Damir Mukhetdinov spoke at the VIII Peace Consolidation Forum in Abu Dhabi
Executive Secretary of the Muslim International Forum, Rector of the Moscow Islamic Institute, Doctor of Theology Professor Damir Mukhetdinov took part in the VIII Forum on Strengthening Peace in Muslim Societies.
The Forum, which is held under the patronage of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on 5th of December in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
The UAE Tolerance Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan opened the forum. Speaking at the plenary session of the event on 5th of December, he stressed the efforts of the UAE leadership to promote the values of peaceful coexistence among all peoples of the world and to provide all members of society with the opportunity to contribute to sustainable development.
The Chairman of the UAE Fatwa Council and the President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayah, stressed in his speech that "our main goal is peaceful coexistence and its supply, taking into account culture, morality and laws." "We hope that the forum's activities will end with positive results. As a result, a declaration on universal citizenship will be adopted," Sheikh Ben Bayah said.
According to the organizers, the subject of the event, considering its paramount importance for strengthening global peace and protecting stability in different communities, was chosen "Universal citizenship. From co-existence to shared moral responsibility."
"The choice of such a vital topic is an expression of positive interaction with the realities of the post-covid world. This world has experienced an unprecedented pandemic and is experiencing an obvious need to turn to the values of coexistence, solidarity and cooperation, and this requires an intensified search for those opportunities that today's international and intercivilizational context contains, as well as in-depth learning of religious and humanitarian texts in order to extract from them positive ideas concerning diversity and citizenship, as a contribution to the cause of peace, to issues of rights, duties, virtues and values as an additional incentive for coexistence and cooperation," they note.
On the second day of the forum, speaking as an invited speaker at the section "Universal Citizenship on the platform of peace: between the absoluteness of the principle and the relativity of the sending of divine revelation", the Executive Secretary of the Muslim International Forum Damir Mukhetdinov conveyed greetings on behalf of the religious leader of the Muslims of Russia Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin. and he stressed that civil feeling and citizenship is what unites people on the basis of a common history, legal guarantees and obligations. "And in the conditions of a pandemic and migration crises, citizenship often becomes an instrument not of unification, but of separation of people. We see situations when fundamental human rights – to live and security - turn out to be unimportant in front of the restrictive function of citizenship in the form of possession or non-possession of a passport of a particular state," he said.
The Doctor of Theology also noted that the relationship between fundamental and unconditional human rights, the benefits and obligations of citizenship is a scientific problem that needs to be discussed together with theologians, philosophers, lawyers, referring to the scriptures of religions. "We live in an amazing age when the atomization of society is increasing, but the interrelation of people is only increasing. A person who has passed a meter away from you and accidentally sneezed at this moment can provoke tragic changes in your own life and the life of your family. The climate and environmental agenda, when closely analyzed, also comes down to whether a person is obliged to consciously go to quite serious restrictions in his lifestyle for the sake of making a microscopic contribution to the overall climate and environmental well-being of the planet," he said.
It is an interesting fact that the XVII annual meeting of the Muslim International Forum "From ecological preaching to ecological thinking: the search for the optimal way of speaking", which will be held on 15th of December, will be a extension of the theme and objectives raised these days at the VIII Forum on Peace Consolidation in Abu Dhabi. Religious and public figures, theologians, academic scientists, artists sharing the principles of humanism, the dialogue of civilizations and the unity of mankind will take part in the XVII annual meeting of the MIF.
The Forum, which is held under the patronage of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on 5th of December in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
The UAE Tolerance Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan opened the forum. Speaking at the plenary session of the event on 5th of December, he stressed the efforts of the UAE leadership to promote the values of peaceful coexistence among all peoples of the world and to provide all members of society with the opportunity to contribute to sustainable development.
The Chairman of the UAE Fatwa Council and the President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayah, stressed in his speech that "our main goal is peaceful coexistence and its supply, taking into account culture, morality and laws." "We hope that the forum's activities will end with positive results. As a result, a declaration on universal citizenship will be adopted," Sheikh Ben Bayah said.
According to the organizers, the subject of the event, considering its paramount importance for strengthening global peace and protecting stability in different communities, was chosen "Universal citizenship. From co-existence to shared moral responsibility."
"The choice of such a vital topic is an expression of positive interaction with the realities of the post-covid world. This world has experienced an unprecedented pandemic and is experiencing an obvious need to turn to the values of coexistence, solidarity and cooperation, and this requires an intensified search for those opportunities that today's international and intercivilizational context contains, as well as in-depth learning of religious and humanitarian texts in order to extract from them positive ideas concerning diversity and citizenship, as a contribution to the cause of peace, to issues of rights, duties, virtues and values as an additional incentive for coexistence and cooperation," they note.
On the second day of the forum, speaking as an invited speaker at the section "Universal Citizenship on the platform of peace: between the absoluteness of the principle and the relativity of the sending of divine revelation", the Executive Secretary of the Muslim International Forum Damir Mukhetdinov conveyed greetings on behalf of the religious leader of the Muslims of Russia Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin. and he stressed that civil feeling and citizenship is what unites people on the basis of a common history, legal guarantees and obligations. "And in the conditions of a pandemic and migration crises, citizenship often becomes an instrument not of unification, but of separation of people. We see situations when fundamental human rights – to live and security - turn out to be unimportant in front of the restrictive function of citizenship in the form of possession or non-possession of a passport of a particular state," he said.
The Doctor of Theology also noted that the relationship between fundamental and unconditional human rights, the benefits and obligations of citizenship is a scientific problem that needs to be discussed together with theologians, philosophers, lawyers, referring to the scriptures of religions. "We live in an amazing age when the atomization of society is increasing, but the interrelation of people is only increasing. A person who has passed a meter away from you and accidentally sneezed at this moment can provoke tragic changes in your own life and the life of your family. The climate and environmental agenda, when closely analyzed, also comes down to whether a person is obliged to consciously go to quite serious restrictions in his lifestyle for the sake of making a microscopic contribution to the overall climate and environmental well-being of the planet," he said.
It is an interesting fact that the XVII annual meeting of the Muslim International Forum "From ecological preaching to ecological thinking: the search for the optimal way of speaking", which will be held on 15th of December, will be a extension of the theme and objectives raised these days at the VIII Forum on Peace Consolidation in Abu Dhabi. Religious and public figures, theologians, academic scientists, artists sharing the principles of humanism, the dialogue of civilizations and the unity of mankind will take part in the XVII annual meeting of the MIF.