My dear revered brothers and sisters, I have been working tirelessly for establishing peace for nearly 25 years. We are definitely running out of time. Every day a large number of innocent lives are taking their toll at no fault of their own. This has to be stopped. The burning question is how this can be arrested.

We can only achieve this by arriving at a common consensus and sharing our noble vision and thoughts, pooling our energy, resources and dialogue based on religious and spiritual concepts together on one common platform, and thus thrust all our force in that direction without further time wastage. Our Holy Books and Scriptures are the source of eternal light to erase all such misconceptions and misgivings.

These sacred books as ordained by Allah (God) are irrevocable. It is enshrined and has come to us as an eternal source of strength, driving force sent through our Holy prophets at different times for the betterment of mankind.

Unfortunately, we have not been able to use and exploit this to our advantage, as was the enlightened desire of Allah, through His divine prophets. We are potentially still a force to reckon with on the driving seat to harness our good virtues for the peace of the world.

It is therefore imperative that there is a concerted effort to renew our honest will to establish the doctrines of Allah in this world, in thoughts, words and deeds, if not, we are bound to perish and vanish from the good book of Allah. Politicians and policy, and lawmakers and religious leaders of all faiths, belief has to work in close conjunction in order to materialize our dream for a world of progress and prosperity.

My thoughts go out for the oppressed and the depressed. It is true, many thought provoking, peace-loving individuals and groups are working in reducing tension and conflict, but unfortunately, not much has been achieved. It is only through the doctrine of preaching love and respect for families under Allah (God) and the teachings of His innumerable prophets that were sent for the welfare of mankind at different times can bring about welfare, happiness of mankind.

Followers of the Abrahamic faith having one common ancestral root, in fact preach love, peace and religious harmony, having sprung from one land. This indeed is a big boon and blessing that we can be proud of.

It is time for reality and not rhetoric. It is through this vehicle that we can effectively mobilize our engine together by bringing the Abrahamic faith of all religious faiths together for establishing lasting peace.

I have been running all over the world relentlessly making sincere efforts to preach the ideology of Islamic Sufism as enunciated and preached by our Holy prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him,) who inherits the fundamentals of Hazrat Abraham (Peace be upon him) as are also firmly rooted in the common ideology of our Jewish and Christian brothers.

I am convinced that we can march forward in our common goals and gospel without further delay, in fostering synchronization on the principles of our common glorious heritage. I would like to make a call upon all world leaders to form a consensus to ensure that this can be established.

Unfortunately, in recent years, Islam has been widely misunderstood and there lies one of the saddest tragedies of our contemporary world. We believe that our prophets who were sent and ordained by Allah were His peaceful messengers for the spread of fraternal brotherhood, and to live in peaceful coexistence.

Shah Sufi Saleh Uddin Ahmed Chisty
Bangladesh

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