Representative of the Leading Marja’iya in Europe in a meeting with scholars on the birth anniversary of Imam al-Hujjaht Ibn al-Hassan (a.s) and the forthcoming Blessed month of Ramadan:
- The forces of evil in this era have strengthened their efforts to distance people from the Divine values and the teachings of the Prophets, and have sought to distract and distance them from their Lord and the Afterlife.
- The Grand Marja' told Shaykh al-Yazdi, "Scholars are vanguards from which people take the teachings of their religion, so be careful not to weaken their faith in their religion or in you, causing them to deviate from their religion, as surely the shortcoming of a scholar [leads to] the shortcoming of a nation, and is like damage in a ship, it will cause it to sink and will cause many others to sink with it."
