Druze council | Doha Magazine
Tuesday 30 April 2024 - 21 Shawal 1445
Speech of his Eminence the Sheikh Akl of the Druze Unitarian Community the Sheikh Naim Hassan on the occasion of the visit of His Beatitude Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi to Aley, on September 11, 2015

2015-09-11

In the name of Allah the Merciful

Praise be to God in every start and conclusion

You are the most welcome in your House your Beatitude. From this land come our bread and salt, from this mountain flow out our water and air and with its goodness our bodies were strengthened and our spirits have nourished from the breezes of freedom, dignity and the gift of life.

Throughout history, the Mountain was only abused by the states ‘greedy interests and policies. This is not accidental that Lebanon remains over the centuries a mission impossible despite all transients.

Every meeting contains in its components Lebanon. This country is raised on mutual values and the message of humanitarian meeting, which fructifies with love. Our Constitution is based on co-existence.

Your honoring to meet the parents reflects the national will that opens the door for salvation of our country. We highly appreciate your role today in ending the wound of the region of Chahar and Kafarmatta to complement the process of coexistence sponsored by your forefather His Beatitude the Patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and His Excellency Mr. Walid Jumblatt. We together always meet on the constants expressed by the spiritual summits that hold the spirit of our precious country.

Your beatitude, our country is threatened. Aren’t the officials aware of the seriousness of the stage? Immunizing our country starts by returning the democratic mechanisms and governmental institutions to their normal functioning. We shall meet together starting from the incitation to perform the duty and commit to the responsibility by the nation’s deputies to elect a president of our republic.

However, let us welcome you, Your Beatitude, in this expanse of light illuminated literally by the meeting without going further into public affairs. Let us live the joy of this moment to address our message to all the Lebanese, a message of love and participation under a country that God characterized by the charm of its land and the beauty of the humanitarian meeting and relation. Let us say together in a faithful heart that our Lebanon will stay on its message despite the intense storms. And that our faith in this country arises from our pure faith in exalted values ​​that we derive from the heavenly messages away from any intolerance and infringement. Our Lebanon rests on this East, its bud, which is distinguished by its net and pure teachings that inspired the entire world. Our message, with God the Almighty’s will, concerns this pureness.

You, Your Beatitude, are welcome in your House. We ask God Almighty for the safety of our country and our people. He is the Hearer and Respondent.