Today, Humanity Needs the Holy Qur'an

Imam Khamenei:

My dear ones, you should know that today, the world needs the Holy Quran whether it accepts and acknowledges it or not. Today, the world suffers from a void of identity, ideology and faith. A faithless individual is like an empty fruit. This is the reason why you see that the rate of murder and crime is increasing in western countries on a daily basis. This is one of the reasons. When you see that the rate of suicide is increasing, this is one of the reasons.

Humanity no longer has any food to satiate the minds, hearts and souls of individuals. Of course, they fabricate certain things, but this is not accepted by the hearts of peoples. However, the Holy Quran can do so. If only one drop of the Holy Quran – not the entire Holy Quran, only one drop of it – is sent to people with a proper language, then hearts will be attracted to it. We ourselves are experiencing and witnessing this today. Today, humanity needs the Holy Quran.

The Holy Quran can do whatever it wants in today’s world. It can work and move forward. And powers, superpowers, atomic bombs, the Zionist regime and the like cannot do a damn thing. The important point is that we should strengthen our bases of faith and the Holy Quran on a daily basis, that we learn the language to share the Holy Quran with others and that we convey Quranic teachings.

The Holy Quran can do whatever it wants in today’s world. It can work and move forward. And powers, superpowers, atomic bombs, the Zionist regime and the like cannot do a damn thing. The important point is that we should strengthen our bases of faith and the Holy Quran on a daily basis, that we learn the language to share the Holy Quran with others and that we convey Quranic teachings. These work like a strong medicine. 

When you pour one drop of it in a glass and give it to a person, he takes it and it works. However, if you pour five drops instead of one, it might fail to work and he might not be able to digest it. So, the proper language should be found. However, we should satiate ourselves and our hearts and souls and we should fill ourselves with Quranic teachings first. We ourselves need this very much.

The blessings of the Holy Quran are not confined to the things that I expressed with my incomplete explanations. The blessings of the Holy Quran are endless. There is dignity, power, progress, material welfare, spiritual transcendence, development of one’s mind and one’s belief, joy and tranquility of one’s soul in and with the Holy Quran. There is tranquility and peace of mind in the Holy Quran:

Allah sent down His tranquility to His Messenger and to the believers, and made them stick close to the command of self-restraint, and well were they entitled to it and worthy of it”. ¹

The blessings of the Holy Quran are endless. There is dignity, power, progress, material welfare, spiritual transcendence, development of one’s mind and one’s belief, joy and tranquility of one’s soul in and with the Holy Quran. There is tranquility and peace of mind in the Holy Quran

When that religious tranquility and religious peace appears, piety increases: “It is He Who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the Believers, that they may add faith to their faith.” This tranquility and peace of mind increases our faith on a daily basis. Faith in what? Faith in God and in divine power. And it says afterwards:

for to Allah belong the forces of the heavens and the earth”. ²

Everything is in God’s hands. Everything is God’s army. Elsewhere, it says:

And none can know the forces of Your Lord, except He”. ³

No one other than Him can count the number of His forces. This is the Holy Quran: an extraordinary and infinite power that we should able to benefit from within the scope of our capacity, God willing.

[1] The Holy Quran (48: 26) "فَأَنزَلَ اللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلىَ‏ رَسُولِهِ وَ عَلىَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَلْزَمَهُمْ كَلِمَةَ التَّقْوَى‏ وَ كاَنُواْ أَحَقَّ بهَِا وَ أَهْلَهَ"
[2] The Holy Quran (48: 4) "وَ لِلَّهِ جُنُودُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ"
[3] The Holy Quran (74: 31) "وَ مَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُو"