Hawzah News Agency- the Quranic meeting "Quran and Resistance" was held in the international section of the Holy Quran exhibition in Iranian city of Tehran on Wednesday, March 27.
Seyyed Mujtaba Abtahi, Secretary General of the Palestinian International Conference and Advisor to Iran’s Minister of Culture, said in this meeting,” A new world order is being created in which the Qur'an and the family of the Messenger of God will reach the highest level of dignity and will be the main source of power, and this world is about to emerge.”
Abtahi added, "Some important steps were taken in the criminal court in The Hague; according to the Quranic verse Muslims fast and it makes their hearts and thoughts ready for the reappearance of Imam Al-Asr.”
In another part of this meeting, the ambassador of Yemen to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Al-Dilami, congratulated the month of Ramadan and said,” In this month, I would like to point out three things,” we are in the month of fasting and the month of Holy Quran. In the month of Ramadan, the most important feature is the connection with the Qur'an and the revelation of the Quran in this month, and Surah Qadr also mentions this fact. The important point is that the Quran is a book of jihad and resistance.”
Artworks representing Quran verses and teachings and rare manuscripts of some Islamic books are on view at the showcase, which is organized every year during the month of Ramadan.
Artists from 21 countries, including India, Pakistan, Tunisia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Indonesia, Kenya, Oman and Malaysia, have been invited to attend the exhibition, which will be running until April 18, the organizers announced.
The artists are scheduled to hold workshops and put their artworks on view at the exhibition.
Representatives of Iran’s Al-Mustafa International University, Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly, the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought and several other Islamic centers are participating in the exhibition to brief visitors about their missions.
Culture ministers from seven countries will visit the exhibit and memorandums of understanding will be signed during their sojourn in Tehran.
Several world-celebrated Quran reciters have been invited to perform in different sessions planned by the organizers.
The exhibition will be hosting several competitions on Quranic issues for children as distinguished Quran scholars from across the world have been invited to deliver speeches.
The exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday by President Ebrahim Raisi, who honored a group of top Quran activists with prizes.