RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in Qom’s Qods Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Sa’idi argued that the disbelievers lack of domination over the believers cannot be achieved by prayer alone and said, “The believers must pursue this important act in practice.”
Referring to the world’s distrust of the United States, the custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah added, “Today, not only the free people of the world, but also the servants of the Americans don’t believe the United States is reliable. The United States has also pushed its servants aside, including the treacherous Pahlavis, the executioner Saddam Husayn and the seditious Masoud Barzani and Abrahamic steps must be taken to escape from the sovereignty of the disbelievers.”
In the second part of his Friday prayer sermon, he referred to World Science Day for Peace and Development and stated, “In Islamic culture, science is not defined or recommended in an absolute manner, but rather Islam emphasizes upon useful science and seekers of science must seek the useful science which is an essential need for them and society.”
Referring to the presence of millions of lovers of Imam al-Husayn participating the Arba’in pilgrimage to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, which reached its peak today, Ayatollah Sa’idi pointed out that the first person who walked in this path was Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari, a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad, and said, “Jabir’s pilgrimage during the suffocating and tyrannous era of the Umayyad Dynasty was a political and revolutionary movement.”
The representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] in Qom province added that by taking a pilgrimage to the grave of the ‘Master of the Martyrs,’ Jabir laid the groundwork for the defeat of the hegemonic Umayyad Dynasty and the caliph Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah, since that it was on that day the spiritual, political, and revolutionary movement was regarded as a value and the Imams emphasized this issue and added, “We thank all those who have promoted and commemorated this important event and conveyed it to the world.”
He criticized the Western media for censoring the Arba’in pilgrimage and said, “This year, lovers of the ‘Master of the Martyrs’ from more than fifty countries participated in the pilgrimage and these same people are the Husayni media for the world. Today, Imam al-Husayn is a well-known and influential figure for the world.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi added that the Arba’in walk lays the groundwork for the reappearance of the promised Imam al-Mahdi and stated, “Shame and curse on the disbelievers, the idolaters and the Wahhabis who have applied the Western and Zionist analysis of the Husayni epic.”
“Today, with the conspiracies of the Americans and Zionists, love and affection for Imam al-Husayn is rising in the hearts of humankind,” he noted.
His Eminence said that even those who weren’t able to travel to Karbala went to the streets of their cities or walked to other holy places and said, “The loyal followers of Wilayat al-Faqih [Guardianship of the Jurisprudent] in Iran are not affected by any conspiracy or sedition and cannot stop the Husayni commemorations and pilgrimage.”
The Friday prayer leader of Qom continued, “Through divine grace and with the leadership and the guidance of a senior scholar of Islam, Ayatollah Khamenei, the people of Iran will continue to promote pure Muhammadan Islam and the Husayni path and in spite of the United States and the Zionists, we will not stop our victory and support for the oppressed people of the world.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi expressed, “To the whole world that has risen up to oppose and conspire against the Islamic Republic of Iran, we declare that now that you have risen up with all of your might against Islam, the Quran and the Ahlul-Bayt. We will not stop until we eradicate your sedition and internal and external corruption in the region and in the world.”