Omer Said Ali

Aug 08 2025

"In the 1990s, the days when, unfortunately, the specter of fratricidal war and mutual annihilation in Southern Kurdistan cast its shadow over our nation, Dr. Ali Qaradaghi, the President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, demonstrated his charitable role in several areas across Kurdistan through a series of philanthropic activities via the charitable organizations (Kurdish Islamic Rabita) and (Ighasa Islamiya). The most important of these were: sponsoring hundreds of orphaned children and securing a worthy monthly salary for them. Building and reconstructing dozens of ruined and destroyed mosques throughout Kurdistan in general, and in the devastated villages in particular. Assisting the poor and needy and encouraging citizens towards a non-violent piety. Focusing on and promoting the peace process in Kurdistan and organizing seminars and scientific forums, which later led to the establishment of the University of Human Development in Qaradagh. Alongside these steps, Dr. Ali Qaradaghi played a major role in introducing the Kurdish cause to the Arab Gulf countries and delivered speeches at several regional and global seminars and forums, defending the legitimate struggle of the people of Kurdistan.

After this phase and in recent years, the nature of Dr. Ali Qaradaghi’s struggle, efforts, and duties has changed. At the same time, the struggle of our people has undergone major transformations. The Middle East in general, and the Kurdistan Region in particular, became an arena for the rivalry of regional powers and the superpowers of the new world. In this arena, Dr. Ali Qaradaghi, through the International Union of Muslim Scholars, was aware of the escalating rivalries and struggles of the issues and problems. Although some statements and positions may have been a cause for concern for some people within the country, in our opinion, it is important that, with the same thinking of the nineties but with a more comprehensive strategy and perspective, Dr. Ali Qaradaghi can, as the president of the global organization of Islamic scholars—where for the first time a well-known Kurdish figure has become the president of this global organization—play a greater role in bringing our nation and the nations of the Islamic world closer together, and in introducing the role of the Kurdish people in serving the religion of Islam and humanity to the world. In the hope that the dominant nations will not consider the Kurds as a subordinate and submissive nation. Just as the Abrahamic religions, the United Nations, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasize the protection and exercise of all the rights of different nations, it is right that these rights be granted to the Kurdish nation and its cause be defended.

In both ancient and modern history, besides Saladin al-Ayyubi, the Kurds have produced many mystics and great personalities who have greatly served the religion of justice, from (Ibn Khallikan to Sheikh Maruf of Node, Said Nursi, Mawlana Khalid Naqshbandi, Sheikh Osman Sirajaddin, Mullah Abdul Karim Mudarris, and Ahmad Muftizadeh) and dozens of other great figures. The role and impact of these personalities in serving humanity must be valued beyond just one nation or people, and the era of oppression and genocide of the Kurdish person must end in the modern age! In conclusion, I wish success to Dr. Ali Muhyiddin Qaradaghi."