Today, Thursday, the world witnessed a historic event, in which people, leaders and state officials united to perform the first prayer for “multi-religious” humanity, and to turn to God to save humanity from the “Corona” pandemic, in response to an invitation launched by the UAE-based Supreme Committee for Human Fraternity .
With the beginning of yesterday the "Prayer for Humanity" tag was published in Arabic and English, the social networking site "Twitter" in the list of the most frequently discussed topics in the country, while the most important features and buildings of the UAE emblem of the initiative emblem, amid wide participation of senior ministers and state officials, provided by the Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance.
The official website dedicated to prayer, which was launched by the Human Fraternity Committee, witnessed wide participation of hundreds of public figures, politicians and current and former international officials, along with religious leaders, sports figures and artists, who were all keen to broadcast videos during their participation in prayers and prayers to raise the epidemic.
The Grand Imam, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, gave a speech in which he said: “As we invite the world today to go to the Almighty and draw near to it with worship and supplication, we at the same time urge all humanity to reach this universal link and the meat It is the commonality of its children, which is the bond of human brotherhood, in order to restore the discovery of the values of justice, peace, coexistence and equality among all people. "
His virtue praised the Supreme Committee's call to human fraternity and said it is a sincere and sincere invitation to address those in whose possession the Kingdom of everything is, to invoke it, through prayer, supplication, and reverence to it and to resort to its surroundings and its power, in order to expedite the disclosure of this cloud of its worship, and to heal them from its consequences and repercussions The sick and have mercy on the dead thanks to him, his grace and mercy, urging his virtue in the whole of humanity the bond of human brotherhood, in order to restore the discovery of the values of justice, peace, coexistence and equality among all people.
The Grand Imam called for making this day an engraved memory in the history of mankind, and we will restore it every year, so that we can start from it towards a world in which friendship and diversity prevail in it, and the tendencies of racism, intolerance and hatred of the other disappear, and interdependence and cooperation replace the estrangement and aggression, and this day will be a witness to Our determination and determination to stop wars and bloodshed, thanking His Excellency for the medical staff, scientists and those looking for a treatment that pays us a lot. "Corona.
On Thursday, His Holiness, Pope Francis, chaired the Catholic Church, presided over ritual prayers for humanity, in response to the call of the Supreme Committee for Human Fraternity, where His Holiness invited everyone to unite as brothers to ask God to free them from this evil - the Corona pandemic.
His Holiness, Pope Francis, said that the Supreme Committee of Human Fraternity organized a day of prayer and fasting to ask God for mercy and compassion in this tragic stage of the epidemic, so we are all brothers, asking all men and women from all religious denominations to unite in prayer and repentance to seek the blessing of recovery from this epidemic .
The Pope added the Catholic Church, we all pray brothers and sisters of all religious denominations, on the day of prayer, fasting and penance organized by the Supreme Committee for Human Fraternity, each of us will pray and will also pray religious groups and denominations: they will raise the prayer to God, all of them as brothers, united in the fraternity that brings us together in this The painful stage and this tragedy.
His Holiness continued: "During the first four months of this year millions of people were injured, and today’s prayer is in order to ask God to stop this epidemic, as we should think about other epidemics that exist in the world and they are many, such as epidemics of wars and hunger, etc.", adding that The most important thing is that today, thanks to the courage of the Supreme Committee of Human Fraternity, we have all been called to pray each according to their own tradition, and we offer a day of repentance, fasting, charity, and helping others.
In his turn, the President of the African Union sent a speech on the occasion of the Day of Prayer and Supplication for Humanity, during which he made a prayer to God to help humanity to face the challenge of the Coronavirus, and to inspire the minds of his knowledge and love to overcome that ordeal.
Indonesian President Goku Widodo, Speaker of the Indonesian Shura Council and ministers, as well as leaders of the six religions in Indonesia, participated in the "Prayer for Humanity" initiative.
In a speech to the people, the Indonesian President said to a number of religious leaders, through video conference technology, that the world lives today a difficult test, and hard speeches, in facing the challenges of the emerging Corona virus, and its rapid spread in more than 213 countries, infecting millions around the world Pointing out that we should not give up or be pessimistic when we face these challenges.
The Indonesian President affirmed that attaining the spirit of human brotherhood and union is the great power and the certainty that God Almighty will enable us to overcome this pandemic, stressing the necessity of taking the hidden causes side by side with the apparent causes, and that through the constant invocation of God Almighty, he wants him to be lifted from the Indonesian people And the world as a whole, the effects of this pandemic, that the weight of what we are afflicted with is reduced from us, and that the evil of this calamity is removed from us.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun also called for responding to the initiative of the Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, and His Holiness, Pope Francis, Pope of the Catholic Church, to pray and pray for humanity so that God protects mankind from the threat of the Corona virus.
The Lebanese President said that the call made by the "Supreme Committee for Human Fraternity" to dedicate today to prayer, fasting, supplication and charity work in order to get rid of the Corona epidemic, comes from the core of the goals of the initiative that was previously launched and approved by the United Nations General Assembly to establish the "Academy of Humanity for Dialogue" in Lebanon To contribute to building a human civilization based on acceptance of the other, regardless of their affiliation and belief, and mutual enrichment in difference as a right and in diversity as a guarantee.