The member of the assembly of experts:

Shiite scholarship have always been working for the interest of the people

Rasa – Hojatol Islam Ameli said: “The Shiite scholarship have always been working for the interest of the people and have never sacrificed their Islamic desires for the desires of the political wings”.

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Date: 10 April 2013 - 15:41

Rasa News Agency Reports – In a third day mourning ceremony of the demise of Hojatol Islam Masih Imani, one of the outstanding and revolutionary scholars of the region, The representative of the supreme leader in the province of Ardabil said: “The Shiite scholarship have always been working for the interest of the people and have never sacrificed their Islamic desires for the desires of the political wings”.

In emphasizing that the scholars are the border guards of faith, Jihad, and God’s blessing toward the earth, he said: “If a society were deprived from the blessing and spiritual presence of a Shiite scholar, the evil soul and the misguiding beliefs will be published in the society and that’s the time when deviant sects and superstitions will replace with pure Islamic precepts of the prophet”.

Considering the guarding of sanctity of the prophets households and leadership as a duty of the religious scholars in the era of occultation, the member of the assembly of experts said: “The demised Hojatol Islam Imani is an all-time symbol of defending the guardianship of the Islamic jurists in the region. Hojatol Islam Imani had a simple life, and was benevolent, taking care of the orphans and a true missionary of the divine precepts”.

In another part of his speech, Hojatol Islam Ameli, emphasizing that we should be careful about penetration of misleading and Wahhabi thoughts and activities in the region and said: “There are more than 5 thousand books, mainly written by Wahhabis against Shia religion”.

It’s worth mentioning that the demised Hojatol Islam Masih Imani was born in 1941 and after 45 years of efforts and endeavors in the religious path, he passed away on the morning of 6th of April 2013 while suffering from sickness. He was one of the outstanding scholars of religion and one of the oppositions of the Shah regime before 1979 Islamic revolution.

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