TEHRAN Substitute leader of Friday congregational prayer Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani told a large assembly of worshipers at Tehran University campus here Friday that the proposition that religion is inherently inconsistent with c The ayatollah said in his second sermon to worshippers here that the Islamic faith and the liberty of the individual are part and parcel of a whole. He said, This kind of approach to religion and civil liberties in the West led the Westerners away from worship of God and morality, because they considered it inconsistent with their liberties, and they thought that if they could distance themselve Tody, they have introduced the same erroneous outlook of the West towards religion in their dealing with Islam, saying that once the humanity should have faith in god and in the prophet, they shall have to be subjugated by the governments to the pre In the Islamic system, 'Bay'at' (allegiance) and the vote of the people are complements to the government, and they activate the government, and the rights of the people and the Islamic ruler are mutual...

The Islamic ruler cannot say that he is an envoy of God and that the people whould be obedient to him. The 'Vali-e-Faqih' (supreme religious jurisprudent) has the responsibility to observe the good of the people and the society and lead the governme The 'Experts Assembly' is a sample of the interaction between the 'Vali-e-Faqih' and people. The 'Experts Assembly' is the extract of the nation.

The poeple will select their deputies to this assembly and the same deputies elect the 'Vali-e-Fagih' a 'Freedom' means investigation in ideas, ethics and thoughts, and the selection of the path of God by man must be with the aid of free will and thought, and also with the aid of teaching and learning, and strangulation is against religion... Freedom is not on one side of the line with religion being on the other side of the line.

Freedom is in religion itself... The enemies of Islam have take undue advantage ... and have thereby found an excuse for attacking Islam... The president has talked about freedoms, with the meaning of freedoms in Islam, but certain people have written (in this or that nenwspaper) that freedoms (should exist) minus religion... In the present day, the Western hemisphere is plagued by this type of limitless freedoms with the Western youth being either ignorant or claiming that god has forgotten them...

but in the present day the western scholars admit that the young generat The Islamic Republic of Iran stressing the moral pursuits intends to make its presence felt to the world, while the world of arrogance intends to prevent its doing so by all forms of military attacks, and economic sanctions and cultural invasion, ag Elsewhere in his second sermon to worshippers, the substitute leader of Friday congregational prayer referred to the responsibilities of the United Nations in Afghanistan and in the occupied Palestine and in Cosovo saying that the United Nations must wak (IRNA)