VP urges religious graduates to heal sectarian wounds

A female student receives her certificate during the graduation ceremony from al-Baihani High Guidance Institute.

Vice President Abdo Rabo Mansur Hadi has ordered that the graduates of the Higher Guidance Institute (HGI) should be employed without delay to begin guidance reform and the renewal of the religious address process. 

In his speech at the graduation event held at the Youth Palace in Sana’a, which celebrated the graduation of it and Aden’s al-Baihani High Guidance Institutes 2007-2008  class, the VP urged preachers and religious guides to keep the mosques free from partisan and doctrinal struggles. 

He ordered the Ministry of Guidance and the HGI’s management to finish the coordinating with al-Azhar University in Cairo, and to benefit from their lecturers and curricula in establishing tolerance and moderation. 

The VP congratulated the graduates urging them to be models of piety so that their speeches will be effective and respected by people and officials.
 
He called them to maintain distance from tribal, ethnic, partisan and doctrine partiality, reminding that a mosque preacher represents all people and not specific groups. 

The Minister of Endowment Hamoud al-Hitar, encouraged the new graduates in his speech to incorporate Islamic moderation, and urged them to remember the Islam that our Prophet (‘Peace and blessing be upon him’) said “he is not one of us that who calls for intemperance.” 

The minister ensured that their endeavour is to set a strategy which presents God’s missionary call with wisdom and in good exhortation, keeping distance from political, partisan, ethnic and tribal controversy, incorporating national allegiance, deep-rooted moderation and recoils away from fantasy and violence. He added that they are preparing a law that guarantees mosques’ neutrality and insulation from fanaticism.  

The minister asked the preachers and guides to help counter fanaticism, which damages national unity, and to endeavour to address social grievance and suffering, warning the graduates that they should perform their jobs as god’s messengers and not as a routine task.  

The HGI’s manager Mucbel Murshid al-Kadahi, pointed out the political efforts in establishing the facilities for the service of the country, the religion and the nation through the moderate call and religious tolerance. 

Al-Kadahi ensured the institute’s commitment for peaceful missionary projects, away from the fanaticism into which religious address has deviated and away from fuelling conflict between Islamic sects. He also stressed the importance of keeping away the mosques from the sectarian, partisan or doctrine conflicts, and to adhere to love, tolerance and faith in Islam.  Al-Kadahi lauded the leadership’s role in achieving harmonization with al-Azhar and for restructuring the teaching curriculum. Student Wafa al-Adofi gave a speech on behalf of the graduates reviewing the scientific knowledge which the students received at the institute, saying that all students seek to develop the knowledge and acquire more in order to support the guidance message. Al-Adofi ensured that the graduates will employ their efforts to consolidate communal awareness and guidance, and to defeat the extremism that splits and weakens the country. 

At the end of the event the tops of the tenth and eleventh patches of the al-Baihani Institute in Aden were honoured. The honouring included the second and third batch of al-Baihani girls institute’s graduates. The best male and female preachers were also honoured.

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