Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi:

Concerned by the Zionists’ brutal assault on prayers in al-Aqsa Mosque

Rasa – Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi has issued a statement in which he says: “It is not permissible to keep silent about the brutal assault on the Palestinian prayers and the incineration of some parts of al-Aqsa Mosque by hundreds of Zionist soldiers.”

News ID: 1642

Date: 16 November 2014 - 17:59

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi has issued a statement in which he says: “It is not permissible to keep silent about the brutal assault on the Palestinian prayers and the incineration of some parts of al-Aqsa Mosque by hundreds of Zionist soldiers.”

In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful

One hears very disturbing news these days from the city of al-Quds concerning the violation of the sanctity of al-Aqsa Mosque by the Zionists. It is not permissible to keep silent about an issue such as the brutal assault on the Palestinian prayers and the incineration of some parts of al-Aqsa Mosque by hundreds of Zionist soldiers which has repeated after 47 years.

The extremist Zionists have become so insolent and shameless that, in addition to this violation, they have staged a demonstration around the first Qiblah of Muslims and have called for the demolition of al-Aqsa Mosque so that they would be able to build a temple of their own in its stead.

I extend my appreciation to some of the religious leaders and authorities as well as the people of the Islamic countries, including the prayers of the Friday Prayer in Tehran and other cities of Iran who immediately reacted to this desecration, and I urge the other authorities and the nations of the world of Islam and the free people of the world as well as all international organizations not to keep silent about these crimes, desecrations and sinister and dangerous plots and to utilize all of their capacities and capabilities to prevent these sinister and dangerous Zionist plots, “For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower” [89:14].

Naser Makarem-Shirazi

November 15, 2014

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