Qom Friday Prayer Leader:‎

The enemies seek to make Qom like the Western world

Rasa – Ayatollah Sa’idi said, “The enemies are thinking about changing the Islamic lifestyle in ‎Qom into a Western life and turn the Nest of the Immaculate Family of Muhammad into a ‎modern Western world.” ‎

News ID: 443060

Date: 19 January 2019 - 08:23

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎Qom’s Qods Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Sa’idi stated that Iranian politicians ‎must be careful about their speech and behaviour and avoid the tendency towards ‎aristocracy and extravagance and said, “The people must deal with the ploys of the enemies ‎and the authorities must also revive hope in the people by boosting domestic production ‎and supporting Iranian goods.”‎

The custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah commended the judiciary in ‎dealing with the economic crimes committed in the country and said, “We call on the ‎judiciary to move forward with creating hope in order to cut off the hands of the corruptors ‎from the resources of the country and watch out for mysterious movements and groups.”‎

Arguing that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, emphasized ‎that the authorities must have courage and rationality and must not recoil in the face of the ‎foolish statements made by the United States and Western European countries, he said, ‎‎“Just as the Supreme Leader said, ‘We must stand and resist against them because their ‎words, promises and their signatures are not credible.’”‎

Ayatollah Sa’idi added, “The Supreme Leader emphasized the historical expression of Imam ‎Ali, who said that the true power in the world was the power of God and that the material ‎powers of the world are fragile and according to this, Imam Khomeyni said that ‘the United ‎States can’t do an damned thing.’”‎

The representative of the Supreme Leader in Qom said, “The authorities must consider ‎internal strength and promote the Resistance Economy and solve the people’s livelihood ‎problems based on authoritative solutions and national coherence and by executing the ‎plans of the Supreme Leader. With the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a body ‎without a soul will remain and also, none of the expected policies of the government that ‎were promised will be realized in the JCPOA.”‎

He said, “In 2013, the Minister of Foreign Affairs [Mohammad-Javad Zarif] said that the ‎purpose of the negotiations with the P5+1 was to lift the sanctions but this year, he said ‎that the purpose of the negotiations wasn’t to lift the sanctions. These statements show that ‎the JCPOA wasn’t able to remove the sanctions but rather, the sanctions by the United ‎States were intensified. Therefore, the authorities must act with courage and rationality ‎according to the advice of the Supreme Leader and not associate the national authority with ‎external illusions.”‎

Referring to the Day of Gaza, Ayatollah Sa’idi said, “Because of the epic of the people of ‎Gaza in defending their homeland, January 19th was named as the Day of Gaza, where we ‎pray to God to grant victory to this oppressed and resistant nation against the Zionists.”‎

Referring to the martyrdom anniversary of Lady Fatimah al-Zahra, His Eminence added, ‎‎“Lady Fatimah al-Zahra is unique for all Muslims in the fields of wilayah (guardianship), ‎resistance and the defence of Islam and wilayah in the arena of the family for exemplary ‎women. For this reason, the Supreme Leader said that Lady Fatimah al-Zahra is the secret of ‎the survival of Islam and the women of the country were also present at the scene by ‎following this great lady in the struggle and realization of the Islamic Revolution and the Holy ‎Defence [Iran-Iraq War] and all arenas. The lifestyle of Lady Fatimah al-Zahra must be the ‎model of the actions of the Shi’ahs.”‎

Referring to the importance of the city of Qom as the sanctuary of the Ahlul-Bayt, he warned ‎of the conspiracies that enemies have had and continue to have against Qom and said, “The ‎enemies want turn the humanity-building ideology of pure Muhammadan Islam, which is ‎based on the teachings of the Ahlul-Bayt and the guidance of the revolutionary sources of ‎emulation and clergy into anti-revolutionary and marginal doctrines and create despair and ‎hopelessness, separate the seminaries from the Islamic system and separate the people ‎from the seminaries.”‎

Ayatollah Sa’idi stated, “On the one hand, they want to separate the seminaries from the ‎Islamic Revolution and institutionalize Western intellectual thought and religious secularism as ‎the dominant norm in the seminaries and on the other hand, they are thinking about ‎changing the Islamic lifestyle in Qom into a Western life and turn the Nest of the Immaculate ‎Family of Muhammad into a modern Western world.” ‎

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