3 Nations Peace Conferences, Summits and Sufi Dialogues

3 Nations Peace Conferences, Summits and Sufi Dialogues by Haji Syed Salman Chishty – Gaddi Nashin – Dargah Ajmer Sharif, Chairman – Chishty Foundation, who shall address the opening remarks at the International Seminar on Sufi Culture in Fez, Morocco starting from 23rd Oct to 25th Oct 2022 organised and conceived by Association of International Sufi Culture and it’s President Dr Faouzi Skali, curated by Ms Carol Latifa Ameer Chishty. In the words President Skali presidential remarks says about this year festival theme – Science and Consiousness “Man is not made of reason alone. He is also a being of passion and, more generally, a being of desire. Spirituality in general and Sufism in particular have focused on the reality of this inner life which animates us and guides us even more often than our rational choices. In Sufism, a science of “inner states” emerged aiming not only to understand this great magma of passions inhabiting us, but also to transform them through the alchemy of an inner journey and make these spiritual qualities an experience of life itself. That’s what this feeling of compassion, of humility, is made of; this capacity for astonishment and wonder and, even more, this superior emotion which in this way, represents the crown of all values: spiritual love. At a certain degree of consciousness, desire can simply represent greed or cupidity. But that same desire can also shift itself and rise, crossing the various degrees of a passion, of love without limit. This flight of love, according to an expression of Sufism, is accompanied by this knowledge of the heart which Pascal said had its own modes of intelligence. 

If knowledge does not make your ‘self’ disappear for yourself, then, ignorance is better than such knowledge. This quote so dear to Rumi Hazret and attributed to the great Afghan Sufi master Sanâ’î is addressed to all, general public or scientists and experts.

Haji Syed Salman Chishty – Gaddi Nashin-Dargah Ajmer Sharif and Chairman – Chishty Foundation which is an organization based in Ajmer Sharif with global presence with representation and services in social work, peace, harmony and sharing of Khawaja Gharib Nawaz (r) message of Unconditional Love towards All.

Shall be sharing his remarks at opening ceremony and also at the round table conference which includes Sufi Scholars and academicians from aound the world on the theme of this 15th year edition: Science and Consiousness.

Thereafter on 26th Oct 2022 Haji Syed Salman Chishty shall be boarding the 

early morning from Casablanca, will be heading to Dubai, UAE for the next 4 days to meet and greet seeking hearts from across Indian diaspora along with all other nationality residing in Dubai, will be visiting Spiritual Sacred Center, Interfaith Dialogues, Spiritual sacred music Renditions and Wellness Center for Talks and Teachings of Serving Humanity with Unconditional Love.

Thereafter, on 31st October from Dubai, Sufi Musafir Haji Syed Salman Chishty saheb, shall be boarding the Emirates Flight to Indonesia – Bali for the The first-ever G20 Religious Forum (R20) Summit. The R20 Summit as part of Indonesia’s Presidency of G20 Summit. 

On 2nd November at the opening ceremony of R20 Summit, Presidential Remarks shall be delivered by Indonesia President Joko Widodo, who will be addressing the “opening plenary” of the R20, along with Several cabinet ministers will also participate in the summit, including Yaqut Cholil Qoumas — Indonesia’s minister of religious affairs and a prominent NU leader and the minister of foreign affairs, Retno Marsudi.

Indonesia has set up an ambitious new Group of 20 engagement group forum that will bring together leading religious figures from around the world and make the case for faith to be reconsidered as a more relevant tool for global problem-solving amid the current geopolitical turmoil.

Organised by an Indonesian Islamic think tank, G20 Religion Forum (R20) aims to ‘prevent political weaponisation of identity’. It will be held in Bali 2 weeks before G20 summit.

Called the ‘G20 Religion Forum’, or R20 for short, it will be a parallel event to the annual G20 summit that Indonesia will host this year. Organised and hosted by one of Indonesia’s most influential Islamic think tanks, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the two-day R20 summit will take place on 2 and 3 November in Bali, around two weeks before the G20 summit is scheduled to be held there on 15 and 16 November.

Nahdlatul Ulama and spokesperson of the R20, aims at the religious summit would leverage the G20 “to help ensure that religion in the 21st century functions as a genuine and dynamic source of solutions, rather than problems”.

The R20 this year will focus on four major topics — historical grievances, truth-telling, reconciliation and forgiveness; identifying and embracing values shared by the world’s major religions and civilisations; recontextualisation of obsolete and problematic teachings of religion; and the values we need to develop to ensure peaceful co-existence.

The event is also being supported by the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, which has recognised NU as the coordinator of the event in 2022.

Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, secretary general of the Mecca-based Muslim World League, will co-chair the R20 summit with Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf, chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama central board; and Pope Francis will be sending Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, as his formal representative.

Indonesia will host the first R20, and the next one will be hosted by India since it will be the hosting country for the G20 2023 summit too. The third will be organised in Brazil, when it is due to host G20 2024. So, from a Muslim-majority nation to a Hindu-majority country and then to a Catholic nation — this is a unique summit that will integrate all religions.