World Council of Islamic Call meeting recommendations

A JANA report yesterday said: The World Council of Islamic Call ,WCIC, recommended the need to prepare studies explaining the truth of Islam in its various dimensions and principles, basis of its faith and position on contemporary world issues, and translate such studies into various languages and distribute them as widely as possible.

It also recommended to take more care of the proselytes, follow up their affairs and develop their knowledge of the basis and principles of Islam with out confusing their minds because of the school differences and fiqeh ramifications, and to proceed in convening reunions which contribute to alleviating social as well as political pressures to which they may be subjected.

At the conclusion of its 16th session, Sunday evening held in the Benini capital, the WCIC urged for the expansion of the humanitarian development fields in their various dimensions and to coordinate in relief programs with members of WCIC in their various regions and to cooperate in this respect with relevant international organizations, with view to activate international presence and promote the coordination of efforts with Islamic organizations and associations under the aegis of the Organization of Islamic Conference, in order to rally such efforts so as to avert its disintegration or repetition, as well as to enable those organization to have common denominators in their dealings with the injustices and offenses to which Islam is exposed .

The recommendations underscored the need to proceed with keen interest in WICS organized dialogue programs with other religious and cultural parties, and to draw up strategies and starting points for such dialogue and to study the possibility of establishing a Council or a Committee specialized in dialogue within WICS , to strengthen contacts with Sufi Tariqa, and high light their rule in safeguarding Islamic Identity and resisting cultural alienation particularly in Africa and Central Asia and continue organizing Sufi gatherings and invest their spiritual energies in defense of the Ummah.

On the dimensions of the challenges to which Islam is subjected, and the role of some western mass media in wittingly tarnishing the image of Islam ,WCIC members pointed out that the Muslims themselves bear part of the share in that due to the behavior of some Islamic currents which pursue policies of isolation and exclusion, and resisting modernization and rejecting the other, and judging the 21st developments with the 10th Century standards .

The WCIC underscored the need for WICS to proceed within its resources and cultural medium to exert more efforts to rectify the image of Islam in the mirror of the other, and to invest the acceptance it enjoyed in the world, and its distinguished relationship with several international organizations to project the true picture of Islam, and to work in cooperation with all WCIC members and conscious and open Islamic activists to organize meeting with western intellectuals, political and religious currents, and consolidate cooperation with them to disseminate the culture of dialogue cooperation and mutual respect.

The WCIC also referred on its recommendations to the challenges to which the Muslim world is subjected, and the injustices committed in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan and the deliberate discretion of Muslim shrines. In this respect, the WCIC urged for renouncing of injustices and refraining from all phenomena of aggression and to abandon policies of state terrorism and to respect international charters and norms organizing relations among nations and peoples, stressing that unless these things are achieved , world peace will remain to be threatened, and the terrorism phenomena is bound to linger.

With respect to activating educational work,WCIC members underlined the importance of the genuine human investment of the ummah particularly in these circumstances. They stressed that their recommendations and remarks are within the framework of the discussion of reports of the Executive Council and the Faculty of Islamic Call and its branches are within the same focus. They also underlined the need to encourage investment in the private education sector in East Africa, and proposed that the Executive Committee be entrusted to run specialized team to carry out a questionnaire on the subject in prelude to the beginning of the implementation of some educational programs.

In their closing Session, members of the WCIC agreed on the division of regions from which EC members are selected into five regions instead of just four, as the Americas is separated from Europe. WCIC selected members of the EC from the five regions as follows :

- Mustafa Yaqoup for Asia.

- Muhamed Samura for Africa.

- Muhammed al-Samak for the Arab Region.

- Abd-al Khabir Muhammed for the Americas.

- Salah adeen al -Ja'frawi for Europe.

Thus, the formation of the International EC for the WCIC has become as follows:

- Mohamed Ahmed Shrief, General Secretary of the WCIC

- Ibrahim Al Ghawil, General repporteur of WCIC.

- Mustafa Yaqoup for Asia.

- Dr. Muhamed Samura for Africa.

- Dr. Muhammed al-Samak for the Arab homeland.

- Dr. Abd-al Khabir Muhammed for the Americas.

- Dr. Salah adeen al -Ja'frawi for Europe-