Hawzah News Agency –Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani in a meeting with the head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization by Emphasizing that people today are thirsty for pure Islam, said we must introduce pure Islam and the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) to the world today, and this issue requires a jurist and a scholar.
According to the public relations Department of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Hojjatoleslam Imanipour during his tour of the Holy city Qum, visited the source of emulation of Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani.
Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, stating that God Almighty has given many blessings to man and human being will be held accountable for these blessings on the Day of Judgment, said these and other issues are a sign of divine greatness.
Emphasizing that there are different types of responsibilities, the most important of which are social and personal responsibilities and continuing to serve the people, Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani said cultural responsibility and having relations with the people of the world is an important issue and this should be undertaken by people who are strong in expressing religious teachings.
He went on saying that people of the world took Islam from Sunni text books, said these issues show that more efforts should be made to explain and promote religion in today"s world."
Acknowledging that we must introduce pure Islam and the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) to the world today, and this requires a jurist and a scholar, the source of Shiite emulation said introducing the Islam of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) is a major task and requires great efforts.
Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani said people today are thirsty for pure Islam and the problem becomes more serious when Muslims are under Western domination and if we had introduced pure Islam correctly and in time, Muslims should not have been dominated by the West.
Hojjatoleslam Imanipour, for his part said that the ICRO has been in charge of cultural diplomacy of the country abroad since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran and has worked as the headquarters of country’s international cultural interactions.
He added different activities have been defined for this organization, the most important of which is to present and introduce a clear picture of the Islamic Republic of Iran and benevolent Islam to the world.
The head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, expressing strategies to prevent and combat Islamophobia and Iranophobia, said in today’s world, which is facing Islamophobia and Iranophobia, we have a duty to present a correct and worthy image of Iran and to introduce the teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt school. (AS).
He continued by saying that the enemy’s goal is Islamophobia and Iranophobia, and they seek to destroy Islam and Iran in the name of Islam, but fortunately there are some young revolutionary forces who are working on the cultural front of the revolution.
Hojjatoleslam Imanipour pointed to sending of missionaries and cultural elites to different countries and said this organization has been able to provide the presence of a large number of non-Iranian envoys who are educated in Iran and are interested in publicity in their own countries.