The eminent Iranian Sunni scholar criticized blasphemous insults of Sahabah and demanded \u201cpunishment\u201d of such culprits. He was talking to the central gathering for the Friday prayers in Zahedan on Sep. 28, 2018.<\/p>\n
The official website of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid reports that he denounced blasphemous remarks of a footballer during a public speech and said: \u201cWe decry strongly remarks of an ignorant sportsman whose words show that he knows nothing about Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis words about Sayyidana Ali, the Clean Wives of the prophet and other great Sahabah were illogic and untempered. \u00a0He went to extremes which is refused by Shia and Sunni communities,\u201d Khateeb of Sunnis added more.<\/p>\n
He further said: \u201cIt is the demand of the nation to detain and try those who create sectarian tension by their exciting statements \u2013 regardless to their sect and community. No one \u2013with any status and rank- should be allowed to sabotage our unity and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mawlana Abdol-Hamid informed the audience the security agencies claim that they have arrested the mentioned footballer. He said: \u201cIt is the demand of people to not suffice on detention, rather such people should be punished and masses should be informed about their punishment. It will make a lesson for others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interference in Sunnis\u2019 mosques and prayer-houses\u2019 issues is against the constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n President of Darululoom Zahedan criticized the \u201cinterference in the issues of Sunnis\u2019 mosques and prayer-houses\u201d and said: \u201cWe have received reports from different parts of the country about some efforts to interfere in the issues of Sunnis\u2019 mosques and prayer-houses, threatening to seal mosques and in some places imams are under pressure to leave mosque and leading prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese interferences are unacceptable for the Sunni community. Interfering in the internal issues of the Sunni mosques is against the constitution. The Sunni community does not accept personal views imposed by any organization, directory or personality on Sunnis. They should be free to offer prayers wherever they want in whole country. Sunnis\u2019 mosques and prayer-houses should not threatened from any side,\u201d he underlined.<\/p>\n The most influential Iranian Sunni leader called on the officials to take such issues seriously and said: \u201cMosques belong to Allah and aggression on mosques is aggression on Allah. Both Shia and Sunni worshipers should not be asked why they have mosques in any Shia-majority or Sunni-majority area. So it requires attention of the officials; sometimes small problems produce big crises.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials should support masses in bad economic situation<\/strong><\/p>\n In another part of his speech, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid applauded the speech of president Rouhani in the 73rd<\/sup> session of the UN General Assembly and said: \u201cDue to famine and economic crisis, people have been suffering and we\u2019d like to recommend the authorities and officials to support people in this hard time and pursue their problems.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll bureaus and offices should help people and show lenience. They should not be teased. In this situation any kind of provoking and creating problems for people is against prudence and national interests,\u201d he added more.<\/p>\n At the end of his speech, Khateeb of Sunnis once against denounced Ahwaz terror attack and said: \u201cIranian Sunnis are away from violence and they believe in temperance; the nation and officials know this fact well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not extremists and violent and neither have we supported extremists. As well as we do not accept violence of others against us,\u201d he concluded his points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The eminent Iranian Sunni scholar criticized blasphemous insults of Sahabah and demanded \u201cpunishment\u201d of such culprits. He was talking to the central gathering for the Friday prayers in Zahedan on Sep. 28, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}