Hawzah News Agency- Head of Iran’s Islamic Seminary Ayatollah Alireza Arafi delivered a speech at the closing ceremony of the Divine Arts Festival held in Jamiat al-Zahra University in Qom on Thursday, June 16, referring to the ongoing strike for the imprisonment of Shia scholars in The Republic of Azerbaijan and said, ‘A number of religious leaders, clerics and scholars including Sheikh Tale are in prison; The ongoing protest is due to insulting the holy beliefs and the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan is expected to pay attention to public feelings. The seminary of Iran and the Islamic Community expect apologies for such blasphemous acts against Muslim sanctities.’

He added, ‘Let them know that religious figures, although they come from one particular region in the Islamic world but belong to the whole Islamic Community, and we expect the Azerbaijani government to solve these problems, because such personalities are considered as the Azerbaijan’s great characters and belong to the whole Islamic world.’

The head of Iranian seminaries, while thanking the managers and staff of the Divine Art Festival, in Qom added,’ Art is defined as creativity, free imagination and delicacy and is mixed with a sense of beauty, which due to the complexity of its dimensions and sides, is not possible to define it correctly. Undoubtedly, art in a special sense plays a special role in developing the power of imagination in mankind.’

Ayatollah Arafi further noted, ‘Art is intertwined with human feelings and emotions and plays an important role in reaching the highest level of its spirituality; art is a wonderful and admirable thing of existence, and when it reaches the final potential, it is tied to other values such as wisdom and revelation.’