Top Saudi minister ‘blesses’ Trump-Muslim summit
In this record photo, US President Donald Trump and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defence Mohammed bin Salman accommodate during a White House in Washington, US, Mar 14, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA: A tip Saudi minister on Friday described as “blessed” an Islamic limit in a collateral Riyadh during a weekend to be attended by Muslim leaders and US President Donald Trump.
In his Friday sermon, a imam of a holy city of Makkah, Sheikh Saleh bin Hamdi, praised a “blessed assembly that will move together brothers and friends” on Sunday.
He urged participants “to uncover realism… and to highlight a disastrous impact of interferences in informal affairs”, state news group SPA reported him as saying.
He seemed to be referring to a especially Sunni kingdom’s informal rival, Shia-dominated Iran. The dual countries have taken hostile sides in wars in Syria and Yemen.
The imam pronounced division in a Middle East has “exacerbated confessional, religious, jingoist and racial conflicts”, and called on limit participants to act to “stem armed disharmony annoyed by terrorists and their sponsors”.
Trump, who will make Saudi Arabia a initial abroad stop of his presidency on Saturday, is approaching to give a debate about Islam to 50 leaders of Muslim countries during a summit.
In his sermon, a imam urged those attending a limit to work towards “constructive dialogue, team-work and tolerance”.
“The universe contingency know a republic of Islam is unapproachable of a religion, a identity, a values and a culture”, though also “believes in tellurian and informative diversity”, he said.
“Relations between states and nations contingency be formed on equivalence and mutual respect.”
The ultra-conservative kingdom, a cradle of a stern Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism, final year launched an desirous programme of amicable and mercantile reforms dubbed Vision 2030.
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