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The issue of moderate religious discourse preoccupied researchers and informed discussions among scholars. This issue should be activated in cultural cultivation both in quality and quantity. Crisis threatens to undermine the life of the Islamic nation and the only alternative is to have the will to live, we be ourselves, and own the means of power and strength to have life give us its energies and fortunes so we may use them as we will.This paper aims at activating the issue of moderate religious issue in the light of the thoughts of Sheikh Abdul-Jalil and putting it on the right track and stress the moderate discursive means. This paper also adds scientific value to identifying the role of scholars and preachers at that time. The paper collects its material directly from Sheikh Abdul-Jalil’s published and unpublished works, interpretive views, addresses, written and recorded sermons, and comments on books he owned or received as gifts. My father provided me with valuable books and manuscripts that contain some of his father’s comments.The most important findings of the study are:1.Islam is the greatest of beliefs and the predominat method in the personality of the Sheikh and it is a middle path approach.2.Attention to give young Moslems an original intellectual education in accordance to the true and moderate Islamic shariah.3.Respect of individual liberty and the dissemination of the spirit of friendliness and familiarity and head away from the atmosphere of disgust, malignancy and prevention of fight among Moslems4.Treatment of the causes of extremism and excess like poverty and absence of justice and equality in Islamic societies.5.Selection and manipulation of verses from the Quran that call for a sound society opposing excess and extremism.6.Call for unity through dogma, gathering, intellect, and conduct as based on its shariah sources. The paper recommends the establishment of specialized institutes to qualify missionaries and develop their skills and the means of call to Islam discourse. Curriculm and textbooks should be constructed in accordance to the fundamentals of Shariah and Islam. The paper also recommends the bringing up of a Moslem generation on the values of invention, creativity, and refusal of imitation and submission.
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