S.Leader Stresses On Importance Of Spirituality, Ethics

Tehran, July 22, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the salvation of the Islamic Ummah depends on founding a civilization based on divine revelations, spirituality, and ethics. The Ayatollah was speaking Saturday in a gathering of the reciters of the holy Ouran who were visiting the supreme leader on the occasion of the advent of the holy month of Ramazan. Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic republic of Iran wants to create a civilization based on the spirituality taken from Quran and divine guidance. The Ayatollah strongly criticized the western civilization and said this civilization is based on exploiting humans and materialism and is far from ethics. “The obvious manifestation of the false assertions of the West on ethics and human rights is its silence over killing of thousands of people in Myanmar,” said the Ayatollah. He added western civilization has brought nothing but corruption and exploitation of human beings wherever it has gone in the past centuries. “Dignity, prosperity, materialistic and spiritualistic progress, good morality and conquering the enemies all happen by practicing the Quranic teachings,” concluded Ayatollah Khamenei./end