President of Republic Holds an Iftar Party in Honor of the Heads of Political Parties, Imams and Representatives of Civil Society Organizations

The President of the Republic, Mohamed Ould Cheikh EL Ghazouani, hosted on Thursday evening at one of the wings of the Presidential Palace in Nouakchott, an Iftar in honor of the heads of national political formations, imams, deputies and representatives of civil society organizations.
The Iftar was also attended by officials and advisers in the Presidency of the Republic, the Prime Ministry, the governor of Western Nouakchott, some military and security leaders, members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations and bodies accredited in Mauritania.
During the meeting, a number of imams presented a series of lectures on the virtues of the holy month of Ramadan and the high values it provides, and the behavior that a Muslim must enjoy according to the dictates of the Ramadan school of virtue values that call for brotherhood, love, cooperation and solidarity, and the role that scholars must play to maintain peace and combat extremism and behaviors that violate security and stability.
In the first lecture, entitled “The Role of Scholars in Spreading Peace and Fighting Sedition”, Cheikh Ould Saleh, Secretary-General of the Association of Mauritanian Scholars, focused on the position that scholars enjoy in society, which qualifies them to be more influential than others and directed to strengthen the pillars of security and stability and combat the sources of extremism and terrorism.
He reviewed the conditions and qualities that must characterize the world, starting with its endeavor to maintain civil peace and the social fabric, and to combat everything that violates this, through the dissemination of religious sciences, preaching and guidance lessons, defusing strife, repairing the relationship between them, responding to the similarities that lead to sedition and extremism, spreading a good example, directing respect for powers and clarifying the legal ruling in the relationship between the ruler and the governed.
In the second and third lectures, which were under the same title: “The Virtue of Fasting”, jurist Ahmed Abdel Aziz Sy and jurist Mohamed Ould al-Qazi reviewed the virtues of the holy month of Ramadan, and what a Muslim must have during this holy month of returning to God Almighty, adhering to His orders and avoiding His prohibitions.
They talked about the purposes and objectives of fasting, which go beyond staying away from the desires to the transcendence of the soul so that the fasting person is characterized by the qualities of the people of righteousness and charity as a way to reach the highest levels of piety.