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The statements of Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb regarding his position on the so-called “new Abrahamic religion” overshadowed the celebration of the Egyptian Family House, which was held yesterday, Monday, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the house in 2011.

Al-Tayyib’s speech provoked wide reactions among writers, activists and thinkers, as some of them emphasized the importance of the word in defending the Islamic faith and concepts of dialogue and true coexistence between followers of the heavenly messages.

During his speech, Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb said that the call for the so-called “Abrahamic religion” is a call to confiscate freedom of belief, faith and choice, stressing that people’s meeting on one religion or one divine message is impossible, pointing to the difference between respecting and recognizing the faith of the other, and that this It does not mean dissolving the differences between faiths, religions and religions.

Al-Tayyib’s talk, which he gave for the first time, came in order to clarify what he believed needed to be clarified, or alerted to, and certainly what he described as the doubts and suspicions raised by some, and in response to critics of rapprochement and interfaith dialogue on the pretext of promoting a unified religion called “Abrahamic.” According to the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Al-Azhar page on Facebook.

It is worth noting that the Egyptian Family House was established in 2011, by a decision of the Egyptian Prime Minister at the time, which ensured that the house would be headed by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and its main headquarters is the Al-Azhar sheikhdom in Cairo, and it works to restore the highest values ​​in Islam and Christianity, and aims to preserve the fabric. national and prevent sectarian strife.

What are the new "Abrahams"?

But what is this call, which the Sheikh of Al-Azhar does not know anything about its features and features, and what is its relationship to terms that have recently hit the ears of the world, such as the “Abraham Agreements” in reference to normalization between the UAE, Bahrain and others on one side and Israel on the other.

In his book “Abrahamiya.. Between Deception of Terminology and Danger of Attitudes,” Ismail Ali Professor of Islamic Call and Religion at Al-Azhar University says, “The term (Abrahamic) has been widely used since the announcement of the normalization agreement between the UAE and Bahrain with the occupying Zionist entity, under American auspices, and the name (Abraham) was given ) to the agreement.

Although “Abrahimism” is a creedal religious term linked to a religious symbol - unanimously - the call to it, according to Ismail, was not far from politics and its goals, nor separated from its institutions and plans, and serving its projects, especially in the visible reality that witnesses a large presence of “Abrahamism”. In the corridors and corridors of politics.

The professor of Islamic Da’wa and religions considered that the real purpose is to achieve Western Zionist interests, destroy the heavenly religions, especially Islam and Christianity, waste rights, falsify history, and change reality in favor of Zionist plans, as he described it.

As for the Abrahamic Family House, it is a project that combines a mosque, a church and a synagogue under one roof. In September 2019, the UAE announced plans to build an edifice that combines the three major monotheistic religions, and it is being built on Saadiyat Island in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.

Mohammed bin Zayed orders the construction of the "Abrahamic Family House" in Abu Dhabi, in commemoration of the joint historic visit of Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb, and an expression of the state of peaceful coexistence and the reality of human fraternity in the UAE society.

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— Mohammed bin Zayed (@MohamedBinZayed) February 5, 2019

Invitation is not new

In this context, the former Secretary-General of the Al-Azhar Scholars Front, Yahya Ismail Habloush, praised the statements of the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and considered them a correct and good step towards setting the record straight.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Habloush, a professor of hadith at Al-Azhar University, said that this invitation is not born today, and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called for it in the early 1990s, with the aim of molding the world into a new religion, because America sees that the real danger to it is religion. Islam, which former US President Richard Nixon described as the next enemy of the Soviet Union (after the fall of communism), according to the spokesman.

Hence, it seems that the time has come, according to Habloush, to transform these statements into new deceptive concepts, which are in fact an American-European-Zionist strategy in order to dilute the truths of faith, while our Lord Almighty says, “The religion with God is Islam ۗ” (Surat Al Imran / from verse 19).

All respect and appreciation for the clear and decisive statement of the Grand Imam, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb: “Claims of mixing Islam, Christianity and Judaism in one religion “Abrahamism” are a confiscation of freedom of belief “...God save our venerable Sheikh.

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— Alaa Mubarak (@AlaaMubarak_) November 8, 2021

Al-Azhar's next role

In turn, the Secretary-General of the Association of Ahl al-Sunnah Scholars, Jamal Abdul Sattar, stressed that the call to the Abrahamic religion is not a religious call but a political one, the aim of which is to pull Muslims from affiliation with their faith and exploit the state of weakness that they have, and it has been repeated in history many times, but they did not wait and woke up And they returned to the true religion and belief.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Abdel Sattar - the former professor at the Faculty of Da`wah at Al-Azhar University - indicated that this political project stands behind him and is strongly supported by the United Arab Emirates by all means, whether with money or through famous scholars and clerics and others, to make a case for a competent religion, according to Murad. Certain international bodies, as he put it.

With regard to the statements of the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Abdul Sattar praised his position on the so-called call to the new Abrahamic religion, and said that it comes within the framework of his victory for many issues, but the most important of these statements is to fight such calls, and to mobilize the Islamic nation to reject such false beliefs from Through preachers around the Islamic world.

Maulana the Great Imam, Professor Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, is fighting on multiple fronts in support of the teachings of the true Islamic religion, and he is entering another battle against those who seek to impose a new religion through their malicious schemes!!

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— Nagy Al-Shihabi (@nagyelshahaby56) November 8, 2021

International preparation and political disinformation

For his part, political science professor Essam Abdel-Shafi considered that talking about the Abraham agreements and linking them to the so-called Abrahamic religion is a kind of political disinformation, seeking to achieve a degree of legitimacy and legitimacy for this agreement, which is based in essence on normalization and acceptance of the Zionist occupation of the lands. Arab countries and the violation of religious sanctities, whether Islamic, Christian, or even Judaism in these lands.

Abdel Shafi added to Al Jazeera Net, "It is also based on promoting absurd statements, the goal of which is to undermine all religions, foremost of which is the Islamic religion, by exporting a political vision based on the unification of religions, and bringing together the supporters of each religion, in an effort to obliterate the Islamic identity, and distort values ​​and principles." and the marginalization of the role of entities, movements and currents with an Islamic reference.”

The Egyptian academic residing in Turkey warned of this new international strategy, which is being prepared and prepared at a high level, and went on to say that this strategy "is the spearhead of the Emirati regime in implementation and financing, and the Zionist entity is planning and directing," according to him.

An appreciable position.

The Sheikh of Al-Azhar criticizes the story of "The Abrahamic Religion".

He said that although it appears on the surface “a call for human meeting and unification and the elimination of the causes of its conflicts, it is, in itself, a call for the confiscation of the most precious possessions of humankind: freedom of belief, faith and choice.”

He did not link it to normalization, although it is.

— Yasser Al-Zaatreh (@YZaatreh) November 8, 2021

The journalist writer for the Egyptian (governmental) Al-Akhbar newspaper, Saeed Al-Khouli, had asked in an article entitled "They are calling for a new religion" at the end of last September, about the nature of the new Abrahamic religion project.

At the end of the article, he asked many questions, saying, “With the nobleness of the term, the softness of the intent, and the nobility of the goals declared in the Document of Human Fraternity (signed by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Pope of the Vatican), we must ask about the draft deal of the century and where did it go after (US President Donald) Trump and his administration with whom? Including Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and the handler of the Middle East file in the Trump administration?

He continued by asking about the end of this project or the deal with that administration going to the White House?

Is it really a societal religious project that aims to spread love, coexistence, and renounce wars?

Or is it a political project that lures the Arab world towards a new map of the region in which the borders between the Tigris and Euphrates are dissolved, where the greatest dream is “Greater Israel” geographically, economically, militarily and religiously, and also in preparation for the “Armageddon” war and the end of the universe as seen by the extremists of Israel?