Qabalan: “Christian and Muslim, One Covenant for One Nation”… and Exploitation of Power Against the People is Rejected

Lebanon Today

The Mufti Jaafari Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan affirmed that “the state is a state with justice, partnership, and equality, not with injustice, siege, and revenge against those who raised Lebanon above the heavens,” directing an appeal to all Lebanese and to everyone concerned, stressing that “Lebanon cannot be understood outside the framework of its establishment and its charter, as they are the basis for understanding the behavior of the political authority and its responsibilities towards southern Lebanon and the resistance sect.”

Qabalan explained that “the south has made great sacrifices since the beginning of the Palestinian issue, and has also paid the price for the political exploitation of Lebanon in foreign projects, and bore the brunt of the Israeli invasion and the occupation of Beirut, and the collusion of the authority at the time with the enemy,” pointing out that “from the heart of those circumstances, a national resistance emerged that made great sacrifices, which ended with the liberation of Lebanon from the Israeli occupation, and a historic steadfastness in the July 2006 war, up to the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, which showed sovereign power in the face of the most powerful Zionist-Atlantic force.”

He added: “Despite all these sacrifices, today we are facing a systematic punitive official policy, destroyed villages along the front lines, and the absence of the state from the south, there are no national programs, no relief aid, no media or diplomacy worthy of those who liberated the country and recovered Beirut,” stressing that “the authority is practicing a policy of restriction and incitement, and punishes everyone who seeks to rebuild his house.”

Qabalan considered that “there are those who are trying to exploit the authority to be against its people, and this poses an existential danger to Lebanon,” warning against “relying on the American-Israeli vision of the region,” and stressing: “What you are doing now will be recorded by history, forgiveness is not by killing, isolating, and weakening the people of the front, who without them, Lebanon would not have stood firm.”

Mufti Qabalan concluded his speech by saying: “We are the sect that has endured a lot throughout history for the sake of its homelands and its people, and we will not surrender, retreat, or concede, because we believe that the Christian and the Muslim are one entity for one homeland. The state can only be established with justice, partnership, and equality, not with siege and revenge against those who protected Lebanon and raised it high.”