{"id":10664,"date":"2017-01-02T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2017-11-23T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:08:15","slug":"lack-of-spirituality-divine-values-blight-on-western-civilization-imam-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/lack-of-spirituality-divine-values-blight-on-western-civilization-imam-khamenei\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of spirituality, divine values blight on Western civilization: Imam Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the lack of spirituality and divine values is behind\u00a0the rifts,\u00a0shortcomings\u00a0and frailties of the Western civilisation despite its great materialistic advances.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Addressing a meeting with a group of top Iranian students in Tehran on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei underscored\u00a0the importance\u00a0of commitment to religious values and the Islamic Revolution\u2019s ideals alongside\u00a0scientific efforts.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Scientific progress by itself will fail to bring prosperity to a country and nation but scientific advances\u00a0must be accompanied by supreme spiritual values in order to prepare the ground for managing the country\u2019s affairs and turning it into a model for the region, the Muslim community and the world at large, the Leader said.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Khamenei cited moral, intellectual and practical deviations, the collapse of family institution, increasing violence, moral corruption, suicides in Western societies, particularly in the US, as results of the dearth of spirituality and divine values.<\/p>\n

The Leader noted that some American scholars and intellectuals explicitly admit that these immoral acts and afflictions\u00a0are rampant in their country.<\/p>\n

The Leader stated that serious attention\u00a0to religious and divine ideals and commitment to the values of the Islamic Revolution are necessary for a real progress in Iran.<\/p>\n

The Leader also pointed to increasing violence and deadly shootings\u00a0in the United States and stated that murder and the spread of arms use have turned into a \u201cserious problem\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n

This problem can be solved through the prohibition of the use of firearms by the citizens of the country, the Leader said.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Khamenei added that American officials, however, do not dare outlaw the use of guns due to the high influence of firearms manufacturing companies inside the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the lack of spirituality and divine values is behind\u00a0the rifts,\u00a0shortcomings\u00a0and frailties of the Western civilisation despite its great materialistic advances. Addressing a meeting with a group of top Iranian students in Tehran on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei underscored\u00a0the importance\u00a0of commitment to religious values and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1454,8],"tags":[1382,1383,1323,1033,144,1046],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-imam-khamenei","category-scientists-news","tag-bankruptcy","tag-morality","tag-rahbar","tag-science","tag-spirituality","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10667,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/10667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}