Sheikh Ahmed Mablghi stressed, during his speech at the Islamic -Islamic Dialogue Conference, “One Nation … a common destiny”, that achieving Islamic unity is not just an intellectual choice, but rather a legal necessity dictated by the purposes of the same law. He stressed that the dialogue between the doctrines must be a priority, because it is the way to restore the relationships that are weakened by differences, and to rebuild the nation on solid foundations of understanding and harmony.
He pointed out that Islamic law came to regulate the affairs of the nation and ensure its cohesion, not to consolidate the division or division, explaining that the law is not an end in itself, but was placed to serve the religion and its residence in the lives of people.
And Sheikh Mabluli warned that the imbalance of the relationship between Sharia and the nation leads to its deviation from its basic role, and it turns from a tool for approaching Muslims into a factor that feeds the divisions. He explained that the problem does not lie in the existence of jurisprudential differences, but rather to employ them politically, so that it becomes a way to weaken the nation, instead of being a source of diversity and intellectual enrichment.
The sheikh also stressed that the difference in jurisprudence branches should not turn into a break within the nation, but rather it must be dealt with in a comprehensive scientific and methodological spirit, realizing that Islam came to establish one coherent entity, and not separate entities that conflict with each other.
Sheikh Mabliki touched on the issue of the development of Islamic sciences within every doctrine in isolation from the totalitarian vision of the nation, considering that this approach led to the production of narrow jurisprudential perceptions that does not reflect the spirit of Sharia in its association with the nation. He explained that the doctrines, when they work in isolation from each other, produce jurisprudential visions that do not serve the unity of Muslims, but rather the division, which weakens the religion itself and limits its ability to influence society.
He stressed that the Sharia cannot play its true role unless the Islamic sciences are based on a vision that sees the nation as one entity, and realizes that the juristic difference should not be an obstacle to the unity of Muslims, but rather a way to enhance the integration between them.
The Sheikh called on Mablit to reconsider the curricula of Islamic sciences, so that it focuses on the participant between the schools of thought instead of focusing on the points of difference, noting that any knowledge approach that does not take into account the unity of the nation will inevitably lead to the separation of Sharia from the reality of Muslims, and then isolated it from the religion itself .
In conclusion, the Sheikh stressed that achieving Islamic unity is not just a slogan, but rather a legal duty that requires rebuilding the relationship between Sharia and the nation, and making sectarian dialogue a fixed approach in Islamic thought, to ensure a more stable and coherent future for the Islamic nation.
