Lunga intervista ad Ali Gomaa, il gran mufti d’Egitto, sullo Ahram Weekly. Ed è una intervista da leggere.
“One of the problems in all religions today, not only Islam, is that lay people attempt to set themselves up as religious authorities, even though they lack the scholarly qualifications to make valid interpretations of religious law and morality. These interpretations are made in reaction to political crises, injustices, poverty and frustration, and our role as religious leaders who have spent our lives carefully studying religious exegesis, is to re- establish proper authority and guide the people accordingly.”
The latest Gallup polls show that 60 per cent of Christians worldwide harbour prejudice against Muslims while 30 per cent of all Muslims are prejudiced against Christians. That is more than two billion people out of four billion Christians and Muslims in total disliking each other or misunderstanding each other (out of about 6.5 billion people on the planet). This is a recipe for worldwide combustion.
“Something had to be done since out of more than 6,000 verses in the Quran, only 300 are related to legal matters. The rest deal with developing good moral character,” noted Gomaa. There are over 60,000 Prophetic traditions and sayings of which only 2,000 are related to legal matters; the rest deal with the same — developing good moral character”.