On anniversary of Twentieth Revolution, Ayatollah Shirazi confirms greatness of its fatwa

Today, Iraqis commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the eternal Twentieth Revolution, which the late Imam Mirza Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi issued a fatwa to combat the occupying British colonialism and expel it from Iraq.

 The Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi on the 20th of Rabi’ al-Thani 1337 AH, corresponding to May 1920 AD, issued his resounding fatwa against the colonialists who wanted to impose their complete hegemony on Iraq.

 Under the slogan (The Twentieth Revolution: Awareness of the Global Shirazi Message and in Support of Shia and Ritualistic Thought), the Shirazi Authority office in the holy city of Qom conveyed the words of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi on this great anniversary.

In His Eminence’s speech, which was followed by Shia Waves Agency, the Grand Ayatollah said: “Almost a hundred years ago, the revolutionary Imam Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi sparked his revolution to defeat colonialism in Iraq and everywhere.”

 His Eminence continued that “colonialism wanted on that day, through fraud and in the name of elections, to rule Iraq, so Imam Shirazi issued a fatwa that a non-Muslim should not be elected to rule.”

 He added, “Colonialism wanted in the name of the elections to falsify and show a picture it called democracy at that time of the colonial government over Iraq,” noting that “the great fatwa became a reason for colonialism to go backwards, and to lose what it had hoped for from its direct colonization of Iraq.”