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” (21:92) A very important and immediate need of the Muslim world is to achieve proximity among different schools of thought in Islam.
The most important of those being: 1- By causing religious conflict and bloodshed between the different sects of Islam, they wanted to show the West how the Muslims have blind prejudices and are illogical and their only logic is violence.
Proximity among Different Schools of Thought Now after this introduction, one has to ask the following questions: 121 Is it not time for the intellectuals, theoreticians and the scholars of the Muslim world, either Shi'a or Sunnis, to come together and work towards bringing hearts and minds of Muslims across the world closer, by benefiting from the assets available in Islam, the Qur’an and the Prophet’s (S) tradition and example, and prove to the world and particularly to the West that Islam is a religion of justice, peace, brotherhood, equality and humanity and that its prophet is the prophet of compassion and benevolence?
At the same time they were wondering how the Muslims--who enjoy the unity in the essence of their religion, and who all worship one God and follow one Prophet and pray in the direction of one Qiblah, and circumambulate around one Ka‘bah—cannot achieve proximity and cannot avoid separation and enmity.
It is hoped that Muslim scholars and thinkers will engage in dialogue and debate about the proximity among Islamic schools of thought which is the most urgent need of the Islamic world today.