News > Statements&Communiqués > 26/12/2006 A.D, 5 Zu Elhujja 1427 H

A Letter to the Lebanese, the Arabs and all Muslims on the occasions of the Eids

Let the Eids be an occasion for the sects and religious to meet

Thus, the joy in celebrating the occasions of Eids a joy of celebrating the holding of this reasonability and achieving security and social, economic a political peace to all people.

Thus, Christian, Muslim and other religious Eids do not only coincide by accident in the same period, New Year and Adha, but they are also joined in their spiritual and virtuous essence of the Heavenly Message.

In this respects we have notice a trend towards showing this joy in a materialistic manner, but both Islam and Christianity wanted the Eid to be one of the stations in the trip of assuming one's responsibility as well as an opportunity to review what one has gained and lost in his lifetime.

Let this materialistic manifestation of joy a movement towards spiritual joy in which one feels the tranquillity of having served humanity to the best of his abilities.

Eid Al-Fitr, for example, represents in the Islamic conception a means of celebrating the success in assuming the reasonability of fasting the most of Ramadan, that constitute a period of time dedicated to strengthening will power and patience and feeling the pains and grief's of others. Eid Al-Adha which represents immortalizing the concept of sacrifice following the role model of Prophet Ibrahim (a.s.) in his readiness to sacrifice his son if Allah so wills, is, therefore, full of spiritual implications.

The Birth of Christ (p.) is also a sublime spiritual occasion. Christ was not interested in living the material side of life at the expense of his message. He was concerned with peace in all its spiritual dimension in life, as well as justice and the moral and spiritual values that form the links between fellow human beings.

The same thing is true with respect to national occasions, which we do not believe that it should be celebrated only with demonstrations. It is in the first place an occasion to restudy how to enhance the unity internal peace and independence of the country.

The value of any Eid lies in its openness on the people's causes and inspirations. But it has been reduced to an occasion of dissolution and moral degradation.

To celebrate of new Hijri on Christian year is to study all the achievement and failures of the past year to plan to over-come any defects and achieve additional accomplishments on the road of making the country a leading one and the nation one of the leading nations.

We acknowledge the need of material joy, but it should be associated to the spiritual joy of feeling one's human and national responsibility, so that human joy will elevate to the level a virtue of establishing good relations between fellow human beings.

In this respect exchanging greeting and visits would be a contribution in building social and political security, and in thinking about a promising future feels the joy of overcoming the arrogant plots and the traps it has set for us.

Our enemy the international arrogance is against man's joy with fellow humans or with life itself. It is against opening up on other brothers in humanity.

That is why we see that the arrogant powers make all effort to make the Eids an occasion of sadness through inciting sectarian strives. This is what American is trying to do in the region so that we will remain in a state of emergency that will prevents us from thinking about the major challenges that confront us, and leave us imprisons of the exploding reality in our countries, especially in Iraq that America want to be a model of bloody violence in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

We want the Eids to be an occasion where sects and religious meet to make our regional unity in the face of the American and Israeli occupations, and to establish our internal peace in accordance with the call of Christ for love and Muhammad's call for mercy.

These two values represent our pursuit for world peaces, a peace of all humanity in a bond of cooperation and brotherhood among all nations.