Qom Friday Prayer Leader:‎

The Coronavirus is a trigger for human awakening

Ayatollah Arafi stated that Coronavirus was a trigger for human beings and said, “We ‎consider this tribulation to be unfortunate for human beings and we would never choose it ‎for any human being. All human beings must treat this tribulation and other social anomalies, ‎we must follow the medical and health laws and seek to solve the problem.”‎

News ID: 449969

Date: 12 April 2020 - 09:37

RNA – In his Friday sermon which was broadcast online due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) ‎epidemic, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi referred to doubts about the relationship between material ‎causes and trans-natural and supernatural causes and said, “The events that occur in the ‎world have different factors from good and bad and bitterness and sweetness.” ‎

The head of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran stated that Coronavirus was a trigger for human ‎beings and said, “We consider this tribulation to be unfortunate for human beings and we ‎would never choose it for any human being. All human beings must treat this tribulation and ‎other social anomalies, we must follow the medical and health laws and seek to solve the ‎problem.”‎

He said, “At the same time, human beings and the Western currents are making progress ‎today, but on the other hand, it’s the oppression and misery that they have created for ‎human beings and it’s the place where Coronavirus has awoken the world, the elites and the ‎powers of the world. This tribulation can uncover the persistent pain of humanity.”‎

Ayatollah Arafi said that distancing oneself from God and spirituality, giving authenticity to ‎materialism and the natural world, giving authenticity to the economy and prosperity, ‎spreading corruption and oppression in the world, unleashing coercive and colonial powers ‎over several centuries and plundering resources and the interests of the underprivileged, ‎discriminating, imposing sanctions, occupying, assassinating, racism, huge military ‎expenditures and the aggression of Western powers are some of these diseases.”‎

The member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminaries added, “Today, Westerners ‎themselves must fight and there is conflict within the European Union. Disregard for the ‎elderly and the value of human beings have also seen during the Coronavirus epidemic.

The ‎contradictions between [US President Donald] Trump and others, their superstitions and the ‎taunting and false propaganda against Iran have also been seen during the Coronavirus ‎epidemic. They created propaganda but they themselves felt that they were ridiculed. ‎Doesn't man need to reconsider his behaviour?”‎

Ayatollah Arafi stated that Coronavirus was a trigger for human awakening and said, “The ‎Coronavirus was also a wake-up call for the Iranian nation as a pioneer of a great revolution ‎and taught us to stand on our own two feet and trust our experiences.”‎

He continued, “In the context of the Coronavirus in Iraq, these oppressors are shouting and ‎making an uproar and showing their grip on a nation that the Americans openly terrorized ‎but they must know that the Iraqi nation and government will not surrender, the Iranian ‎people and the Islamic Resistance Axis will stand on its own two feet and the heroic city of ‎Qom will be a pioneer in this direction. We must learn important lessons from this event for ‎spiritual upliftment and divine leaps and return to the authentic civilization.”‎

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