Modern ignorance against societies’ awareness: Pres. Raisi
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi has said that the modern ignorance of today’s world resorts to the media empire in order to get in the way of awareness of human societies.
President Raisi made the remarks on the day of marking books and bookkeepers on Tuesday, noting that one of the ways to increase awareness among human communities is to promote book reading.
Asking the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to facilitate access to books in Iranian society, he said that the level of connection of society with culture can be evaluated through the index of reading books.
One of the ways to get acquainted with religious and cultural figures is to study books and their scripts, he noted, urging the young generation to read books written by Allameh Tabatabaei, an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam.
As to Imam Khomeini’s books, the chief executive argued that several books from the renowned figure show his great character as a big clergyman, mystic, and scholar.
He further described the recent unrest in Iran as one of the plots hatched by the enemies of the Islamic Republic, saying that let’s see what the foe treated in dealing with those who thought it would rescue them because the enemies disrupted many societies under the guise of supporting human rights and freedom.
The global arrogance was forced to leave Iran in 1979 and the Islamic country will not allow them to decide for the Iranians’ fate, Raisi stated.
The president warned that modern ignorance through using technology and the media empire wants to hinder human awareness, but book-reading is one of the ways to increase insight.