Hatred and intolerance have reached alarming levels but we can look to ourselves to seek a peaceful path, he says.
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has called on Muslims to strive for unity and push for development in a bid to overcome the many challenges of living in a highly complex world.as well as bringing development to our communities are the two most important ways to meet those challenges,” His Majesty said.
The King said this in his Royal Address when opening the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 in Kuala Lumpur today in the presence of Muslim leaders such as the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.Al-Sultan Abdullah noted that Muslims come from different countries, history and practise different rituals in all corners of the earth.
. Let us all join together and pledge our commitment to practise what we perform five times a day in our global personas, to improve the lives of ourAl-Sultan Abdullah added that he is not going to pretend that the challenges facing Muslims today are easy to solve, describing it as a daunting task which requires major undertakings by all members of the community.
“By doing so, we will discover that despite our apparent differences, the challenges that we all face are similar. As the prosperity and development of one country can be shared within our greater, it’s appropriate that the theme of this conference emphasises on development and national sovereignty,” he said.
To enable such dialogue, the way forward for Islam must also include a stronger understanding of the faith and using that as the foundation, he added.
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