The Unbroken Trust: On the Burial of Our Leader, Imam Sayyed Ali al-Husayni al-Khamenei
Saturday, 11 July 2026
In this final gathering of the Unbroken series — after The Unbroken Chain of his martyrdom and The Unbroken Testimony of his arbaʿeen — we come to the Trust: the burial of our leader, Imam Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Khamenei, laid to rest in Mashhad beside Imam Reza after his body is carried home through Tehran, Qom, Najaf, and Karbala. Together we will face the question many have held in silence — how could a believer, who in our tradition is buried in haste, lawfully wait more than four months? — and answer it openly, from the Book of God and the rulings of our scholars. The evening moves through three stations: the lawfulness of the wait, the sanctity of the entrusted body, and the homecoming to the courtyard of the eighth Imam — laid down on the very eve of the martyrdom of Imam Zayn al-Abidin, the survivor of Karbala who carried the trust onward. And we will ask what it truly means to visit the friends of God: not religious tourism, nor a transaction for paradise, but a covenant to walk their path — to establish the prayer, to lift the poor, and to stand against the wrong of the powerful, near to the shrine or a thousand miles from it. We close, as always, by naming our beloved martyrs and turning to God to make us worthy of the trust now placed in our hands. #MartyrKhamenei #WeMustRise
In this session
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Qur'an Recitation: Quranic Recitation
Tribute: Farewell Dear Light of the Oppressed
The Architect of Autonomy: A Civilisational Legacy
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ، وَكَثِّرْ عِدَّتَهُمْ، وَاشْحَذْ أَسْلِحَتَهُمْ، وَاحْرُسْ حَوْزَتَهُمْ، وَامْنَعْ حَوْمَتَهُمْ، وَأَلِّفْ جَمْعَهُمْ، وَدَبِّرْ أَمْرَهُمْ، وَوَاتِرْ بَيْنَ مِيَرِهِمْ، وَتَوَحَّدْ بِكِفَايَةِ مُؤَنِهِمْ، وَاعْضُدْهُمْ بِالنَّصْرِ، وَأَعِنْهُمْ بِالصَّبْرِ، وَالْطُفْ لَهُمْ فِي الْمَكْرِ
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, increase their number, hone their weapons, guard their territory, defend their midst, unite their throng, arrange their affair, send them supplies in a steady string, undertake Yourself to suffice them with provisions, support them with victory, help them with patience, and give them subtlety in guile!
Sahifa Sajjadiyyah, Prayer 27: His Supplication for the People of the Frontiers, Verse 3
