Cairo: The Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) is participating in the two-day conference entitled, ‘Family Challenges Amidst Major Transformations: A Fatwa-Based Approach to Protecting the Family, Envisioning its Future, and Preserving Identity’ in Cairo, organised by the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide.
The Center is represented at the conference by Chairman of the Board at DICID H E Dr. Ibrahim bin Saleh Al Naimi. DICID’s participation reflects the constant and active presence of the State of Qatar in international forums and conferences, especially those concerned with discussing the issues of the Islamic world in the current era, the most important of which are the challenges facing the Muslim family, in light of what the world is witnessing in terms of the impact of globalization and the information and technological revolution.
In a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Dr. Al Naimi pointed to the major and successive challenges facing the family in today’s world and its changes, which affect and represent a serious threat to its structure, system and cohesion, whether in terms of values or the family identity itself.
He stated that all these challenges call upon international civil institutions and organisations to participate intellectually and from a standpoint of responsibility, with cultural, academic and religious institutions, especially bodies and institutions of Islamic fatwas in the world, to attentively search for ways to preserve the cohesion of the family value system, especially the Muslim family, based on adherence to Sharia and the values of the true Islamic religion.
Dr. Al Naimi considered the conference an extension and integration of joint Arab and Islamic work to instil the principles of preserving the family and enabling it to perform its role as defined by religion and the Sharia. He pointed out that the 15th Doha Conference on Interfaith Dialogue addressed the same issue, which focused on the Family Structure in Light of Changing World as its main topic, with the theme being “Integration of families, faith, values, and education.”
He pointed out that most societies in the modern world have become pluralistic, with diverse cultures and religions, which necessitates taking advantage of interfaith dialogue to promote family values in order to protect the family system, which is in reality an innate system known to human society since the time of Adam (AS)
