Royal Activities
Saturday 13 July 2013

HM The King Chairs 2nd Religious Lecture Of Ramadan

HM The King Chairs 2nd Religious Lecture Of Ramadan

HM King Mohammed VI, commander of the faithful, who was accompanied by HRH Prince Moulay Rachid and HH Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired this Saturday at the Royal palace of Rabat the second religious lecture of the series of Hassanian lectures of the holy month of Ramadan

     The lecture, given by Cheikh Chaouki Allam, Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt was themed : "relationship between transactions and ethics", based on the Prophet’s saying "I was sent to perfect good virtues”.

    After pointing out that the messengers of Allah were entrusted, among others, with the mission of teaching to humankind morality, the lecturer stressed the utmost importance and place granted by Islam to ethics, a pillar of the Charia (Islamic law).

     In Islam, said the Mufti of Egypt, the faithful develop ethics concurrently as faith is enshrined in them, and ethics encompass all walks of life in Islam which an integrated system.

Muslims have throughout time comprehended this vision and have, consequently, endeavoured to abide by it in various fields, including in financial dealings for which they defined, in addition to customary conditions, ethical standards.

     Based on the Holy Coran and on literature of theologians and specialists on the necessary correlation between daily financial transactions and ethics, the lecturer also drew various balances in terms of financial dealings, namely between capital and labor and between production and consumption.

    He also stated that both the Coran and the Prophet’s traditions have established an intrinsic link between ethics in various walks of life and faith which refuses all forms of perversion and fraud, while encouraging believers to preach good conduct principles, particularly those of mutual help and cooperation.

    The intrinsic link between ethics and financial transactions, he went on, protects the Muslim community against economic crises, stressing that it is no wonder that the absence of values and ethics systematically entails the spread of vice, perversion and political and social frauds, and, consequently injustice, intolerance and cruelty.

    The lecturer further pointed out that Islam does not confine ethics to mere religious practices, but extends it to a duty dictated by Charia 

  

  At the end of the lecture, the sovereign was greeted by professors Chaouki Allam, Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Tahar Tajkani, president of the Moroccan Ulema Council for Europe (Belgique), Abderrazak Abderrahman Asaad Assaadi, Iraqi academic, Mohamed Jarad Al Aissaoui, Imam of the Cheikh Abdelkader Kilani mosque in Irak and Bachar Aouad Maarouf, from the Jordanian Hachemite Royal documentation centre.

   The Sovereign was also greeted by Nabil Matchong Bing, Assistant-Secretary General of China’s Islamic Assembly, Mohamed Mokhtar Ould Bah, president of Chenguit Islamic university (Mauritania), Mohamed Petchovich, professor of Islamic studies at the Novi Pazar university in southern Serbia and Jamal Abou Al Hounoud, advisor of the Palestinian minister of Waqfs and religious affairs.

     On this occasion, minister of Habous and Islamic affairs, Ahmed Toufiq, presented HM the King with a recording of "Al-Moushaf Al-Mohammadi" holy book.

     Every year, the ministry of  Habous and Islamic affairs records recitation of the holy Coran by one or several readers, in a bid to encourage the dissemination of the holy book, in accordance with the instructions of HM King Mohammed VI, commander of the faithful.