Damascus escorts the deceased Grand Mufti to grave

Damascus on Thursday paid the demised Grand Mufti of the Republic and Head of the Higher Islamic Trust Council Sheikh Ahmed Keftaro who passed away on Wednesday the last honors.

Minister of the Republic Presidency Ghassan Al-Lahham represented President Bashar Al-Assad in the mourning ceremony.

The remembrance took place after noon prayers at Umayyad Mosque of Damascus where the funeral prayers occurred.

Minister of Islamic Trusts Mohammed Ziyada delivered a word in which he spoke about the deceased sheikh process "which was full of work science and the call for God by wisdom, good preaching and widening understanding of religion in addition to deepening the objective and constructive dialogue among cultures."

" He worked to converge sects by his call to love cooperation and tolerance with the rejection of fanaticism and extremism," the Minister said.

The Minister as well as Mufti of Aleppo, Ahmed Hassoun and Sheikh Ahmed Rajeh, who delivered a speech on behalf of the deceased family agreed that Syria has lost one of its landmarks and one of the Islamic thought pioneers.

" He was a man of science, leadership, a way and building as well as a call to the whole world. He spent his life to spread science and knowledge together with distribution of the Islamic call and love among humanity while centering on the Islam humanity and his call for the right, justice and peace," they said.

They pointed out to Sheikh Keftaro' s religious and scientific route to spread the Islamic mission and to deepen the Islamic-Christian dialogue and narrow religious divisions noting that he was a symbol of moderation and good judgment.