Member of the Supreme Assembly for the Exegesis of the Holy Quran:

Cultural institutions, Islamic Seminaries are the audience of the enemies’ new war

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Mirkatoli emphasized that our cultural institutions must take cultural resistance seriously, saying, “Today, our cultural institutions and even the Islamic Seminaries are the audience of the enemies’ new war.”

News ID: 431671

Date: 15 August 2017 - 12:44

RNA – In an interview with Reza News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Mortaza Mirkatoli said that the concept of resistance is one of the most important and important concepts in the eyes of monotheistic religions and stated, “The element of faith as an element of monotheism cannot reach its destination without resistance.”

The member of the Supreme Assembly for the Exegesis of the Holy Quran said that during the first decade of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, some of the elders considered the phrase ‘mujahid’ [warrior] as stubborn and added, “A stubborn warrior is someone who doesn’t get upset by paying the price for his faith. Therefore, without resistance, one cannot achieve a great civilization and always, those who founded those great civilizations were who stood up for their slogans and ideals and paid the price and even sacrificed their lives.”

Hujjat al-Islam Mirkatoli said that we should have a large and transnational view to institutionalizing the faith and added, “Today, the enemies’ style of war and the style of fighting against us have changed and although they possesses the atomic bomb, they cannot use it. Today, their leverage and great tool of war is to weaken the foundations of our faith and belief and hard war has turned into a soft war.”

He argued that when the cultural and ideological foundations of a nation are weakened, they will be ready to accept any induced culture and added, “Our enemies consciously have come to a soft war and contrary to what we think, they have begun this war with our children and the authorities have neglected it.”

The Iranian cleric said that in our lifestyle, children have become engaged in computer games, saying, “In computer games, those who give our children culture and personality are our enemies are our enemies. Among our youth, we weren’t able to apply Islamic fashion or models of clothing while some countries determine our fashion, models of clothing and even hairstyles. It’s even they who devise our own kinds of cuisine for us and we should be able to resist these heavy attacks by the enemies.”

Hujjat al-Islam Mirkatoli noted that several decades after the Islamic Revolution, we are living in the present situation and make decisions for the current situation, adding, “In our lifestyle, we never look forward to the future and we don’t even take lessons from the weaknesses of our past. Unfortunately, such events are signs of cultural retreat while our slogan is that we want to export our revolution to the world.”

His Eminence argued that we should have created dams in the face of the devastating flood of Western culture in the past and stressed, “We have to unmask this flood from its source so that it doesn’t amass in one place. In the words of [the poet] Saadi Shirazi, ‘The source of a fountain maybe be stopped with a bodkin but, when it is full, it cannot be crossed on an elephant.”

Hujjat al-Islam Mirkatoli emphasized that our cultural institutions must take cultural resistance seriously and added, “Today, our cultural institutions and even the Islamic Seminaries are the audience of the enemies’ new war and unfortunately, we are retreating to the backyards of our houses while the enemies are also within our homes.”

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