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Saint Mary a role model for believers

At the opposite end of the scale, Allah the Exalted mentions two women as models for believers: "And Allah sets forth, as an example to those who believe, the wife of Pharaoh. Behold she said: ‘O my Lord, Build for me, in nearness to You, a mansion in the Garden, and save me from Pharaoh and his doings'" [The Holy Quran, 66: 11]. One was the wife of Pharaoh and the other was Hazrat Maryam: "And Maryam the daughter of Imran" [The Holy Quran, 66: 12]. As for the first woman, she was not beguiled by the Pharaoh's palace. She was a woman who was raised in a Pharaoh-like manner and most probably, her parents and household members were the descendants of the same taghuts. She was living with utmost comfort and welfare, but faith in Musa conquered her heart and as a result, she believed in him. When she began to believe and know the path, she abandoned all that comfort and welfare and she was no more attracted to that great palace. She said, "O my Lord, Build for me, in nearness to You, a mansion in the Garden." She preferred a house in paradise and she attached no significance to the material life. As for Hazrat Maryam, "And Maryam the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity and We breathed into her body of Our spirit" [The Holy Quran, 66: 12]. She preserved her chastity. These are human values.

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Leader's Speech in Meeting with Officials and Outstanding Personalities of Hamedan Province

Leader Advises Officials To Serve People

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Leader's Speech in Meeting with Students and University Professors of Hamedan Province

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Leader's Speech in Meeting with Basijis of Hamedan Province

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Leader's Speech in Meeting with People of Hamedan Province

Assad Meets With Leader

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Leader's Speech in Meeting with Judiciary Officials

Leader Praises Valuable Contribution of Nurses

Leader at a meeting with nurses

Nurses are angels of mercy for patients

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on June 23, 2004 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with a group of nurses. The meeting was held on the occasion of Nurses Day.

History of the Colonial Period, evidence of Western savagery

The history of the era of colonialism is full of western’s great violence Read the history of the era of colonialism in order to see what great violence westerns caused in spite of misleading appearance and their claims of support for human rights. This is not to say they only killed people. They also made a lot of efforts to keep their colonies backward and to deny them the opportunity to make progress in different areas.

Leader's Speech in Meeting with Officials of University Jihad

Leader's Speech in Meeting with Members of Majlis

Meeting with members of the new parliament

Torture chambers of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, manifestations of American savagery

The US, as an embodiment of wildness, claims to be a supporter of human rights Those people who are notorious in the world for deception, lying and fraud have accused the Islamic Republic of deception and lying. Those whose malevolence and enmity against the human race is brighter than daylight - everyone is witnessing this malevolence and enmity on different scenes - have accused the Islamic Republic of violating human rights and they themselves appear on the scene as advocates of human rights! Notorious America - whose prisons exist throughout the world including in Iraq and Afghanistan - and the group of people who are carrying the flag of ruling over the world and who are the embodiment of disaster, opposition to people's rights, and complete savagery claim that they are advocates of human rights! A few days ago, it was said in the news that America has 20 prisons like Abu Ghraib prison. Notice how embarrassing and humiliating it is for human beings to witness that such savages and blood-sucking and marauding wolves claim to be supporters of human rights. This is while these savages have opened their mouths against the Islamic Republic. They are ranting and raving all the time and they have said whatever came out of their mouths.

Utmost scientific progress with the greatest separation from humanitarian values and morals

What is important is that if there is an influential cultural orientation for channeling the efforts and movements of a society - one that is developing and that enjoys lofty scientific, social and worldly ideals - then this society will achieve salvation and happiness. But if there is not such a cultural, religious, divine and spiritual orientation in a society that is developing in scientific arenas, then the result will be the current situation in advanced western societies. The more these societies make progress, the farther away they will be from salvation, human values and justice. Today, you can see the peak of materialistic civilizations - in terms of science, wealth, military power and political and diplomatic diligence - in America. America is a country that enjoys great wealth. It enjoys a legendary military power and an extraordinary political dynamism, but the American society stands at the peak of separation from human values and virtues and from spirituality and morality. This has not been witnessed in any other society. Today, the most hideous, immoral, decadent and socially deviant acts have become legal and acceptable in this advanced society and in other similar societies. All human societies commit sins, but if a certain sin becomes legal and socially acceptable, if it is justified and invested in, this is an unprecedented deviation. Today, this deviation is clearly and visibly seen in American society which is known as the most advanced scientific, industrial, financial, economic and political society. You may see a man or a woman with a very neat and decent appearance. If anyone sees this man on the street and if anyone sees this woman in a store, they will not have any feeling of distrust towards their moral behavior. But the same man and the same woman turn into a ferocious wolf inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Beneath the neat appearance of this man and woman who have used perfume and who have worn ties, there is a wild dog. The photos which were published from Abu Ghraib prison shook and awakened even the most ignorant layers of western societies. The torturer was a woman. A woman should normally have feminine and delicate feelings. And the tortured were several Iraqi men. What was their crime? Their crime was being suspected of something. They were tortured to a disgusting extent. This society which has committed such crimes is an advanced scientific, industrial and civilized society with extravagant claims such as the leadership of human beings. When there is no spiritual guidance and no influential and healthy cultural orientation in a society, it will lead to such results. This was the great sin of the western civilization.

Leader's Speech in Meeting with the Clergy of Ayatollah Mujtahidi Seminary