Cleric condemns suicide attacks

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Cleric condemns suicide attacks

Friday, 11 July, 2003,

 

" One of the world's most influential Islamic leaders has condemned

all attacks by suicide bombers at an international conference for

Islamic scholars.

 

Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of the Al-Azhar mosque of Cairo -

which is seen as the highest authority in Sunni Islam - said groups

which carried out suicide bombings were the enemies of Islam.

 

Speaking at the conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur,

Sheikh Tantawi said extremist Islamic groups had appropriated Islam

and its notion of jihad, or holy struggle, for their own ends.

 

He called on Muslim nations to open themselves to dialogue with the

West saying Islamic nations should " wholeheartedly open our arms to

the people who want peace with us " . . . .

 

Sheikh Tantawi said Muslim suicide attacks, including those against

Israelis, were wrong and could not be justified.

 

His comments echoed those by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir

Mohammed who said, at the opening of the conference on Thursday,

that salvation could not be achieved through the killing of innocent

people.

 

Worried that Islam's image is being damaged by terrorists who have

hijacked the religion for their own ends, delegates also considered

banning books which fuel extremism.

 

" We have to block them from channels that are meant to spread

Islam, " Sheik Husam Qaraqirah, head of an Islamic charity

association in Lebanon, said.

 

" Their books must be banned and lifted off the shelves of mosques,

schools, universities and libraries, " he added. "

 

Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

 

 

" As we are now Sahaja Yogis we have to know that we have become

something different from what we were. We are Yogis. We are higher

people than others are and as such we have to understand one thing

— that we are not like other human beings who can say something

and do something, who can live with hypocrisy. That's why all the

problems have risen out of all the religions. A person who says he

is a Christian, he is absolutely anti-Christ. He who says he is

Islamic, is absolute anti-Muhammad. He who says he is a Hindu is

absolutely anti-Shri Krishna.

 

This is the main reason why all the religions have failed so far

because human beings talk big of ideals. They all say they have this

ideal, that ideal, but they are not those ideals. They cannot live

with all those ideals. The ideals are not in their lives — they

are outside. But they go about saying that these are our ideals.

They become fanatics but they are not the ideals. By Sahaja Yoga now

you have the method, you have the possibility that you can become

the ideals...

 

So you are very different from all others because a Spirit has given

birth to your spirit. You have been cleansed by the Spirit. So you

cannot live like that — like all other human beings are living...

 

A Sahaja Yogi is a person who has got Realization through the

Kundalini. And Kundalini is the Mother within you — is the caring

nourishing Power. That Mother will never compromise with the son. "

 

Shri Kundalini Devi

Become Your Ideals, Diwali Puja, U.K. — November 6, 1983

 

Kundalini (110th): She is coiled like a serpent. She is stated to

assume 31/2 coils — The form in which Sri-Lalita resides in each

individual in the potential state.