Elsewhere in his statements, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution described destroying the tomb of Hujr ibn Adi, the Holy Prophet's (s.w.a.) companion, and insulting his body as a tragic event, further adding: "Another reason why this is a tragic event is that there are some people among Muslims and the Islamic Ummah who have backward, superstitious and malevolent ideas and who consider commemorating outstanding and enlightened personalities of the early Islamic era as a polytheistic and blasphemous move.
Bayan magana kan zaben kuma, Ayatullah Khamenei ya yi karin haske kan batun keta hurumin kabarin sahabin Ma'aikin Allah (s.a.w.a), wato Hijr bn Adi da sauran manyan Musulunci da masu ‘yan ta'addan kasar Siriya suka yi inda ya ce: Abin da ya ke kara bakanta rai cikin wannan abin da ya farun shi ne samuwar wasu mutane masu mummunan tunani sannan kuma wadanda aka bar su a baya a tsakankanin al'ummar musulmi, wadanda suke ganin girmama fitattun mutanen da suka yi hidima wa Musulunci a farko-farkon bayyanarsa a matsayin shirka da kuma kafirci.