He emphasized the importance of permanent storage of memories through justice, education, media and commemoration, as well as the need for social welfare against forgetting.
Addressing believers after noon-prayer, he warned of the global crisis value, the dominance of irresponsible leaders and the spread of force and greed, emphasizing the need for moral resistance.
He especially underlined the importance of building good interpersonal and neighbor relations as the basis of security and coexistence in Bosnia.
The Islamic community, emphasized, gave a key contribution to interreligious dialogue and preventing revenge after the war, which shows the wisdom and strength of faith.
His address is transmitted in full:
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim.
Brothers and sisters, dear present!
This year, we are celebrating the sad anniversary this year: we revive a memory of a terrible crime that shook the world. This crime was committed by the forces of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) on this day before 32 years ago in the early morning. It was a terrible crime in which 116 Muslims – Bosniaks were killed, of which 32 were women and 11 children under the age of 18. In that criminal attack, 169 houses were destroyed and two mosques. All these people were killed only because they were other ethnicities and that they prayed in a different way. No other guilt had to those who did to them.
The celebration of such anniversaries always be deep emotions and causes a shiver in the heart, and in the hearts who lost their loved ones revives grief and sadness.
Still, we won’t stop marking them. The reminder of these horrible crimes is aiming to be driven by revenge or developing hatred, the only goal is to express a pee by killed, to study Fatiha before their souls – how to warn themselves – how a similar crime would not reiterate. Not even anyone else. Unfortunately, people are prone to repeating errors, so the team should previously cross the paths forget, take appropriate protection and attention to the horror of crimes.
The best ways for this is: Processing of villains, media attention, school programs and such events. Therefore, I invite the entire Bosnian public to be persistent in this, to include all four of these ways and always re-reports such events, not only, if not completely detached, if they did not completely discourage or recede; Think about your black intention and the consequences he could cause.
Brothers and sisters!
We are witnessing that the situation on the global level is increasingly complicating and that people are increasingly concerned about their future; that they are in fear and to spread hopelessness, to raise hope. In responsible positions, more or less, around the world come unworthy, arrogant, bacches and morally undeveloped, evil people, people of bad intentions. They sustain money, power and influence and – make decisions concerning us. We will notice that in their decisions, there is generally no wisdom, aspiration to good and righteousness, or efforts to make the world better and more human.
It is increasingly pronounced by a naked force, greed and effort to master as much other material resources; To obey others and deprive their goods and governance. The Prophet, as, warned us about it and invited us not to involve that Devil’s flow, but to oppose him as much as we can. I hold that here, in our Bosnia, we need to be more engaged in the plan of suppressing evil and various deviance, but also on the plan of deepening good relationships between people, with all the diversity of their affiliation.
Good and sincere interpersonal, and especially neighbor relations by their nature disperses a lot of bad, so I think that every normal man is interested in just such relationships dominate our spaces.
We try our best to establish and nurture them, that is, to revive them, because they have already lived here for centuries and people in love and harmony; And life seemed more beautiful and more comfortable. Bosnia was their home. The rift was entered on the side and brought everyone a great accident. That is why we need to return to ourselves and be people Bosnia, our homeland, and work for its well-being; For the benefit of all of us.
Brothers and sisters!
The Islamic community has already gave a huge contribution to the renewal of interreligious life in our country. I can open openly: Thanks to the most outlamic community, there was no revenge after the war, despite horrific crimes committed over us! We invested great effort so that it doesn’t be, thank God, it was not.
It was not our weakness or fear, but our wisdom and moral strength. We immediately be given, and with the same zeal today, to establish good relations with representatives of other faiths here, as well as in the world, and we have noticed success. You are all witnesses that we and through the briskets and through religious education in school, as well as in other ways – especially through home education – we insist on it and work tirelessly in the convenience of that. We are convinced that it is our interest, but the same as the interest of everyone else. And we are convinced that in that way, we also perform our mission and adequately promote the values of the culture we belong.
We also seek that from all our people: mufti, main imam, imam, religious people and others, and they do so much successfully.
Maintaining good and friendly relations with others, especially with those with whom we share common space and good homeland, is crucial protection against possible evil in the future.
Other protection is the avoidance of everything that God is dear to us strictly banned, but also to the fact that we have strictly ordered. So I invite you to that. All other types of protection are just a top up, although necessary. So, therefore, there is not where we are not the place and that we do not occur for us, and let us be everywhere where it is done on some good, personal or social.
For all innocent people in this place 32 years ago, I suggested to the Law, the sublime, to give them to them in Paradise, and the survivors of their families and relatives to give patience. I invite young people not to turn off this course and continue to nurture culture of memories. Amin. “
(Vijesti.ba/mina)
