Hawzah News Agency-"Today the world arrogance is the biggest obstacle to the spiritual and divine guidance to the contemporary man”, said Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi pointing to the anti-religious attempts of the imperialism.
In meeting with a number of seminarians competent in foreign languages from the international affairs department of Qom Islamic seminary and the Al-Mustafa International University, Hujjat al-Islam Raeisi said, “Today, the westerners and especially their youth are quite eager for the divine instructions and the reason why the supreme Leader addressed the youth in his message to the western people is that the disposition of the youth is pure.”
Grand Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi viewed the mission of the religious preachers and scholars in introducing the Islamic injunction and the words of the household of the Apostle of God (S.A.W) highly crucial and important and pointed out, “Due to the chaos created by the ISIS and the Salafism across the world, the attention of the world has directed increasingly to the Muhammadian and rational Shi’ite religion and many found out that the only savior is the Islam of the Infallible Imams (A.S.).”
Putting stress on using the modern tools of communicating and propagating the religious ideas, member of the board of directors of the Assembly of the Experts reiterated, “A significant requirement for propagation today is familiarity with different languages and making use of modern devices. Mastery of foreign languages for conveying the ideas to the audiences is inevitable.”
Noting that preaching in the language of every nation reinforces the impression of the words, he recounted the mission of Islam as guidance of the entire world and recommended, “Besides attempting for grasping the religious concepts, try to learn also foreign languages with a high motivation.”
Self-refinement and sincerity, two effective factors in a scholar’s speech
The Grand Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi also said, “Self-refinement, recourse to the Household of the Apostle of God (S.A.W.), and sincerity in affairs was the secret to the effectiveness of the words of the late Imam Khomeini (R.A.), the Supreme Leader, and the religious scholars. Self-refinement is also an immunizing factor against the mistakes and devilish temptations.”
Regarding ‘openness of the breast’ as the loftiest human position, Hujjat al-Islam Raeisi asserted, “According to the Holy Qur’an, God bestowed this position to the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) and this indicates that there is no loftier position for man than the openness of the breast”.
“The openness of breast is a must and the most essential device for preaching that cannot be obtained but in the shade of submission to God and using the instructions of the Infallible Imams (A.S.)”, said Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi.
At the end, Hujjat al-Islam Raeisi recommended the seminarians to learning and making use of the opportunities ensued by the revolution for propagating the religious affairs and remarked, “Thanks to the Islamic revolution a good situation has been provided for learning and raising the insightfulness, and the seminarians are advised to make the utmost use of this capacity for spreading the divine instructions.”
At the beginning of the meeting, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Mohyeddin Qawami, head of international conferences and trainings office of Islamic seminaries delivered a report of the performances of preachers versed in foreign language in the international domain and declaring the holding of the international conference of seminarians competent in foreign language in Mashhad, he said, “One of the main objectives of holding the training course for seminarians in the international domain is cultural work and involvement of the seminarians and the scholars into international issues and training preachers in these domains.”
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