Arbaeen is the path of an insightful love

In our country, despite the existence of many obstacles, two million people go to Karbala through an eighty-kilometer walk – they walk, but they do not go there to enjoy themselves and to rest in a hotel! And a crowd, several times larger than that, goes to Karbala from Iraq and other countries. This is a divine event. This is a divine phenomenon. This shows that this path is the path of love. However, it is not a blind love, rather it is a kind of love which is marked by insight such as the love of saints for God: "Oh God, feed me with Your love and the love of whomever that loves You and the love of all those actions that help me get closer to You” [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 91, page 149].

This affection and this love is one that is accompanied by insight. A lover – in this sense – knows and understands things and this attraction and magnetic power drive him forward. So, this task is a great task. This phenomenon is a great phenomenon. First of all, I would like to welcome those who managed to go there and I ask God to approve of their endeavor. And I announce my envy of what they did because we were deprived of this blessing, but they succeeded in doing it. Also, I would like to thank the people of Iraq for their hospitality and kindness as they succeeded in managing that crowd in the course of a few days. This event is an extraordinarily important event.