Dakar, July 6 (APS) – The Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Elders, Judge Mohamed Abdel-Salam, on Wednesday magnified the peaceful coexistence, tolerance and living together that make Senegal special.
“Senegal is a country of coexistence, tolerance and living together which is a fine example, not only in West Africa, but everywhere in Africa and throughout the world,” he said.
He was speaking at the end of an audience with Monsignor Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar, as part of the courtesy visits he pays to families and religious authorities and which have already taken him to Touba, Tivaouane, Yoff, Medina Baye and Léona Niassene.
“We have a long way to go with you, here in Senegal, to make it a point of influence in Africa and in the rest of the world”, he underlined.
He said he was “lucky to meet other organizations that are not Sufi in faith”.
“My thoughts before and after this visit will not be the same, because Senegal is a country of freedom which has a long history in this area of peace, coexistence, but also tolerance,” he continued.
He says he considers his visit as “a beginning of collaboration between Senegal and the Muslim Council of Elders and between the Grand Imam of Al Azhar [Egypte] and the church just to strengthen human brotherhood”.
He considers that his visit was made fruitful thanks to the support of the President of the National Assembly, Moustapha Niasse, who, he says, ”devoted all his time but also mobilized all his teams to make it ”a success”.
“We had discussions with the President of the Republic [Macky Sall] and we have reached agreements on all the projects that we want to set up in Senegal,” he said.
“I am full of thanks for what I have just experienced with these eminent persons who are there and I give thanks to God for this meeting, which is really a meeting of believers in God but also of believers in humanity. , to the ability of Man to allow himself to be educated by God to spread his will”, declared the Archbishop of Dakar, Monsignor Benjamin Ndiaye.
He insisted on “the urgency for all of us to disseminate as much as possible this document of the charter for human fraternity signed by the head of the Roman Church and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, to save it for that young people know the content and can appreciate it”.
He magnified the fact that ”two characters (…), who are leaders, (…) agree to join forces, so that humanity recognizes that it has an origin and that we must respect each other as brothers and sisters”.
He felt that “there is no much more important message”. According to him, ”this is what we must transmit in a thousand and one ways”.
“I really welcome this approach and I wish that this document is known and I make God bitch, because in Senegal we are built on an ancestral tradition of living together, the social regulators are there to remind us constantly. “, he concluded.
The President of the National Assembly, Moustapha Niasse, points out that the human solidarity charter, “translated into Wolof” in Senegal, was “signed in February 2019 in Abu Dhabi, on the occasion of the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis, at the invitation of the Emir Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin Sultan (…)”.