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 was mentioned in the most valued speeches regarding the Esraa, about a sincere who satisfied Allah as a messenger - prayer and peace of Allah be upon him – and who came to the Holy House with jewels, entered the mosque, prayed with two prostrations and then went out saying (prayer and peace be upon him): “Gabriel (prayer be upon him) came to me with a pot of wine and a pot of yogurt. I chose the yogurt. So Gabriel said: I chose the instinct”.

Therefore, the journey to the seven skies began. The Messenger of God (Prayer and Peace of Allah be upon him) was in a hardship period (general sadness) when he traveled by night {Who took His slave for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-Al-Haram to Al-Masjid-Al-Aqsa} (Al-Isra’ 1) Then he showed him his Verses in the Great Meraj in the path of the prophets going forward to the highest sky.

The choice of instinct is a surrender to the Will of God in His noble significances {Allah’s Fitrah with which He has created mankind} (Ar-Rum 30) which means, as mentioned by His Almighty, it is the valued religion. It is the righteous religion of God, through which humans resort to righteousness far away from polytheism. It is the Islam when the Islam was pure in the believers’ hearts. It was one of their consciences, God was there for them to support them, consolidate their attempts and guide them to the significance of the message that lightened the vision and revived the hearts.

Esraa and Meraj also carries in one of its significances a sign toward the path of the spiritual rise that should be adopted by every believer in the shining of his will, his determination and his intention toward the noble humanitarian values that represent the purpose of destination in the Noble Book, and it is undoubtedly the ideal purpose, until we reach the knowledge of God His Almighty depending on our work and worship in a way that suits the obedient servant.

The significance of the religious occasion seems completed when the purpose behind it blossoms in the hearts and thus fructifies the good work that carries goodness to the human and the community of believers, and even to the humanity in its whole. How could we obey in our souls to this unique event since the beginning of the Islam unless with the strong desire of the highest point, starting with the origin of the Islam values, the most agreed of which is only the faith in the one and only God, acting kindly, denying the bad and performing the necessities. All that requires from the soul to preserve noble ethics, rise above the material affairs, dissociate the heart from any egoist tendency to domination, superiority, oppression and the easiness of getting involved in the sins and desires.

This is the path toward the rise to every celestial significance, the imitation of the noble Meraj, the return to the clarification of the instinct meaning by which the souls were molded before its mirror was eliminated by the oppression and the detachment from God’s order.

Today is the occasion that unites us to gather at this respectable House so that we would be one voice calling for the piety that leads us to salvation, not for individuals only, but for the community and the entire Islamic nation, in a way that makes them gather in the space of goodness and God’s Unitarianism.

It would be useless if we acquire the whole land and all its contents without satisfying God and gaining His messenger’s intercession. Thus, there is no satisfaction neither intercession without getting back to the religion’s instinct far away from the involvement in divisions, separations and hatred accumulation.

My dear brothers, there is an urgent obligation that our voice remains unified, inspired by the universal principles, saturated by the compliance with all the significances carried by this occasion, and even the ones that are manifested by our Book that unites us all under its wings, the Noble Koran. A voice calling for repentance and awareness of the risks points. Let us not deceive ourselves by disregarding facts that are meant to severely provoke the confessional antagonism, the sectarian fanaticism and the expanded hole between the Muslims themselves by stimulating the factors of division and separation.

Many dissension causes and large risks threaten our country nowadays. We strongly reject dragging the country into the fire of the nations’ struggles through the intended security chaos in this or that region. Tripoli is our home as much as Hermel is. Ersal is also our home as much as Baalbeck is. All of them are our Lebanon that we need to see fortified by the awareness of its sons who are bound by responsibility, conscience and religious nature to avoid slipping into the abyss of fire.

We should all call for wisdom, communication and dialogue, as well as limiting the stimulating language and adopting the informative methodology that manifests the national spirit and ethical values and realizes the history’s lessons and the meanings of the internal wars fears, so that its voice would also be impartial and non-provoking. First of all, we call the politicians to stay away from the unfruitful debate that diffuses the message of hatred on TVs and strive in order to facilitate the constitution of a national union government that bears the burdens of this period with a responsible vision. We should call for the preservation of constitutional institutions by reinforcing their activities in a way that enables them to face the risks of the current complicated period.

We stick to the opinions of the Great governors about the necessity of supporting our army and fortifying its capacities, so that it remains the security armor protecting us against pressures. We also ask to support all the security forces in order to protect the country from any instability aspects. It is to mention that one of the most important bases of support consist in the union of the government’s elements starting from the country’s President and reaching the head of every authority. In fact, Lebanon will be only built by national union.

We have to remind at this occasion about the blessed land from which stemmed the Meraj, I mean Palestine. We remind with a broken heart and we wonder how much the tyrannical enemy praises what is happening to the Arab lands as well as Syria and Iraq. We all know the real party to which we should address hostility with no reservation. I ask God His Almighty to inspire us to that satisfy Him, protect us in our intentions from any confusion and polytheism and make our steps firm toward the right paths, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer.

Beirut, on June 6, 2013