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Jakarta, NU Online Hasyim Muzadi, leader of the country’s largest Muslim organizaton Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), said he hoped the newly formed Presidential Advisory Council (Wantimpres) would really play an effective role. "We hope the Wantimpres will provide good advice to the president and also hear and accept advice from the people," Muzadi said at his office here on Thursday.
Muslims all over the world should think in the light of way of thinking based on the Islamic legacy or what called as ulema as the inheritors of Prophets. So the prophetic principles should be the character of ulema. The forming of cadres can only be bridged through the prophetic method rather than others. The duties of prophets that should be inherited are namely the supremeness of moral, sincerity, sacrifice, and standing firmly on truth and justice. The keulamaan is the matter of spirituality. That’s why it should be strengthened from within consisting of the matters of spiritual, intellectual, and moral. What is then interesting to note is that the substance of the spirituality rather than intellectuality for in this case in particular there is always misunderstanding. This, would in turn result in the forming of ulema cadres through intellectualization that possibly comes to unwanted objectives. For many whose bright intellectual have no such the very base of spiritual. These men can not be considered as ulema.
Jakarta, NU Online The Shiite and Sunni sects in the Middle East, which were trapped in a protracted rift, should settle their conflict through dialogues to prevent war from spreading to other regions. "We should hold an inter-sectarian (Shiite-Sunni) dialogue in a bid to prevent the crisis from developing into a civil war," an analyst of international political affairs at the University of Indonesia, Beginda Pakpahan, said here on Wednesday.
Tehran, NU Online President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the US attack on Iraq on the pretext of possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stopped the country's progress for dozens of years and destroyed a significant part of 7000-year human civilization situated there. Speaking at his first press conference in the New Iranian Year (started March 21), he added that besides thousands of people have either been killed and injured, or have become homeless.
Bogor, NU Online General Charman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi said here Tuesday that the UN 1747 resolution was the step of the world powers to destroy Iran. He was deeply concerned it would come true. “We NU are really worried if the resolution is such a first step to destroy Iran like that occurred in Iraq,” Hasyim said at the opening of international conference on Iraq in the Bogor Presidential Palace.
Jakarta, NU Online President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to open a two-day international conference of Muslim leaders at the Bogor Presidential Palace on Tuesday afternoon to seek reconciliation in Iraq. According to the presidential schedule, Yudhoyono will open the meeting at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday and at 7.30 p.m. the president will host a dinner banquet at the Bogor Palace.
Jakarta, NU Online Islamic leaders angered by Indonesia's support of a UN resolution against Iran have canceled plans to attend an international meeting about violence between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis, one of the organizers said Monday. Twenty-one clerics were expected at the gathering that kicks off Tuesday, but only 12 have confirmed attendance, said Hasyim Muzadi, chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization.
Cairo, NU Online Matthew Dowd, US President George W. Bush's chief strategist in the 2004 crucial presidential race, has lost faith in Bush over his "my way or the highway" mentality, insisting that his White House rival Senator Jon Kerry was right on Iraq. "I really like him (Bush), which is probably why I'm so disappointed in things. I think he's become more, in my view, secluded and bubbled in," Dowd told The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview published on Sunday, April 1.
Beijing, NU Online The president of the China Islamic Association said on Monday that Islam is a religion of peace and compassion and is known for its humanitarian activities. Sheikh Halaleddin's remarks came during a meeting with visiting members of the Iranian parliament's (Majlis) Cultural Commission, during which he also said that closer ties between Iranian and Chinese Muslims can bolster exchanges of the two countries.
Tuban, NU Online Chairman of the Advisory Body of the new-declared party called as the Ulema National Awakening Party (PKNU) KH Ma’ruf Amin said Saturday that the birth of PKNU had marked the awakening of ulema in struggling for the nation's interests as a whole. The top official of the Indonesian Ulema Council said that the ulema would examine comprehensively the performance of the party in directing its all activities dealing with the demand of the people.
Jakarta, NU Online Water from Lapindo mud field has began inundating railways and main road in Porong district, Sidoardjo regency, East Java, official says. Porong district head Mulyadi, who just observed the area Sunday evening, said the water level, which have covered railway and Porong's main road, was increasing. He, however, did not elaborate.
Tehran, NU Online This week's Friday Prayers Leader Hojatoleslam Seyed Ahmad Khatami said here that no third party, such as the United Nations Security Council or any country has the right to interfere in the case of arrested British sailors. Addressing a large crowd of woshippers at his sermon, he said that the issue is quite clear, given that two British vessels trespassing Iran's borders and territorial waters were stopped by Iranian marine guards and the servicemen aboard were arrested.
