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Muslims all over the world sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians
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AMMAN,
October 23 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Studies and
Information Networks in South Africa and “Al-Haqiqa” International
Center for Studies and Research in Jordan is to publish a website
aiming at the promotion of fraternity between Palestinian families in
the occupied lands and Muslims families all over the world, and to
build social relationships between them.
“The
project aims to confront the alike Israeli sites which work to make
contact between every Jewish emigrant family and another Jewish family
lives abroad.
“They
aim to spare them the financial and moral support in order to
convince them to settle in a land, which they know deeply
inside themselves that they don’t belong to it,” the statement
delivered by the two parties Monday, October 22, said.
“The
idea of the project was taken from the fraternity principle between
the Muslims emigrant
from Mecca and “Al-Ansar” who resided in “Al-Maddena”,
where Muslims were emigrating to,” the statement added.
The
statement pointed out that the project will be helped by facilities
provided by the techniques of the modern communication and the
internet network, clarifying that the first stage of the project will
start by connecting Palestinian families with Muslim families in South
Africa, and then it will be stretched to include all Islamic
countries.
In
a previous fatwa to IslamOnline, Sheikh
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi said that brotherhood in Islam means that all
people constitute one brotherhood.
No
one is beyond the borders of this brotherhood. Islam makes it clear
that wealth, position, lineage or social status are not valid reasons
for feeling haughty or superior. In Islam, rulers and subjects are
linked in one brotherhood.
“Also,
a servant is a brother to his master. The bond of mastership and
servitude does not change this fact,” he added.
He
also said that in Islam the poor and the rich, the employers and the
employees, the landlords and the tenants are all brothers. Islam has
nothing to do with social strife or class malice.
In
Islam, there is no class system, as was the case during the Medieval
Ages in Europe where such system was based on the customs and the
traditions and even the ruling laws. Up to our present time, the
system prevails in many countries.
“Islam
has no objection to wealth. However, it stands against establishing a
social class that monopolizes wealth.
“It
stresses the fact the like any other human being, the rich are subject
to the vicissitudes of life and its ups and downs.
“It
also gives glad tidings to those who are poor that there is an ease
and every cloud has a silver lining,” Al-Qaradawi clarified.
He
pointed out that in Islam, the door is open to any qualified
person to be a Muslim scholar.
Islam
does not make of its scholars clergymen or priests, for they are
something far different from this.
Being
a scholar means being responsible for guiding people and teachings
them the matters of their religion.
