Clerics should precede people to criticize themselves

Stressing that the close ties between the people and the clerics should be renovated, he added, “Some clergies have positions inside the government or system, and it has cut some of their links with people, as people can meet the governmental clergies with difficulties, though there are many clergies in mosques and answer the queries of the people.”

Ayatollah Faqihi, saying that people still have trust and belief in the clerics, stated, “That some people criticise the clerics is a positive point; without criticism, the man loses the chance of purification, and in my opinion, we clerics should criticise ourselves before people. Some clergies may take wrong steps, and it is not what people expect the clergies, and thus criticism could correct such mistakes.”