The Leader of Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, has said that the holy city of Qom has never been as effective as today toward the global developments and policies, and due to this distinguished status it has never had the friends and enemies as it currently has.
The Leader of Islamic Revolution addressed a large gathering of Ulema, lecturers, and scholars of the Qom Seminary on Thursday morning, while hailing the efforts of tens of thousands of scholars in the holy city of Qom for learning and promoting Islamic teachings as an unprecedented phenomenon.
The Leader further rejected the fallacious reasoning that calls for separation of the Seminary from politics and international topics of importance and noted that neutrality and lack of movement does not stop the enemy and in fact encourages the foes to intensify their hostilities.
The Leader of Islamic Revolution further elaborated on the goals of the enemies of Islam in promoting two diversionary concepts of the “rule of clerics” and “division of the clergy into the ones within the ruling system and those outside the ruling system”, while emphasizing that: “The foes want to deprive the sacred Islamic establishment from the huge ideological support of Ulema, and the enemies have in fact launched a futile bid to somehow isolate and disrepute revolutionary clerics. Meanwhile, one should vigilantly stand against these sinister and ominous aims.”
The Leader further pointed out that the sacred Islamic system is in fact the rule of sacred religion of Islam and religious values; and is not the rule of clerics.
In further remarks, the Leader referred to a few, who issue fatwa to mainly comply with the materialistic norms and tendencies and even for the sake of Global Arrogance. The Leader went on to add: “Someone has issued a fatwa that Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities are illegitimate because the world powers have been suspicious about it. But, we say that the Global Arrogance has made a major mistake and is wrongful and should not dare to be suspicious toward the Iranian nation.”
Furthermore, the Leader reiterated that within the seminaries’ ethical and behavioral system, the revolutionary sentiments and tendencies should be fully attended because the enemies and their followers are intent on pursuing their ominous goals through shattering the revolutionary atmosphere.
The Leader of Islamic Revolution enumerated efforts to isolate revolutionary and Basiji clerics; disregard for martyrdom and martyrs; and questioning of the sacred defense of the Iranian nation as parts of the approaches adopted by the foes of Islam to undermine the revolutionary atmosphere in the seminaries, while calling on the clerics of seminaries to be fully sensitive and cautious in this regard.