Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has called on all the leaders and scholars of the Muslim world to take strong steps to stop Hezbollah and its supporters fighting against the people in Syria. “It has been known beyond doubt that it (Hezbollah) is a party of the enemy agent that does not respect the ties of kinship or covenant with the believers,” Al-Asheikh said while commenting on a recent statement by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi in which he acknowledged his error in taking an anti-Saudi stance on Hezbollah.
Al-Asheikh said in his statement on 5 June that Saudi Arabia did not have any ulterior motive in supporting any effort to solve problems of Muslims in different parts of the world. He thanked Qaradawi for commending the stance taken by the Saudi scholars in the past on various issues. He also affirmed Qaradawi’s condemnation of Hezbollah’s collaboration with the Syrian regime in the hostilities against the Syrian people and stressed the need for all Muslim scholars and leaders to take a unified stand in solving the issue.Saudi scholars and intellectuals have backed the mufti’s statement.