{"id":77939,"date":"2025-09-27T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/?p=77939"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:49:33","slug":"islam-to-become-worlds-largest-religion-in-terms-of-population-prominent-cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/supreme-council-of-the-ahl-al-bayt-a-world-assembly\/islam-to-become-worlds-largest-religion-in-terms-of-population-prominent-cleric\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam to Become World\u2019s Largest Religion in Terms of Population: Prominent Cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\"><strong>According to the Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>The second pre-session of the Imam Khomeini (r.a.) International Prize, titled \u201cUnity from Imam Khomeini\u2019s Perspective: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Experiences,\u201d was held with a keynote speech by Hojat al-Islam Navab, member of the Supreme Council of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly and founder of the University of Religions and Islamic Denominations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">In his address, Hojat al-Islam Navab stressed the importance of unity in the Islamic world, stating, \u201cWe are affiliated with the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h), and every step taken toward unity will please him. The Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h) introduced a religion meant to be universal, and one of the ways to achieve this universality is through efforts for rapprochement among Islamic schools of thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Highlighting the necessity of safeguarding unity, he added, \u201cWe must be vigilant never to utter words that would cause division among Islamic countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Pointing to Imam Khomeini\u2019s (r.a.) unifying approach, the founder of the University of Religions and Islamic Denominations noted, \u201cAt the beginning of the Islamic movement, Imam Khomeini (r.a.) never emphasized Shiite culture. Instead, he placed the issue of Palestine and the struggle against the Zionist regime at the core. In one speech, he repeatedly mentioned Palestine and several times referred to the Zionist regime and its hostility toward the Islamic Ummah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Navab compared the Islamic world\u2019s response to the crises in Bosnia and Gaza, stating that in the former case, Muslim countries acted in unity and achieved positive results, while in the latter, appropriate measures were not taken.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">He also underlined the growing status of the Islamic world, saying, \u201cIslam will soon become the world\u2019s largest religion in terms of population, and this grandeur will bear its influence. We must engage in dialogue with all Islamic countries, including neighboring nations, and confine enmity to the West.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second pre-session of the Imam Khomeini (r.a.) International Prize, titled \u201cUnity from Imam Khomeini\u2019s Perspective: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Experiences,\u201d was held with a keynote speech by Hojat al-Islam Navab, member of the Supreme Council of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly and founder of the University of Religions and Islamic Denominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[1595,180,1596],"class_list":["post-77939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supreme-council-of-the-ahl-al-bayt-a-world-assembly","tag-islam","tag-muslims","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77948,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77939\/revisions\/77948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}