They openly announce that they want to occupy the entire region.

They openly announce that they want to occupy the entire region. “The Greater Middle East” has no other meaning. From fifty-something years ago when the usurping Zionist regime was established and from around one hundred years ago when this idea formed among westerners and Europeans, the intention has been to swallow up the entire region. This is what they need to do. They do not care about the people of this region. Everybody is exposed to danger.

When everybody is in danger, the wisest thing to do is to join hands and counter the danger. We seriously demand and recommend that Muslim governments and peoples think about and work on this issue. Of course, this involves some trouble and there are certain requirements that have to be met. Of course, the enemy will not remain idle and they will use the old instruments of fomenting discord.

He will make use of ethnic, sectarian and tribal differences and they will highlight the issues that Islam has emphatically warned against highlighting. Islam has stressed that ethnicity is not the standard for determining the identity of a person. “Surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his duty).” [^1] Islam has stressed that Muslims should treat each other in a brotherly way.

It has not referred to followers of a particular Islamic denomination such as Shia or Sunni Islam, rather it has said that all Muslims “are but brethren”. [^2] Islam has said that anybody who has faith in this Book, in this religion and in this Qiblah is a believer and that all the people who share this faith are brothers. This is what Islam has told us. However, we hide daggers behind our backs in order to sink them into the heart of our religious brothers.

And in all areas, there are people who are at fault. It is necessary to confront and stop such people. Today the Islamic Ummah requires unity in order to survive, achieve glory and salvation, and raise the flag of Islam. What logical grounds are there to put up a resistance against these issues in order to give rise to discord? Unity is more important than all other necessities and priorities. Why do we fail to understand the necessity of Muslim unity?

We are shouldering a heavy responsibility and this juncture is a sensitive juncture. If the enemies manage to use their power to occupy this region, the world of Islam will be forced to regress another one hundred years, just like what happened during the era of colonialism.