Ayatollah Aa’rafi’s reply to the letter from the Elite National Directors and University Professors

After the delivery of the letter sent from 35 individuals comprising of professors and intellectual personalities from all over the country to the director of Islamic Seminaries, in response to them he has published the following text which is extremely important. The text of the letter from the professors can be viewed here.

Dear Professors and Researchers (May their honour be prolonged)

I send peace and salutations be upon you.

The important and precise letter from yourselves is a witness to the dynamism and the eloquence of the intellectual movement and the continuation of the glorious and sublime path of the country and is worthy of appreciation. A movement that has achieved a strong foundation today in the second step of the Islamic revolution and continues to excel livelier than before.

Just as you have pointed out in that letter, whenever the co-operation of the Islamic Seminaries and experts from the universities has become stronger, we have witnessed the production of rich intellectual output.

Today, the department of contemporary jurisprudence too by laying the for innovative platforms, has started a new intellectual chapter in the co-operation between the Islamic Seminaries and the universities on a national and international level and it is quickly expanding it. In this new chapter of the intellectual movement and regarding forty years of experience of various types of cooperation between domestic intellectual institutions and international models, the position of specialists in each field in the clear system of group cooperation and the coordination of intellectual collaborating groups has increased incrementally and the platform the production of rich intellectual output has been completed.

Today the horizon of our intellectual achievements is not limited to inside the country rather it has been praised on an international level. As long as accurate and up-to-date comprehensive thematics are placed next to the upstream advanced jurisprudential ideas of philosophy, intellectual methods and the jurisprudence of different sciences, it will be able to conquer the peaks of knowledge and advance the frontiers of knowledge.

The experienced strategy of forming intellectual councils around the advanced contemporary jurisprudence courses are very successful and suitable for real intellectual cooperation, far from being caught in common organizational structures; such that when there is more cooperation between professors and university researchers we can achieve its development and also form courses on epistemology in the Islamic Seminaries. The essential instructions for this cooperation have been communicated and its base is ready. We hope that very soon we can witness a more serious presence of you noble ones and the complete cooperation of all your colleagues who are experts and scientific assistants in the intellectual groups in order to take the path of intellectual excellence and development with great strides.

I ask Almighty God for your increasing success.

Ali Reza Aa’rafi

Director of the Islamic Seminaries.