Press Release
“Soul Talk” Conference in Tunisia
A Call to the Doctrine of Monotheism or to Pagan Beliefs?!
A Call to Peace or to a War with Allah?!
(Translated)

From April 19-21, 2024, Tunisia hosted an international conference entitled "Words of Soul"(Congrès Paroles d'âme) under the slogan “Tunisia is a beacon of love, peace and healing,” with the participation of lecturers and specialists from several countries, including Egypt, Italy, France, Syria, and Cameroon. Many topics were covered about the awareness of the oneness, spiritual ascension, energy healing, emotional liberation, physical awareness, holistic medicine, quantum physics, and spirituality, in addition to workshops that were designed and presented to the participants as ways and techniques through which balance and inner harmony are achieved and comprehensive well-being is developed, such as yoga, meditation, breathing, and emotional liberation, trauma management, living and vibrational diet!

Poisoned cultures and concepts have reached Muslim countries, and their adopters and promoters have dressed them as pure and celibate and defined them under various terms. from unconditional love to a universal awakening, a rise in awareness, harmony with nature, and reconciliation with oneself. Thus the matter became confusing for a segment of Muslims, especially young people and women, who did not distinguish the bad from the good or the right from the wrong, especially since there is an “educated” elite - which includes doctors and professors and others - calling for these pagan rituals and disguised themselves as knowledgeable. This is the truth of the false philosophy of ‘energy science’ that is hidden under the folds of human development, which is not recognized by experimental science and does not rise to the rank of science, but is merely a myth and a collection of nonsense.

This conference, as described by Dr. Haitham Talaat, is “the most beautiful apostasy from Islam in the guise of spiritual treatment, self-healing, and bio-energy treatment.” It is nothing but the purpose of pagan beliefs in new masks, with the Islamization of terminology and the recourse to verses or vocabulary from the Noble Qur’an dropped here and there. The philosophical basis of this pseudoscience is based on Asian beliefs (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism...) that claim that a part of the energy has separated from “God” (the divine entity) and transferred to the universe and became alive, and every living person in this universe possesses a part of this separate energy! Accordingly, the adherent of this philosophy works to control these frequencies and oscillations by raising awareness through the performance of some rituals such as yoga (which means union with God – and to Allah is the highest ideal - it is promoted in Muslim countries as a sport) and ascending meditations and others, so that man, the universe and God become one thing and possess powers and supernatural abilities.

O Muslims:

[أَإِلَٰهٌ مَّعَ اللهِ]

“Is there a deity with Allāh?!” [An-Naml: 60] Have we reached this low point?! Have you not understood the words of Allah (swt):

[لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ]

“There is nothing like unto Him” [Ash-Shuraa: 11] And Allah’s (swt) saying:

[وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُواً أَحَدٌ]

“Nor is there to Him any equivalent” [Al-Ikhlas: 4] And Allah’s (swt) saying:

[فَلَا تَضْرِبُوا للهِ الْأَمْثَالَ]

“So do not assert similarities to Allāh.” [An-Nahl: 74]?! Have we come to believe in unity and solutions (unity of existence and everything is one) and the deification of man?! The Prophet (saw) said in Sahih Muslim: «وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ أَحَداً مِنْكُمْ لَنْ يَرَى رَبَّهُ حَتَّى يَمُوتَ»“You must know that not one of you will ever see his Lord until he dies.” Has the matter reached the point that we associate a rival with Allah - exalted is He (swt) above what they associate with Him?! The sanctification of the self and the strengthening of the ego that these people call for, and the practices mixed with quackery, sorcery, magic, and the claim to see the unseen and controlling the fate according to what they spin in their imaginations, is a serious matter, they ignore that only Allah knows the unseen.

[لَّا يَعْلَمُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ الْغَيْبَ إِلَّا اللهُ]

"Say, "None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allāh" [An-Naml: 65] And that Allah (swt) is the Al Muddabir (Manager of All Affairs), they do not have the power to harm or benefit them.

O Muslims: For these pagan beliefs to find their way into the West is understandable, as a result of the materialism that is overwhelming their lives and the spiritual vacuum, but if they seep in and sweep through Muslim countries, when Allah has not left anything out of the Book for us, it is a cause for concern and rings alarm bells.

The weakness that the Islamic Ummah is suffering from due to the absence of the rule of Allah’s law and the resulting drying up of sources and the translation of philosophical books without Shar’i review, has paved the way for everyone to sell illusions. What our youth are suffering from, from the pressures, problems, hardship of living, diseases, and the spread of the defeatist spirit, and what the media machine is marketing for them of corruptions in the form of attractive images and headlines, created a fertile ground for the growth of these pagan, atheistic ideas from the West and the East, and it had a significant impact in changing the way of life of Muslims and changing their ideas. Thus, it became a nation with many aspects infiltrated, whose youth are directed from a distance. The lack of crystallization and confusion in the perception of the meanings of the soul, spirituality, and the spiritual aspect, and the obsession with searching for happiness, money, and fame in an easy way without adhering to the Shariah rules and considering the material steps, made our youth follow these nonsense, whose adherents do not believe that they need Allah (swt), but rather say, “Seek (in your imagination), believe (focus on what you want and the vibrations will attract it to you), so you will get what you want...” This is what the law of attraction they practice is based on. In other words, they consolidate the dependence of our youth by creating for them “a religion that is easy and light in obligations” as expressed by psychological and educational therapy consultant, Abdul Rahman Zakir Al-Hashemi.

O Muslims: When the boundaries between what is true and what is false disappear, myths and deceptive lies emerge. Our words are only: O Allah, You are our Lord, and we are Your servants. Your decree continues upon us. Your judgment is just for us. We have no power to benefit or harm ourselves. We have nothing in the matter, not even an atom’s weight. Whatever You wish happens, even if we do not wish it, and whatever we wish, if You do not wish it, it does not happen. There is no power or might except from you. Prophet Muhammad (saw) said: «أَلَا إِنَّ رَحَى الْإِسْلَامِ دَائِرَةٌ، فَدُورُوا مَعَ الْكِتَابِ حَيْثُ دَارَ، أَلَا إِنَّ الْكِتَابَ وَالسُّلْطَانَ سَيَفْتَرِقَانِ، فَلَا تُفَارِقُوا الْكِتَابَ»“Verily the spokes of Islam are turning, so turn with the Book wherever it turns, verily the Book and the Sultan will separate, do not separate from the Book”.

O Muslims: the desired happiness can only be achieved by striving to achieve the purpose of our existence in this worldly life. Namely, winning the pleasure of Allah (swt). We ask Allah (swt) to grant our eyes the pleasure of witnessing the state of truth that governs by Islam, implements its rulings, and applies them in all matters of life.

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