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Ayatollah Khamenei has urged Western youth to build on an accurate understanding, profundity, and unpleasant experiences of the past to lay the foundation for proper, honest interaction with the world of Islam.
An Iranian sociologist says that Saudi Arabia, Israel and ISIS are all organs of a body which has survived thanks to the paradigms of Pan-Arabism and Pan-Judaism, stressing that the Arba’een paradigm can introduce a replacement for the unsuccessful paradigms of the present.
Mourners took to the streets and local mosques and other religious and community centers to participate in observances where elegies were recited in memory of Imam Hussein.
The ICHHTO chief has said that registration of Arba’een at UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage helps protect and pass on the ritual and its spiritual values to future generations.
The combination of devotion and faith and wisdom and affection is among the unique features of the school of Prophet Muhammad’s Household, Ayatollah Khamenei said.
In keeping with an old tradition, many walk hundreds of kilometers to get to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala where the third Shiite imam is laid to rest.
Representatives of the Vatican proposed on several occasions to buy it from Tabriz Library and were ready to offer a blank check in return, Manuchehr Jafari said.
An English-speaking group of believers in Tehran says it aims to bring Tehran-based foreigners together and wishes to set up an English Islamic training center in Iran.
It has been proven to me that anyone who does not recognize a political ruler might be denounced as an unbeliever by ill-wishing scholars close to that ruler, Prince Turki bin Bandar said.
The aim of different religions is monotheism and they do not argue with each other over details, said the Head of Iran's Zoroastrian Mobed Council Ardeshir Khorshidian.
With heavy hearts, the faithful have come out in their millions across Iran as well as elsewhere in the world to commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and third Shia Imam.
Because the enemy cannot harm Islam through war, it tries to cause discord among Muslim countries through its intelligence services, Mahmoud Alavi said.
The MPS also called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia to investigate the causes of the Mina tragedy.
