Message [Reply to message of felicitation on the occasion of the auspicious Feast of al-Qurban]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Dhoul-Hijjah 15,1402 AH

Your Excellency Shadhli Bin Jadid- President of the Democratic Republic of Algeria,

I received with thanks the telegraph of Your Excellency on the auspicious occasion of `Id ad-Duha. Reciprocally, I congratulate your Excellency and brother Muslim nation of your country on this great Islamic feast. Unfortunately, the arrival of this `Id ad-Duha has concurred with a certain time whilst the Muslims are witness to fresh sorrows and horrific crimes perpetrated from all sides by brutal enemies of Islam such as the usurper Israel. Many of the heads of Muslim countries, instead of countering these criminals, are granting recognition to them. They are planning to consolidate and expand their ties with America the world-devouring the main perpetrator of all these crimes is the avowed enemy of Islam and the Muslims. I pray to the Almighty God for the extermination of the enemies of Islam and the victory of the Muslims." And there is no victory except from the side of God." «1»

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini