Senior Cleric Underscores Importance of Islamic Awakening

A top official of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought stressed the importance of the growing waves of the Islamic awakening sweeping the Middle-East and North Africa in recent months, and said his organization is seeking hard to accelerate the further spread of this awakening in the Muslim world.
Speaking at a meeting with a number of Turkish university professors here in Tehran on Sunday, Under Secretary-General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Hojjatoleslam Seyed Moussa Moussavi underlined the pivotal role of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, in the start of the Islamic awakening in the Muslim world.

“Owing to the foresight and farsightedness of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought was established 20 years ago in pursuit of Islamic awakening,” Moussavi said.

“Promotion of the Islamic awakening is one of the most important goals of the Forum,” he continued.

“The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought has endeavored for several years to institutionalize the Islamic awakening,” he reiterated.

In recent months, a wave of revolutions and anti-government uprisings has been sweeping the Arab and Muslim world.

In January, a revolution in Tunisia ended the 23-year ruling of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule.

Other revolutions have also erupted in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests are spreading in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria.

Political observers believe that people’s uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen and Libya are the result of growing “Islamic awakening” in the Middle-Eastern countries.

Late in April, The Leader Of Islamic Ummah And Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei underscored the profound and vast influence of Iran’s Islamic Revolution on the growing wave of Islamic awakening in the region, and voiced confidence about the desirable outcomes of the current popular uprisings.

“Thanks to Islam and Islamic Revolution, a public Islamic awakening has happened in the region today, which will definitely yield its results as it has already yielded its results in certain points,” The Leader Of Islamic Ummah And Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian people here in Tehran.

“The more the people’s determination, faith and readiness for sacrifice grow, the higher the chances of victory will be,” the Leader continued.

The Leader Of Islamic Ummah And Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei also stressed that recent developments in the region have surprised the US, European and Zionists, and warned that the arrogant powers have conspired plots to gain control over these developments.

As regards the outcomes of the recent Islamic awakening in the region, The Leader assured that “this movement will eventually serve the interests of the people of the region in future”.