In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
" Lo! We are Allah's and Lo! Unto Him we are returning."
C/ oHis Eminence Hujjat al-Islam Mr. Haj Sayyid Asghar Khou'i (may his graces last)
To Their Eminences distinguished `ulama' and Hujjat al-Islams of Tehran (may their blessings last) :
I was most grateful to receive your worthy telegram expressing your condolence on the grave disaster brought upon Islam and the Muslims.
The assault made on the center of the clergy by the commandoes and armed forces of the government in disguise and supported by the police, revived the memories of the Mongol conquest. The difference was that they (the Mongols) had attacked a foreign country and these (agents of the Shah's regime) attacked their own Muslim nation, defenseless clergy and tullab. While chanting the slogan" long live the Shah", they assaulted the learning center of Imam as-Sadiq (`a) and his physical and spiritual children on the day of his death anniversary. They savagely plundered the whole Faydiyyah Madrasah, the university of the Imam of the Time (may God's peace and salutations be upon him) in a matter of an hour or two in the presence of twenty thousand Muslims, breaking the doors and windows of all dorm-rooms. The tullab jumped off the rooftops to save their lives, breaking their heads and hands. They gathered the turbans of tullab and Sadat, the progeny of the Prophet, in the middle of the courtyard and set them on fire; dropped sixteen or seventeen-year-old youngsters off the rooftops; and tore copies of the Qur'an and other books to pieces, as I said before.
Now the clergymen and tullab are not guaranteed their lives in this religious city. The houses of `ulama' and maraji` are surrounded by inspectors, and sometimes by police forces and commandoes. The agents have threatened to do the same thing to other madrasahs, too. The honorable tullab have changed clothes out of the fear of the agents. It has been ordered that the tullab should not be let into taxies and buses. The agents insult the clergy in public meetings, in general, and insult some others by their names, and use extremely bad language. The night guards spread profane papers incognito. They disgrace the sanctities under the name of" Royalism"." Royalism" means vandalism, profanity of Islam, violating the rights of Muslims, encroaching the centers for science and knowledge; it means striking the body of the Qur'an and Islam; burning the symbols of Islam and doing away with Islamism and it means also suppressing the clergy and eliminating the signs of prophethood.
They are aware that the principles of Islam are exposed to danger. The Qur'an and creed are in danger. Having this, taqiyyah[ dissimulation ]is forbidden for us; and revealing the facts is obligatory," whatever may happen."
Now that there is no qualified reference in Iran for taking legal action, and the country is being managed in an frenzied way, I impeach Mr. `Alam, serving as the Prime Minister at present, on the behalf of the nation: What was your justification when you attacked Tehran Bazaar two months ago? Where the prominent `ulama' and other Muslims were harmed and injured? Under what justification did you imprison the `ulama' and the other classes of people, because of which a great number are in jails now? What was your justification for expending the budget of the country on holding the pseudo-referendum? Moreover, if it was the Shah's personal referendum- who is one of the wealthiest men on earth- under, what justification did you employ, by force, the civil servants who are paid their salaries through public budget for a personal referendum? Under what justification did you plunder the Qum marketplace; violated Faydiyyah Madrasah; beat up the tullab, and jailed them? What is your justification for sending commando and police forces, in disguise and under the influence, to the Faydiyyah Madrasah and all these crimes being committed on the day of Imam as-Sadiq's (`a) death anniversary?
Now I have prepared my heart for your agents' bayonets, but I will not prepare it for accepting your coercion and supplication in front of your oppression. I will express the laws of God wherever the occasion calls for; and I will reveal the deeds that are against the interests of the country as long as I can hold a pen in my hand. Muslims are grieving both their worldly lives and their religion. Your four-month old administration has endangered the economy, agriculture, industry, culture, and religion of the country because of what you have done and the country is collapsing in every respect. May God Almighty and Qur'an protect Islam and Muslims.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini