“If those rabble-rousers and hooligans had imagined the horror of chaos and destruction they were making, they would not have committed those crimes,” Al-Hudhaifi said, expressing his disgust at the rioters’ use of motorcycles and petrol bombs to terrorize local people.
The imam urged the people to use their common sense and keep away from subversive activities, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
“Intelligence is the greatest gift with which man is capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, good and bad and the useful and harmful,” the sheikh said.
Saudi religious scholars and Shoura Council members had strongly denounced Monday’s Awamiya riots by a group of people in Qatif, and urged the government to confront such troublemakers with an iron hand.
In the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, imam and khatib, hoped that the leadership in troubled Arab countries would stop repressing innocent people and take steps to protect the life and property of the citizens.
The imam urged the faithful to make their words follow with appropriate actions.
“In fact it was words devoid of deeds that led to the backwardness of our people. It was also the reason for the failure of our message reaching out to other people.”
He said one way to save the Islamic community from divisions was to make their words conform to their deeds.
The sheikh also said Islam guaranteed honor to women and gave them an active role in society.
The preacher also reminded the faithful that the only way for man to achieve glory was to fear Allah in his private and public life.
