Quds Day, day of solidarity with Palestine

Quds Day is commemorated all over the world, traditionally, on the last Friday of Ramadan; it is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people, named with the Arabic word for the capital of Palestine.

In the month of Ramadan of 1979, Imam Khomeini the late founder of the Islamic Revolution, in a fateful message, designated the last Friday of Ramadan every year as the holy day and called it the day of the life of Islam.

Imam Khomeini said in a message on the occasion of Quds Day, "I invite Muslims all over the globe to consecrate the last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan, which is a day of fate and which could also become the day on which the fate of Palestinian people might be determined as Quds day and to proclaim the legitimate right of the Muslim people of Palestine."

Quds Day was a response to Jerusalem Day in which Jewish settlers go on a rampage around Al-Quds, which they call Jerusalem, chanting racist slogans, including 'May your village burn'.

The Zionist entity heightened attempts to suppress Quds Day after the Gaza massacre in 2008-2009. The worldwide revulsion against the massacre led to a significant rise in support for the Palestinians and worldwide protest.

Quds Day is marked in over 80 Islamic and non-Islamic countries. In the West, these include the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, France and Greece.

Quds day is celebrated all over the world after being inaugurated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979.

Quds Day is the day of manifestation of the glory and greatness of the Islamic Ummah, the resurrection of the arrogance of the Muslim nations of the world, the day of the unity of all truth-seeking and justice-loving people, the day of the binding of the powerful arms of the Islamic Ummah, and the day of constant struggle against Zionism and predatory imperialism. Quds Day is the day to put aside the tastes and join the drops in the flowing ocean of people. Quds Day is the day of reflection of the raging anger of the oppressed peoples and the storming of the holy zeal of the people who express their hatred against the usurper regime of Israel with their slogans.