TEHRAN – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday a bright future is awaiting the Islamic Ummah and Muslims will overcome problems with faith, hope, jihad, and patience.

In a message to hajj pilgrims, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “Once again the Land of Revelation has gathered believers from all over the world. In the birthplace of Islam and the Holy Quran, eager hearts are now performing rites which indeed show part of the eternal lessons of Islam and the Holy Quran to mankind.
“The aim of this great lesson is eternal salvation and glory of mankind by training righteous people and creating a righteous society,” the leader stated.
“The principles of such personal and social training are incorporated in the Hajj. Going into ihram and leaving individual distinctions behind, abstaining from many earthly joys and desires, circumambulating around the symbol of monotheism and praying in the Place of Ibrahim, the Idol-breaker and the Self-Sacrificing, devoting one’s heart and soul to God the Almighty, stoning the satanic symbols, and feeding the poor…are all training and practicing.
In this perfect ritual, sincerity, purity of heart and disentanglement from materialistic engagements, intimacy and seclusion with God, unity, concordance, homogeneity, adorning the soul and heart, committing the heart to solidarity with the great body of the Muslim Ummah, humility before the Ultimate Truth, firmness against falsehood, soaring in the desire for the hereafter and the firm resolution to adorn the world are all constantly practiced.”
That is how the Honored Kaaba and the Hajj rituals contribute to the resilience and the uprising of human societies and are filled with benefit and enjoyment for all mankind:
Today, Muslims from all countries and races should appreciate the value of this great ritual more than ever, because the horizon is brighter than ever for the Islamic Ummah and the hope for reaching the goals Islam has envisaged for individuals and societies is greater than ever. If, in the last two centuries the Islamic Ummah fell apart in the face of Western materialistic civilization and the atheist schools of thought, today it is the economic and political theories of the West that have been paralyzed.
Today, Islam has entered a new phase of prosperity and glory thanks to the efforts of Muslims to get back their identity and to learn justice, spirituality, and monotheism.
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