Qassim: If there is no will for reform, there will be no use of even thousand dialogues.
Ayatollah Qassim: If there is no will for reform, there will be no use of even thousand dialogues.
The second part of Friday Prayers Sermon for Ayatollah Shaikh Isa Ahmed Qassim Imam of the Grand Mosque in Duraz (Imam Al-Sadiq Garand Mosque) 14th Safar 1434 Hijri / 28th December,2012.
Our world and Security
Our world has a lot of great governments as many of these government have large capital companies and many of these companies have huge parties as those parties have large masses which will lack the genuine and deep faith of God Al Mighty.
This world with its attendance, effectiveness, dominance, beauty and it value of promises and warnings lacks the spirit of religiosity which directs the will of the world, their aims, and their behaviors on the path of what Allah wants, religion accepts, and Sharia obliges.
A world does not fear God due to its arrogance and ignorance of Him. Its actions in life come from selves’ fancies and appreciation of material. Its actions are limited to life and in race with the wealth and its locations with ignorance of Allah’s deism, knowledge, force of His will and power.
Such without fear or devotion of God will not include a trust or security between its components.
Strong love of life, unlimited lusts, passion for leadership and dominance, existence of available opportunities to dominate wealth of people and individuals and even the bit of the weak one, imposing self and opinions, exclusion of the other and heart that does not watch.. all this appeared due to the collapse of confidence and expecting evil from each party, harming the other, being cautious and seeking to weaken the other, absence of trust between countries, absence trust between the government and its parties, absence of confidence between the parties themselves, absence of trust between the ruler and the ruled and via verse and it even reached that confidence is shaken among the members of one family.
Each one is scared; cautious from the other.. each one thinks badly and expects evil from the other.. each party uses large amounts of money to buy consciences and experiences as much as possible and working to acquire the most expensive and complex monitoring devises and does not even stop demanding the development of such devises in order to protected from plots or to cause plots for the others.
This bad, worrying, scaring, terrifying atmosphere controls today’s world deprives security and does not allow a floor for stability, raises wars , causes hostility between human beings, kills people’s comfort, wealth, humanity, and their cherished life which their love of it that separated from God’s knowledge and fear of Him push them to all badness.
Reform and dialogue
The dialogue is a mysterious issue which circulation opinions about are expected to reveal its vagueness, remove its dust and clarify it.
Other thing is that dialogue means that each party thinks that it has right over the other or that they believe in this so they enter a dialogue in order to discuss the way to reach an understanding in which each party gives up something.
In the dialogue, the right might be for one party which the other one is not able to fulfill.. so this unable party asks the one who has the right to give up his right.
According to the public corruption, whether it is political or economic or cultural or social or religious or moral, the party responsible for it and which has the power to reform should not wait and has to enter adialogue immediately in order to end it, not to put conditions to get people rid of it, and to direct the situations to its correct directions which right obliges, justice requires, and conscience accepts.
Secondly, opposing corruption will end if the corruption itself ends. It is not imaging that there will be opposition if there is no corruption. Each color kind of corruption will cause problems for people and will increase their confrontation. Each type and color of corruption that is new or insists to be present will push people more to deny it and face.
Corruption represents the whole evil. The more it stays, the greater it threatens the interests of nations and societies and the more it will harm the fair balances of life and then it will deviate its required objectives and straight line.
There is no reality or religion or conscience or nation’s interest or norms that oblige you to admit or be satisfied with one color or more of corruption as a price for some reform. Corruption is only created for the aim of corruption itself and it opens doors widely for devastating start.
Corruption and injustice are conditions which people are forced to be silent about due to oppression and not conditions that people choose to accept. Silence on them is not the result of a dialogue but it comes as a result for injustice imposed by force.
Thirdly, There is no relationship between reform and dialogue. If there is a will to make reform with those who are able to reform; they will do this without the need for a dialogue and they will close the doors ofseditions. However, if there is no will for reform, there will be no use of thousand dialogues or even million ones. The dialogue might be considered an excuse to run away from reform or delay it or postpone it.
On the other hand, if the dialogue creates an embarrassing state for the one who is demanded to reform in a way that is difficult to overcome or postpone the dialogue, this one will try as much as possible to close the doors of dialogue.
Does this case represent the authority’s stance toward the issue of reform? If this question is asked on the external world, the answer would be for sure Yes, Yes, and nothing else.
Each time the slogan of dialogue raised to melt quickly or to be denied by the authority that called for it – this announces the unseriousness of it and assures that it was raised for a specific political occasion or media’s purpose or to embarrass the opposition or to reduce pressure from the foreign world.
As a result this slogan no longer receives the people’s attention and this led people to – whenever this slogan raised – search about its background and the political purpose for which this slogan raised.
A lesson in the insult!
A man walking on his way -safe and peaceful- carrying his child on his arm. A meek child feeling the paternity tenderness within his father’s confines and embracing. In a way that was devoid of any sit-in, or demonstration, or collisions, in a place near to the aunt’s house whom intended to be visited.
In this place and in this safe atmosphere – if the citizen can be safe-, the young man received a slap on his face from a security man, at the sight of his son, to crush the father’s dignity in flagrant injustice and seriously ugliness, to trample his pride, and humiliate his Islam, his humanity, and his citizenship! That disgrace every Muslim, every man, and every citizen! It gives a lesson -of the horrible insult and bitter humiliation-to the gracious spirits.
A slap wanted to assassinate the tender innocence of childhood, terrorizes a child at the age of buds, shattered his psyche, complex his future, and shake his being. How many times has the innocent childhood faced scenes of violence and cruelty practiced against their parents’ rights – indoors, at night and daytime, in cars and different place-, which scares the childhood to leave devastating effects of violent shocks in the psyches of the future generation?
A difficult situation, a critical reality, and a bitter suffering that do not allow this people –who is eager for freedom, conscious of his dignity, pride of the value of faith, and who respect his humanity- to think even for a single moment to waive the serious reform demands which secure his freedom and dignity, respect his faith belonging and humanity, preserve his rights, and practically admit his position-as a citizen-.
High morals..
Some complain that they are accused of spying by opposition youth, while they are trying to overthrow them to authorities, and that they had been affected in their money, cars or anything like that.
Regardless of the truth or lack of sincerity of this matter, the required of opposition youth is to be a high example in piety and religious obligation! They have not to accuse anyone without an evidence, and not to rush in thinking badly of anyone. If they offend conjecture, they have to be sure that it doesn’t lead to shed blood or violate money.
The required is to refrain harm, advising each other to truth, being patient, and being models in brilliant high morals. God bless you young believer, and achieve your hope in peace and security, getting rights, enjoying freedom, and the recognition of your pride and dignity.
