Staff Reporter
The Ittehad-e-Ummah Conference was held under the chairmanship of Sajjada Nasheen Pir Mohammad Naqib-ur-Rehman at Darbar-e-Alia Eidgah Sharif here.
The conference was hosted by Pir Mohammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman. The custodians of eminent shrines and scholars of all schools of thought participated in the conference including Chairman of Islamic Ideological Council Dr. Qibla Ayaz, Pir Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Pir Amin Al Hasnat Shah, Pir Syed Saadat Ali Shah, Chairman of Ittehad Ulema Pakistan Allama Tahir Ashrafi Senator Talha Mahmood, Pir Obaidullah Shah, Pir Syed Munawar Shah Jamaat Pir Syed Shamsuddin Gilani, Khawaja Ghulam Qutbuddin Faridi, Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad Pir Sultan Ahmad Ali , Allama Amin Shahidi and others also participated in the conference. The Ulema, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders,unanimously agreed that the country was passing through challenging situation and could not bear any kind of sectarian violence.The true religion of Islam is the great religion of the world as one who enters into the circle of Islam begins to greet his or her companion by sending peace to each other. Islam is a universal religion that is irrespective of race and color.
A joint declaration was issued at the end of the conference where Pir Mohammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman outlined the declaration points which are as follows: “The sacred personalities with whom the reverence and affiliations of millions of people are associated, whether they are from the family of the Holy Prophet (Ahle Bayt Athar) or the companions of the Holy Prophet, should be mentioned with great devotion and respect and no weak point should be attributed to them. Promote brotherhood and tolerance by generalizing the common teachings of Allah and eliminate any sort of divisions among the Muslim ummah.
It added that the dissemination of sectarian and extremist ideas should be contained and those who support it in any way should be strongly discouraged. The clerics should adopt positive rather than controversial and critical style of preaching. “A permanent mediation commission should be set up at the government level for resolving serious disputes which resolves issues impartially and persons of any profession are not strictly allowed to take the law into their own hands and if any person takes the law into his own hands or says something that is against religion, ethics and the state, then it should be considered as a personal and individual act of the person and not by the whole sect. Legal action should be taken against such elements.
