Rasa – The teacher in the Islamic Seminary of Qom said that speaking about the decline of the United States isn’t a failure to understand the United States and said, “We understand the United States in a correct manner but we also believe it’s in decline.” RNA – Speaking at the first part in a series of conferences entitled “The Decline of the United States of America” which was held at Hazrat Zaynab Mosque in Pardisan, Qom, Hujjat al-Islam Sa’id Bahmani said that in an individual manner, we won’t see the fall of a civilization like that of the United States and said, “Speaking of the decline of the civilization of the United States doesn’t mean that we have failed to understood the American civilization.”
The member of the Scientific Council of the Cultural and Educational Research Centre of the Holy Quran continued, “Just in terms of military weapons, the United States has 17 times as many weapons as all of Europe, that is, they can swallow the whole of the European Union. Therefore, when we speak of the decline of such a power, it doesn’t mean we don’t understand it.”
Referring to the words of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, in the context of the decline of the United States, he said, “We believe that the Supreme Leader sees something that others don’t see. Just as we sought such a issue from Imam Khomeyni. Just few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he promised its collapse and today, we aren’t talking from ourselves, but from the statements of the Supreme Leader.”
Hujjat al-Islam Bahmani continued, “On April 25, 2006, the Supreme Leader said during a meeting with former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir ‘The arrogant powers headed by the United States have grown weaker and weaker over the past years. Based on divine providence, when powers become arrogant and rebellious, their decline and downfall will begin.’”
The teacher in the Islamic Seminary of Qom noted, “In 2018, the Supreme Leader said ‘those who are inclined towards compromise know that the United States is in decline.’ This sentence has been chosen as the most memorable sentence on the Supreme Leader’s website. Successorship, substitution, destruction and the tradition of destruction are part of the traditions that tell of the scale of civilization, i.e., the people will collapse.”
Referring to the divine subordination, he said, “The Holy Quran warns all human beings that the tradition of successorship is ongoing, meaning it’s the tradition of God which moves all the people. Another verse expresses successorship by addressing the disbelievers. This is expressed in the Chapter of Hud, verse 57.”
Hujjat al-Islam Bahmani added, “The reminder to the successors in the address to the believers is expressed in two forms, glad tidings and warning. God gives both glad tidings and warnings but doesn’t promise anything to the believers.”
The Iranian scholar also referred to Ayatollah Khamenei’s statement of the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution and added, “In the first paragraph of the statement on the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution, the Supreme Leader speaks in regard to the nation and the nation that he speaks to has a unique revolution. In continuation, he refers to the decline of the ‘centres of animosity’ and uses two terms – ‘inevitable demise’ and ‘throes of death.’”
He said, “If you don’t believe in your greatness and you don’t see the decline of your rival, you will face problems and won’t seek to combat it. The Supreme Leader states that, against all the temptations where resistance seemed impossible, they would protect their dignity and continue to enter the second phase of self-building and the building of society and civilization, which are the three components of the basic recommendations to confront a declining civilization.”
Hujjat al-Islam Bahmani stated that decline has three stages, “We are currently in the third stage and even if there is no sign of a decline in civilization and we’re in the pre-decline phase, we must continue to work toward self-building and the building of society and civilization and after the collapse, self-building is a means of differentiation, which, if this distinction isn’t determined, there wouldn’t be any difference from falsehood.”
It is worth mentioning that the series of conferences on the decline of the United States has been organized by Rasa News Agency and is founded on three axes – economic decline, military decline and political decline, which have been neglected by the public.
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