The President of the Latin Islamic University calls for global dialogue sessions to promote values and spread morals
Dr. Abdel Hamid Metwally, President of the Islamic University of Latin America, and one of Al-Azhar’s scholars demanded that the religious and national institutions concerned with spreading religion, values, morals, and science in our country hold dialogue sessions with a well-planned plan, based on which scholars specialized in various disciplines among different cultures aim to promote values. And spreading morals, science and knowledge throughout the world.
Metwally stressed during his participation in the conference of the College of Islamic Dawa on “Islamic Dawa and Civilizational Dialogue” A realistic, forward-looking vision.” Islam, in its dialogue with others, is based on great principles that give it a great deal of importance and status, the most important of which is honoring the human being, believing in the universal year of diversity, and calling for peace and the right of international neighborliness.
He pointed out that the constructive civilized dialogue that Islam calls for is the one that aims for understanding and convergence on common spaces and general humanitarian goals without discrimination on the basis of religion, color, gender, or tribe, and which requires fairness to the other, as fairness to the other is an approach. The Holy Qur’an.
It also made clear that religion is based on fairness to the other, and it means each party tolerating some of what it deems to be right for it, so that the other can forgive some of what it deems to be right.
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He also emphasized that constructive dialogue does not make variables into constants, nor make constants into variables. On the one hand, it does not neglect our doctrinal constants, and on the other hand, it does not sanctify the unholy and does not know blind fanaticism. He should not accuse people of falsehood and slander, and he should not counter the argument with another argument.
