In a speech in Tehran on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei touched on the annual congregation of Hajj, which brings collectively and unites Muslims from totally different components of the world no matter their race, shade, and tradition.
“The Hajj gathering is for the good thing about humanity and there’s no profit for the Islamic Ummah better than unity,” he instructed officers and organizers of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, which ready Muslims should make no less than as soon as of their lifetime.
“If the Islamic Ummah had been united, the problems of Palestine and Gaza wouldn’t occur and Yemen wouldn’t be pressured like this,” the Chief added.
Gaza is the goal of a brutal marketing campaign of aggression by Israel which has killed practically 53,000 folks within the besieged Palestinian territory since October 2023 and left it in whole damage.
US, UK and Israeli warplanes have been launching lethal assaults towards Yemen since March 15, when US President Donald Trump intensified the marketing campaign that was began by the previous administration final yr to cease the Arab nation’s operations towards Israel in solidarity with Gazans.
Ayatollah Khamenei mentioned division and discord paves the best way for “the colonialists, the US, the Zionist regime, and different expansionists to impose their pursuits and ambitions” on different nations.
“With the unity of the Ummah, safety, progress, and synergy amongst Islamic international locations and their help to one another turn into doable,” the Chief mentioned, including the chance of Hajj needs to be considered on this gentle.
Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted the political side which underpins the function of Hajj, saying that “opposite to the efforts, phrases, and actions of some who tarnish it, the essence of Hajj is political, its type is political, and its composition is political”.
“Hajj maybe is the one obligation whose outward type and look and its composition are 100% political,” the Chief mentioned.
“Gathering folks in a single place, at one time, yearly – everybody who can – the very essence of this gathering collectively is political.”
Removed from being an unusual pilgrimage and a sightseeing journey, the journey for Hajj is “participation in an important apply that God Almighty has ordained for the administration of humanity – not simply the administration of believers and Muslims, however for the administration of humanity”, the Chief mentioned.
“Hajj is for the administration of humanity. The true Hajj is a service to humanity – not simply to your self, your nation and the Islamic Ummah; it’s a service to humanity,” he added.
Ayatollah Khamenei touched on the distinguished function and responsibility of Islamic governments, particularly Saudi Arabia because the host of thousands and thousands of pilgrims, in explaining the targets of Hajj.
State officers, students and intellectuals, writers, and influences even have an obligation to spell out the truths of Hajj to the folks, the Chief added.
