Unity and Empathy
The Arbaeen march is the soft power of the Shiite world against its adversaries, opponents, Western culture, and a powerful grand political maneuver. The discipline, authority, and unity of Muslims, and the presence of believers of other religions and sects such as Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and even Buddhism in the Arbaeen ceremony, is a deterrent against the conspiracies of global arrogance.
The Arbaeen ceremony is boycotted by the world›s leading media outlets, because if Arbaeen is mentioned fairly, they are forced to admit to the soft power and sound diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and declare Iran›s key role as one of the important factors in such a unique event.
The Arbaeen march is not just a Shiite movement, but a turning point in the unity of all Muslims and the creation of harmony in the Islamic world. Considering its functions and the unity it creates in the Islamic world, Arbaeen moves in line with the civilizational vision of Imam Khomeini. Because he said: The path to Quds (Jerusalem) passes through Karbala.
This unity and empathy is an action in confronting Western civilization and in line with achieving Islamic ideals and liberating Quds (Jerusalem) from the hands of the Zionist enemy.
Since the most important feature of the uprising of Imam Hussein (AS) is anti-oppression, today, the oppression against the Muslim people of Gaza, the imposed twelve-day war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the many sanctions that have been and are being imposed on the country of Iran, the current situation in Yemen, Syria, etc., all speak of oppression against Muslim countries and freedom-seekers around the world. Therefore, the Arbaeen march can be a soft power to confront these great oppressions.
The Arbaeen march is a generous atmosphere that has been revived among Shiites and has gradually attracted other Islamic sects to its glory. This is the best and purest opportunity in the world for a minimal consensus and a cohesive unity to defend the oppressed people of Gaza and Palestine, to cry out for the oppression of the Iranian people in the imposed twelve-day war, and to condemn the child-killing Zionist regime.
The Arbaeen pilgrimage, with its shared potentials such as spiritual attractions, 1400-year historical continuity, popular appeal, and cultural diversity, can be a center of civilizational convergence at the regional and then global levels, presenting an attractive, dignified and grandiose image of Shiism to the world.
The enthusiastic holding of this walk is the historical development of the movement for cultural convergence in the Islamic world, which can elevate the convergence between different nations and ethnicities to the convergence of civilization, which is the alignment of political, economic, scientific and social systems required by the modern Islamic civilization.
It should be known that the largest human gathering in Arbaeen, the commemoration of Imam Hussein, mobilizes and prepares the people of the world for the realization of a bright future and paves the way for achieving a world human society -in the true sense- under the shadow of the emergence of Imam Mahdi (a.s.) as a funda- mental belief.
The bridge between the Islamic Revolution and the emergence of a new Islamic civilization is the creation of a revolution to create the ground for it. This revolution must first be powerful and achieve unity and convergence among the people with authority, and then create security in the shadow of this unity, with which all needed activities are possible and The Islamic revolution of Iran plays this key role to achieve the reappearance of the Imam Mahdi (a.s.), unity among the entire Islamic Ummah is necessary, and today, with the blessings of Arbaeen, this goal is going to be achieved. In Arbaeen, an unimaginable unity is created that is promising and gives good tidings of the nearness of the reappearance of Imam Mahdi. The unity of the Islamic Ummah in Arbaeen brings us closer to the Imam Mahdi’s happy reappearance via every step and every moment. God willing
