Under the title (Non-Violence in the Thought of Imam al-Shirazi .. Problems of Understanding and the Requirements of Reality), Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi delivered his paper at the symposium held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Umm al-Hamam area, on the occasion of the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Imam al-Shirazi, on the eve of Friday, 24/11/2005 CE. The commemoration was under the title Social Peace and Non-Violence in the Thought and Jurisprudence of Imam al-Shirazi. Also participating in the symposium was His Eminence Shaykh Shakir al-Nasir from the al-Awjam area in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi addressed the intellectual aspect of the method of non-violence according to Imam al-Shirazi, and explained its instances, fields and levels.
Likewise, His Eminence Shaykh al-Nasir addressed the aspect of jurisprudential grounding and inference.
Dialogues took place and questions were raised about the problems of understanding the method of non-violence, such as (Is non-violence a means or a goal? Is it a strategy or not? Why the focus on putting forward the idea of non-violence recently in particular, and so strikingly? Did Imam al-Shirazi believe in the issue of non-violence from the beginning of his path of jihad, or was his opinion different?
And how does Imam al-Shirazi view the Palestinian issue from the perspective of non-violence?
Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi answered these questions and comments.
