By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

“Those who amass wealth are actually dead even though they may be living while those endowed with knowledge will remain (alive) as long as the world exists.”

These immortal words of Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS) which have continued to echo for the past millennium and four centuries are an undeniable proof of the eternality of scholars, especially the God-oriented, whom his cousin and mentor the Almighty’s Last and Greatest Messenger to mankind, Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) has described as “Inheritors of the (legacy of) Prophets”.

Today after four days of mass mourning following death in a helicopter crash, Ayatollah Seyyed Ibrahim Rais as-Saadaat (Raisi), the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is being laid to eternal rest in his hometown Mashhad in the mausoleum of Imam Reza (AS), the 8th Infallible Heir of the Prophet. 

The Late Seyyed (a descendant of the Prophet) was not an ordinary Chief Executive of a nation, and before that not a run-of-the-mill official in the various capacities he had served the interests of the Islamic Republic and the welfare of the Iranian people – as Head of the Judiciary, Prosecutor General, etc.

He was an erudite scholar who strove to sincerely and selflessly serve citizens through the important posts he acquired because of his knowledge, his sense of justice, and his respect for human rights.

These qualities inspired him to write such valuable books as guidelines for the people – “Lectures on the Rules of Jurisprudence” in three volumes (judicial, economic and religious); “Inheritance without Heirs”; and “Conflict of Principle and Appearance in Jurisprudence and Law”.

Whatever position he held, he preferred to be called “Servant of Imam Reza (AS)” while ensuring fairness in trials as prosecutor; reforming the Astaan-e Qods’ vast religious-cultural-artistic-scientific-industrial-commercial structure for the benefit of pilgrims as Custodian of the Holy Mausoleum of Imam Reza (AS); diligently defining state and private, employee and entrepreneur, social and moral rights as Judicial Head. 

No wonder, he was proud to be a pious and patriotic public servant hailed as the “People’s President” for uplifting Iran’s economy in the face of the West’s criminal sanctions, accelerating self-reliance in all industrial and technological fields, safeguarding national security to thwart the terrorism and treason of the enemies of the Iranian nation, promoting Iran’s international role as a vital member of various organizations (e.g. Shanghai Conference, BRICS, OIC, GECF, etc.),

Last but not the least he will be remembered for taking concrete steps to build solidarity in the region, including support for the persecuted Palestinian people, and mobilizing the conscience of the Muslim Ummah and of the Free World to confront the genocide in Gaza by the illegal Zionist entity that has no right or legitimacy to exist.

Thus, our scholar president, whose funeral in Tehran was attended by senior officials of more than 50 country (many of which declared national mourning) will be alive, not only in Iran but throughout the world, long after the tyrannical powers who amass wealth and weapons to try to enslave humanity, and who are sadistically exulting over his physical death, have vanished from the face of the Earth.

Our tributes as well to our dedicated Foreign Minister for giving a dexterous direction to our regional and international diplomacy that dwarfed the devilry of the US, the hostile West European regimes, and Usurper Israel. 

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s dynamic and tireless foreign policy efforts, were cut short in the copter crash that took the life of the President, the scholarly Friday Prayer Leader of Tabriz, the devout Governor of East Azarbaijan Province, and the two pilots and two bodyguards, whose collective funeral prayer led by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, at Tehran University, was attended by millions of mourners who flowed into adjoining streets.