Letter [to Sayyid `Abdullah Shirazi]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Shirazi- may your graces last,

I appreciate your Excellency's telegraph of congratulation on the significant victories of the armed forces. It is hoped that with especial considerations of the Imam of the Time (may our souls be sacrificed to him) and with the prayers of your Excellency and other great clerics under the shining dome of the eighth Imam, (God's peace be upon him) God will grant ultimate victories to the armed forces and the combatant nation and defeat the enemies of Islam both inside and outside. Pray to God to guide or annihilate the deviants who consciously or unconsciously deal blows to Islam by serving the two poles. Let us pray to God to wake up the youths who have fallen into the trap and ruin themselves and their compatriots in vain just to serve the purposes of the fraudulent people, and bring them back to the lap of the nation. I hope your Excellency will remember us in your prayers.

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

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini

Dhu'l-Qa`dah 29,1401 AH/Mehr 6,1360 AHS