I, a person of Orthodox and communist convictions, have an attitude towards Islam, as a statesman and an orientalist. Islam came to the territory of present-day Russia before Orthodoxy, i.e. it is the indigenous religion of the country. Without Muslims, there would be no Russian Empire and the victory of Soviet power.
And there will be no New Big Country - the Eurasian Union of Peoples.
At one time, in the early 2000s, we quite actively tried to promote the unification of Muslim organizations in Russia - we, this is the Eurasian Party of Russia (then Abdul-Vahed Niyazov), the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the Russian Rifle Society , magazine "Profi", veteran organizations of the KGB of the USSR and Afghan veterans.
Muslims - TsDUM, SMR and other organizations were in favor.
Only the administration of the President of the Russian Federation was against it.
And now, in December 2010, they started talking again about unification, but with different goals, exactly the opposite - to weaken Islam in Russia, to cut off the reliable faith of Russian Muslims in their country.
It is possible to evaluate Ravil-Khazrat Gainutdin and Talgat-Khazrat Tadzhutdin in different ways, but one must understand that the state will not withstand the "North Caucasus in the center of Russia".
For what? Why? Why, instead of a common state with Muslims, our state is going to weaken Islam and pit Muslims against each other?
In the photo: Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR) Ravil-Khazrat Gainutdin.
Copyright: Vasily Shaposhnikov, Kommersant newspaper.
"Islam is the religion of indigenous Russians." Head of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin on the unique position of Muslims in Russia. Interviewed by Pavel Korobov. In order to create the Russian Association of Islamic Accord (RAIS), the authorities split the RMC, the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate and the KTsMSK. // Businessman. 02/18/2011.
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Council of Muftis of Russia
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The Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR) was founded by Ravil Gainutdin on July 1, 1996 as an alternative to the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims, headed by Mufti Talgat Tajuddin. The tasks of the RMC are the coordination of the activities of Muslims voluntarily included in the Council of Spiritual Administrations (SAM), research and spiritual and educational work. The RMC includes the Kazan Muftiate (established in 2000 by the Spiritual Muslim Board of Tatarstan and the Ulyanovsk Region), the Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of Bashkiria, the Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of the Asian part of Russia, the Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of Mordovia and others. The core of the organization and the only structure completely controlled by Ravil Gainutdin is the DUM of the European part of Russia. According to the RMC itself, it unites about 1,700 Muslim communities, almost half of their total number in the country. The SMR Center is located within the walls of the Cathedral Mosque of Moscow on Prospekt Mira. CMR owns shares in Islamic Book Publishing House LLC (51%) and in the Islamic World TV company (30%), and is the founder of the Kazan and Russian Islamic Universities.
Ravil Gaynutdin
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1 of 3 Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant If we Muslims had not helped the Russian princes organize themselves, there would be no Russian state
2 of 3 Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov / Kommersant Russia is the only country in the world among the countries of the traditional spread of Islam, where there is no single leadership of Muslims
3 of 3 Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant Teaching only the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" puts Muslims, Jews and Buddhists in the position of "little brothers"
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin (Gaynutdinov Ravil Ismagilovich) was born on August 25, 1959 in the village of Shali, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. After school, he graduated from the acting department of the Kazan Theater School. Then he worked on Kazan television as a director and studied in absentia at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography at the directing department. In 1979 he entered the Mir-Arab Madrasah in Bukhara, where he studied with Akhmat Kadyrov. Having completed the course ahead of schedule, in 1984 he was appointed rector of the Kazan Cathedral Mosque. In 1986 he became deputy head of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia. In 1987 he moved to Moscow, in 1988 he became rector of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque. On January 29, 1994, he headed the newly formed Moscow Muftiate and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European Part of Russia (DUMER), received the spiritual title of Mufti. On July 1, 1996, he headed the Council of Muftis of Russia. In 2001, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration with a degree in state and municipal administration. Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, the topic of the dissertation is "Islam in Russia (An Experience in Philosophical Analysis)". From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the Public Chamber under the presidential quota. He was awarded the Orders of Friendship, Honor and "For Services to the Fatherland" IV degree. Married, two daughters.
Effectively defending the interests of Muslims in Russia is hindered by the lack of a single governing body, and officials oppose the unification of muftiats, Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, told Kommersant's correspondent PAVL KOROBOV.
According to the law "On freedom of conscience", Islam, along with Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism, is a traditional religion in Russia. However, for example, Mufti Nafigulla Ashirov has repeatedly stated that the authorities give priority to Orthodoxy, that is, Islam is in an unequal position. What is this inequality and how do you think it can be eliminated?
- Islam has been practiced in Russia for more than a thousand years. During this time, a vast experience of its coexistence with Christianity and other religions within the framework of Russian statehood has been accumulated. Neither during the time of Tsarist Russia, nor during the period of the communist regime, Muslims had the rights that we have today. According to the Constitution, Orthodoxy and Islam are equal. However, in practice, unfortunately, the reality is not always the same. Many Orthodox believe that they are the majority, and Russia is an Orthodox country. We say: no, Russia is both Orthodox and Muslim. If we Muslims had not helped the Russian princes organize themselves, there would be no Russian state.
Muslims would like the Orthodox to be more friendly towards Muslims and not believe that only Orthodoxy in our state has the right to life, and the rest are some kind of aliens. Islam came to our land before Rus' was baptized: a mosque was built on the territory of Derbent in Dagestan already in the 8th century. Islam is not a religion of aliens, not migrants, but of native Russians.
It is possible to eliminate the inequality between Orthodox and Muslims only by promoting at all levels of the state and society the understanding that the Muslim peoples contributed to the creation of the Russian state. That without Muslims there would be no Rus', there would be no Russia itself. More than 20 million Muslims live in Russia. And that they have the right to be called representatives of the Russian state, indigenous people and demand equal treatment.
What is the structure of Muslim organizations in Russia?
- After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the unified system of spiritual administration, the fragmentation of spiritual structures began. This process actually acquired a chaotic and non-systemic character, in each republic and region of the Russian Federation their own spiritual administrations began to be created. At present, there are more than 70 spiritual boards of Muslims in Russia. Each of them carries out its activities in the region and independently builds relations with local authorities. Nevertheless, they are organized within the framework of three large centralized regional associations that officially represent the interests of the Muslim community in the face of the federal government. This is the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR) with a residence in Moscow, I have the honor to lead it. The Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (TSDUM) with a residence in Ufa, its chairman is Talgat Tadzhutdin. The Coordinating Center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus (KCMSC) with a residence in Cherkessk, and the chairman is Ismail Berdiev.
At the end of last year, the authorities attempted to create a fourth centralized Muslim spiritual structure - the Russian Association of Islamic Accord (RAIS), as they called it. To create it, the authors of the idea went on to further split the already existing regional muftiats and created RAIS from these fragments.
By whom and how are Islamic organizations in Russia financed?
- This topic is one of the most painful and sensitive in our country. Firstly, the system of self-financing of Muslims is still insufficiently developed in Russia. That is, there is practically no system for collecting the annual zakat - a kind of tax in favor of the community, which the Almighty imposed on Muslims. Secondly, in Russia after the collapse of the USSR, the system of waqfs, the inalienable property that Muslims transferred to the ownership of mosques, madrasahs and religious communities, has not yet been restored to any extent. Thirdly, the state itself cannot directly finance not only Islamic organizations, but also any other religious structures, since in our country religion is officially separated from the state. Nevertheless, religious organizations can participate in programs for targeted financing of individual projects by the state - educational, cultural, etc. And, finally, fourthly, the most ambiguous channel for receiving funds for Russian Muslims - from foreign brothers in faith . There are many foundations and wealthy Muslims in the Islamic world who want to help Russian Muslims. After the collapse of the Union, they helped us directly. Now, these funds first go to the Fund for the Support of Islamic Science, Culture and Education, created with the assistance of the state, which then, at its discretion, distributes part of these funds among the country's Muslim religious and public organizations.
Why do we not have a single Muslim center of government in our country, such as, for example, the Moscow Patriarchate? Muslims do not have a vertical of power?
- Unfortunately, in our country the fate of the Muslim ummah (community. - Kommersant) for a long time did not depend on the Muslims themselves. First, in the Russian Empire, and then in the Soviet Union, a system of spiritual administrations was created and maintained, very closely supervised by the state, to manage the affairs of Muslims. Often the officials who oversaw this system sought to bring discord into the ranks of Muslims, to oppose Muslim leaders to each other. But the Muslim Ummah is very painfully experiencing the lack of ideological, spiritual and organizational unity in the ranks of believers and their leaders. Russia is the only country in the world among the countries of the traditional spread of Islam where there is no single leadership of Muslims. For decades, the Muslims of our country have been striving to regain the unity lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union, since the desire for the unity of the Islamic ummah is prescribed as a duty for believers by the Almighty himself and His prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of the Almighty be upon him).
Is there competition for influence between RMC, TsDUM and KTsMSK?
- Allah Almighty says in the Qur'an: "Compete with each other in good deeds." It is in this, in doing good and righteous, that we strive to maintain competition between our structures. Because it is ordained by the Lord Himself. And God save us from arguing with each other for influence, for worldly resources, for the favor of power. Allah Himself grants all this to those whom He deems worthy.
Are there joint projects of Islamic organizations, does the RMC manage to negotiate a common policy with the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate and the KCMSC, and if so, is it difficult to reach agreements?
- Undoubtedly, the RMC has a huge field for joint work both with the Central Spiritual Directorate of Music and the KCMSC. We fully interact and cooperate within the framework of the Interreligious Council of Russia. We also jointly prepared a project for an Islamic television channel (began broadcasting in test mode in February of this year. - "Kommersant"). The Council of Muftis of Russia back in 2005 initiated the creation of the Council for Islamic Education, which is faced with the task of developing uniform standards for Islamic education. For their part, RMC, TsDUM, and KTsMSK should provide support for the activities of this structure. On March 1 of this year, we are planning to hold an all-Russian Muslim conference "Russia is our common home", to which we invite the leaders of all Muslim organizations, including our brothers from the Central Spiritual Muslim Board, the KTsMSK.
For us, as believing Muslims seeking the pleasure of the Almighty, one of the main tasks in this world is to reconcile and unite, and not to support discord and enmity.
You mentioned the fourth Muslim organization created at the end of last year - RAIS, which has already managed to make a loud statement about the need to close the Council of Muftis of Russia. How can you comment on the emergence of a new structure and its call for the abolition of the SMR?
- The Council of Muftis has already indicated its attitude towards this structure. I can repeat that, in our opinion, this structure is completely artificial, behind which there is no real request from the Muslim community of Russia. It was created with the direct participation of certain officials in order to obtain an additional instrument of pressure on existing structures on the principle of "divide and rule."
At the end of 2009, Mufti Talgat Tajuddin made a proposal to unite Muslim structures. Why did the association fail?
- None of the centralized Muslim structures - neither RMC, nor TsDUM, nor KTsMSK - officially announced the suspension of the unification process. This is a complex process that can stretch over time and go into several stages. The problems that have been ignored for many years turned out to be too deep. The misunderstanding of the importance of this process on the part of some officials turned out to be too great. But even without an approving nod from above, the new generation of Muslims has long been successfully overcoming all the lines of division of the united Ummah generated in past years - national, regional, organizational. Young believing Tatars, Caucasians, and newly converted Muslims have long felt like a single community, despite the lack of unity among the Muftis. And I feel sorry for those who do not yet understand this, because they risk falling behind history. The unity of the Muslim community in Russia belongs to the young generation of believers.
In the course of the integration process, there were suggestions that Ramzan Kadyrov would head the new, united structure. Was the candidacy of the president of Chechnya really considered?
- This is complete nonsense and the fruit of the inflamed imagination of a number of Islamophobes in power and in the media. Ramzan Akhmatovich is one of the most effective regional leaders of the new generation. Although he is the son of the Mufti, our late brother Akhmat Kadyrov, he himself never claimed the role of a spiritual leader. The warmest and brotherly feelings connected me with his father, and I treat Ramzan as my son. Ramzan Akhmatovich could not hide his joy at the fact that such an association had nevertheless begun. After all, he considers this an unfinished business of his father, who voiced the need to unite Muslims even before Vladimir Putin, when he was head of state.
How are the relations between Islamic organizations in Russia and the state authorities, the authorities interfering in the affairs of Muslims?
- During our meetings with the leaders of the Russian state - President Dmitry Medvedev, head of government Vladimir Putin - it is constantly emphasized that the leaders of the country are very clearly aware of the mechanism and ways of working with the spiritual administrations of Muslims. And the Muslims of Russia always feel the support of the political leadership of the country. We have to admit, however, that there are facts of non-fulfillment of this general line on the ground. We receive letters from certain regions of the country where the local leadership, sometimes middle-level functionaries, consider it possible to dictate to the leaders of Muslim organizations their actions on the internal issues of the ummah.
You are in frequent contact with the leaders of Islamic countries. Is the government asking to paint a good-looking image of Russia abroad?
- To create a positive image of Russia in front of foreign co-religionists is my duty as a Muslim and a citizen of my country. Our country is beautiful and majestic, and our brothers abroad should know this. It is no secret that in the Islamic world people still speak enthusiastically about our state as a great friend of Muslims. The fact that, on the initiative of Vladimir Putin, our country acquired the status of an observer in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the fact that President Dmitry Medvedev declared Russia to be a Muslim country as well, the fact that he recently reaffirmed his strong support for an independent Palestinian state from capital in Jerusalem, allows our country to occupy a unique place in the Islamic world.
Last year, a wave of protests from Tekstilshchiki residents swept over the construction of the mosque. Did you manage to resolve the issue of building mosques in Moscow with the city government? How are things with this on the scale of the Russian Federation?
- In a situation where up to 80,000 people gather for festive prayers in the Cathedral Mosque of Moscow alone, Muslims were waiting with great hope for the construction of this, only the fifth in Moscow, mosque in Tekstilshchiki. And I reiterate that a new plot of land will be proposed that will not cause protest moods of some part of the townspeople, and the completion of this project should be the first step in solving the problems of the metropolitan ummah.
Protests initiated by certain individuals are provocative and are directly aimed at destabilizing the capital. I urge the heads of Muslim religious organizations to find the right intonation in their appeals to parishioners on this issue, so as not to cause indignation and discontent of the Muslim Ummah. Muslims in the Russian capital are already up to 2 million people. Undoubtedly, we will defend our right to build a mosque in the area of the South-Eastern administrative district of Moscow. No one can take away this right from us, since we are full-fledged citizens of a democratic country.
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin - Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of Russia.
Ravil Gainutdin (Gainutdinov Ravil Ismagilovich) was born on August 25, 1959 in Tatarstan. He studied at the Shali rural Tatar school, completed his secondary education at a school in Kazan.
In 1979, Ravil Gaynutdinov entered the Mir-Arab Islamic Madrasah in Bukhara. In 4 years he graduated with honors from the seven-year course of this madrasah and was appointed the first imam-hatib of the Kazan Cathedral Mosque "Nur Islam".
In 1985 he was elected executive secretary of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia in Ufa. In 1987, Ravil Gaynutdin was approved for the position of imam-khatib of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, and already in 1988 he became the chief imam-khatib - rector of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.
In 1991, Ravil Gainutdin was elected President of the Islamic Center in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
In 1994, at the founding Mejlis of Muslim religious associations and communities of the European part of Russia, Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin was elected Mufti, as well as Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Central European Region, which was transformed in 1998 into the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European Part of Russia.
In 1996, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin was elected Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia at the 1st Majlis of the leaders of the Spiritual Administrations of Muslims of Russia.
Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin is a participant in many international forums and conferences, representing the Muslims of the Russian Federation in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy, the USA, Malaysia, etc. As part of the official government delegations of the Russian Federation, he took part in interstate negotiations and personal meetings with the top leadership of Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Azerbaijan.
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin Ph.D. in Philosophy, author of many scientific works on Muslim theology, Muslim dogma and law. He is a professor at the Moscow Higher Spiritual Islamic College, an academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Eurasia, the International Slavic Academy for Science, Education, Culture and Religion, the International Academy of Informatization.
Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin is a member of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation, a member of the Presidium and Co-Chairman of the Interreligious Council of Russia.
In his sermons and daily religious activities, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin consistently defends the ideas of civilized interfaith dialogue and fraternal cooperation between all peoples, advocates an active peacekeeping position for the establishment of civil peace and harmony in society. He is a signatory to the Agreement on Public Accord proposed by the President of the Russian Federation.
In 1997, under the patronage of the Mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov and Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin completed the construction of the Shuhada (Memory) Memorial Mosque in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill in honor of the fallen Muslim soldiers in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. , which has become a significant milestone in the spiritual and cultural life of Russian Muslims and one of the pearls of the cult architecture of the Capital.
In 1998, Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin became one of the main founders of the Interreligious Council of Russia, which included all the Heads of the traditional confessions of the Russian Federation. He is one of the initiators and Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Second Peacemaking Forum on the Interaction of Traditional Religions and Cultures, which will be held in Moscow on March 2-3, 2004 at St. confessions of the CIS countries.
Mufti Ravil Gainutdin is the author of the conceptual idea for the development and the head of the creative team of scientists-creators of the fundamental work - "Basic provisions of the social program of Russian Muslims", which became the basic program for the relationship of Muslims with society and a secular state on a number of important social problems, which was published in 2001 and immediately received the most positive response and approval not only among the Russian public, but also abroad.
In 2001, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in State and Municipal Administration, and in 2003, at the Department of Religious Studies of the RAGS, he defended a scientific dissertation on the topic: “Islam in Russia (the experience of philosophical analysis)”.
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Place of work: Council of Muftis of Russia (Chairman) Place of work: Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European Part of Russia (Chairman) Awards:Mufti Ravil Gainutdin was awarded many government awards, including: in 1997. was awarded the Order of Friendship, and in 2004 by Decree of the President of Russia V.V. Putin, he was awarded the highest state distinction - the Order of Honor for his great contribution to the strengthening of interfaith peace and harmony, national unity and spiritual revival of the peoples of the Russian Federation.
Website:Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of Russia
Born on August 25, 1959 in Tatarstan. He studied at the Shali village school, and completed his secondary education in Kazan.
In 1979, Ravil Gaynutdinov entered the Mir-Arab Islamic Madrasah in Bukhara. In 4 years he graduated from the madrasah with honors and was appointed as the first imam-hatib of the Kazan Cathedral Mosque "Nur Islam".
In 1985 he was elected executive secretary of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia in Ufa. In 1987, Ravil Gaynutdin was approved for the position of imam-hatib of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, and already in 1988 he became the chief imam-khatib - rector of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.
In 1991, Ravil Gainutdin was elected President of the Islamic Center in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
In 1994, at the founding Mejlis of Muslim religious associations and communities of the European part of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin was elected mufti, as well as chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Central European Region, which was transformed in 1998 into the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European Part of Russia. In 1996, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin was elected chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia at the 1st Majlis of the leaders of the Spiritual Administrations of Muslims of Russia.
Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin is a candidate of philosophical sciences, the author of many scientific works on Muslim theology, Muslim dogma and law. He is a professor at the Moscow Islamic University, an academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Eurasia, the International Slavic Academy for Science, Education, Culture and Religion, the International Academy of Informatization.
Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin is a member of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation, a member of the Presidium and Co-Chairman of the Interreligious Council of Russia.
In 1997, under the patronage of Moscow Mayor Yu.M. Luzhkov and Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, the construction of the Shuhada (Memory) Memorial Mosque in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill was completed.
In 2001, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in State and Municipal Administration, and in 2003, at the Department of Religious Studies of the RAGS, he defended a scientific dissertation on the topic: “Islam in Russia (the experience of philosophical analysis)”.
Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin for his great contribution to the strengthening of interfaith peace and harmony, national unity and spiritual revival of the peoples of our country was awarded state awards of the Russian Federation, including: the Order of Friendship (1997), the Order of Honor (2004), as well as a state award Republic of Kazakhstan: Anniversary medal "10 years of the city of Astana", the Order of the Republic of Ingushetia "For Merit", in 2006 was awarded the badge of honor "Public recognition" - for strengthening interfaith peace, in February 2007, the Gold Medal of the Russian Peace Fund, in March 2008 the highest public award "Pride of Russia", in 2009 the award of the Union of Public Associations "Russian Nation" by the national public Order "Russian Nation".
On August 11, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree awarding Ravil Gainutdin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.
August 21, 2009 Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan No. UP 443 Ravil Gainutdin was awarded the medal of the Republic of Tatarstan "For Valiant Labor".
In any country there are individuals whose activities leave an imprint on society, pushing it towards positive changes. Fortunately, there are many such people in Russia. Gaynutdin Ravil is considered to be one of them. This man has been leading the country's Council of Muftis for more than twenty-five years. What did he manage to do during these years? Let's figure it out.
Our hero was born and raised in the small village of Shali of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (08/25/1959). His parents were ordinary workers. Gaynutdin Ravil first learned about Islam from his own grandmother. She lived in a family and devoted, as usual, a lot of time to raising children. Grandmother told little Ravil about the basics of religion, revealed the essence and meaning of traditions, and taught him to pray. All this was of great interest to the grandson. Over time, he decided to devote himself to the service of Allah. After graduating from school, the current mufti of Russia, Ravil Gaynutdin, went to Bukhara. There he entered the spiritual madrasah "Mir-Arab". Teaching was easy for him. He completed the seven-year course in just four years, having passed the required tests as an external student. The Kazan Cathedral Mosque "Nur Islam" was assigned to him as the first place of service. The position was called the first imam-khatib. In 1987 he moved to Moscow. Gaynutdin Ravil, by that time already elected executive secretary of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia in Ufa, was appointed imam-hatib of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.
The years of the collapse of the USSR
Today, the older generation is surprised and horrified, remembering what trials the former Soviet citizens had to go through. Many starved, could not earn a living, lost their professions, and buried their loved ones. But that wasn't the worst. Spiritual emptiness reigned in the then society. Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin was one of the few who managed to understand the state of the people. He made efforts to revive the religious self-awareness of society.
Revival of Islam
In Moscow, he organized courses in the study of the Arabic language. He told people about the traditions of Islam, ritual practice. It was very timely. Frustrated, immersed in problems, desperate, citizens were drawn to the mosque, where they received much-needed spiritual support. Both small children and elderly pensioners wanted to learn more about their religion. People, realizing that their familiar world is collapsing, sought solace in eternal values. And religion is the first among them. Many felt the need to join the knowledge, which was not previously possible to obtain. Muslims wanted to read the Quran in Arabic. All this was clear to the mufti. He constantly expanded his activities so that not a single person was left whitewashed with attention.
International activity
The Muslim world is quite wide. Gaynutdin Ravil does not limit his work to the life of the Ummah. He is a member of several reputable international organizations. Takes part in the activities of the Eurasian Islamic Council. He considers it necessary to promote the rapprochement of believers, strengthening ties between people and states. In addition, he takes part in the work of the Islamic World League (WIL). Several books have come out from the Mufti's pen. The first known work is considered to be his dissertation. The theme and at the same time its name is "Islam in Russia". As he himself admits, it was an experience of philosophical analysis. It is clear that the efforts of the spiritual leaders of Muslims are now in demand. After all, there are very dangerous tendencies in the world. Believers face the evil that masquerades as true religiosity. This refers to the IS organization banned in Russia. The clergy of all denominations face previously unknown challenges. People should be protected from deceit worse than death. This is a complete spiritual rebirth into real animals, mercilessly killing their own kind.
"Allah tests the one he truly loves"
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin works very hard. With the saying of the Prophet Muhammad in the heading of the paragraph, the believers characterize his various activities. In addition to direct duties, the organization of mass events, large spiritual celebrations often falls on his shoulders. Another communication with the Russian government, statesmen of the Muslim world. In his busy schedule, there is always time for the reception of ordinary citizens. People come to the mufti from all over the vast country. It is important for people to hear his wise advice. After all, their requests are not among the simple ones. People ask very difficult questions, expect a balanced answer and assistance. 2015 was marked by the opening of the reconstructed and expanded Moscow mosque. The work also went under the close attention of Ravil-hazrat. More than thirty Muslim peoples live in the country. In this difficult time, they should be united, not only conflicts should be prevented, but also attempts to separate them should be prevented. Ravil-Khazarat himself considers this direction to be the main one, making a lot of efforts for its most complete implementation.
Peaceful life and development is our main goal
The Mufti consistently upholds the principles of a civilized dialogue between people of different faiths and denominations. The sermon of Ravil Gainutdin, as a rule, is based on a wise approach to conflict situations, the belief that any problem can be solved unarmedly. Peace on the planet, calm cooperation and development, he calls the only way for humanity. Ravil-Khazarat actively cooperates with representatives of the clergy of countries in which civil conflicts are taking place. His appeals to them are filled with philanthropy and compassion. He seeks to understand different points of view. However, he fundamentally advocates the negotiation process in cases of tension. Society should exist in harmony, conduct a civil dialogue, the mufti believes. Under his direct leadership, Muslim Moscow becomes a center of attraction for the entire Islamic world. Interaction with the leaders of the Russian Federation only contributes to this process.
Strengthening of Islam and spiritual education of the younger generation
Ravil-Khazarat pays considerable attention to the organization of the activities of Muslim educational institutions. On his initiative, two special universities were opened in the Russian Federation (1998 - Kazan, 1999 - Moscow). Young people need to be educated from the cradle, so that later they do not have to urgently correct mistakes when trouble knocks at the door. At the end of the last century, Ravil-Khazarat proposed to His Serene Highness the Patriarch to organize the interaction of various confessions. For this, the Interreligious Council of Russia was established. Such a diverse and huge country cannot allow conflicts on its territory. Moreover, the international situation demonstrates constant instability. It is very easy to fan the fire if people are divided.
Dialogue of Civilizations
Russia proposed a similar initiative to the world ten years ago. The "Dialogue of Civilizations" forum is now a platform for discussing the problems of interfaith cooperation and coexistence. Gaynutdin is translated from Arabic as "the eye of religion". This is symbolic. Under the supervision of Ravil-Khazrat, Islam develops, restoring and introducing into the life of its followers the peacefulness and tolerance that distant ancestors developed and bequeathed to keep forever. Such activity, hand in hand with leaders of other faiths, contributes to the establishment of interreligious harmony in Russia and beyond.
at birth:
village Shali, Pestrechinsky District, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR
Biography
Ravil Ismagilovich was born on August 25, in the village. Shali, Pestrechinsky district of the Tatar ASSR in a Tatar family.
He worked as an assistant director on Kazan television. In 1979 he entered the Mir Arab madrasah in Bukhara (Uzbekistan), after graduation he became the first imam-hatib of the second Kazan cathedral mosque Nur Islam. In 1985 he was appointed executive secretary of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia in Ufa. In 1987 he became the imam-khatib of the Moscow cathedral mosque, in 1988 - the main imam-khatib. In 1991 he was elected President of the Islamic Center of Moscow and the Moscow Region.
On January 29, 1994, he was elected mufti, chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Central European Region of Russia. On July 1, 1996, he was elected chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia.
Married, father of two daughters.
Professor of Moscow Islamic University, International Slavic Academy, International Informatization Academy, Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation.
Views and sayings
Awards
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (March 23, 2015) - for a great contribution to strengthening interethnic and interfaith peace and harmony in society
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (August 11, 2009) - for a great contribution to the development of spiritual culture and the strengthening of friendship between peoples
- Order of Honor (January 15, 2004) - for a great contribution to strengthening civil peace and interfaith cooperation
- Order of Friendship (October 6, 1997) - for a great contribution to the strengthening of the economy, the development of the social sphere and in connection with the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow
- Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (August 23, 1999) - for a great contribution to the establishment of peace and harmony in society
- Order of the Star of Jerusalem (Palestinian National Authority, 2015).
- Medal "10 years of Astana" (Kazakhstan)
- Medal "20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (Kazakhstan, )
- Gold medal "For peacekeeping and charitable activities" (2011) - for active work on the spiritual revival of Russia, a great contribution to the development of peacekeeping and interfaith dialogue .
- Insignia "For impeccable service to the city of Moscow" XXV years (October 17, 2012) - for a great contribution to the strengthening of interfaith peace and harmony, many years of fruitful activity for the benefit of the city of Moscow
- Gratitude of the Mayor of Moscow (August 24, 2009) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of interfaith peace and harmony in the city of Moscow and in connection with the 50th anniversary of his birth
- Medal "For Valiant Labor" (Tatarstan, August 21, 2009)
- Order of Merit (Ingushetia)
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Notes
- Interfax September 24, 2009.
- NEWSru September 24, 2009.
- NEWSru September 29, 2009.
- December 16, 2010.
- (Russian). Official website of the President of the Russian Federation (August 14, 2009). Retrieved August 14, 2009. .
- (Russian). Official website of the President of the Russian Federation (2004). Retrieved August 14, 2009. .
Literature
- Silantiev R. A.// Independent newspaper . - 06/02/2015.
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An excerpt characterizing Gainutdin, Ravil Ismagilovich
Count Orlov Denisov with the Cossacks (the most insignificant detachment of all others) alone got to his place and at his time. This detachment stopped at the extreme edge of the forest, on the path from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovskoye.Before dawn, Count Orlov, who had dozed off, was awakened. They brought in a defector from the French camp. It was a Polish non-commissioned officer of Poniatowski's corps. This non-commissioned officer explained in Polish that he defected because he was offended in the service, that it would be time for him to be an officer long ago, that he is the bravest of all and therefore abandoned them and wants to punish them. He said that Murat was spending the night a mile away from them, and that if they gave him a hundred people in an escort, he would take him alive. Count Orlov Denisov consulted with his comrades. The offer was too flattering to refuse. Everyone volunteered to go, everyone advised to try. After many disputes and considerations, Major General Grekov, with two Cossack regiments, decided to go with a non-commissioned officer.
“Well, remember,” said Count Orlov Denisov to the non-commissioned officer, releasing him, “in case you lied, I will order you to be hanged like a dog, but the truth is a hundred chervonets.”
The non-commissioned officer, with a resolute look, did not answer these words, mounted on horseback and rode off with Grekov, who had quickly gathered himself. They hid in the forest. Count Orlov, shrugging from the freshness of the morning dawning, excited by what he was up to on his own responsibility, having seen Grekov off, went out of the forest and began to look around the enemy camp, which was now visible deceptively in the light of the beginning of the morning and the dying fires. To the right of Count Orlov Denisov, on an open slope, our columns should have appeared. Count Orlov looked there; but despite the fact that they would have been visible from afar, these columns were not visible. In the French camp, as it seemed to Count Orlov Denisov, and especially according to his very vigilant adjutant, they began to stir.
“Oh, really, it’s late,” said Count Orlov, looking at the camp. He suddenly, as often happens, after the person we believe is no longer in front of his eyes, it suddenly became completely clear and obvious to him that the non-commissioned officer was a deceiver, that he had lied and would only spoil the whole attack by the absence of these two regiments, whom he will lead God knows where. Is it possible to snatch out the commander-in-chief from such a mass of troops?
“Really, he’s lying, this rogue,” said the count.
“You can turn back,” said one of the retinue, who, like Count Orlov Denisov, felt distrust of the enterprise when he looked at the camp.
- A? Right?.. what do you think, or leave? Or not?
- Would you like to turn back?
- Turn back, turn back! - Count Orlov suddenly said resolutely, looking at his watch, - it will be late, it will be quite light.
And the adjutant galloped through the forest after Grekov. When Grekov returned, Count Orlov Denisov, excited by this canceled attempt, and the vain expectation of infantry columns, which all did not show up, and the proximity of the enemy (all the people of his detachment experienced the same), decided to attack.
He commanded in a whisper: "Sit down!" Divided, baptized...
- With God blessing!
"Uraaaaa!" roared through the forest, and, one hundred after another, as if sleeping out of a bag, the Cossacks flew merrily with their darts at the ready, across the stream to the camp.
One desperate, frightened cry of the first Frenchman who saw the Cossacks - and all that was in the camp, undressed, half-awake, threw guns, rifles, horses and ran anywhere.
If the Cossacks pursued the French, not paying attention to what was behind and around them, they would have taken Murat and everything that was there. The bosses wanted it. But it was impossible to budge the Cossacks when they got to the booty and prisoners. Nobody listened to the commands. One thousand five hundred prisoners were immediately taken, thirty-eight guns, banners and, most importantly for the Cossacks, horses, saddles, blankets and various items. It was necessary to do with all this, to seize the prisoners, guns, divide the booty, shout, even fight among themselves: the Cossacks took care of all this.
The French, no longer pursued, began to gradually come to their senses, gathered in teams and began to shoot. Orlov Denisov waited for all the columns and did not advance further.
Meanwhile, according to the disposition: “die erste Colonne marschiert” [the first column is coming (German)], etc., the infantry troops of the late columns, commanded by Benigsen and managed by Tol, made their way and, as always happens, came somewhere , but not where they were assigned. As always happens, people who went out cheerfully began to stop; displeasure was heard, a consciousness of confusion, they moved somewhere back. The galloping adjutants and generals shouted, got angry, quarreled, said that they were completely in the wrong place and were late, they scolded someone, etc., and finally, everyone waved their hand and went only to go somewhere. "We'll go somewhere!" And indeed, they came, but not there, and some went there, but they were so late that they came without any use, only to be shot at. Toll, who in this battle played the role of Weyrother in Austerlitz, diligently galloped from place to place and everywhere found everything upside down. So he rode on Baggovut's corps in the forest, when it was already completely light, and this corps should have been there long ago, with Orlov Denisov. Excited, upset by the failure and believing that someone was to blame for this, Toll jumped up to the corps commander and began to reproach him severely, saying that he should be shot for this. Baggovut, the old, fighting, calm general, also exhausted by all the stops, confusions, contradictions, to the surprise of everyone, completely contrary to his character, went into a rage and said unpleasant things to Tolya.
“I don’t want to take lessons from anyone, but I know how to die with my soldiers no worse than anyone else,” he said, and went forward with one division.
Entering the field under the French shots, the excited and brave Baggovut, not realizing whether his intervention now was useful or useless, and with one division, went straight and led his troops under the shots. Danger, cannonballs, bullets were just what he needed in his angry mood. One of the first bullets killed him, the next bullets killed many soldiers. And his division stood for some time useless under fire.
Meanwhile, another column was supposed to attack the French from the front, but Kutuzov was with this column. He knew well that nothing but confusion would come out of this battle, which had begun against his will, and, as far as it was in his power, held back the troops. He didn't move.
Kutuzov silently rode on his gray horse, lazily responding to proposals to attack.
“You have everything on your tongue to attack, but you don’t see that we don’t know how to make complex maneuvers,” he said to Miloradovich, who was asking to come forward.
- They didn’t know how to take Murat alive in the morning and arrive on time at the place: now there’s nothing to do! he replied to another.
When Kutuzov was informed that in the rear of the French, where, according to the reports of the Cossacks, there had been no one before, there were now two battalions of Poles, he glanced back at Yermolov (he had not spoken to him since yesterday).
- Here they ask for an offensive, they offer various projects, but as soon as you get down to business, nothing is ready, and the warned enemy takes his measures.
Yermolov screwed up his eyes and smiled slightly when he heard these words. He realized that the storm had passed for him and that Kutuzov would confine himself to this hint.
“He’s amused at my expense,” Yermolov said quietly, pushing Raevsky, who was standing beside him, with his knee.
Shortly thereafter, Yermolov moved forward to Kutuzov and respectfully reported:
“Time has not been lost, Your Grace, the enemy has not left. If you order to attack? And then the guards will not see the smoke.
Kutuzov did not say anything, but when he was informed that Murat's troops were retreating, he ordered an offensive; but every hundred steps he stopped for three-quarters of an hour.
The whole battle consisted only in what the Cossacks of Orlov Denisov did; the rest of the troops only lost a few hundred people in vain.
As a result of this battle, Kutuzov received a diamond badge, Benigsen also received diamonds and a hundred thousand rubles, others, according to their ranks, also received a lot of pleasant things, and after this battle, new changes were made in the headquarters.
“This is how we always do it, everything is upside down!” - Russian officers and generals said after the Battle of Tarutino, - just like they say now, making it feel that someone stupid is doing it upside down, but we would not have done it that way. But people who say this either do not know the business they are talking about, or deliberately deceive themselves. Every battle - Tarutino, Borodino, Austerlitz - everything is not carried out in the way that its stewards intended. This is an essential condition.
An innumerable number of free forces (for nowhere is a man more free than in a battle where life and death are at stake) influence the direction of the battle, and this direction can never be known in advance and never coincide with the direction of any one force.
If many, simultaneously and diversely directed forces act on some body, then the direction of movement of this body cannot coincide with any of the forces; but there will always be an average, shortest direction, that which in mechanics is expressed by the diagonal of the parallelogram of forces.
If in the descriptions of historians, especially French ones, we find that their wars and battles are carried out according to a predetermined plan, then the only conclusion that we can draw from this is that these descriptions are not correct.
The Tarutino battle, obviously, did not achieve the goal that Tol had in mind: to bring the troops into action in order, according to the disposition, and the one that Count Orlov could have had; capture Murat, or the goal of instantly exterminating the entire corps, which Benigsen and other persons could have, or the goals of an officer who wanted to get into business and distinguish himself, or a Cossack who wanted to get more booty than he got, etc. But , if the goal was what really happened, and what was then a common desire for all Russian people (the expulsion of the French from Russia and the extermination of their army), then it will be completely clear that the Battle of Tarutino, precisely because of its incongruities, was the very , which was needed during that period of the campaign. It is difficult and impossible to think of any outcome of this battle more expedient than the one that it had. With the smallest exertion, with the greatest confusion and with the most insignificant loss, the greatest results in the entire campaign were obtained, the transition from retreat to attack was made, the weakness of the French was exposed, and that impetus was given, which was only expected by the Napoleonic army to start the flight.