Letter [to Muhammad Yazdi]

In His Most Exalted Name

His Eminence `Imad al-A`lam wa Thiqat al-Islam Mr. Aqa Shaykh Muhammad Yazdi, may his graces last:

Your noble letter arrived. I beseeched God, the Exalted, for your health and confirmation. I hope that by the will of God, the Exalted, the theological center of Qum and other believers are benefited from His Eminence's guidance. What has recently upset me is the disputes, which I do not know by which hands have occurred in the theological center of Qum between the people of pulpit or rather altar, and in the same manner between the people of knowledge and the people of pulpit in Tehran. «1» It is the same sort of disputes that took place among the Christian religious when their countries were taken over. «2» Today that the principles of the Islamic laws are robbed by the foreigners and their servants, instead of unity of expression this sort of discord and insult with each other and the excommunication of some is a cause for great sorrow. It also displays the society's lack of growth. People like you should exert effort; perhaps you will succeed in waking up the gentlemen from their slumber before everything is lost, if it has not already been. To God, the Exalted, we take our complaint. May peace be upon you.

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini