI said that interfaith dialogue, positive coexistence among them, understanding and cooperation on humanitarian goals is an essential lever to spare humanity the evils of strife, pain and suffering.



Dialogue and coexistence

In a message addressed on Tuesday to participants in the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Interfaith Dialogue... Let's cooperate for a common future," which will be held in Marrakech from June 13 to 15, said that this will only be achieved if "we link the words to action, and are keen to renew the concept of interreligious dialogue, and achieve a qualitative leap in collective awareness of the importance of dialogue and coexistence, and the dangers of continuing the logic of closure, fanaticism and introversion."

 

The King also expressed his hope that the Marrakech Conference, which "brings together for the first time parliamentarians, as legislators and representatives of their peoples, and a large number of religious leaders, scholars, experts and distinguished researchers from all over the world", will provide a rational, sober and convincing response to the tendencies of intolerance, hatred and contempt for religions, and the treatment of people according to their religion, sect, race or skin, adding in this regard that the diversity of the participants' locations and political, intellectual and religious backgrounds are a decisive factor to achieve this ambition..

In the message, read by Talbi Alami, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the king said: "If parliamentarians among you have the authority to approve legislation that facilitates dialogue and prevents and discourages discourses of introversion and intolerance, officials of religious institutions and leaders have the function of guidance, awareness, and the implementation of their spiritual powers, to frame and warn against slippages that plague coexistence and fruitful dialogue between religions."

In this letter, Mohammed VI also expressed his hope that the conference would culminate in action plans in which "the three components you represent play decisive roles in the realization, at the level of each country and at the international level".

In this regard, the King stressed the importance of establishing a mixed mechanism, coordinated by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which seeks to make interfaith dialogue a lofty goal common to the components of the international community, pointing out that this goal should be defended in international forums and considered one of the criteria for democratic governance in parliamentary practice and one of the indicators of respect for pluralism and cultural diversity..

Coexistence:

The Royal Message highlighted that the consolidation of the principle of coexistence as a bulwark against extremism and not a vehicle for it, along with respect for other religions, requires an educational pedagogical effort undertaken by the school, the university, the media, religious institutions and responsible public debate spaces, expressing the hope that the document that will culminate in the work of this conference will include practical proposals to achieve this goal..

On the other hand, the royal message stressed that it requires mobilizing all energies that believe in equality between religions and civilizations and among the children of Adam, to overturn this equation, and to adopt policies that would stop this dangerous decline in human consciousness.

The Moroccan monarch stressed that the institutions represented by the participants in this conference are at the heart of the noble battle for understanding, tolerance and coexistence, through institutional, awareness and educational work, pointing out that intolerance does not exist in religions or in religious books, but is governed by the interests that this fanaticism hides..

The royal message pointed out that the gloomy picture that the world is experiencing today regarding the conflict of beliefs cannot obscure the positive and bright aspects and bold initiatives that seek to strengthen bridges of communication, and consolidate the values of tolerance, understanding and coexistence between the components of the international community and between followers and adherents of different religions..

In this message, the King continued: "We are very happy that you, all the participants in this forum, are part of these political elites, religious leaders, intellectuals and intellectuals, who believe that succession on earth, as God Almighty intended, is for acquaintance, cooperation and coexistence, within the framework of religious and doctrinal difference, which is the responsibility and trust of all humanity."

Moroccan specificity:

The King also stressed that based on Morocco's excellence in religious coexistence and moderation, it is natural that Morocco is among the countries that have initiated the establishment of international mechanisms for civilizational dialogue and others to confront terrorism, extremism and extremism..

With the same determination and determination, Morocco has contributed to the establishment of other mechanisms, contributes to strengthening their status and roles, and hosts their forums, such as the International Conference on the Dialogue of Cultures and Religions and the Conference on the Rights of Religious Minorities from Islamic Lands.

Counter-terrorism:

The King also praised Morocco's active contribution to the establishment and structuring of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, which the Kingdom co-chaired for three terms, from 2015 to 2022, noting that these are voluntary policies "dictated by our responsibilities and commitments towards the international community in all its components".

The Moroccan monarch expressed his pride in what has been achieved in the field of managing the religious field in the Kingdom and in the performance of the institutions he has ensured for this purpose, including those provided for in the Constitution..

In this regard, the King mentioned, in particular, the Higher Council of Ulema (SULMA), the only body competent to issue fatwas in order to prevent any deviation or deviation from their purposes, as well as the Muhammadiyah Association of Ulema and the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams.

On the other hand, the King pointed to the Kingdom's keenness to remain a model for the state on whose land coexists, in brotherhood and safety, adherents of monotheistic religions, in fulfillment of its ancient history of diversity and religious and cultural pluralism..

Sultan Mohammed V

In this context, the Moroccan monarch said that "on this land Muslims, Jews and Christians have coexisted and coexisted for centuries," explaining that it was the land of Morocco that received thousands of Muslims, Jews and Jews who fled religious persecution from the Iberian Peninsula, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and provided them with dignified protection..

The King noted that modern history mentions to King Mohammed V the care and protection that surrounded thousands of converts to Judaism, fleeing the persecution of the Nazi-allied Vichy government. Throughout his tenure as his blessed predecessors, King Hassan II continued the same approach of caring for Moroccan citizens who convert to Judaism, and remained keen to consolidate the values of coexistence and brotherhood among all Moroccans, Muslims and Jews..

King Hassan II

King Mohammed VI said that history also records that King Hassan II took the initiative to receive His Holiness Pope John Paul II in 1985, in his first visit to an Islamic country, noting that "thirty-four years after this historic visit, we received, in March 2019, His Holiness Pope Francis, Pope of the Vatican, whom we invited to an official visit to Morocco."

The King stressed that this visit came out of his belief in interfaith dialogue and the importance of directing the efforts of religious authorities in the service of peace, cooperation and human fraternity, stressing his keenness since his accession to the throne to promote the spirit of brotherhood, coexistence, cooperation and cohesion among Moroccans, Jews and Muslims, as one of the main pillars of Moroccan civilization..

The king concluded that if Islam is the religion of the state, the Kingdom's constitution affirms that "the state guarantees everyone the freedom to practice his religious affairs", stressing that "as the king of Morocco and the prince of the faithful, we are entrusted with guaranteeing the freedom to practice religious rites, and entrusted with the protection of Moroccan Jews and Christians coming from other countries living in Morocco."

 

 

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