In the shadow of Corona, the Palestinians organize electronic cultural seminars

Fadi Al-Asa-Bethlehem

The longing seemed clear to a number of members of the Supreme Islamic Authority and the Employees Club in Jerusalem, who met in their electronic meeting, in preparation for a cultural symposium that is their first during the blessed month of Ramadan.

The organizers chose "Tarawih prayer during the month of Ramadan in the shadow of the Corona pandemic" as the title of this symposium in which the main speaker, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Salim Muhammad Ali the preacher of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, presented to it by the head of the authority, Sheikh Dr. Ikrima Sabri.

Employing technologies
The Authority’s meetings in cooperation with the Employees Club in Jerusalem were through prestigious seminars organized for many years in the occupied city, but forcing Corona people everywhere to adhere to their homes made them use the available technologies to communicate and communicate.

Aziz Al-Asa - the Authority’s Culture and Information Officer, head of the cultural department in the Staff Club located in Bethlehem - considered that electronic meetings are not new, but rather are among the methods used in education, education and meetings of different institutions.

But the aim of the cultural meetings here is to educate and raise awareness, through the diversity of topics that are raised, which will focus during the month of Ramadan on acts of worship, such as prayer, fasting and zakat, in light of the Corona crisis.

Jerusalemites on the Internet
E-meetings - depending on the stick - target the Jerusalemite person in particular, the Palestinian and the Arab in general, and with the open Internet around the world, people from different countries of the world, such as Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, France, Belgium and others, have participated in these seminars.

The meetings also aim to keep Al-Maqdisi strong in facing the occupier, and educate and sensitize him on his own and nation issues, and this challenge increases in light of the Corona crisis to guide society to various topics and areas of concern to him.

Al-Jazeera Net lists the forms of their lectures that vary between cultural, religious, scientific and medical, and seven meetings were announced during the holy month of Ramadan, during which a specialized speaker is hosted on each topic, and then the date of the meeting is announced to mobilize the audience to watch and interact.

After submitting it by the symposium director in a manner appropriate to the substance of the topic, the competent speaker begins the discussion with 15-20 minutes, then the discussion and interaction begin.

Before beginning to ask questions, one of the participants seemed affected after seeing two imams from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque because of his failure to pray in the mosque in the shadow of the Corona pandemic, God Almighty called for the prayer to return to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and another speaker considered that Corona as a pandemic can make there an imam to pray in Every home.

Gaining time
and Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Salim believes that this platform opens the way for specialists in various fields to communicate their ideas and information to people wherever they are in the shadow of a quarantine on them, and despite his praise for electronic applications that allow communication and communication via the Internet, he prefers direct meetings with which the public interacts with him.

As for Sheikh Dr. Ikrama Sabri - the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, head of the Supreme Islamic Authority - he considered the electronic meeting an investment for the abundant time due to the stone inside the houses, calling on Al Jazeera Net people during the holy month to invest their time - through the positive side of technology - and benefit from the lecturers and specialists.

Khatib Al-Aqsa, head of the Supreme Islamic Authority, believes that the occupation and Corona are two main reasons for detaining people in their homes, especially in occupied Jerusalem.

Once the participants ’questions were answered, Hamdi Saghir, one of the seminar's organizers and online moderator, began preparing it for broadcast on social media platforms, so that the general public can view it and benefit from its presented issues.