AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The professor of Qom seminary said,” shooting sport has certain results and the fact that it is emphasized by Islam is a sign of that it leads to strengthening morals.”
Seminary professor Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Hassan Safi, made some remarks in a meeting with Iran’s head of the Shooting Federation and some members of the national team who were present at the house of Late Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani (RA) on Thursday, August 10. He stated that shooting sport brings special results and that the emphasis of Islam is a sign of it, one of its fruits is the strengthening of morals.
He added,” The blessed Quranic verse is a great moral guidance from the Almighty God for athletes, especially shooters, and what is important in these disciplines is the training of heroic ethics, winning medals is important, but what is more important is the ethics of sportsmanship that remains and keeps the athlete’s legacy alive in history; Amir al-Momenin, peace be upon him, says that the bravest people are those who overcome the air of the ego, and this luminous word should be a model for all athletes.”
Hujjat al-Islam Safi said in his advice to the officials of the Shooting Federation.” The late Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani used to tell the officials that these young people are God's trusts and the people in charge of this matter should try to educate them the best way they could.”
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