Mullah Baradar urges ulema to tone down their sermons

KABUL (Pajhwok): Addressing the graduation ceremony of a seminary’s students in Kabul, the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs called on religious scholars to soften their language while giving sermons and instill the spirit of protecting the Islamic system and national interests in the people.

A press statement from the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office for Economic Affairs said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar made these remarks yesterday at a ceremony in Jami’a Fath-ul-Uloom religious school in Kabul.

He said madaris were sacred institutions of Islamic societies for religious knowledge, jihad, prophetic ethics, spiritual and intellectual training, and Islamic renaissance.

Apart from their religious obligations, Baradar asked scholars to soften the language of sermons and pulpits and instill in the people the spirit of protecting the Islamic system and national interests.

“In Afghanistan, the Islamic tradition of the obligation of holy jihad emerged in the madrassas, spread to villages and cities and transformed into an action and confrontation that defeated the great infidel armies.”

Mullah Baradar described the role of madrassas as important in the intellectual reform of society, the elimination of non-Islamic cultures and the preservation of Islamic traditions, and emphasized that madrassas must maintain their original path in all circumstances.

He urged the seminary’s graduates to act on their knowledge, share it with others and treat people within the framework of prophetic ethics.

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