Doha: Noted Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi yesterday said Shias around the world were joining arms to fight Sunnis in Syria.
Delivering the Friday sermon at the Omar bin Khattab mosque here, Al Qaradawi said Allah would not let the minority rule the people.
“The believers will achieve victory even though their enemies, among them Shias, are sending strong and experienced fighters from Iraq, Lebanon and groups like Hezbollah. Shias are gathering from different countries to fight the Sunnis in Syria because it is their last trench.”
Al Qaradawi said that the believers should not give up hope and that the Persian state was still supporting groups in Sryia by providing them funds and weapons. He called upon the Syrian opposition to unite against the ‘Shia bloc’. He urged Sunnis to support their brothers in Syria because they were facing difficult times, and some were being forced to look for food in garbage.
Addressing Sunnis across the world, Al Qaradawi said, “You Sunnis, you are 1.5 billion in the world. How have you left your brothers who are being killed in Syria? How have you left innocent children, women and elders, who are being killed?”
He also said that the Syrian dictator could not escape Allah’s punishment for what he has done against Sunnis and the Syrian people.
“Allah will respond to the prayers of the believers and remove them from power,” he said.
On Egypt, he said victory was near because the majority of Egyptians still supported their legitimate president, Mohammed Mursi.
“It is a legitimacy that the people agreed to on January 25, 2011, when elections were conducted. It cannot be ignored, unless new elections take place.”
Al Qaradawi said that the new constitution being drafted by the government seeks to remove articles and clauses that address morality and nationalism.
He also said that during Mursi’s tenure as president people in Egypt had more freedom.
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