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In the occasion of the Noble Prophet's birth, on February 14, 2011 His Eminence the Sheikh Akl of the Unitarian Druze Community El Sheikh Naim Hassan addressed a letter in which he said:

2011-02-14

Beirut, on February 14, 2011

In the Name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Praise and Thanks be to God Lord of Mankind, Prayers and Peace be upon the Master of Messengers, His Family and His Companions, until the Day of Recompense 

It is, by God's grace and favor to the nation and whole humanity, the birth of hope, Annunciation and light that broke the darkness and the obscurity of ignorance, it is the message of the warner messenger, the Last of the Prophets, the reader of God’s inspiration, and speaker of right as God said in His Glorious Book “O Prophet! Verily, we have sent you as witness, and a bearer of glad tidings and a warner, and as one who invites to Allah by His Leave, and as a lamp spreading light (The Confederates 45-46).

The believer is not unaware of the grace purposes and the wise creator wisdom secret. If he remembers and feels this memory, his heart will humble, his feelings will surrender, and his soul will be calm reflecting what God to Whom be ascribed all perfection and majesty wanted such as goodness, guidance and repentance for the good of souls, life of spirits and delight of the eye. Therefore the commemoration of this occasion meaning will be a contact with the grace, a real joy of realizing its noble and honest aims, a blessed achievement of the knowledge fruits and commitments to its virtues through which the human meaning will be achieved in its noblest aspects, and the hidden content of his existence kindness that God honored when He said: “And indeed We have honored the Children of Adam, and we have carried them on land and sea, and have provided them with lawful good things, and have preferred them above many of those whom we have created with a marked preferment” (The Journey by Night 70).

We have brothers to well select the kindness of God’s graces to us, so our heart will be pleased, and our intentions will be purified, we will set our will according to what the almighty God wanted for us from the truth revealed to his noble prophet (Prayer and Peace be upon him), so it awakened the hearts, motivated the resolutions, enlightened the spirits, so was the great success, the abundant favor, that released people form the selfishness, ignorance, tribal fanaticism cave to the  wideness of faith, and the space of the noble science, so the firsts became with their loyalty, devotion, collaboration and gathering around each other as a compact structure “The best people ever raised up for mankind”, an intermediate nation, allowing the convenient and prohibiting the reprehensible, calling to acquaintance between people on the basis of piety, firm commitment to good ethics, and to human morals rising above cupidity, greed, dominance and authority tendencies, given that it is suppressing the kind divine meanings, and spoiling the human natures devoid of spirits desires ordering evil, so the radiating aim and the finest request of the divine message that Prophet Mohammad (Prayer and Peace be upon him) was chosen to deliver will be achieved.

We call from the heart of this great day meanings to the representation of the reality of the Prophet Commemoration meanings (which is in any way a connected meaning over days and nights without interruption), to deliver our hearts to truth declaring it, and rise for the benefit of our society and nation, to the levels decent by their purposes, so we raise the meaning of sacrifice and giving, meeting, cooperation and unity to the first levels in our souls, turn with the good wills toward what unite and not split the ranks, settle the rows and not separate and disperse them. Our faith is firm and I am convinced that all the leaderships in Lebanon have a firm sense of the supreme national interest, even if they differ on the means of achieving them and the ways of expressing them. This equivalence was proven by all the historical facts that witnessed the birth of settlement equivalences which contributed to the stability, security and unity of the nation, and vice versa given that every tendency to separation and division lead to conflicts and destruction. 

With the blessing of this memory, we call the Lebanese to cooperate, while it became necessary for the leaders in the light of the circumstances happening in the region to listen to people’s voice as well as daily and living worries. They have to quickly form a government that will save the country and immunize it in front of the economic and political challenges in a way preserving the national gains achieved by the blood of the martyrs and sacrifices of the Lebanese, and strengthening Lebanon immunity, national army and resistance in front of the oppressive Israeli enemy that did not stop aggressing our sovereignty without any restraint under the eyes of the International Community.

While we are welcoming the prophet’s blessed birth (peace be upon him), we are inspired in this occasion by pure calls to apply and strengthen unity on all levels. We need today and every day unity in the Islamic world, a real immunized unity that prevent any suspicious intervention that may sow discord and spread the trouble spirit between Islamic confessions and communities. We need in the Arab world a comprehensive Arab unity and a global rise that will give back to the Arab populations their position on the international level. We have to hear well the voice of people. We heard it in Tunisia and Egypt, it was loud, high and firm, the resolutions rose against the hiding places of defects in the methods of governance, so the people cried for bread, freedom, justice and honesty. The anger exploded against corruption, monopolization, exclusiveness, injustice and oppression. The revolutionary echoes of people acclamation should be repeated in the consciences of all governors, they are echoes harmonious with the aims of the prophetic message, especially justice among people.

In this occasion we can not but remember Palestine and Jerusalem, while the Israeli entity continues its settlement operations and attacks against the Islamic and Christian entities in Jerusalem and elsewhere, in the shadow of the absence of a unified Palestinian position and the absence of an Arabic and Islamic position to confront the liquidation threat.

We ask God to Whom be ascribed all perfection and majesty to make us profit from the blessing of this memory, to enlighten our hearts with the meanings of His great grace, to unite us in our nation and country, to combine our wills in goodness, and raise our resolutions to select the kindness of His generosity, to awaken our hearts to be aware of the verses the great prophet said, to make our populations spend it in pride and glory, full of dignity with his success and grace, My Lord hears and responds having abundant favors.