Supreme Leader’s View of Islamic Awakening
Part one: The Islamic system, the beacon of guidance for humanity
Islam, a great asset for the Islamic Ummah
“Islamic practices and the clear teachings and the firm and comprehensive rules of Islam are a great asset for the Islamic Ummah. By presenting a deep insight into the world and the nature of man, by presenting pure monotheism and moral and spiritual guidelines, by presenting firm and comprehensive political and social rules and systems, by presenting religious practices and obligations, Islam calls on all human beings to cleanse their inner self of ugliness, weakness and corruption. It calls on all human beings to shine the light of faith, purity, transcendence, sincerity, love, hope and dynamism on their inner selves. It calls on human beings to cleanse their world of poverty, ignorance, oppression, discrimination, backwardness, stagnation, bullying, imposition, humiliation and stupidity.
By presenting an interpretation of life and existence and by showing the right path, Islam helps human beings to achieve true prosperity in life, and it shows the straight divine path to them. All Islamic ahkaam and orders, all the main guidelines of political, social and economic methods, all individual and social kinds of worship – these are all intertwined elements of this revitalizing prescription that will bring about happiness.”
Part of the Supreme Leader’s hajj message issued on March 19, 1999
Development of the Islamic Republic
“Ever since its establishment, the Islamic Republic has faced big global challenges. The reason was that wealthy and powerful people – who have always pursued their own interests – cannot tolerate the existence of a new power in the world. They cannot tolerate the establishment and development of a new power which acts against their illegitimate interests. This power was created in Iran after the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. It was not the Islamic Republic that was most dangerous to the arrogant powers, rather it was the spread of Islamic Awakening in the world of Islam which was more important and dangerous to the arrogant powers. This is the kind of danger that still threatens the arrogant powers and provokes their hostility towards the world of Islam – especially the Islamic Republic, which is the pivot of the world of Islam.
Propagating pure Islam and religious thought led to the awakening of the world of Islam. The name and the essence of Islam already existed in an individual form in the world of Islam. But the Islamic perspective on the Islamic Ummah – as a great entity which had the potential to wake up and start a movement – emerged in Islamic Iran and spread to the entire world. This perspective on Islam and propagating this thought in the world of Islam led to the establishment of a government which has managed to extract freedom and democracy from Islamic concepts and teachings. And this is unprecedented in the world of Islam, at least in the past few centuries.”
Part of a speech delivered on September 10, 2003 in a meeting with members of the Assembly of Experts
The wave of Islamic Awakening
“With the decline of imported and controversial ideologies such as socialism and Marxism, and with the unveiling of the real nature of western liberal democracy as a system founded on hypocrisy and deceit, it has become clear that Islam is after justice and freedom. Islam has now become the main wish of prominent figures, scholars and those who seek justice and freedom. Many youth and liberated people in Islamic countries have turned to political, cultural and social jihad, aiming to promote Islamic justice. They are strengthening the determination to stand up against the hegemony of the arrogant powers. This wave of Islamic Awakening has spread to throughout the world of Islam, and Muslim people are seriously demanding that Islam should step into the arena of practice. Islamic Awakening has changed all political equations of the arrogant powers. On the other hand, the emergence of new Islamic approaches and ideas within the framework of Islamic principles in various political and scientific areas has proven the dynamism inherent in Islam, and it has created a vast arena for the intellectuals of the world of Islam.
Yesterday’s colonialists and today’s arrogant powers – which wanted to engage Muslim communities in a constant conflict between fanaticism and frustration on the one hand and lack of confidence on the other – are now faced with this courageous dynamism of Islamic thought.
These malevolent and frenetic reactions are the result of nervousness and fear rather than power and self-confidence. They can sense Islamic Awakening, and they feel that the spread of political Islam and Islamic rule can seriously jeopardize their interests. They are haunted by the thought that one day the entire Islamic Ummah will rise up in a unified fashion.
When such a day arrives, the Islamic Ummah – with its natural sources of wealth, with its great cultural and historical background, with its vast territories and with its huge population – will not allow the hegemonic powers, which have plundered its resources and trampled on its honor, to continue this aggression and transgression.”
Part of the Supreme Leader’s hajj message issued on January 28, 2004
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