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Top Lebanese Shia cleric warns against abandoning Lebanon to internal divisions

Beirut– Lebanon's prominent Jaafari Mufti has warned that leaving the country to the pressures of internal division will push it toward "cancerous paralysis" and a structural catastrophe, calling for a unified national rescue effort.

Hawzah News Agency- Sheikh Ahmad Qabalan, Lebanon's distinguished Jaafari mufti and a prominent Shia cleric, made the warning in a statement, according to Hawzah News Agency.

"Beware of abandoning Lebanon under the pressure of a foundational internal rift, for this drags the country toward cancerous paralysis and a structural catastrophe that encompasses the very ability of the covenant state—which grants Lebanon its force of existence and capacity to survive—in addition to what is needed for salvation," Qabalan said.

He stressed that the situation of "the state of the executioner or the state of taxes" cannot continue—a state that denies its people the minimum of social rights amid livelihood destruction and an economic earthquake reflecting the critical dimensions of the crisis Lebanon is experiencing.

"The problem is a power that does not want anyone to share in the national rescue, while exiting the horror of this catastrophe is only possible through the efforts of all national forces and domestic capabilities," he added.

The cleric said the urgent necessity today is to bring the Lebanese household together and draw on all the capabilities that regenerate the Lebanese family and its capacity for salvific partnership, describing this as the responsibility of Lebanon's current power.

"So, hurry, hurry, to rescue a country wandering amid structural paralysis—paralysis that encompasses economic engines, the employment structure, financial capabilities, national will and the government's rescue policies—along with accumulated failure, poverty, inflation, monopoly, lawlessness, financial hemorrhaging, energy collapse and markets torn apart by well-known lobbies," Sheikh Qabalan said.

Concluding his statement, Lebanon's distinguished Jaafari mufti said: "I offer advice to those who care about the homeland: without salvaging the national and covenant will, rising from Lebanon's deep crises is impossible, and the grave threat this time encompasses the foundational pillars on which the Lebanese household rests."

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