🧭 I Expected Alignment — Just Not With Me

How Listening to Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei may Allah protect him,  Confirmed More Than I Thought It Would

I didn’t approach the video expecting to be confirmed.
I approached it prepared to be corrected.

Because I’ve heard the scholars — the political ones — speak with such emphasis and insistence that I thought, Maybe they’re right. Maybe I’m missing something. Maybe, in my commitment to inner reform and Qur’anic alignment, I’ve misunderstood the system they claim to represent.

I always try to give the benefit of the doubt.

So I expected the speech to lean more toward their language, their framing — not mine. I even anticipated feeling discomfort from a tone of reinforcement, as if what I’ve been challenging in them might be echoed by the Leader himself.

But that’s not what happened.

Instead of distance from my concerns, I found proximity.
Instead of alignment with their tone, I found a call to accountability.
Instead of comfort, I heard a summons — for reformation, clarity, and awakening.

It wasn’t their voice I heard echoed in that speech.
It was the voice of correction — and not toward me.

This was not a moment of vindication, but of confirmation — not because I needed to be told I was right, but because the voice I’ve been aligning with all along comes from somewhere deeper than institutions:

📖 From the Qur’an
🕊️ From the Nahjul Balagha
💡 From inner fitrah

That alignment never needed outside permission — but it’s sobering to see it quietly affirmed from a source others keep citing, yet rarely reflect.

This was a reminder:
The truth is never owned.
It simply resonates — wherever it’s spoken.

So what DOES the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Say - Stay tuned.