Ministers of Endowments in the GCC adopt Kuwait Document to renew concept of religious discourse

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 17, (KUNA): Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Farid Emadi, said on Saturday, that the Ministers of Endowments in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have adopted an important document submitted by the State of Kuwait in an indicative manner concerned with renewing the concept of religious discourse.

Emadi said in a speech he delivered, on behalf of the Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Issa Al-Kandari, during his leadership of the Kuwaiti delegation in the seventh meeting of the Ministers of Endowments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (held remotely), that the aim of raising this important issue at this time is to contribute to the purification of religious discourse from what has been attached to it. It is not from him and in response to everyone who misused him and what he should have of the required renewal and to clarify the correct and purposeful religious discourse.

He added that this comes from the role entrusted to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf, which presented an important document concerned with fixing a defect that began to appear among two opposite groups entitled (renewing the concept of religious discourse, its importance, challenges, conditions, controls and features.

He explained that the document took its prescribed course in accordance with the mechanisms followed within the framework of approving working papers within the system of the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the proposals submitted by the member states were taken.

He pointed out that the document included a statement of the reality of religious discourse and every statement published to show the facts of Islam, its laws, history and heritage in various areas of life through various media and media.

Emadi stated that the six countries confirmed the content of this document, and the ministers responsible for Islamic affairs and endowments in the (cooperation) countries agreed to adopt this document, and also agreed to assign the permanent committee of specialists to prepare a cooperation agreement in the field of Islamic affairs and another in the field of endowments. He pointed out that all of this comes “out of a sense of the great responsibility entrusted to us by the rulers, and in fulfillment of the duty dictated to us because we are citizens of the blessed Arabian Peninsula, which is the island of Islam.”