Pars Today – A member of scientific board of the Research Center of Islamic Culture and Sciences, said on the historical Friday Prayer, led by Imam Khamenei on October 4, 2024, with the million-strong participation of people from all walks of life and different cities, “The Nasr (Victory) Friday prayer displayed a kind of life and belief in death and existence.”
Referring to the historical Friday prayer after Iran’s missile attack on the Israel regime in the heat of repeated threats by the regime, Hojjat-ol-Islam Habibollah Babaei, stated during a webinar on the future of resistance, “The Islamic Ummah is mourning today for great losses in the region. I also congratulate the successive events in the Islamic world [which are going] to weaken the Zionist system and the hegemonic system in the world and the region.”
According to Pars Today, Babaei pointed to practical theology rather than abstract discussions to create a movement and added, “What has happened after Islam and the great martyrs in the history of Islam is that we are practically facing a theology of life and a theology of death which seem not to be restricted in our minds and hearts, but they have rather been expanded effectively into the society.”
Referring to the impact of deaths in formation of civilizations, he continued, “Basically, martyrdom in the history of Islam does not end in stopping, standstill and defeat because martyr and martyrdom create a role model. This is the point of proliferation of martyrdom so that after the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani, martyr Nasrallah and other martyrs, we witness their proliferation. This role model causes a new population and a number of audiences in the Islamic society to change their course and practically creates new heads. This is one of the points and mechanisms, i.e. a martyr- as a theological affair, and martyrdom- as a theological phenomenon, create social development and expansion practically; and besides the martyr’s turning into a role model, the social phenomenon, such as wishing and longing for martyrdom and the will to be martyred, are shaped in the society.
Hojjat-ol-Islam Babaei stressed that longing for martyrdom creates a current which is basically imperishable, and said,
“This is a turning point which has placed the Islamic civilization and the West opposite each other. What we face in confronting the Western world are not merely two civilizations, but a kind of philosophy of life and living.”
Referring to the Nasr (Victory) Friday prayer, led by Imam Khamenei and with the participation of masses of people from all walks of life, he stated, “The Nasr Friday was not just to show a safe atmosphere in the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Revolution, but, basically, a kind of living and belief in death and existence was demonstrated over there.”
Member of scientific board of the Research Center of Islamic Culture and Sciences made it clear, “Compare this with what is taking place in the bunkers of the Occupied Territories and Tel Aviv. Thus, what we witness in the structure of resistance has a significant and theological depth which practically determines for us the way of living and dying; and this is exactly what defines victory and defeat for us.”
This university and seminary teacher went on to say,
“The issue of resistance in the field is tantamount to the faith in the field. While being in the heart of resistance and feeling the climate of resistance, you will find new horizons of faith and righteous deed.”
He continued, “The issue of faith in the field creates hope for us. We never face despair in any of these phases. Sometimes, near defeats provide new horizons for middle and farther hopes.”
Babaei then referred to the globalization of resistance and said, “The fact is that globalization, not after the Islamic era, but [even] before Islam was also in two forms of Western and Eastern globalization. Then the Christian globalization and the Islamic globalization occurred and, now, too, we are facing the issue of globalization of resistance.”
He said,
“Globalization of resistance, basically, expands resistance front beyond just one, two or three countries and places it in the heart of the Islamic countries, and rather the world and even the European and American countries so that we can hear the voice of resistance and its advocates from these places.”
Hojjat-ol-Islam Babaei, in the end, underscoring the globalization of not just the resistance front, but its leaders, said, “Where a leader of resistance is martyred somewhere in the world, the gap is felt in the whole world of resistance; thus, people mourn for a great figure such as Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Palestine. Elsewhere, we see that we have a leader who can fill the gap of leadership. This leader may be in Iran, Yemen or Iraq. In other words, globalization of the resistance leaders has practically brought the issue of leadership out of geography and a specific country and turned it into a global phenomenon. Therefore, there is no gap in the field of leadership of resistance.”
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