News From : DagangHalal.com (19 Mar 2010)
DUBAI — Aiming for global unity through peace is the main focus of the Dubai International Peace Convention inaugurated on Thursday evening by Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council.
The conference launched by the Dubai Islamic Department, in collaboration with Al Manar Quran Study Centre, is meant to bring everyone on the same level of understanding about peace.
The three-day event, the first of its kind in the Middle East, is being held under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
Themed ‘Islam: the religion of peace and understanding’, the unique function started with some verses of the Holy Quran by popular Kuwaiti scholar Shaikh Mishary Rashid Al Afasy, followed by an interesting lecture billed ‘Peace and prosperity: Islam’s Goal for Humanity’ by Shaikh Yusuf Estes (USA). A Nasheed ‘Islamic song’ was sung by Shaikh Afasy.
Popular scholars from different countries, including Dr Hussain Hassan (Egypt), Yasir Qadhi (USA), Abdur Raheem Green (UK), Shaikh Hussain Yee (Malaysia), M M Akbar (India), Saeed Rageah (Canada), Ahmed Hamed (India), and Zain Bhikha (South Africa), are to give lectures on the other two days of the conference slated to conclude on March 20.
The event will also feature a unique International Exhibition on Islam by the name of ‘Salvation’ featuring about 300 panels spread over 100,000 square feet area. The show intends to do just that by presenting the ideology of Islam in its pristine purity. In an effort to bring together buyers and traders from the Halal ‘permissible’ industry around the world, the convention will see an International Islamic Bazaar, an interactive platform for International Halal Products industry.
Director-General of the Department of Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities in Dubai, Dr Hamad Al Shaibani, said the gathering is aimed at enlighten the people of the world with the knowledge endowed to us by the one God who defined, created, and elaborated what peace really is and its means to achieve.