The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People says Iranian officials should prevent the damaging of the country’s natural resources.

“The officials in charge should stop the usurpers from damaging the forests and natural resources, especially near big cities,” Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.

March 6 is the national Arbor Day in Iran in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees.

Imam Ali Khamenei further said the reasonable use of natural resources would not cause damage to the environment as such resources can be revived by planting trees.

Lebanese religious authority Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday the Zionist regime is behind espionage activities of the America’s embassy in Lebanon.

“Violating security of Lebanon by America is not separate from violating the country’s security and sovereignty by Israel through air or ground invasions and Mossad’s espionage activities,” he added.

Addressing worshipers in the Friday prayer ceremony, he criticized Lebanese government’s negligence in adopting a serious stance against the American embassy.

Talking about the Zionist regime’s measures in destroying the holy al-Aqsa mosque, he said the measures did not received any reaction by Arab governments or even Arab and Muslim nations which has led to the increase of the Zionists’ threats in the region.

The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Mustazafins(Opressed People) Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, speaking on the merry anniversary of the birth of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), underscored the importance of the Palestinian issue for the Muslim world and called on Muslims to unite around the teachings of the holy prophet.

Imam Ali Khamenei described the “forged, Zionist regime of Israel” as a “dangerous cancer tumor” and insisted that “the only way (for Muslims) to defend against this severe cancer and its supporters is to return to Islam” and unite around the teachings of the glorious Prophet of Islam.

Addressing a group of Iranian officials and foreign guests and dignitaries in Tehran on Thursday, the Leader expounded on the reasons for numerous problems and shortcomings in the Muslim world in defending their rights and cited “tireless efforts by the US, the British, and other enemies of Islam in sowing discord” among Muslim masses.

The leader of the Islamic Revolution then emphasized that such bullying and domineering countries are well-aware that “discord and duplicity” can divert the focus of the Muslims from the very important issue of Palestine. “This is the reason that they resort to any possible means to flare the flame of ethnic, religious and geographic conflict among the hearts and minds of the Shia and Sunni, as well as the followers of other Islamic sects.”

Imam Ali Khamenei further spoke of Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, describing the occupation of Palestine as a wound on the body of the Islamic Nation.”

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Mustazafins also declared that “unity of Muslims and defending the Palestinian issue are among the aspirations and priorities of the Islamic Republic (of Iran).”

Recalling the words and priorities of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini regarding Muslim unity and the Palestinian issue, the Leader added, “The Islamic establishment, all of the country’s officials and the great nation of Iran view such principlist issues as religiously obligatory and their words (on these issues) have been and remain the same.”

Imam Ali Khamenei also expressed hope that Islamic governments, in tune with their people, would follow the eminent Prophet of Islam in efforts to bring unity among Muslims and to defend their rights, “especially in countering the cancerous, oppressive Israeli tumor and its supporters.”

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran is ready to share its scientific and industrial achievements with Islamic countries.

In a meeting with industry ministers of the Developing Eight Countries (D8), Imam Ali Khamenei said, “Islamic countries should improve their status to the level they deserve by utilizing their massive resources and their talents and through cooperation.”

The Leader added that Iran was ready to continue its support for D8 by sharing its achievements with Islamic countries.

Established in 1997 in Turkey, the group consists of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

The three-day D8 conference concluded in Tehran on Tuesday with member states stressing the need for further economic and industrial cooperation.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned against efforts made by arrogant powers to paint an unrealistic picture of Islam.

“Arrogant powers seek to introduce Islam as either a stone-aged or a liberal faith without any effect,” Imam Ali Khamenei said in a Tuesday meeting with the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the head of Iran’s Islamic Culture Organization as well as Iran’s cultural envoys to foreign countries.

“This is while the real Islam has great understanding about man, God, after life and the physical and spiritual needs of human beings,” the Leader said.

Imam Ali Khamenei stressed that the most important responsibilities of Iran’s cultural envoys were to portray a real and clear picture of the Islamic Republic, introduce Iran’s ancient civilization as well as the developments of modern Iran, and the spread and development of the Persian language and literature.

The Leader said only in this way could the arrogant powers be prevented from reaching their “inhumane purpose” which is to “depict a tarnished image of the Islamic Republic” and “culturally isolate” Iran.

The Hezbollah leader warns that the US embassy in Beirut engages in espionage activities for Israel, cautioning that the collaboration may lead to the “destruction” of Lebanon.

“All the information which the US embassy gathers in Beirut reaches Israel. Here we are not speaking about a normal foreign embassy which is gathering information for its own government … When it comes to the American embassy in Beirut, it is a different story,” said the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday.

“And so what is given to the US embassy and what reaches the Israelis, the information, all of these leads to the destruction of Lebanon. This helps the Israeli enemy to understand what is going on in Lebanon, to use this information against Lebanon and to take revenge against our country,” he added.

“What is the difference between espionage networks, which give information directly, or giving information by mediation, meaning giving it to the US embassy who then gives it to the Israeli side?” Nasrallah queried.

Hezbollah has fought off bloody Israeli incursions into Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. The second round of the offensives, known as the 33-Day War, killed about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians.

The movement is also an active member of the country’s coalition government.

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Mustazafins warned Sunday that the UN nuclear watchdog would lose its legitimacy if it folds under pressures exerted by the United States over Iran’s nuclear program.

In a meeting with Iran’s foreign minister, ambassadors and senior officials, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Iran had declared from the beginning that the aim of its nuclear work was to develop the technology for civilian purposes, including energy generation.

The West has accused Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons in its pursuit. The allegation has yet to be validated by the UN nuclear watchdog, whose inspectors are monitoring Iranian nuclear facilities extensively.

“Propaganda and furor stemming from the West, including the United States, Britain as well as the Zionists, on [Iran's nuclear program] is absolutely bogus, and they know they are lying, and their opposition will not be in their favor,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

Despite all their efforts, he said, Iran has made significant progress in its nuclear work and will continue its path to the point it deems necessary.

The Leader went on to criticize the recent direction taken by the UN nuclear body about Iran and said, “Some attempts and reports by the [International Atomic Energy] Agency proves that this international body is not acting independently.”

“The IAEA should not be under the pressure of the United States and some other countries since such unilateral moves will break trust in the agency and the United Nations,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. “It will also damage the reputation of such international bodies.”

The Leader also touched upon Iran’s approach towards global politics and said that the “anti-hegemony policy” is unique to the Islamic Republic.

“There are two sides in the hegemonic system; one is trying to control others and the other is controlled by the hegemonic power,” he said. “However, the Islamic Republic of Iran said from the beginning that it would not be dominant nor would it accept submission.”

The Leader stressed that unlike some revolutions the popular movement of the Iranians had not witnessed a decline since the starting days of the Islamic Revolutions.

“Which country do you know of that after 31 years, the participation of the people in its Revolution anniversary [ceremonies], not only does not decline but also sees a sharp increase?”

“The power and influence of diplomacy is no less than the power of military, propaganda and money, it is even greater in many instances.”

“Therefore, in order to implement the anti-hegemony policy, one must exercise a robust and practical diplomacy that is based on logic, reason and self-confidence.”

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People said Saturday the Palestinians are the most resilient people in history who will “definitely and undoubtedly” see the freedom of their land.

Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei described the Palestinian resistance as an amazing phenomenon, which is driving Israel toward “defeat and annihilation.”

Resistance is what has untied different Palestinian movements as well as having faith in God, he said.

“And the supporters of the Zionist regime (Israel) will find nothing but shame and historic notoriety,” the Leader said.

He expressed deep gratitude to the Palestinian nation and said, “Bearing the atrocities and endless pressures in Gaza and throughout Palestine is impossible without the guidance and assistance of God and the Palestinian nation truly deserves to be named as the most resilient nation in history.”

Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei also touched upon the 22 day Gaza war and said the Arab governments claim that “the Palestinian issue” is an Arab one but when it comes to helping Palestinians, they left their Palestinian brothers unassisted in front of the enemy and its supporters.

The Arab behavior, he said, will go down in history.

Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the US president’s slogan of change was an attempt to repair the damaged image of Washington and said, “such dishonest attempts bore no fruit because the Americans blatantly lie in the issue of Palestine and other issues.”

“The Iranian nation has gotten used to these lies after 30 years,” he said.

The Leader said the Palestinian issue was a serious challenge for the Western civilization and advocates of liberal democracy, adding, “The resistance of the Palestinian nation has questioned the West’s multi-centennial claims of freedom and human rights and has disgraced [the West].

“‘The Palestinian issue’ has today become a criterion for determining the real advocates of ‘freedom and human rights’ from its deceitful claimants.”

Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the future America will have been defeated by the Palestinian nation.

“Without a doubt, the actions of the United States over the past 60 to 70 years in support of the Zionists will be remembered as an instance of this country’s dishonor in history.”

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution stressed the importance of forming a new and “Islamic Middle East” and described defending the Palestinian nation as a humanitarian and Islamic responsibility.

He noted that Islamic governments have a greater responsibility regarding the issue of Palestine, since their nations have “awakened” and now demand more support for Palestine.

“Those who have overlooked the true and original path to the freedom of Al-Quds and Palestine — in other words resistance — have been forced to accept the conditions imposed by the enemy.”

“God willing, Al-Quds will return to the embrace of the Muslims and the people of the world and the resilient Palestinian nation will witness this great day,” the Leader concluded.

The Thoughts and Words of Imam Khomeini(r.a) on Muslim Unity

O Muslims! Keep Away From the Disuniters!

O you powerful Muslims! Beware! Know yourselves and let the world know you.

Cast aside the sectarian and regional disputes, which have been created by the

World-devouring powers and their corrupt agents for the purpose of plundering you and treading upon your human and Islamic honor.

You are to cast away, in accordance with the judgment of Allah, the Most High, and the Glorious Qur’an, the disuniters, such as the mercenary akhunds and the ationalists who know nothing of Islam and of the interests of the Muslims. The harms of these people to Islam are no less than those of the world-devourers. They show Islam upside-down and pave the way for the plunderers. May Allah, the Most High, deliver Islam and the Muslim countries from the evil of the world-devourers and their affiliated and connected agents

The Difference Between the Shiites and the Sunnis Is the Want of the Foreigners

If there happens a dispute between the Iranian nation and the other nations, or between the Sunni brothers and the Shiite brothers, it will be to the disadvantage of all of us, of all Muslims.

Those who want to cause disunion are neither of the Sunnis nor of the Shiites. They are the directors of the Super Powers and they are serving them.

Those who try to create disunity between our Sunni brothers and our brothers of the

Shiite, are the groups who plot for the enemies of Islam. They want to help the enemies of Islam to overcome the Muslims. They are the followers of America, and some are the followers of the USSR. The Muslims, wherever they may be must be aware that disunion between a country in the farthest end of the world and another one on the other end of the world, does not mean a local dispute.

The world of today is not like before. It will not be the question concerning only that part of the world. If there is a dispute among you brothers in Iran, it will concern the whole world, and if there is a dispute between the Iranian brothers and the Iraqi brothers, i.e., the Iraqi nation, it is a matter concerning the whole world, not a local matter between Iran and Iraq.

It is considered in the whole world, as those in the world who want to put the profits of the world in their own pocket and to impose their control over the whole world, they exploit any disunion which may happen between the Shiite brothers and the Sunni brothers in Iran. Similarly, if it happened between our

Iranian brothers and the brothers who are in Pakistan, they exploit the situation, too.

We must be awake and know that the divine judgement says: “The believers are but

brothers” (Hujurat: 10). There is nothing among them other than brotherhood, and they are obliged to have brotherly conduct. It is a political point to have all the Muslim nations-nearly a milliard in number- be brothers to one another, in which case no harm may befall them and none of the Super Powers will be able to transgress them. O brothers! Pay attention to this!

Sunni and Shiite Brothers Should Avoid All Disputes

A group of the Muslims are Shiite, a group of the Muslims are Sunni, a group are Hanafi, a group are Hanbali, a group are Akhbari. Basically it was erroneous from the beginning to suggest such ideas. In a society where all want to serve Islam and to be for Islam, such matters should not be suggested. We all are brothers and are together. It is merely that your ulama issued a set of fatwas and you followed them in imitation, and so you became Hanafi. Another group became Shafi`i and followed him. Another group followed the fatwa’s of the Imam Sadiq and became Shiite. These should not be causes of difference. We should not have any difference or contradiction. We all are brother’s. The Shiite and Sunni brothers should avoid all differences. Today, our differences will be in the interest of those who believe neither in Shiism nor in the Hanafi or in the other sects. They want neither this nor that to be. Their way is to cause differences between us. We must realize that we are all Muslims, followers of the Qur’an and of tawhid, and that we must toil for the Qur’an and to serve tawhid

The Muslims of the World Are to Join Together

They are uselessly trying to create disunity. The Muslims are brothers and would not be disunited by the evil propaganda of some corrupt elements.

The origin of this question concerning Shiite and Sunni, the one on one side and the other on the other side, is caused by ignorance and by the propaganda waged by the foreigners.

They even cause disuninon among the Shiites themselves. They do the same among the Sunni sects, too, placing one group against another. Today all the sects of the Muslims are facing the Satanic powers who want to uproot Islam, because they do know that what can be dangerous to them is Islam, and that the greatest danger is in the unity of the Muslim nations.

Today is the day on which all the Muslims of the whole world must come together. Today is not the day for a group in a place to say: “Only we” and another group in another place say: “Only we”. Today is the day on which all are to be united on the basis of the rule of Islam and the Judgements of the Qur’an.

They are not to dispute. The dispute among the Muslims, in any way it may be, is prohibited by the Qur’an. Dispute will bring them failure and effaces the attractive qualities of man and nation. This is the command of Allah, the Generous.

Those who try to create disunion, and yet claim to be Muslims, have not found the Islam whose Book is the Qur’an, the Islam whose ka`bah is its Qiblah. They do not believe in Islam. The ones who believe in Islam are those who accept the Qur’a?n and its contents, the content which says: “The believers are but brothers”.

So they must comply with what brotherhood requires.

Brotherhood requires that if some misfortune happened to you all the other brothers, wherever they maybe, sympathize with you. If you are happy, all will be happy, too.

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Mustazafins(Opressed People) Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei reiterates that all Iranians must do their utmost to safeguard the Islamic establishment against plots hatched by arrogant powers.

The Islamic establishment has led to an awakening in the world of Islam and has endangered the interests of arrogant and oppressive powers in the region, said the Leader in a meeting with members of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran on Thursday.

“Therefore all people should do their utmost to safeguard and maintain the establishment and its pillars,” the Leader added.

Imam Ali Khamenei emphasized that the Islamic Republic has been founded on the Islamic principle of human dignity and popular consensus.

The revered Leader went on to underscore the point that the vote of the people plays a key role in Iran in light of such Islamic perspective.

“And for this reason the election in the Islamic Republic is a real issue,” the Leader added.

Imam Ali Khamenei also noted that unlike the self-styled democracies of the West, gangs of power and wealth do not influence decision-making on behalf of the Iranian people.

In the Islamic republic, people themselves make decision and of course, in some cases, the decision may be wrong, but since it is the people’s choice, one must submit to it, the Leader added.

Imam Ali Khamenei stressed that election campaigns in Iran take place within the framework of the Islamic establishment and anyone who infringes on such framework, that person is in violation of the regulations.

The Leader said those who have refused to accept the majority vote are no longer eligible to remain within the Islamic establishment.

“Those who refuse to obey the law and accept the will of the majority and attempt to portray such high point as the heroic 40-million-strong voter turnout in the election as a weakness, they, in effect, lose the eligible to maintain a presence within the Islamic establishment, as they have lost it,” Imam Ali Khamenei said.

Before the Leader’s speech, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Thursday’s meeting of the body was buoyed by the massive rallies marking the Islamic Revolution’s
anniversary on February 11th.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US is enraged by the Iranian nation’s firm stand against the West.

The Leader said the remarks by the US president and other officials about Iran were another indication that the US had been disappointed by the Iranian nation.

“Outdated and absurd remarks, that Iran is building nuclear weapons, indicate that the enemies of the nation are continuing their propaganda [against Iran] in abject utter weakness.”

The Leader said the Iranian nation’s large turnout for the celebration of the victory of the Islamic Revolution rallies once again “frustrated and enraged the hegemonic powers, in particular, the United States.”

Imam Ali Khamenei added that the Iranian nation’s resistance to the West set an example for the generation to come of how to confront pressure by reliance on its own capability and a divine source.

The Leader said the Iranian nation will not be affected by allegations against its nuclear work, as it has asserted that Iran considers the proliferation of nuclear weapons “forbidden” and in direct opposition to Islamic belief.

Imam Ali Khamenei said that contrary to the West’s major campaign against Iran, we continue to “awaken the spirit of dignity in the whole Islamic Ummah as our nation’s efforts have led to the Islamic vigilance” among other Muslim nations.

The Leader also rejected outright the allegations that Iran was a threat to its neighbors, in particular the Persian Gulf littoral states.

“Our neighbors know well that these [allegations] are lies, which the US and Zionist regime are using to create division and divert the attention of the Islamic Ummah from their main enemies that are the US and the Zionist regime,” the Leader said in a ceremony to launch Iran’s advanced domestically-built destroyer, the Jamaran on Friday.

The Leader called on regional countries to join hands in restoring security to the region to foil the enemies’ plots.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Friday that the country neither believes in atomic bombs nor is it seeking to develop such weapons.

The Leader said the continuation of allegations by the West that the country is pursuing military objectives in its civilian nuclear program signals that the propaganda campaign against Iran has failed.

Iran has announced many times, he said, that its fundamentals and religious principles consider weapons of mass destruction as “illegal and haraam” — meaning forbidden and prohibited according to Islamic rules.

The West accuses Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of seeking a nuclear weapon. Tehran, however, rejects the allegation and says its program is aimed at the civilian applications of the technology.

Iran in no way believes in an atomic bomb, and it does not seek one, Imam Ali Khamenei said.

The Leader made the remarks during the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s first domestically-built destroyer.

Sheikh Ibraheem El Zakzaky was borned on 5th May 1953 (15th Sha’ban 1372 AH) in Zaria City. His early education was at the traditional Quranic and Islamic schools from tender age to the age of sixteen in the historic city and traditional center of learning. He did not attend formal primary school. His first contact with formal education was in 1969 at the Provincial Arabic School, Zaria – a school where the then Zaria NA was locally training Arabic teachers for its primary schools.

From 1971 – 1975 he attended the famous School for Arabic Studies (SAS), Kano. Founded in 1934 as Northern Nigeria Law School it has been described as “the mother of Bayero University”. Almost one hundred per cent of Northern Grand Khadis are products of the school. Being interested in some subjects not taught at the school, El Zakzaky combined his Grade II Teachers Certificate course with private GCE studies in subjects like Government and Economics. In 1975 after finishing school exams he sat for Advanced Level GCE in Government, Economics, Hausa and Islamic Studies. Successful results in these exams qualified him for a direct entry into the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria for a B. Sc. (Economics) degree course from 1976 to 1979. He was active member of the Muslim Student Society (MSS) at both campus and national levels. In 1978, then Secretary – General of the MSS (ABU), was believed to be the main brain behind the nation-wide demonstrations in support of the inclusion of Shari’ah in the Nigerian constitution. He was elected Vice-President (International Affairs) of the MSS (National Body) in 1979.

Interestingly, he continued to learn from deferent ulama in the traditional system of learning in both Kano and Zaria. His teachers include Malam Sani Abdulkadir, Malam Isa of Madaka, Malam Sani Na’ibi and Malam Ibrahim of Kakaki all in Zaria. In Kano he learnt from Shawish Abdallah of Sagagi and Malam Nuhu the Imam of Yola. His main occupation from student days to date is an Islamic scholar and activist – engaged mainly in learning, research and teaching Islamic studies. His speeches have been written into many booklets mainly in Hausa Language. In the words of Dr Iqbal Siddiqui he is “the de facto leader of the Islamic movement in Nigeria”. The goal of the Islamic movement is to enlighten the Muslims as to their duties as individuals and as a community. The movement owns more than three hundred primary/secondary schools located in different places mainly in the northern part of the country. They are known by the name of Fudiyyah Schools. This is in addition to many Islamic centers and other institutions. The movement also owns the Nigeria’s most widely circulated newspaper, Al Mizan, in the Hausa language.

The Sheikh was jailed several times for his ideas by all the successive Nigerian regimes from Obasanjo in khaki to the last Abacha/Abubakar regime. Charges against him were always sedition or inciting disaffection to Government. In Abacha time it was for declaring, “there is no government except that of Islam”. His total prison experience is nine years in nine different prisons across the country – the most famous being Enugu (1981-1984), the notorious Interrogation Center of NSO, Lagos (1984-1985), Kiri-Kiri Maximum Security (1985), Port Harcout (1987-1989 and 1996-1997) and Kaduna (1987 and 1997-1998).

He traveled widely across the world. Countries visited include UK, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan, South Africa, US and Russia. All the travels have been for Islamic reasons – mostly attending conferences and seminars. He is married to one wife with nine children.

The Leader of Islamic Ummah Imam Ali Khamenei has praised the high turnout of the Iranians in the rallies marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

“Friends and enemies of the Iranian nation should know that this nation has found its way and has taken its decision to reach the peak of development and welfare, and overcomes any obstacle which comes on its path,” the Leader said.

Imam Ali Khamenei went on to add that it’s time for the country’s foreign enemies to wake up and abandon efforts to subjugate the Islamic Iran.

“Trial and errors during the past thirty one years are not enough to awaken a few arrogant and bullying states to their futile efforts to dominate this Islamic nation?”

Imam Ali Khamenei made the remarks after millions of Iranians across the country took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 1979 Revolution which led to overthrowing the US-backed Pahlavi regime.

The Leader also asked whether the presence of tens of millions of people in the rallies could push internal enemies and dissenters to realize the path they have embarked on.

In the message issued late on Thursday, Imam Ali Khamenei thanked people for participating in the rallies.

Ahead of the anniversary ceremonies of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, its Leader said Monday threats against Iran emanate from the enemy’s inability to comprehend the divine roots of the Islamic Republic.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei said the enemies of the country as well as the imperialistic and Zionist organizations are not capable to understand this reason and that is why they continue to threaten the nation.

“Today, there exists no system like the Islamic establishment in the world that can stand unshakably in the face of heavy, hostile propaganda, political and economic pressures and sanctions,” said Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei.

An annual march is scheduled for Thursday, February 11, when Iran commemorates the 31st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the Pahlavi regime — a US-backed monarchy which crumbled before the will of a popular uprising — and reshaped the political identity of the country.

Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei said the secret of the Islamic Revolution’s long-lasting stability is the people’s “reliance on God.”

“That is why whenever the people fear for the Revolution and sense threats and animosity, huge crowds of people, spontaneously and without convocation, take to the streets across the country,” the Leader said. “And that is what happened on December 30.”

Millions of people rallied on December 30 in response to the desecration of Ashura ceremonies — the holiest religious event in Islam — which was marred with anti-government unrests on December 27.

Iran has blamed the post-election riots on the West — particularly Britain, the United States and Israel — and foreign elements inside the country.

In early January, Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei hailed the December 30 rally and said “tens of millions of people rallied to defuse an intricate plot by the enemy.”

On Monday, the Leader said the grandeur of the rally was so impressive that the West could not hide its significance and had to acknowledge its occurrence.

“The magnitude and the presence of millions of the people on the streets on December 30 derived from God’s will and power,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. “Since the Islamic establishment is a divine movement, God defends it in such ways.”

Since Iran’s enemies cannot realize that they should not confront God’s will, the Leader said, they seek to employ “schemes such as human rights and democracy” to weaken Tehran. “However, the world’s public opinion disdains such tactics.”

“Those who cry for human rights are the ones who violate very basic human rights and approve torture in their prisons.”

“These democracy contenders are those who befriend and ally with the worst tyrannical and reactionary governments in the world, including in the Middle East and North Africa.”

When the people of the world compare their slogans with their actions, the Leader expounded, they realize that these claims are conflicting.

Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei added that world powers accuse Iran of not promoting democracy while 85 percent of the eligible voters went to the polls in the country’s June 12 presidential election.

The Islamic establishment’s lasting stability amid such global propaganda, the Leader said, proves that those inside the country who stood against the people’s will in the election are either puppets of the enemy or ignorant and they have nothing to do with the majority of the people.

Seyyed Imam Ali Khamenei called on the people to participate in the rally on Feb. 11 and demonstrate unity to astonish the United States, United Kingdom and Israel.

The Leader of Islam Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Israel is moving in a downward spiral that will lead to its collapse.

“During its sixty-year existence, the Zionist regime (Israel) has become the symbol of evil, oppression and injustice,” the Leader added.

“I am very optimistic about the future of Palestine,” Ayatollah Khamenei told Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdullah in Tehran on Sunday.

The Leader said that Israel’s failure to take over the Gaza Strip after over two years of keeping the costal territory under blockade was similar to a “miracle” and added, “Although the regime benefitted from all kinds of financial and political support, it could not break the resistance of the Palestinian nation.”

Imam Ali Khamenei pointed to support of certain Arab states for Israel, saying, “Certainly, such efforts will bear no fruit because Muslim nations always support the Palestinian cause.”

The Leader expressed Iran’s full support for Palestine and described faith as the motive behind the Palestinians’ resistance against Israel.

Abdullah, for his part, touched on Israel’s aggressive policies in the region and said the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and resistance movements are ready to counter all “stupid” moves by the Zionist enemy.

By the break of Day; vow to break of Day!; Vow to The Inqilab-i Islami Sun which lighting our century…

Oh my brothers in this Umayyad Mosque as well as those in the vast mosque of the world of Islam! You, too, take warning. Take warning from the dreadful events of the last forty-five years. Come right to your senses! Oh you who are wise and thoughtful and consider yourselves to be enlightened!

We Muslims, who are students of the Qur’an, follow proof; we approach the truths of belief through reason, though, and our hearts. We do not abandon proof in favour of blind obedience and imitation of the clergy like some adherents of other religions. Therefore, in the future, when the intellect, science and technology prevail, of a certainty, that will be the time the Qur’an will gain ascendancy, which relies on rational proofs and invites the intellect to confirm its pronounce

Moreover, the veils that eclipse the sun of Islam, hinder its emergence and prevent it illuminating mankind have begun to disperse. Those things that were hindering it have begun to fall back. The signs of the dawn appeared forty-five years ago. The true dawn broke in 1371, or it will break. Even if that was the false dawn, in thirty(1401) or forty(1411) years time the true dawn will break.

{ Master Bediüzzaman Said-i Nursi(as) – The Damascus Sermon }

What is Risale-i Nur?

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The Leader of Ummah Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the “negligence” was the main factor behind the country’s post-election violence in June.

“I am always optimistic, and that is why I believe that some of the recent unfortunate incidents have come about through negligence committed by some [people],” the Leader said on Tuesday.

Addressing a group of lectures from the prestigious Tehran University, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei urged academics to be vigilant as sometimes negligence may cross into the realms of betrayal.

The Leader also emphasized on the need to push for an accelerated academic progress towards scientific achievements.

He also reiterated on the need to develop programs and educational literature for the cultural and moral nurturing of college students.

In another part of his address Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei described “modern and armed injustice that is unobjectionable” as the “realities of today’s world” and added that the extensive and high-tech propaganda and the unrelenting plots against the Islamic Republic are among the indicators of the modern and armed injustices that are in existence today based on scientific knowledge.

The Leader then noted that the Islamic Republic has become the focal point of the enemy’s high-tech attacks because of its objections to such injustices.

In the meeting, the president of Tehran University enumerated the many achievements of the University since the victory of the revolution and noted that its standing among the world’s colleges has climbed 117 levels, placing it among the world’s 500 leading universities.

What is the Risale-i Nur?

The Risale-i Nur collection is a six-thousand-page commentary on the Quran written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in accordance with the mentality of the age. Since in our age faith and Islam have been the objects of the attacks launched in the name of so called science and logic, Bediuzaman Said Nursi therefore concentrated in the Risale-i Nur on proving the truths of faith in conformity with modern science through rational proofs and evidence, and by decribing the miraculous aspects of the Quran that relate primarily to our century. This collection now has millions of readers both in and outside of Turkey. Thanks to the Risale-i Nur, the Turks managed to maintain their religion despite the most despotic regimes of the past decades. Although its author faced unbearable persecution, imprisonment, and exile, while no effort was spared to put an end to his service to faith, he was able to complete his writings compromising the Risale-i Nur and raise a vast group of believers who courageously opposed the oppression and preserved the dominance of Islam in the country.

Bediuzzaman understood an essential cause of the decline of the Islamic world to be weakening of the very foundations of belief. This weakening, together with the unprecedented attacks on those foundations in the 19th and 20th centuries carried out by materialists, atheists and others in the name of science and progress, led him to realize that the urgent and over-riding need was to strengthen, and even to save, belief. What was needed was to expend all efforts to reconstruct the edifice of Islam from its foundations, belief, and to answer at that level those attacks with a ‘manevi jihad’ or ‘jihad of the of the word.’

Thus, in exile, Bediuzzaman wrote a body of work, the Risale-i Nur, that would explain and expound the basic tenets of belief, the truths of the Quran, to modern man. His method was to analyse both belief and unbelief and to demonstrate through clearly reasoned arguments that not only is it possible, by following the method of the Quran, to prove rationally all the truths are the only rational explanation of existance, man and the universe.

Bediuzzaman thus demonstrated in the form of easily understood stories, comparisons, explanations, and reasoned proofs that, rather than the truth of religion being incompatible with the findings of modern science, the materialist interpretation of those findings is irrational and absurd. Indeed, Bediuzzaman proved in the Risale-i Nur that science’s breathtaking discoveries of the universe’s functioning corroborate and reinforce the truths of religion.

The imortance of the Risale-i Nur cannot be overestimated, for through it Bediuzzaman Said Nursi played a major role in preserving and revitalizing the Islamic faith in Turkey in the very darkest days of her history. And indeed its role has continued to increase in importance to the present day. But further to this, the Risale-i Nur is uniquely fitted to address not only all Muslims but indeed all mankind for several reasons. First it is written in accordance with modern man’s mentality, a mentality that, whether Muslim or not, has been deeply inbued by materialist philosophy: it specifically answers all the questions, doubts and confusions that this causes. It answers too all the ‘why’s’ that mark the questioning mind of modern man.

Also, it explains the most profound matters of belief, which formerly only advanced scholars studied in detail, in such a way that everyone, even those to whom the subject is new, may understand and gain something without it causing any difficulties or harm.

A further reason is that in explaning the true nature and purposes of man and the universe, the Risale-i Nur shows that true happiness is only to be found in belief and knowledge of God, both in this world and the Hereafter. And it also points out the grevious pain and unhappiness that unbelief causes man’s spirit and conscience, which generally the misguided attempt to block out through heedlessness and escapism, so that anyone with any sense may take refuge in belief.

The Holy Quran addresses the intellect as well as man’s other inner faculties. It directs man to consider the universe and functioning in order to learn its true nature and purposes as the creation and thus to learn the attributes of its Single Creator and his own duties as a creature. This, then, is the method that Bediuzzaman employed in the Risale-i Nur. He explained the true nature of the universe as signs of its Creator and demonstrated through clear arguments that when it is read as such all the fundamentals of beliefs may be proved rationally.

When this method is followed, a person attains a true belief that will be sound and firm enough to be withstand any doubts that may arise in the face of the subtle attacks of Materialism, Naturalism and atheism, or the materialist approach to scientific advances. For all scientific and technological advances are merely the uncovering of the workings of the cosmos. When the cosmos is seen to be a vast and infinately complex and meaningful unified book describing its Single Author, rather that causing doubt and bewilderment, all these discoveries and advances reinforce belief, they deepen and expand it.

Man’s most fundamental need is the need for religion, the need to recognize and worship Almighty God with all His Most Beautiful Names and attributes, and to obey His laws; those manifest in the universe and those revealed through his prophets. In explaining the message of the Quran, Almighty God’s final Revealed Book, brought and perfectly expounded by His final Prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), and Islam, the complete and perfected religion for mankind, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi demonstrated in the Risale-i Nur that there is no contradiction or dichotomy between science and religion; rather, true progress and happiness for mankind can, and will, only be achieved in this way, the way of the Quran.

The Leader of Ummah Imam Ali Khamenei emphasizes the use of science and faith as key to success in a meeting with a group of researchers from Iran’s Royan Institute.

The Leader said the secret to success for this scientific institute is the “precise identification of the problem and using the scientific knowledge and endeavor, motivated by faith, to solve the problem.”

The dean of the Royan institute, Hamid Gourabi Abraz, also briefed Imam Ali Khamenei of the latest achievements of the institute, namely the genetic cloning of animals.

Royan Institute researchers have inaugurated the first center for cell therapy, following their latest achievements in the application of stem cells for treating patients with cardiac arrest, chronic lower extremities ulcers, limbal stem cell deficiency, liver cirrhosis, and vitiligo.

Scientists at the research center have so far succeeded in cloning various farm animals, including a lamb named ‘Royana’, a goat named ‘Hanna’ and two calves called ‘Bonyana’ and ‘Tamina’.

Iran now stands among the few countries with the capability to clone farm animals.