«مَا الْمَسِیحُ ابْنُ مَرْیَمَ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ وَأُمُّهُ صِدِّیقَةٌ»

The Messiah (Jesus Christ), son of Mary, was but a prophet. Certainly, (other) prophets have passed before him, and his mother was a truthful one. (Holy Qur’an, Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 75)

I would like to, on the occasion of Christmas, the birthdate of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), point out the difference between divinity and humanism as one of the most fundamental issues where the Western World has gone astray.

By abandoning the dispositional and divine values and the moral teachings of Christ, the statesmen of Western Christian countries have caused the most serious damage to their people and the world, and by giving importance to and encouraging carnal desires and pleasures and humanistic benefits, have, through the capitalist and imperialist systems, made many people of the world suffer. The result of this approach has been two world wars, dozens of regional wars, blind support to 75 years of crime by the child-killing regime of Israel, and the pumping of corruption and debauchery in the media and Western lifestyle.

It seems as if those statesmen did not and do not care about God, resurrection, and divine worldview and arrogantly present themselves as the best role model for humanity.

Even though the Western rulers have, in the management of science, caused tremendous progress in Western industry, in the macro level management, they have distanced the Western world from international humanity and have not made any contribution to the progress of the Western World when it comes to human disposition.

The approval and support given by some Western for the assassination of General Soleimani is one of the biggest examples of the Western World being perplexed about the difference between divinity and humanism and one of the outcomes of the immoral behavior of Western rulers that martyrs the world champion of human awakening in order to preserve ungodly imperialist interests.

While we are approaching the Christian New Year, I would like to quote the late Imam Khomeini’s advice when he told the Western rulers: “At least adhere to the moral teachings of Jesus Christ in governing.”