Cairo: Mosque preachers across Saudi Arabia were united in Friday sermons in warning the faithful against dangers of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a Saudi newspaper reported Saturday.
The clerics devoted their pre-prayer sermons to emphasize the crucial importance of unity and avoiding discord, warning against groups operating under the cloak of religion for mundane agendas, mainly the Brotherhood, according to Okaz newspaper.
Urging Muslims to rally around rulers, the preachers also stressed the necessity of exposing the subversive schemes of those groups and pointed out that unmasking them is a form of cooperation for piety.
Terrorist group
Last week, Saudi’s top Islamic institution, the Senior Scholars Councils, condemned the Brotherhood and designated it as a terrorist group.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that does not represent the Islamic course, but follows its partisan goals that contradicts the guidance of our lofty religion,” the council said in a statement.
“Since its establishment [in 1928], it has not shown any care for the Islamic creed or disciplines of the Holy Quran and the Prophet’s Sunna. Rather, its ultimate aim is to reach power. Therefore, the group’s history is full of evils and seditions. It has also given birth to radical and terrorist groups that have wrought havoc of violence and terrorism,” the council added.
In 2014, Saudi Arabia outlawed the Brotherhood, listing it as a terror organisation. In late 2013, the group was banned in Egypt, its birthplace, after a spate of violent attacks unleashed in the country following the Islamist group’s removal from power after massive street protests against its divisive rule.
