The great Imam designated the period of the auspicious birthday of the Holy Prophet celebrations from the 12th to 17th of Rabi ul Awwal as the Islamic Unity Week. Imam Khomeini announced the Unity Week in order to bridge differences among Muslim community and strengthen solidarity among them. Imam Khomeini once said in a historic message as following:
Muslims should be awake, Muslims should be alert that if a dispute takes place among Sunni and Shi'ite brothers, it is harmful to all of us, it is harmful to all Muslims. Those who want to sow discord are neither Sunni nor Shia, they are agents of the superpowers and work for them.
Imam believed that focus on building inter-Muslim solidarity is essential to pursue cultural and intellectual methods to help bridge the differences of the past centuries.
Today we truly observe the timeliness of the wisest elder’scall of unity and the rightness of his alarms as well as the consequence of insanity, fanaticism and conflictsas heretic – terrorist sects who organised by oppressor powers of the world, attack Muslims and innocents. Perhaps in this arena necessity of returning to Imam’s style is seen more than ever.