Top Lebanese cleric making delivered speech at the opening ceremony of the 34th Islamic Unity Conference held online due to the new coronavirus outbreak calling the United States, Israel and their supporters as a threat worse than the pandemic, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
He called on all people to warn of the US and Israel as a great threat in conferences like the annual Islamic Unity Conference and said,” We should stand firm in our stance against Israeli regime and should not hesitate the fact that Israel will annihilate.”
Lebanese Sunni scholar hailed the efforts of Islamic Republic of Iran to support Palestine and urged all countries to back Iran in confrontation with Israel.
Sheikh Maher Hammoud slammed the prejudiced people backed by arrogant powers and said,” Scholars should warn the people the people against this bigotry.”
Secretary General of the Union of Resistance Scholars referred to normalization of ties between UAE and Bahrain with Israel and said,” We slam this treachery and warn these countries that they will be humiliated soon.”
He referred to failures of Israel in Gaza and Lebanon and also ending of the invincibility of the US in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and called on all Muslims to stand mighty against enemies.
Top Lebanese scholar made the comments at the opening of the 34th Islamic Unity Conference held online by the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
The 34th Islamic Unity Conference is annually held concurrent with the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the Islamic Unity Week though this year the 2020 meeting on “Islamic Cooperation in Face of Calamities and Disasters” is held virtually because of the pandemic infection.
Full Text of the virtual speech by Sheikh Maher Hammoud the secretary general of Union of Resistance Scholars at the opening ceremony of the 34th Islamic Unity Conference is as follow:
Greetings to the dear audience, the brothers present at the World Assembly for the Rapprochement of Islamic Schools of Thought, to Dr. Hamid Shahriari and all the dear brothers.
We thank God for the blessings of Islam and for being in touch with each other instead of meeting in person; this is the way God has given us. We thank God that we are still steadfast against all kinds of conspiracies and also against all kinds of disasters and calamities. This is what God and His Messenger promised us.
وَلَمَّا رَأَى الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ قَالُوا هَذَا مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَصَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَمَا زَادَهُمْ
إِلَّا إِيمَانًا وَتَسْلِيمًا
And when the believers saw the enemy, they said, "This is what God and His Messenger promised us, and God and His Messenger spoke the truth, and it did nothing but increasing their faith and obedience."
They said what they promised. We are seeing the parties, the Ahzab. You see the soldiers who have come to uproot the enemies. What has God promised you? When the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and the Prophet promised ". The commentators have said that God has promised us to give us calamities and put us to test, and this is the test.
Today, we are facing disasters and we are being tested, the lowest and lowest level of which is the epidemic of Covid-19. Despite the fact that this disease is very cruel and requires prevention and planning on our part, and that many of our loved ones traveled to the Hereafter as a cause of this reason, but as the poet wrote: "If a man is accustomed to fighting death, then the difficulties are just mud for him. But the conflicts we have with the United States and Israel and those who work with them, and with the traitors, who are using our name and our identity and consider themselves from our region, and speak our language, they are the constant danger. The biggest ones.
I do not talk much about the disease, but we need to emphasize through the 34th Conference on Islamic Unity, and other conferences, the main and constant issues through which we will be victorious and the Islamic Ummah will be honored with them and the ways this calamity would be expelled from our Islamic countries. There is no choice but to return to God, the Divine invitation must be renewed among us. In the 41 years since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Revolution has been able to renew many Islamic issues from a political point of view. And entered the field of jihad in a way that no one entered, and remained steadfast on the issue of Palestine so that no one remained steadfast; both in terms of the number of years and the quality of the support it has provided to the resistance. This is the principle and we must always emphasize it and support it with the unity of our ranks and with our clear vision of the future and with our firm Islamic belief that Israel is an extinct system; the belief that God has gathers the children of Israel, as a prelude to their end and non-existence. So, if the final Divine promise arrives, we will gather you in large numbers. God uses them in this land to achieve victory for us, and as He says at the beginning of Surah Al-Asra ': They enter the mosque as they entered the first time.
This belief should never be doubted by anyone, and as long as the Islamic scene is not absent from the existence of someone who walks this path in a practical, stable and clear way, without any hesitation, and without fear of fighting, wars and sanctions, so that when there is no country other than this country, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was established by Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, who consciously moved along this line with clear insight and firm will. As long as there is no one in the world who can decide freely against Israel except this country and its institutions. As long as one in the world, the institutions and the Islamic systems, clearly state the facts about the Zionists, on the one hand, and the arrogant ones, on the other, we will be victorious on the right path, then it is obligatory on us that the institutions to be affiliated and cooperative with this great country, until God completes the inevitable issue that He has decreed.
We look forward to the day to come; when Muslims wake up there, or use the same method in some way. We have already mentioned that there are many verses of the Holy Quran reflecting the victory of this revolution, including the Divine statement mentioned in a number of verses, but we will suffice with the last verse of Surah Muhammad (PBUH). إِن تَتَوَلَّوْا يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوا أَمْثَالَكُم . If you turn away, he will replace you with another people who will not be like you. Recall that Egypt began to withdraw from the war with the Zionists in 1978; then the Camp David Accord was signed in September and implemented in March 1979. Egypt left the conflict, while it was the the largest Arab country which fought Israel several times, regardless of the details. Egypt left and then Iran entered. It used to be an alternative, weakness and friendship with Israel. There happened as the Holy Qur'an had pointed out.
Today, after so many years, we have to do something like auditing ourselves.
Probably it is not appropriate to talk about some mistakes here, and in this short time, but we have to address the many issues that delayed this process and divided Muslims. No one can deny the efforts made for the cause of Palestine unless someone has blinded the intensity of prejudice in his eyes and heart.
From the point of view of true jurisprudence, the truth is that we continue to suffer and feel weak in many stages and positions against the fanatics, the ignorant and the extremists; Both Sunnis and Shiites. Yes, our scholars here and there sometimes refuse to say the truth about the subject of jurisprudence, which has no doubts. But they prefer close followers of themselves to the vast mass of the Islamic world, I apply this accusation to everyone, unless the Divine mercy and blessing has been bestowed upon us and them.
This is a point that I hope will be passed quickly so that we do not remain weak in the face of fanatics and ignorant, so that scholars and Ulema can truly be the leaders of this path, and say everything, and stand in their own ranks against fanatics and reactionaries; so that we can all move forward. Yes, fanatics are here and there, and the backward and the ignorant are getting countless support from arrogant organizations and their allies, and from those who are part of their conspiracies. But we need to believe that they have the wealth and the political support and the mass media on their side, and we have God on our side, it needs to be that way.
If we not believe in this, we should return to ourselves. God Almighty has emphasized this and said:
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَسَيُنْفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ لِيَمِيزَ اللَّهُ الْخَبِيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ وَيَجْعَلَ الْخَبِيثَ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فَيَرْكُمَهُ جَمِيعًا فَيَجْعَلَهُ فِي جَهَنَّمَ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ.
Indeed, those who disbelieve, spend their wealth in order to prevent [people] from the way of God, so soon they will spend it, and then they will regret it, then they will be defeated, and those who disbelieve, will be gathered to Hell so that God may separate the wicked from the clean and put the wicked on top of each other, and to consolidate them all, then to cast them into Hell. These are the losers.
No matter how great the power of the enemy is, if we are with God, this enemy will be insignificant, if we put aside all the ways and follow the way of God. I say here, and I condemn as much as I can, the apes that God disfigured them in the UAE and Bahrain. Here we condemn them and raise our voices against them and declare their betrayal and warn them; and the good news that we warn them that in this world, before the Hereafter, they will fall to hardship, because they are similar the people of Ajal (calves) as Allah, in Sura A’raf, said:
« إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ سَيَنَالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَذِلَّةٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِينَ»
(Yes, those who take the calf will soon incur wrath from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world, and We shall punish such liars.)
We explicitly condemn them, but on the other hand, we, as soldiers of the resistance or as scholars who consider themselves part of the Divine mission in the way of Muhammad and his family and companions, feel that they are like dust. They are scattered, they have no value and they can never be an obstacle on the path of resistance, and they cannot change anything in the great Divine destiny that necessitated the displacement, annihilation and destruction of the regime of the children of Israel; and God will destroy what they have built. In different times, I feel, that the flag bearers of this path show weakness and doubt; and this may be part of the Divine tradition, when the Almighty God told the people of that time, that:
« يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَا لَكُمْ إِذَا قِيلَ لَكُمُ انْفِرُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ اثَّاقَلْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَرَضِيتُمْ بِالْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ فَمَا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ. إِلَّا تَنْفِرُوا يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا وَيَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ وَلَا تَضُرُّوهُ شَيْئًا وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ»
(O you who believe! what has happened to you that when you are told to mobilize in the way of God, you are slow? Have you enjoyed the life of this world instead of the Hereafter? It is nothing but a little. If you do not mobilize, He will punish you with a painful retribution, and will bring you another group, and you will not harm Him, and God is able to do all things.)
I call on you to re-mobilize forces against the Zionist enemy, and see them low, and the Americans who are behind them; and the traitorous Arabs who are with the Zionist regime, and the weak-minded people who,, together form a large group; but this large group is weak and nothing in front of those who rely on God. Believe me, dear brothers, these are nothing; provided that we do not show weakness and do not have doubts and do not think that the people of falsehood are more capable, when they express themselves.
I go back to where I started and say; We should not be weak against the fanatics and the ignorant and those who have the qualities of the ignorant.
Yes, we have lost a large number of our supporting masses, so many. Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that we have lost ninety percent of those who listened to us here and there and paid attention to our sermons and speeches.
But I prefer to keep the remaining ten percent; those who understand us and do not cling to the characteristics of ignorance and those who war mongers and are not members of weak factions. this hypothetical ten percent are stronger than the ninety percent who became weak and accepted humiliation. They gained something, but they did lose a lot of things. They believed in one part of the book. I do not say they disbelieved in another part. they left the other part.
We have a great and obvious promise, and this conference, although it is in cyberspace, has a great role. God willing, we will defeat Corona, and we had victims, and we defeated Israel several times in Gaza and several times in Lebanon, and we demolished the legend of American supremacy; and wrapped them up in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. So, we should not be weak against this enemy, and we will be victorious, God willing.
I entrust you to God, in the hope of a near meeting in Quds, God willing.
السلام علیکم و رحمة الله
Greetings to the dear audience, the brothers present at the World Assembly for the Rapprochement of Islamic Schools of Thought, to Dr. Hamid Shahriari and all the dear brothers.
We thank God for the blessings of Islam and for being in touch with each other instead of meeting in person; this is the way God has given us. We thank God that we are still steadfast against all kinds of conspiracies and also against all kinds of disasters and calamities. This is what God and His Messenger promised us.
وَلَمَّا رَأَى الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ قَالُوا هَذَا مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَصَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَمَا زَادَهُمْ
إِلَّا إِيمَانًا وَتَسْلِيمًا
And when the believers saw the enemy, they said, "This is what God and His Messenger promised us, and God and His Messenger spoke the truth, and it did nothing but increasing their faith and obedience."
They said what they promised. We are seeing the parties, the Ahzab. You see the soldiers who have come to uproot the enemies. What has God promised you? When the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and the Prophet promised ". The commentators have said that God has promised us to give us calamities and put us to test, and this is the test.
Today, we are facing disasters and we are being tested, the lowest and lowest level of which is the epidemic of Covid-19. Despite the fact that this disease is very cruel and requires prevention and planning on our part, and that many of our loved ones traveled to the Hereafter as a cause of this reason, but as the poet wrote: "If a man is accustomed to fighting death, then the difficulties are just mud for him. But the conflicts we have with the United States and Israel and those who work with them, and with the traitors, who are using our name and our identity and consider themselves from our region, and speak our language, they are the constant danger. The biggest ones.
I do not talk much about the disease, but we need to emphasize through the 34th Conference on Islamic Unity, and other conferences, the main and constant issues through which we will be victorious and the Islamic Ummah will be honored with them and the ways this calamity would be expelled from our Islamic countries. There is no choice but to return to God, the Divine invitation must be renewed among us. In the 41 years since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Revolution has been able to renew many Islamic issues from a political point of view. And entered the field of jihad in a way that no one entered, and remained steadfast on the issue of Palestine so that no one remained steadfast; both in terms of the number of years and the quality of the support it has provided to the resistance. This is the principle and we must always emphasize it and support it with the unity of our ranks and with our clear vision of the future and with our firm Islamic belief that Israel is an extinct system; the belief that God has gathers the children of Israel, as a prelude to their end and non-existence. So, if the final Divine promise arrives, we will gather you in large numbers. God uses them in this land to achieve victory for us, and as He says at the beginning of Surah Al-Asra ': They enter the mosque as they entered the first time.
This belief should never be doubted by anyone, and as long as the Islamic scene is not absent from the existence of someone who walks this path in a practical, stable and clear way, without any hesitation, and without fear of fighting, wars and sanctions, so that when there is no country other than this country, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was established by Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, who consciously moved along this line with clear insight and firm will. As long as there is no one in the world who can decide freely against Israel except this country and its institutions. As long as one in the world, the institutions and the Islamic systems, clearly state the facts about the Zionists, on the one hand, and the arrogant ones, on the other, we will be victorious on the right path, then it is obligatory on us that the institutions to be affiliated and cooperative with this great country, until God completes the inevitable issue that He has decreed.
We look forward to the day to come; when Muslims wake up there, or use the same method in some way. We have already mentioned that there are many verses of the Holy Quran reflecting the victory of this revolution, including the Divine statement mentioned in a number of verses, but we will suffice with the last verse of Surah Muhammad (PBUH). إِن تَتَوَلَّوْا يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوا أَمْثَالَكُم . If you turn away, he will replace you with another people who will not be like you. Recall that Egypt began to withdraw from the war with the Zionists in 1978; then the Camp David Accord was signed in September and implemented in March 1979. Egypt left the conflict, while it was the the largest Arab country which fought Israel several times, regardless of the details. Egypt left and then Iran entered. It used to be an alternative, weakness and friendship with Israel. There happened as the Holy Qur'an had pointed out.
Today, after so many years, we have to do something like auditing ourselves.
Probably it is not appropriate to talk about some mistakes here, and in this short time, but we have to address the many issues that delayed this process and divided Muslims. No one can deny the efforts made for the cause of Palestine unless someone has blinded the intensity of prejudice in his eyes and heart.
From the point of view of true jurisprudence, the truth is that we continue to suffer and feel weak in many stages and positions against the fanatics, the ignorant and the extremists; Both Sunnis and Shiites. Yes, our scholars here and there sometimes refuse to say the truth about the subject of jurisprudence, which has no doubts. But they prefer close followers of themselves to the vast mass of the Islamic world, I apply this accusation to everyone, unless the Divine mercy and blessing has been bestowed upon us and them.
This is a point that I hope will be passed quickly so that we do not remain weak in the face of fanatics and ignorant, so that scholars and Ulema can truly be the leaders of this path, and say everything, and stand in their own ranks against fanatics and reactionaries; so that we can all move forward. Yes, fanatics are here and there, and the backward and the ignorant are getting countless support from arrogant organizations and their allies, and from those who are part of their conspiracies. But we need to believe that they have the wealth and the political support and the mass media on their side, and we have God on our side, it needs to be that way.
If we not believe in this, we should return to ourselves. God Almighty has emphasized this and said:
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَسَيُنْفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ لِيَمِيزَ اللَّهُ الْخَبِيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ وَيَجْعَلَ الْخَبِيثَ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فَيَرْكُمَهُ جَمِيعًا فَيَجْعَلَهُ فِي جَهَنَّمَ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ.
Indeed, those who disbelieve, spend their wealth in order to prevent [people] from the way of God, so soon they will spend it, and then they will regret it, then they will be defeated, and those who disbelieve, will be gathered to Hell so that God may separate the wicked from the clean and put the wicked on top of each other, and to consolidate them all, then to cast them into Hell. These are the losers.
No matter how great the power of the enemy is, if we are with God, this enemy will be insignificant, if we put aside all the ways and follow the way of God. I say here, and I condemn as much as I can, the apes that God disfigured them in the UAE and Bahrain. Here we condemn them and raise our voices against them and declare their betrayal and warn them; and the good news that we warn them that in this world, before the Hereafter, they will fall to hardship, because they are similar the people of Ajal (calves) as Allah, in Sura A’raf, said:
« إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ سَيَنَالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَذِلَّةٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِينَ»
(Yes, those who take the calf will soon incur wrath from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world, and We shall punish such liars.)
We explicitly condemn them, but on the other hand, we, as soldiers of the resistance or as scholars who consider themselves part of the Divine mission in the way of Muhammad and his family and companions, feel that they are like dust. They are scattered, they have no value and they can never be an obstacle on the path of resistance, and they cannot change anything in the great Divine destiny that necessitated the displacement, annihilation and destruction of the regime of the children of Israel; and God will destroy what they have built. In different times, I feel, that the flag bearers of this path show weakness and doubt; and this may be part of the Divine tradition, when the Almighty God told the people of that time, that:
« يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَا لَكُمْ إِذَا قِيلَ لَكُمُ انْفِرُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ اثَّاقَلْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَرَضِيتُمْ بِالْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ فَمَا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ. إِلَّا تَنْفِرُوا يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا وَيَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ وَلَا تَضُرُّوهُ شَيْئًا وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ»
(O you who believe! what has happened to you that when you are told to mobilize in the way of God, you are slow? Have you enjoyed the life of this world instead of the Hereafter? It is nothing but a little. If you do not mobilize, He will punish you with a painful retribution, and will bring you another group, and you will not harm Him, and God is able to do all things.)
I call on you to re-mobilize forces against the Zionist enemy, and see them low, and the Americans who are behind them; and the traitorous Arabs who are with the Zionist regime, and the weak-minded people who,, together form a large group; but this large group is weak and nothing in front of those who rely on God. Believe me, dear brothers, these are nothing; provided that we do not show weakness and do not have doubts and do not think that the people of falsehood are more capable, when they express themselves.
I go back to where I started and say; We should not be weak against the fanatics and the ignorant and those who have the qualities of the ignorant.
Yes, we have lost a large number of our supporting masses, so many. Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that we have lost ninety percent of those who listened to us here and there and paid attention to our sermons and speeches.
But I prefer to keep the remaining ten percent; those who understand us and do not cling to the characteristics of ignorance and those who war mongers and are not members of weak factions. this hypothetical ten percent are stronger than the ninety percent who became weak and accepted humiliation. They gained something, but they did lose a lot of things. They believed in one part of the book. I do not say they disbelieved in another part. they left the other part.
We have a great and obvious promise, and this conference, although it is in cyberspace, has a great role. God willing, we will defeat Corona, and we had victims, and we defeated Israel several times in Gaza and several times in Lebanon, and we demolished the legend of American supremacy; and wrapped them up in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. So, we should not be weak against this enemy, and we will be victorious, God willing.
I entrust you to God, in the hope of a near meeting in Quds, God willing.
السلام علیکم و رحمة الله
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