Bimila ElRahman ElRahim
🔹 Paying attention to the noble matter of "prayer" and especially holding a prayer gathering is one of the necessary actions and duties that has formed since the early seventies in the country through the effort of a Mujahid researcher and popular researcher, Quran teacher and great preacher of Hojjat al-Islam-Islam Karbarati. The special attention that the great leader Ezamil al-Qadir, who was killed, gave to this matter and his important, continuous and firm recommendations in messages related to the last thirty-two summits, also add to the importance of this policy.
🔹 Undoubtedly, speaking or writing about prayer is in honor and balance of divine revelation and the words of the holy Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and the infallible Imams, and the pen of people like me is too small to write about the depth of the knowledge of prayer. But the identity and demands of the Islamic community and the duties of its servants, especially the leadership of the Islamic Revolution, require me to mention a few sentences in this regard to myself, the people and the officials. 🔹 Prayer is one of the beautiful and great blessings of the Almighty, the supreme institution and the symbol and pillar of religion, the connecting thread of each of us to a close and direct connection with the source of the infinite and eternal God. This poison of prosperity and salvation and the pillar of tribal life is both a firm and continuous support and an inexhaustible reserve of man in the fight against the devil of the soul and earthly demons, and it is also a bubbling fountain of love, hope, grace and peace, and the descent of blessings and abundance of divine welfare and increase.
🔹 However, the duty of prayer is not only an individual duty, and according to Quranic teachings, holding prayer is the first fruit and sign of the rule of the righteous who are "those who establish prayer in the earth"1. The expression of this verse exactly after the verse of the promise of divine help regarding the companions of Almighty God and their jihad in Surah Mubaraka Hajj shows that establishing prayers as a strong support for the remembrance of God and hope and trust in him has a special role in jihad and conquest and victory in the fields of struggle in Iran, especially the field of struggle in Iran.
🔹 Today, when the conditions for the defense and strength of the dear people in Iran have been provided more than before, every nation and people of the Messenger is the recipient of the recurring divine command to establish prayer "Aqimw al-Salah". Also, all influential people in society, from parents and families to teachers and friends, from professors and elites to well-known figures and famous people, as well as all culture-creating institutions and organizations, including mosques, Friday prayers, schools, universities, seminaries, radio and television, cultural and social activists, and popular mobilization, especially those related to this matter, you have a double responsibility and you in this matter. There is 🔹 Performing prayer with all its complementary stages and evolutionary layers in a society and country that has raised the banner of the pure Islam of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and is proud of the sovereignty of Islam, is one of the most important things, and the ground must be provided for the journey from the Islamic stage and Islamic movement, to the Islamic stage and revolution. The Islamic civilization stage is necessary.
🔹 Institutionalization and universalization of prayer and then the general effort to improve it are the two main sides of the effort to reach this important goal, and the development of mosques and other means to expand the quantity and improve the formal quality of community prayers and Friday prayers are the necessary prerequisites to achieve this important goal. In all these cases, the role of the Imams of communities and Friday is very prominent, who must be sure of the people and listen to and accept the pain of their hearts. 🔹 I hope that with divine graces and special attention and prayers of our master, the Almighty, our beloved nation and country will succeed in praying and benefiting from its blessings.
Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei
9/October/1405
1. Holy Quran; Surah Mubaraka Hajj, verse 41