Staff Report - Daily Times - Pakistan
Friday, November 24, 2006
LAHORE: Participants of the International Sufi Conference emphasised the need for promoting peace and combating religious intolerance as the conference entered its second day on Thursday.
The conference, organised by the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (PILAC), spanned two sessions, with intellectuals and scholars from around the world speaking in both.
The first session featured a talk by Iranian scholar Dr Baher Gholam Hussein, who said that Sufism could be harnessed and used to eliminate conflict from the world.
Quoting the example of Rumi’s philosophy, he said that it transcended all national and ethnic boundaries, and had a significant impact on Turkish and Persian literature of the middle ages, leaving its mark on the music and religious rites of the time.
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