{"id":326746,"date":"2022-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1\/seminaries-and-marjaiat-good-refuge-for-iraqi-people-friday-prayer-leader-of-najaf\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:33:23","slug":"seminaries-and-marjaiat-good-refuge-for-iraqi-people-friday-prayer-leader-of-najaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/seminaries-and-marjaiat-good-refuge-for-iraqi-people-friday-prayer-leader-of-najaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminaries and Marjaiat, good refuge for Iraqi people: Friday prayer leader of Najaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"><strong>According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>On Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the closing ceremony of the 7<sup>th<\/sup> General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in Iran International Conference Center in Tehran, referring to the speeches of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Hojat al-Islam Sayed Sadreddin Qobanchi stated, \u201cThe words of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution in the meeting with the members of the General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly are very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QobanchiNajafIraq.jpg\" alt=\"QobanchiNajafIraq.jpg\" width=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">The Friday prayer leader of Najaf clarified, \u201cSince the fall of Saddam\u2019s regime, we have faced three major challenges in Iraq. The first challenge was the absolute freedom that the Iraqi people enjoyed after decades of repression. The second challenge is the geographical and strategic location of Iraq, that led to entice the greed of everyone. The third challenge was the inexperience of Iraqi Shiites in governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cSince the fall of Saddam\u2019s regime, we have fought against the challenges, and we were able to prevent the civil war and sedition of terrorism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">Referring to the soft war in Iraq, Hojat al-Islam Qobanchi noted, \u201cThe Iraqi nation has been able to preserve its identity. You can see the miracle of Arbaeen in Iraq, during which the people of the country offer everything they have to serve the pilgrims of Imam Hussain (a.s.).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201c15 million pilgrims attend the Arbaeen Great Walk ceremony. On the way of this pilgrimage, a 30-kilmeter congregational prayers are held. With the blessing of AhlulBayt (a.s.) and Imam Hussain (a.s.), we won the cultural war in Iraq,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cSeminaries and Marjaiat showed that they are a good refuge for all Iraqi people,\u201d Friday prayer leader of Najaf added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn Iraq, we could stop Zionism, and the law of criminalizing the normalization of relations with Zionists was approved in the parliament of the country,\u201d he stated, \u201cAfter nearly a year of the elections in Iraq, the government has not been formed yet, and this is due to the differences between the two parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cPolitical experience in Iraq should be promoted; a theory that most Shiite political parties agree with,\u201d Hojat-ul-Islam Qobanchi emphasized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the past days, after the violent incidents in Iraq, all the Shiite political parties agreed to pursue the issues through peaceful means. We clearly saw the hand of Imam Hussain (a.s.) in calming the sedition that could have destroyed Iraq,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs long as the people of Iraq follow the Wilayat of AhlulBayt (a.s.), there is no concern,\u201d Friday prayer leader of Najaf said in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday prayer leader of Najaf, \u201cSince the fall of Saddam\u2019s regime, we (the Iraqi nation), have fought against the challenges, and we were able to prevent the civil war and sedition of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,54],"tags":[4862],"class_list":["post-326746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7th-general-assembly","category-news","tag-general-assembly-of-the-ahl-al-bayt-a-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409311,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326746\/revisions\/409311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}