The Supreme Leader was delivering a speech in a meeting with the participants in the International Islamic Unity Conference, the heads of the three branches of government (judiciary, executive, and legislative) as well as a group of government officials on the wake of the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Imam Sadeq (PBUH) on Sunday.
Ayatollah Khamenei congratulated the Islamic nation and the world's free-thinking people and sent greetings to the pure spirits of those who were martyred on the path of Islam.
He said that the birth of the Prophet of Islam is in fact the beginning of a new era in humankind’s life and an announcement that a new era of the divine will and divine favors for humankind have commenced.
The Supreme Leader underlined that acting duly based on Islam's comprehensiveness and the issue of Islamic unity appear to be very important in this era.
Calling Islam an all-inclusive religion, the Supreme Leader noted that one must act according to this all-inclusiveness, adding that worldly political powers insistently try to limit Islam to individuals' deeds and beliefs.
However, he stated, the Quran rejects this in hundreds of verses, denoting that Islam is active in all social, political, international areas.
The Islamic Unity is definitely a Quranic obligation, Ayatollah Khamenei insisted, adding that unity of Muslims is not a tactical matter that some people assume we should be united in certain situations, but it is a principle.
The Supreme Leader mentioned the issue of Palestine as an indicator of Muslim unity and underlined that the issue of Palestine would be solved in the best way, if Muslim unity was realized.
He accused some Islamic governments in the region of committing a grave sin by normalizing relations with the usurping, despotic Zionist regime, urging them to repent and compensate.
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