By: Syed Danish Hussain | Published: March 17, 2010
ISLAMABAD - At the concluding session of International Conference on Sufism and Peace, the writers and intellectuals from 30 countries including Pakistan have unanimously adopted a resolution stressing for the promotion of role of Sufism and peace for peaceful coexistence, cultural harmony and understanding in turbulent world.
“We have noted that multi-cultural society in the world has now become the only way to promote humanistic ideals imbedded in the spiritual development of mankind as enunciated by Sufism,” the resolution titled Islamabad Declaration says.
The Islamabad Declaration condemned all forms of terrorism not only in Pakistan but also in the world. “The galaxy of writers assembled in Pakistan thinks that all of us should not only show tolerance to all creeds - regardless of race, creed and all forms of political persuasions - but should also work for the acceptance diversity of creeds as the flowering of pluralism and multiculturalism as the only way to the nourishment and sustenance of human civilisation,” it observed.
The participants observed the role of civil societies in creating social awareness about inter-religious harmony, human rights and respect of law, as well as the role of Sufism in promoting tolerance, mutual respect and human dignity.
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