Ceremony of putting turban (Ammama) by Grand Ayatollah HashemiShahroudi

Ceremony of putting turban (Ammama) by Grand Ayatollah HashemiShahroudi

Grand AyatollahHashemiShahroudiDama Zillah on Wednesday afternoon (08/11/1393) in the turban ceremony of a group of students, by referring to current events and problems in the region, including Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and other Islamic countries, he expressed hope that: As soon as possible the plight of the Muslim Ummah especially Muslims of the region must solved and their problems should be eliminate on wider scale.

 

Grand Ayatollah HashemiSharoudi while expressing his best wishes for the students who newly wore the clergy dress said: this particular dress is the dress of clergies, Islam, Infallible Imams A.s and is specific for the divine’s religion. So you need to be careful after wearing this dress.

Grand Ayatollah HashemiShahroudi added that for wearing this dress a man needs competency and tofigh. Therefore he must be prepared and ready before wearing it.

Prominent members of jurists Guardian council of the constitution reiterated: Duty of the present clergy and religious scholars is different as compare to the previous ones and this difference is due to the world issues and events such as the Islamic revolution, regional development and etc.

Vice President of the Assembly of Experts, added: Todays religious scholar has three tasks that are so important as well as serious, hard and wide and he has to do hard work to achieve them.

He further explained: The first duty of a student and missionary is to seek knowledge and then self-purification and finally he must understand the true spirit of Islam.

He stressed that the third task is more important than others but unfortunately many people neglect this. They must realize that understanding the true spirit of Islam is the real spirit of Quran and base of religion.

Again he stressed: To understand the true spirit of Islam regarding to the circumstances of time and place is more important than all others. Thus, for a clergy and religious scholar it is much more important to understand the issues and affairs commensurate to his current time than in the past and this notion has been more developed than past.

Grand Ayatollah HashemiShahroudiMuddaZilla added: In the past religious education was related to sciences of the seminaries only but today we see that religious sciences has been extent a lot including many doubts, emerging issues, and new courses.

He explained: Unfortunately, today many of these cases are not carefully and extensively planned and a few scholars like Shaheed Sadr, ShaheedBehishti, and some other honorable scholars who entered in the new sciences of the religious education and gained expertise and had their own theories .Finally they wrote remarkable books. It was all due their hardworking and efforts.

His holiness continued: we saw that Great leader Imam Khomeini Rahemahullah did great efforts in the religious discussions, explanations, as well as structure of the Islamic state and God also gave him success and he achieved desired results.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of dispute settlement and adjustment of power relations further stated: we should concentrate to the self-purification as well because today is so different than the past because today a clergy, who is new in preaching religion, has different attractions and he has to pass the divine’s tests that are harder than before.

He emphasized: in the past a clergy could hardly be allowed to establish a Madrassa. But today we see that a clergy who has the religious dress can enter in the high and excellent levels. Therefore temptations are a lot and much more care is needed against them.

Great Excellency noted that increased temptations of the past are the same thing that was provoked against the infallible Imams a.s throughout the history and didn’t let something go on its right direction.

He emphasized saying: on the other hand, in today society clergy has more value and social status than the past and this problem itself is so dangerous if we want to recognize disadvantages of it.

He explained that when someone finds a good value and position in the society and if he commits a sin, it will be very clear for the people and this situation weather in issue of governance or other issues was less than the current time.

Prominent members of jurists Guardian council of the constitution insisted that our today condition is same to this quotation.«اذا فسد العالِم فسد العالَم»Today  we need higher piety than ever before because temptations, pests and corruption is far wider than the past. Today beside of seeking knowledge self-purification must be appropriate to the day and in this field students must follow the eminent scholars like Imam Khomeini RAhemahullah.

Grand Ayatollah HashemiShahroudi stressed that to wear the dress of clergymen is not a small matter because at the same time he enters the field that is full of pests and temptations. He must strictly monitor his actions until he would never been caught by the evil temptation such as status, money and bribes.

His Excellency further noted that if there is no piety, same dress and highly value can be cause a mistake.it should be heed that today world of a student is too wider than the previous one.

By recalling the importance of understanding the spirit of Islam he added that the topic of understanding the spirit of was proposed in the past as well and we have seen the examples of this in Shaeed Sadr, ShaheedBehishti, other commendable martyrs and eminent Shia scholars.

Grand AyatollahHashemiShahroudi noted that by understanding the third pillar caused clear difference between Imam Khomeini and other religious scholars in jurisprudential issues and religious affairs. He was basically different than other in understanding the spirit of Islam.

Grand Ayatollah HashmiShahroudimuddaZilla said:  what we see in the behavior of someone like Imam Khomeini Rahemahulla is not only the classical method like paying monthly and classes but there were many other important matters for him. The thing that was very special near to them was to deal with dominance of blasphemy and cruelty.

He added that as we have seen in the case of capitulation, evil law was passed. Many people did not notice that and took it normally. But Imam Rahemahullah was so sensitive about the dominance of cruelty upon the Muslims and of course problem of Palestine and dominance of the Zionist regime usurper on some parts of region was also one of the examples of deep understanding of Imam Khomeini RAhemahulla about Islam.

He also reminded the martyrdom of the Ayatollah Sadr by the Baath regime and stated that when Shah fled Iran, Shaheed Sadr didn’t take the classes on that day and said today dreams of the divine’s prophets are going to be true and Islamic state is possibly established.

Finally he added that if you want to know that what the desire of Prophets was, so you must realize that it was nothing but Islam and its spirit and people like Shaeed Sadr could be able to understand.

 

In the beginning of the ceremony,Hojjat al Islam DrSayed Mohammad RazaMeersane director of the Seminary majadudola also addressed, after praising a few students and greeting for the current Eid festivals and particular ceremony. He expressed moral exhortation and duties of a clergy.