Letter [to Sayyid Muhammad-Rida Sa`idi]

In His Most Exalted Name

Day of `Id al-Adha 1389 AH

I beg to inform you that your noble missives were received, but there was a lack of outbound traveler to carry the response. Now, I am responding. I read your detailed missive. I had once before notified you not to take part in these local disputes. You keep to your own business. It is against your faith and the worldly expediency to confront people of that nature. I cannot write anything about people; you yourself are a man of distinction; you know that if someone claimed that such-and-such has referred to me is not correct. Up to this time, I have not referred to anyone in and outside Tehran. Only in the past I referred to a couple of subjects who are now deceased. You don't believe any of these. Again, I repeat, do not engage in these arguments so that you are able to continue serving Islam. May peace be upon you.