{"id":89170,"date":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2025\/08\/27\/iums-calls-for-fasting-on-thursday-in-devotion-to-god-and-solidarity-with-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","slug":"iums-calls-for-fasting-on-thursday-in-devotion-to-god-and-solidarity-with-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2025\/08\/27\/iums-calls-for-fasting-on-thursday-in-devotion-to-god-and-solidarity-with-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"IUMS Calls for Fasting on Thursday in Devotion to God and Solidarity with Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">IUMS Calls for Fasting on Thursday in<br \/>\nDevotion to God and Solidarity with Gaza<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Within the framework of its international scientific<br \/>\nconference held under the theme \u201cGaza: An Islamic and Human Responsibility\u201d,<br \/>\nthe International Union of Muslim Scholars has urged Muslims across the globe<br \/>\nto fast on Thursday, 5 Rabi\u2018 al-Awwal 1447 AH (August 28, 2025). The call is<br \/>\nboth an act of devotion to God\u2014since fasting on Thursdays is a Prophetic<br \/>\ntradition\u2014and an expression of solidarity with the people of Gaza, who endure<br \/>\nsiege, hunger, and thirst under relentless aggression.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Union President Sheikh Dr. Ali Muhyiddin Al-Qaradaghi<br \/>\nstressed that the scholars participating in the conference resolved to begin<br \/>\nwith themselves by fasting in worship and supplication, as a demonstration of<br \/>\nthe Ummah\u2019s unity and shared suffering with Gaza. He emphasized that, had<br \/>\naccess been possible, the scholars would have stood in the front lines beside<br \/>\nits people, but the blockade prevented that.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">He underlined that this initiative reflects a position<br \/>\nof faith and morality, reaffirming that the Islamic Ummah will never abandon<br \/>\nGaza regardless of the duration of the aggression. He further warned that the<br \/>\noccupation\u2019s continued policies of killing, starvation, and genocide will have<br \/>\ndire consequences extending beyond Palestine, threatening the stability and<br \/>\nsecurity of the entire region.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The Union, in cooperation with the Islamic Scholars<br \/>\nEndowment, is hosting this global conference with the participation of more<br \/>\nthan 150 scholars representing 50 Muslim and non-Muslim countries. The<br \/>\ngathering embodies a unified scholarly stance against the crimes of the<br \/>\noccupation and reaffirms the commitment to defending Palestine and the just<br \/>\ncauses of the Ummah.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The conference, which began last Friday, runs until<br \/>\nAugust 29, and will conclude with a major scholarly assembly in the courtyard<br \/>\nof Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul\u2014affirming that the voice of the scholars<br \/>\nwill continue to rise in truth in defense of Gaza, Jerusalem, and Palestine.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u060c \u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<b><span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=40039\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span><\/b>).<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IUMS Calls for Fasting on Thursday in Devotion to God and Solidarity with Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":89328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-activities-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}