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The Middle East needs love and unity more than ever.

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Political developments, tragedies, fighting and suffering going on in the Middle East prey

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upon the conscience. Ruthlessness, injustice, hatred and anger literally paralyze communities.

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People are hungry for love. The longing for peace, compassion, love and affection is greater

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than ever before. Bringing policies of peace and love to prevail across the world is easy.

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The difficult thing is to live in hatred, cruelty, suffering, pain and war.

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The last 100 years in the Middle East have been full of war, occupation, terror and violence.

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In 1916, under the secret Sykes-Picot Treaty, the imperialist mentality divided the Middle East

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artificially with lines drawn with a ruler. Brothers, relatives and communities that had

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lived together for hundreds of years were forcibly torn apart and divided. As if that were not enough,

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the region's underground resources and material wealth were also heavily exploited. The dictators

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who followed made people's lives a misery and deprived them of their liberties. The pride of

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the Middle Eastern people was thus broken. This fine region, the richest part of the world in

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material and spiritual terms, the holy lands where the prophets lived, literally turned into a hell on

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earth. Self-interest, egoism and lovelessness literally paralyzed the warm people of the region,

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deprived them of their joy and ruined their peace. The language of violence and hatred resulted in

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communities tasting suffering rather than joy. For the sake of their own interests, certain tribes,

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organizations and parties violated people's most basic human rights in the areas where they were most

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powerful. Regimes began to think of their power rather than their people. Investment was made in

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material things instead of people. Money was spent on arms and not on education, health, social life and

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art. Imperialism, savage capitalism and other political trends that emphasized hatred brought neither

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peace nor happiness to the region. Countries that entered the region always embraced loveless policies.

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The solution to problems was sought in violence rather than love, tolerance and mutual understanding.

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Yet the only thing the region needs is love. Policies of love must predominate in the Middle East,

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not contemptuous language, threats, harsh policies, sudden violence or policies of hatred. The world needs love.

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The Middle East needs love. The greatest power in the world is the existence of a high-quality community

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that insists on policies of love. The secret to being strong is to be united and able to react as one

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against difficulties and aggression. Our greatest weapons are quality, art, talent and unity.

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Love is our greatest weapon and our wealth. Countries in the Middle East are constantly heading

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towards breaking up. That must be stopped at once. That way of thinking must be replaced

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by a spirit of unity that predominates in the region. New impassable borders and new insurmountable

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walls are erected in the wake of every breakup. Mines are laid, barbed wire goes up, walls are raised and ditches are dug.

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Yet all the Middle East needs is love, the replacement of borders with bonds of love,

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and the maximum freedom possible. Unity will bring about many delights.

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There will be a climate of freedom where borders are abolished and there is free movement,

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in which people can travel freely from Cairo to Damascus, Istanbul or Baku.

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We must have a Middle East in which someone who had breakfast in Beirut can have dinner in Gaza,

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then visit Jerusalem and finally move on to Yemen in complete safety.

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There is only one way of establishing that union, to embrace the Quran.

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To live by the moral values God desires of us, and to desire the immediate appearance of the Mati,

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foretold by our Prophet ﷺ, let us not forget that a fragmented Islamic world with no leader

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can never know peace.