Senior Member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom:‎

The declaration of the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution and the ‎necessity of theorizing in the form of providing a model

Ayatollah Bonyadi called for theorizing in the form of providing a model to correctly explain ‎the statement of the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution and called the ‎mission of the elites vital in this regard.‎

News ID: 450291

Date: 21 June 2020 - 14:32

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Hoseyn Bonyadi, the ‎vice-president of the general assembly of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, made ‎important remarks about the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution which ‎was issued by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] and the ‎necessity to make efforts toward building thought and its practical applications.‎

He stated, “Considering the strategic position of the Statement on the Second Step of the ‎Islamic Revolution, many explanatory, diverse and useful explanatory topics have been ‎made by experts on the importance of issuing this statement, its axes, topics and objectives ‎which have largely determined the purposes of the statement.” ‎

The teacher in the Islamic Seminaries of Qom emphasized that the academic and elite ‎community must enter the stage of strategies for fulfilling the demands of the Supreme ‎Leader in the form of individual or collective research and said, “Achieving this important ‎level will help so that activities in the step of explanation aren’t focused or stopped. For this ‎reason, it’s necessary to move research and related and extracted projects from the topics ‎and axes of the statement toward practical work.”‎

To explain the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Bonyadi ‎considered thinking and theorizing, which requires the wise spread of related academic chairs ‎in the seminary and university‏ ‏fields.‎

His Eminence emphasized that paying attention to the statements of the Supreme Leader as ‎one of the key points and a way to understand the Statement on the Second Step of the ‎Islamic Revolution.‎

In this regard, he said, Ayatollah Khamenei has repeatedly emphasized the advancement and ‎progress of research in all fields and as the same style has been proposed in the “Islamic-‎Iranian Blueprint for Progress.” Also, in addition to the Statement on the Second Step of the ‎Islamic Revolution, while pointing out the necessity of a suitable model, the Supreme Leader ‎stated, “There was no prior experience or way forward for us. It’s obvious that Marxist ‎uprisings and the like could not be considered a model for the revolution that emerged from ‎the text of Islamic faith and knowledge. The Islamic revolutionaries began without precedent ‎and experience, and the combination of republicanism and Islamism and the means of its ‎formation and progress could not be achieved except with divine guidance and the ‎enlightened heart and great thought of Imam Khomeyni and this was the first radiance of the ‎revolution.”‎

Ayatollah Bonyadi considered attention to the words and textual and meta-thematic issues of ‎the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution as an important factor in ‎understanding the methods and type of research appropriate to this issue and specified, “It ‎seems necessary to provide comprehensive models that are appropriate to the system of ‎topics and objectives raised in the statement – especially on a weekly basis – as the best ‎appendices to the statement are to provide constructive models on the horizon of modern ‎Islamic civilization.”‎

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