In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate,
the Most Merciful
And all praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the
Worlds, and Allah’s greetings be upon our
Master, Muhammad (PBUH), and upon his
Immaculate Household and chosen companions
and upon those who follow them rightfully until
the Day of Judgment.
Muslim brethren and sisters all over the world,
For Muslims, the Hajj season is a period of honor
and glory in the eyes of [all] human beings, and
a period for the illumination of hearts and
humility and supplication before the Creator. Hajj
is a sacred and mundane and divine and
communal obligation. On one side, [the Quran]
commands “Then remember Allah as you
remember your forefathers, or with [much]
greater remembrance” and “Remember Allah
during [specific] numbered days” and on the
other side, the declaration [that] “[Masjid al-
Haram is a place] which We made for the
people; equal are the resident therein and one
from outside,” shed light on its infinite and
diverse aspects.
In this one-of-a-kind obligation, temporal and
spatial security bestows serenity upon the hearts
of human beings like a clear sign and a shining
star and frees the Hajj pilgrim from the siege of
factors of insecurity [created] by hegemonic
tyrants, which have always threatened all
humanity, and let him taste the pleasure of
security during a specified period.
The Abrahamic Hajj, which Islam has bestowed
upon Muslims, is the manifestation of dignity and
spirituality and unity and glory. It shows off the
greatness of Islamic Ummah and their reliance
on the eternal divine power to ill-wishers and
enemies, and highlights their distance from the
quagmire of corruption and humiliation and
oppression, which international bullying powers
impose on human societies. Islamic and
monotheistic Hajj is the manifestation of [the
Quranic verse, which describes the faithful as
being] “firm against the unbelievers, [and]
compassionate among themselves.” It is a venue
for disavowal of polytheists and [promoting]
friendship and unity with believers.
Those who have reduced the Hajj to a mere
pilgrimage-tourism trip and have hidden their
enmity and grudge against the faithful and the
revolutionary nation of Iran under the title of the
"politicization of the Hajj" are puny and belittled
devils, who shudder as soon as the ambitions of
the Great Satan, America, are put in jeopardy.
Saudi rulers, who have obstructed the path to
Allah and the Masjid al-Haram this year and
blocked the way of the fervent and faithful
Iranian pilgrims to the House of the Beloved, are
disgraced misguided people, who tie their
survival on the throne of [their] oppressive power
to defending global arrogant powers and
[forming] alliance with Zionism and America and
making efforts to meet their demand, and they
do not shy away from any act of treason to that
end.
About one year has passed since the horrible
Mina incidents in which several thousand people,
on the day of Eid and attired in the Ihram
[garment], lost their lives tragically under the
[searing] sun and with thirsty lips. A short while
before that at the Grand Mosque, a group [of
pilgrims] were killed while they were in worship
and circumambulation and [saying] prayers. The
Saudi rulers are to blame in both incidents; this
is something on which all attendants [in Hajj] and
observers and technical analysts agree, and
some experts [even] speculated the intentionality
of the incident. Dawdling and negligence in
saving the half-alive injured people whose
enchanted souls and eager hearts were busy
with dhikr [mention of God] and whispering the
divine verses [of the Quran] on [the day of] Eid
al-Adha are also definite and proven facts. The
ruthless and criminal Saudi men locked them up
along with the dead in tightly closed containers
and martyred them instead of providing
treatment to them and assisting them or even
supplying water to their thirsty lips.
Several thousand families from a variety of
countries lost their beloved ones and their
nations were rendered bereaved. From the
Islamic Republic, there were nearly 500 among
the martyrs. The families' hearts are still hurt
and bereft and the nation is still in grief and
enraged.
However, instead of offering apology and
expressing regret and prosecuting those directly
behind this horrible incident, the Saudi rulers
even refused to set up an international Islamic
fact-finding mission in ultimate shamelessness
and impudence. Instead of taking the stand as
defendant, they took the seat of claimant and
brought further to the fore their age-old enmity
with the Islamic Republic and with any Islamic
flag, which stands against blasphemy and
arrogance, with more wickedness and insolence.
Their propaganda mouthpieces, ranging from
politicians, whose behavior vis-Ã -vis Zionists and
America is a source of disgrace for the Islamic
world, to non-pious muftis living on haram
[prohibited] income, who openly issue fatwas
against the [holy] Book and [the Prophet’s]
Sunna, to media footmen, who cannot be kept
from fabricating and spreading lies even by
professional conscience, are making a futile
attempt to hold the Islamic Republic responsible
for the denial of Iranian pilgrims this year's Hajj.
Seditionist rulers, who have embroiled the
Muslim world in civil wars and the carnage of
innocents and who have stained Yemen, Iraq, the
Levant, Libya and some other countries with
blood by forming and equipping Takfiri and evil
groups; godless politicians, who have extended
the hand of friendship to the occupying Zionist
regime and have turned a blind eye to the heart-
wrenching suffering and plight of Palestinians
and have broadened the extent of their
oppression and treason to cities and villages in
Bahrain; [as well as] unfaithful and
unconscientious rulers, who created the great
tragedy of Mina and under the guise of [being]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques flouted the
sanctity of the safe divine sanctuary and
slaughtered the guests of the Compassionate
God on the Eid day in Mina and before that at
the Grand Mosque, are now speaking about non-
politicization of the Hajj and accuse others of
the big sins they have themselves committed or
caused to happen. They are a flagrant example
of the clearly enlightening expression of the Holy
Quran [where it says]: “And when he turns his
back, his aim everywhere is to spread mischief
through the earth and to destroy crops and
cattle and Allah does not love mischief. And
when it is said unto him: Be careful of your duty
to Allah, pride takes him to sin. Hell will settle
his account, an [what an] evil resting-place [it
is].”
This year too, according to reports, in addition to
blocking the Hajj pilgrims from Iran and some
other nations, they (the Saudis) have subjected
Hajj pilgrims from other countries to
unprecedented surveillance with the help of
espionage agencies of America and the Zionist
regime and have rendered the secure House of
God unsafe for all. The Muslim world, including
Muslim governments and nations, must know the
Saudi rulers and truly realize the reality of their
sacrilegious, unfaithful, dependent and
materialistic nature; they must not let them go
with impunity after [all] the crimes they have
caused across the Muslim world, [but] in
response to their unjust treatment of the guests
of the Merciful God, they must think of a
fundamental solution for the management of the
Two Holy Mosques and the issue of Hajj. Shirking
from this duty will expose the Islamic Ummah to
bigger problems in the future.
Muslim Brethren and Sisters! This year, the eager
and devoted Iranian pilgrims are missed in the
Hajj ritual, but they are in attendance with their
hearts and they are standing along Hajj pilgrims
from across the globe and are concerned about
them and pray for them to be spared any harm
from the accursed tree of tyrants. Remember
your Iranian brethren and sisters in your prayers
and acts of worship and invocation, and pray for
the Muslim communities to get rid of their
troubles and to have the hand of arrogant
powers and Zionists and their stooges cut off the
Islamic Ummah.
I personally honor the memory of last year's
martyrs of Mina and the Grand Mosque and the
martyrs of Mecca in [the Hajj pilgrimage in] 1987
and I pray to the Almighty God to bestow His
forgiveness and mercy upon them and reserve
them high positions [in the Heavens]. I salute
Hadhrat Baqiatallah al-A’zam (Shall our souls be
sacrificed for him) and request that venerable
figure’s accepted prayer for the exaltation of the
Islamic Ummah and salvation of Muslims from
sedition and malevolence of enemies.
And providence belongs to Allah and reliance is
on Him.
Dhu al-Qa’dah, 1437-September 2016
Seyyed Ali Khamenei
Press TV
the Most Merciful
And all praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the
Worlds, and Allah’s greetings be upon our
Master, Muhammad (PBUH), and upon his
Immaculate Household and chosen companions
and upon those who follow them rightfully until
the Day of Judgment.
Muslim brethren and sisters all over the world,
For Muslims, the Hajj season is a period of honor
and glory in the eyes of [all] human beings, and
a period for the illumination of hearts and
humility and supplication before the Creator. Hajj
is a sacred and mundane and divine and
communal obligation. On one side, [the Quran]
commands “Then remember Allah as you
remember your forefathers, or with [much]
greater remembrance” and “Remember Allah
during [specific] numbered days” and on the
other side, the declaration [that] “[Masjid al-
Haram is a place] which We made for the
people; equal are the resident therein and one
from outside,” shed light on its infinite and
diverse aspects.
In this one-of-a-kind obligation, temporal and
spatial security bestows serenity upon the hearts
of human beings like a clear sign and a shining
star and frees the Hajj pilgrim from the siege of
factors of insecurity [created] by hegemonic
tyrants, which have always threatened all
humanity, and let him taste the pleasure of
security during a specified period.
The Abrahamic Hajj, which Islam has bestowed
upon Muslims, is the manifestation of dignity and
spirituality and unity and glory. It shows off the
greatness of Islamic Ummah and their reliance
on the eternal divine power to ill-wishers and
enemies, and highlights their distance from the
quagmire of corruption and humiliation and
oppression, which international bullying powers
impose on human societies. Islamic and
monotheistic Hajj is the manifestation of [the
Quranic verse, which describes the faithful as
being] “firm against the unbelievers, [and]
compassionate among themselves.” It is a venue
for disavowal of polytheists and [promoting]
friendship and unity with believers.
Those who have reduced the Hajj to a mere
pilgrimage-tourism trip and have hidden their
enmity and grudge against the faithful and the
revolutionary nation of Iran under the title of the
"politicization of the Hajj" are puny and belittled
devils, who shudder as soon as the ambitions of
the Great Satan, America, are put in jeopardy.
Saudi rulers, who have obstructed the path to
Allah and the Masjid al-Haram this year and
blocked the way of the fervent and faithful
Iranian pilgrims to the House of the Beloved, are
disgraced misguided people, who tie their
survival on the throne of [their] oppressive power
to defending global arrogant powers and
[forming] alliance with Zionism and America and
making efforts to meet their demand, and they
do not shy away from any act of treason to that
end.
About one year has passed since the horrible
Mina incidents in which several thousand people,
on the day of Eid and attired in the Ihram
[garment], lost their lives tragically under the
[searing] sun and with thirsty lips. A short while
before that at the Grand Mosque, a group [of
pilgrims] were killed while they were in worship
and circumambulation and [saying] prayers. The
Saudi rulers are to blame in both incidents; this
is something on which all attendants [in Hajj] and
observers and technical analysts agree, and
some experts [even] speculated the intentionality
of the incident. Dawdling and negligence in
saving the half-alive injured people whose
enchanted souls and eager hearts were busy
with dhikr [mention of God] and whispering the
divine verses [of the Quran] on [the day of] Eid
al-Adha are also definite and proven facts. The
ruthless and criminal Saudi men locked them up
along with the dead in tightly closed containers
and martyred them instead of providing
treatment to them and assisting them or even
supplying water to their thirsty lips.
Several thousand families from a variety of
countries lost their beloved ones and their
nations were rendered bereaved. From the
Islamic Republic, there were nearly 500 among
the martyrs. The families' hearts are still hurt
and bereft and the nation is still in grief and
enraged.
However, instead of offering apology and
expressing regret and prosecuting those directly
behind this horrible incident, the Saudi rulers
even refused to set up an international Islamic
fact-finding mission in ultimate shamelessness
and impudence. Instead of taking the stand as
defendant, they took the seat of claimant and
brought further to the fore their age-old enmity
with the Islamic Republic and with any Islamic
flag, which stands against blasphemy and
arrogance, with more wickedness and insolence.
Their propaganda mouthpieces, ranging from
politicians, whose behavior vis-Ã -vis Zionists and
America is a source of disgrace for the Islamic
world, to non-pious muftis living on haram
[prohibited] income, who openly issue fatwas
against the [holy] Book and [the Prophet’s]
Sunna, to media footmen, who cannot be kept
from fabricating and spreading lies even by
professional conscience, are making a futile
attempt to hold the Islamic Republic responsible
for the denial of Iranian pilgrims this year's Hajj.
Seditionist rulers, who have embroiled the
Muslim world in civil wars and the carnage of
innocents and who have stained Yemen, Iraq, the
Levant, Libya and some other countries with
blood by forming and equipping Takfiri and evil
groups; godless politicians, who have extended
the hand of friendship to the occupying Zionist
regime and have turned a blind eye to the heart-
wrenching suffering and plight of Palestinians
and have broadened the extent of their
oppression and treason to cities and villages in
Bahrain; [as well as] unfaithful and
unconscientious rulers, who created the great
tragedy of Mina and under the guise of [being]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques flouted the
sanctity of the safe divine sanctuary and
slaughtered the guests of the Compassionate
God on the Eid day in Mina and before that at
the Grand Mosque, are now speaking about non-
politicization of the Hajj and accuse others of
the big sins they have themselves committed or
caused to happen. They are a flagrant example
of the clearly enlightening expression of the Holy
Quran [where it says]: “And when he turns his
back, his aim everywhere is to spread mischief
through the earth and to destroy crops and
cattle and Allah does not love mischief. And
when it is said unto him: Be careful of your duty
to Allah, pride takes him to sin. Hell will settle
his account, an [what an] evil resting-place [it
is].”
This year too, according to reports, in addition to
blocking the Hajj pilgrims from Iran and some
other nations, they (the Saudis) have subjected
Hajj pilgrims from other countries to
unprecedented surveillance with the help of
espionage agencies of America and the Zionist
regime and have rendered the secure House of
God unsafe for all. The Muslim world, including
Muslim governments and nations, must know the
Saudi rulers and truly realize the reality of their
sacrilegious, unfaithful, dependent and
materialistic nature; they must not let them go
with impunity after [all] the crimes they have
caused across the Muslim world, [but] in
response to their unjust treatment of the guests
of the Merciful God, they must think of a
fundamental solution for the management of the
Two Holy Mosques and the issue of Hajj. Shirking
from this duty will expose the Islamic Ummah to
bigger problems in the future.
Muslim Brethren and Sisters! This year, the eager
and devoted Iranian pilgrims are missed in the
Hajj ritual, but they are in attendance with their
hearts and they are standing along Hajj pilgrims
from across the globe and are concerned about
them and pray for them to be spared any harm
from the accursed tree of tyrants. Remember
your Iranian brethren and sisters in your prayers
and acts of worship and invocation, and pray for
the Muslim communities to get rid of their
troubles and to have the hand of arrogant
powers and Zionists and their stooges cut off the
Islamic Ummah.
I personally honor the memory of last year's
martyrs of Mina and the Grand Mosque and the
martyrs of Mecca in [the Hajj pilgrimage in] 1987
and I pray to the Almighty God to bestow His
forgiveness and mercy upon them and reserve
them high positions [in the Heavens]. I salute
Hadhrat Baqiatallah al-A’zam (Shall our souls be
sacrificed for him) and request that venerable
figure’s accepted prayer for the exaltation of the
Islamic Ummah and salvation of Muslims from
sedition and malevolence of enemies.
And providence belongs to Allah and reliance is
on Him.
Dhu al-Qa’dah, 1437-September 2016
Seyyed Ali Khamenei
Press TV
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