Remaining in an animalistic life achieves nothing except killing and murder

Rasa - Noting that a large part of the budget of the world is being spent on the manufacture ‎of weapons to kill innocent people, Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli said, “A man who remains in an ‎animalistic manner of life, has achieved nothing except killing and murder.” ‎

News ID: 441207

Date: 25 October 2018 - 11:36

RNA - In a meeting with members of secretariat of the Ethics and Media Conference, Grand ‎Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli offered his condolences on the Arba’in of Imam al-Husayn and ‎said, “If we want to have a human life, we must do in accordance with the verse, “Oh you ‎who have faith! Answer God and the Apostle when he summons you to that which will give ‎you life” (Holy Quran 8:24). Here God has addressed the living people so this means we are ‎the dead who are apparently alive and must achieve our true and human life. The ‎explanation of this issue is that some have a vegetal life. Some who grow a little and when ‎affection is created in their soul, have gone from a vegetal life to an animalistic life. In the ‎next stage, if one achieves a university or seminary education, he will have gone from an ‎animalistic life to a human life.”

The prominent exegetist of the Holy Quran added, “Religion says that if you want to live, ‎you must act in accordance with Holy Quran but nowadays, a large amount of the budget of ‎the world is being spent on the manufacture of weapons to massacre [innocent people] and ‎weapons factories are working around the clock [in order to manufacture these weapons]. ‎The outcome of World War I and World War II led to the deaths of more than seventy ‎million people and also today is the era of proxy wars. A person who has remained in the ‎animalistic stage of life has made no achievement except killing and murder.” ‎

Noting that a man who remains in the animalistic stage of life will have no achievement ‎except killing and murder, Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli said, “There is still a long way until Islamic ‎demands and teachings are realized in the field of media but there is definitely the ability and ‎capacity in this country [Iran]. The path is clear. The media must strive to familiarize society ‎with religious and moral teachings. This is the main duty of the media.” ‎

He added, “The main duty of the media in regard to ethical issues is to teach people and ‎society that death is leaving one’s body and not rotting and in the face of death, we make ‎death die and not die ourselves. Therefore, human beings are an immortal phenomenon. If ‎we comprehend and believe in this principle, we will never stray [from right path] and never ‎block someone’s way. Thus, our problem is that we have not known mankind. The duty of ‎the media is to acquaint the people with the truth of mankind.”‎

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