Letter [to The Union of the Islamic Societies of the Students in Europe]

Addressees: 

In His Most Exalted Name

Jamadi al-Awwal 14,1390 AH

The Union of the Islamic Societies of the Students of Farsi Group in Europe:

After offering my greetings and salutations, I do acknowledge the receipt of the message of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Union. The young generation's interest in the recognition and introduction of the true visage of Islam is appreciated. Today, before anything else we are duty bound to neutralize the several hundred years of propaganda of the foreigners and the imperialist agents.

The experts of colonialism, through hypocrisy and ruse and in the name of Islamophile and Orientalism paint thick coating on the illuminated face of Islam and introduce Islam through the architectures, paintings, historical buildings, and fine arts. They [inject] into the societies the tyrannical, anti-Islamic governments of the `Ummayads, `Abbasids, and Ottomans in the name of Islamic caliphate while hiding the true visage of Islam behind these curtains. Thus, today it is difficult to make the human societies, even the Muslims', to understand the government of Islam and its constitutional, political, economic, and social organizations. One should try to unveil the several-hundred-year of poisonous propaganda.

You, the young generation are duty bound to awaken the West-struck and reveal the atrocities of their anti-humanistic governments and that of their lackeys. Try to intensify your ranks by reminding the societies in general, and the children of Islam in particular, of the method of Islamic government, which was unfortunately short lived. But in that same short time, it illuminated the way and method of Islam on the guardianship [wilayah] and the guardian [wala]. «2» I pray to Almighty God for everyone's success in serving Islam's objectives. May God's peace and mercy be upon you.

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini