Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi:‎

Western and secular culture must removed from university books

Rasa – The revered source of emulation said, “Books that have aspect of translation and are ‎taught at the universities, must be carefully examined and the Western and secular culture ‎that is included in them must be removed.”‎

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Date: 19 September 2018 - 19:02

RNA – In a meeting with Hujjat al-Islam Mostafa Rostami, the head of the Institution ‎Representation the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the Universities, Grand ‎Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi stated, “The university system came from the West and its ‎founders in our country intended to separate the academic field from the religious field and ‎educate the people who don’t have a lot of religious beliefs.”

The revered source of emulation said, “At the same time, one can’t deny the existence of ‎the university in the country because knowledge is a necessity and we never eliminate the ‎university but its problems must be corrected.”‎

He said, “The West has tried to embed its culture into university courses and pass it on to ‎us, especially in books that have aspect of translation and this can be seen clearly.”‎

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi emphasized, “You must carefully examine the books that have a ‎aspect of translation and remove the Western and secular culture which are included in ‎them.”‎

The teacher of jurisprudence in in the Islamic Seminary of Qom said, “The future of the ‎country in the hands of those who come from the university and the seminary and if there ‎isn’t  harmony between them and they aren’t united, when one enters into the organization, ‎duality is created. Therefore, these two institutions must be more closely connected.”‎

He added, “To be sure that the university is moving in the direction of Islam, attention must ‎be given to the teacher, the textbook and the program is very necessary and essential.”‎

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi stated, “Foreigners are both sensitive and active in both ‎universities and the seminaries and in a variety of ways, since the internet is trying to isolate ‎the two. Therefore, you need to be sensitive to it. With the existence of the internet, this is ‎a bit of a problem and unfortunately the government is not very sensitive to the internet.”‎

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