Speech [Explanation about the reformation of the country's colleges]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Salaam! (Greetings) to you, the great nation of Iran. Salutations to you the Muslim nation of the world. Salaam to the academic ones. Salaam to the respected students- the soldiers of Islam. It is necessary for me to make a remark to you. You should know what our aim by reformation of the colleges is. Some imagined and wrongly presumed that there are two categories of knowledge or science- one Islamic and the other non-Islamic. For example: engineering- Islamic and non-Islamic. Physics- Islamic and non-Islamic. So they objected that the science or the knowledge cannot be Islamic and non-Islamic. Some wrongly concluded that the propose of making the colleges Islamic is to teach only the sciences concerning relation such as jurisprudence, science of principles and the interpretation. In other words, it will become like schools of old days. These are errors they committed in conception and comprehension. Or they indulge themselves into such mistakes. What we want to say is this: Our colleges are affiliated ones. Our colleges are those of imperialists. Our colleges produce the students fully westernized. The professors mostly are westernized. And they train our youth in the same trend. Our point here is that the colleges we have are not useful to our students. It is more than fifty years that we are having colleges and they run on the budget heavy which is the cost of the hard labor of this nation. In a span of fifty years, we could not become self-sufficient in the sciences that are the product of these colleges. After fifty years if a sick is to be cured, the doctors say he should be sent to England. It is fifty years we have colleges. But a doctor who could be able to attend a sick or a patient we have none as they themselves admit. In spite of having a college, which is a need of a nation, yet we are in need of the West. We say that the colleges should fundamentally be changed. We do not mean that the Islamic sciences to be taught there. Science is of course in two categories- Islamic and non - Islamic. But this is not our point. What we mean is to show us the output or outcome of these colleges running since fifty years or even more. We say that our colleges are the hurdles in way of progress of our youth- the sons of this soil.

We say that our colleges have become a field of battle of propaganda. Our youth, supposing, if at all attain knowledge but they fall short of good breeding and a desired appreciable growth concerning moral and manners. They have no Islamic training at all. They go to college only to obtain a piece of paper (by name of a degree) and to go to be a parasite upon the nation.

The college is not in line with the needs of the nation nor does it respond to the necessities of the country. Generations and our youth who are most dear to us are now a waste. Their vigor and energy goes in vain. During these fifty years, our power has had been a loss or it was utilized to the benefit of the foreigners. Teachers of our schools are not Islamic teachers. There has had been no training alongside the education. Therefore, we do not have a man committed to his nation or not prefer and persuade his own selfish motives among the college fellows. Our colleges should be in the service of the nation. This is what we say. So our colleges should fundamentally undergo a change. The teachers in schools and professors in colleges mostly are at the disposal of the West. Our youth are brainwashed. A corrupt and profligate training they give to the youth we don't say that we oppugn the present new sciences. We don't say that the knowledge is of two kinds which some debate either ignorantly or deliberately. We say that our colleges have no Islamic conduct or manners. Had our colleges Islamic manners, they would have not turned into a battlefield of beliefs which is seathful to the country. Had the colleges been Islamic, these stramashes which are too heavy for us would have never happened. All this is because they have no knowledge about Islam nor do they know Islam.

Our colleges should undergo fundamental change. They should be rebuilt. They should train our youth in Islamic fashion. As sciences are taught to them, the Islamic couching too they should be fed with. We do not want that a group push them towards West and another group towards East. Or to push them towards persons who are at war with us, or the persons who desire us to remain in economical blockade or those who threaten us with the economical blockade. We do not want any our youth to be a succor to them. We want them (our youth) to stand up against the West if our nation does so. If our nation stood against the communists, our colleges too should do the same. But our youth because of their plain-heartedness have concurred with some of the teachers in taking an inimical stand against us when we want them not to depend upon East or West or on Communism and Marxism. We want them and our colleges to be independent. This is the prod that shows that we do not have Islamic system in our colleges or an Islamic couching to our youth in the colleges. This is the evidence that our youth are not brought up in a correct training. On the other hand, they are not after education. They are wasting their age in slogans only. And they engage themselves in disseminating erroneous propaganda. Sometimes they are the supporters of America and sometimes of the Soviet Union. We want them to be of their and at their own. These ones who have occupied streets and starveling or in the lanes of the colleges creating tumult and trouble for themselves, others and the government, are the supporters of either East or West. In my opinion, they are the supporters of West and America.

Today we are in confrontation with America. We are facing a big power. So we need that our youth too stand against them with us. But they stand against themselves. Those who are in the margin and criticize, presume that the members of the Revolutionary consulting board do not understand that Islamization does not mean that all sciences have two categories. One kind of Islamic engineering and the other non-Islamic. They don't know that there are jurisprudents and doctors among the members of the board. The members don't know that the Islamic sciences have their own place and station that is the old schools. Here it is the place for new sciences. In any case, the colleges must turn Islamic one so that the science taught in the colleges should benefit the nation and in line with the necessities of nation. In our opinion, the programs in the colleges intimately end to push the youth towards Communism or the West. This should not happen. In our opinion, these teachers or professors do not let the students to grasp the knowledge thoroughly and fully. They impede the way. They are in the service of the West. They want us to depend upon the West in our every need. The meaning of Islamization is that we should become independent. We should distance ourselves from the West as well as East. We want to have an independent culture, college, and country. My dear ones! We do not fear economic blockade. We do not fear the military intervention. The thing that is dreadful to us is the dependency of culture. We fear imperialists' college. The colleges that train our youth for the service of the West make us to fear. Likewise, we fear the colleges that produce servants of Communism. We want our colleges to not be like the persons traduce us. They don't conceive the meaning of independence and the Islamization of the colleges. I support the president and the revolution consulting board what they have told me regarding the purging of colleges in order to be independent. I want all the youth to not stymie the work not to be recalcitrant. Do not let us to adopt other means by recalibrating the work. I pray to God for the nation's and the youth's prosperity. I hope that a in accordance with the proposal, the colleges be purged from the elements and the attachments. I hope that a good college be created with the Islamic characteristics.

May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.