In fact, never has the world seemed so close to the final explosion announced in the Holy Scriptures. Never has humanity seemed so far from Knowledge even though, science is making enormous progress in several fields. The multiplication of sources of tension on all continents must lead us to question ourselves, in depth, about the future of human beings. It seems, in fact, that the multiple and varied visions systems and ways of thinking that cross the world at the speed of light, due to technological progress in the dissemination and sharing of information, no longer manage to give meaning to the life of our species. Far from universal harmony, fraternal and respectful of differences, we are witnessing increasingly marked identity folds. Racist, even supremacist discourse are no longer underground and appear in broad daylight. Racial abuses have become daily and murderous often go unpunished.
The use of media and social networks for manipulative, fabricating, deceitful purposes of influence peddling or even blackmail has become commonplace all over the world and leads to dangerous ruptures for economic, political social and family balances. Radicalism and extremism on all sides lead to situations of war and terror, casting fear on the common duty to mix and live together on our planet. Everything suggests that the so-called “democratic and ultra-liberal” model is out of breath, that ethical and moral values are being lost and that human relations are dominated by fear and mistrust, the lure of profit, etc. Differences are, however, the hallmark of all living species! They make the living kaleidoscope of possibilities called to intersect to multiply and fertilize. Without the crossing of differences, the multiplication of species would be impossible.
In these times of growing peril, therefore, the time seems to have come, for people of Faith and Reason, to question themselves in depth and call on the liveliest spiritual energies as viaticum to question the present and clear paths for the future.
In this respect and, despite a campaign of systematic disinformation on Islam, its values and its project for humanity, the Islamic Way, and particularly its Sufi current, conceal peaceful solutions to reconcile human being with himself, with his neighbor, with nature, as well as all the species of Creation.
It is fortunate that the idea of a World Tijjaaniyya Symposium on: SUFI ISLAM FACING CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS OF TIJJAANIYA TO THE HERITAGE OF HUMANITY? », has grown up in Africa, the first Continent, the cradle of Humanity, and in its western part from which resonate for centuries saving litanies.
