{"id":197,"date":"2015-08-14T07:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T07:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.20.30.45\/bayancenter\/en\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-12-12T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T09:05:31","slug":"friday-prayers-sermon-in-imam-hussains-holy-shrine-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/2015\/08\/197\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Prayer Sermon in Imam Hussain\u2019s Holy Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Al-Karbalaei<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear brothers and sisters\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I bring to your attention the following matters:-<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, the savage terrorists carried out a car bomb in Alawt al<\/p>\n

Jamila, Baghdad that resulted in the death and injuries of hundreds of<\/p>\n

innocent citizens, to which ISIS announced its adoption of the criminal<\/p>\n

act for this heinous and unashamed sectarian crime, as these brutal crimes<\/p>\n

coincide in retaliation to the decent Iraqi people who blessedly stood by<\/p>\n

their sons in the armed forces and heroic volunteers and all those who<\/p>\n

care as a strong barrier in the face of them to stop them achieving their<\/p>\n

ominous aims, as we express our sympathy and solidarity with the<\/p>\n

bereaved families and their loved ones asking for peace on the souls of<\/p>\n

who died in this vicious attack, and we pray for the speedy recovery of<\/p>\n

the wounded. We emphasise that these atrocities will not break the will of<\/p>\n

the Iraqi people, but rather increases his determination to continue<\/p>\n

fighting until we achieve the final victory and rid the country of terrorists\u2019<\/p>\n

abomination with the help of Allah The Almighty. We also emphasise<\/p>\n

once again on the responsible government agencies the need to speed up<\/p>\n

the reform process of the security and intelligence institutions, in order to<\/p>\n

perform its required role in providing security and stability and detect<\/p>\n

terrorist acts before they occur.<\/p>\n

Second matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fight against rampant corruption in government institutions<\/p>\n

was one of the most important concerns of the Supreme Religious<\/p>\n

Authority since the early years of the regime change, confirmed over and<\/p>\n

over again in the past ten years in the issued statements in its office in<\/p>\n

Najaf Al Ashraf and its Friday sermons, on the importance of adopting<\/p>\n

serious steps in the fight against financial and administrative corruption<\/p>\n

and that no security, no development and no progress can be witnessed<\/p>\n

without it. I would like to read for your attention segments from data<\/p>\n

released by the Supreme Religious Authority\u2019s Office in this regard over<\/p>\n

the past years; In April 2006, a nearly ten years ago and after the first<\/p>\n

session of the House of Representatives elections and prior to the<\/p>\n

formation of the government, the office issued a statement stating:<\/p>\n

\u201cOther than that the next government tasks that are anti-administrative<\/p>\n

corruption, rampant in importance in most state institutions degree<\/p>\n

portends grave danger, it must develop practical mechanisms for the<\/p>\n

elimination of this incurable disease and prosecute corruptors judicially<\/p>\n

whoever they are\u201d<\/p>\n

In September 2006, after the formation of the government, the<\/p>\n

office issued a statement reiteration emphasising once again the need to<\/p>\n

combat corruption and abuse of power that causes the loss of Iraqi state<\/p>\n

resources, stressing the necessary role that enables the judiciary to<\/p>\n

exercise its role in corruption cases issuing the appropriate legal<\/p>\n

sentences as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

In February 2011, the office issued a statement stating:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe supreme religious authority calls the House of Representatives and<\/p>\n

the Iraqi government to take serious and concrete steps to improve public<\/p>\n

services, especially electricity and the allowance items, and provide<\/p>\n

work opportunities for the unemployed, and the fight against rampant<\/p>\n

corruption in various government departments, and before this and that<\/p>\n

make critical decisions to cancel unacceptable privilege granted to<\/p>\n

existing and former members of the House of Representatives and<\/p>\n

provincial councils and senior officials in the government of ministers<\/p>\n

and those with special grades and others, and to refrain from the<\/p>\n

introduction of non-essential government positions annually, costing vast<\/p>\n

sums of money belonging to the oppressed peoples, and the abolition of<\/p>\n

currently existing ones\u201d<\/p>\n

These are examples issued by the Supreme Religious Authority<\/p>\n

previously and currently calling on the continuing need to combat<\/p>\n

corruption in the state, which unfortunately we did not witness any<\/p>\n

attentive ears for in the past years.<\/p>\n

Third matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several decisions to reform government institutions and the fight<\/p>\n

against corruption has been announced in recent days, to achieve a degree<\/p>\n

of social justice, which we value and we hope those decisions find their<\/p>\n

ways into actual implementation in the near future. We would like to note<\/p>\n

that the most important requirements of the reform process:<\/p>\n

Firstly\/ Reform of the judiciary; it is an important milestone in the<\/p>\n

completion of the reform compilation and cannot be actual real reform<\/p>\n

without it, for rampant corruption is existent even in the judiciary, but<\/p>\n

there are certainly quite a few honourable judiciary who did not<\/p>\n

contaminate their hands in bribery, who cannot be blamed for any aspect<\/p>\n

of the corrupted system. They are whom we must rely on in the reform<\/p>\n

process of the judiciary, to be based as a foundation to repair the rest of<\/p>\n

the state institutions.<\/p>\n

Secondly\/ There are many laws and decrees issued in the past years,<\/p>\n

which have opened broad prospects for the practice of corruption in its<\/p>\n

various forms, which must be assigned to the government and the House<\/p>\n

of Representatives to reconsider these laws and decisions and to work on<\/p>\n

modifying or abolishing what it sees as required in the sole public<\/p>\n

interest. In contrast, there is an urgent need for legislative laws and<\/p>\n

decision-making which reform cannot be practised without, which it is<\/p>\n

the most important of reform laws; the Law on the ranking salaries to<\/p>\n

state employees, that takes into account social justice as it is not<\/p>\n

acceptable that some senior officials have salaries amounting to tens of<\/p>\n

millions per month, not reaching the monthly salaries for many<\/p>\n

employees of mere three hundred thousand dinars. We hope that the<\/p>\n

government and the House of Representatives and the Supreme Judicial<\/p>\n

Council conduct the required reforms are well thought out without<\/p>\n

reluctance and delay, bearing in mind that the decent population are<\/p>\n

watching their work and will be watchful to see them pursue their<\/p>\n

performance and take appropriate stance against those who hinder or<\/p>\n

procrastinate in performing reforms and anti-corruption. Logically, this<\/p>\n

offers officials a reasonable opportunity to prove their good intentions to<\/p>\n

the process of reform without apprehension of pushing the country into<\/p>\n

chaos and in disabling the interests of people and engaging in any futile<\/p>\n

rhetoric matters.<\/p>\n

\u2026 We ask Allah The All Almighty to help all to what is good for Iraqis\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Al-Karbalaei Dear brothers and sisters\u2026 I bring to your attention the following matters:- First Matter: Yesterday, the savage terrorists carried out a car bomb in Alawt al Jamila, Baghdad that resulted in the death and injuries of hundreds of innocent citizens, to which ISIS announced its adoption of the criminal act for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[60],"class_list":{"0":"post-197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-friday-prayers","8":"tag-friday-prayers"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FR.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}