[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]
We have recently come to know the double-faced clergymen
" As for the clergymen whom you called two-faced; we have recently known every one of them; those of them who lead prayers, preach on the pulpits, chant elegy and those among famous preachers; who all receive high salaries from the administration.
Contact with the Shah's regime, suicide of the clergymen
About Mr. Kamalvand, «2» I have to say that we have not dispatched him; but the administration has summoned him. He asked to grant audience to meet me in Qum before leaving, but I answered that I was not willing at all to meet him. As long as `Alam's administration was in power, we could not enter any negotiations for peace making nor any reconciliation because this administration has treated `ulama' in such a way that any contact on the side of the heads of the seminary means suicide for the clergy. We will not yield to such a reconciliation and peace, as long as we are in the charge of the clergy. I see no reason for reconciliation. What have we done to deserve aggression by spineless people like him? Becoming certain that the atheist lobbies of the Baha'is of Jewish origin in Iran and America plan to misuse the equal rights between men and women to encroach on the official religion of the country and to weaken Islam which guarantees the formal independence of this country and nation, we wrote friendly letters to the administration to be vigilant. We said your relationship with the neighboring states will not always remain as peaceful as today and they may try to intrude in this land. If the people's belief and their belief in the Qur'an and the Constitution are intact, they will resist foreign attack much better than your army will, so our religion and your state will be safe. We asked them to stop murmuring about women's candidature, which is the violation of the explicit words of the Qur'an, altogether. At first, they claimed to have given it up; while after a few months we learnt that they want to revive the plans of the enemies to the reputation of Islam in the form of an amendment to the election bill as a referendum. I was terribly convulsed, and I exchanged opinions with the discerning scholars. There were some people among them who believed the best policy was to be silent and notified that our duty was done. If we openly oppose, the very existence of the Qum seminary would be endangered. After deliberation, I found that the right way was the opposite of what the cautious ones recommended. The formation of this seminary and the seminaries in Mashhad, Karbala, Najaf and Egypt aims at teaching and learning the lawful and the unlawful[ al-halal wa'l-haram ]matters in religion, which does not permit the learners to acquiesce in annihilation of the religion itself and if the principle is destroyed, the subordinate is essentially meaningless. I expressed my opinion, for tullab, and my determination to campaign against the oppressing regime. As long as their agents do not give up their suppression, pressure and teasing with the divine laws, I will not give up my struggle. I have been recently informed that the Justice Minister of this ill-famed state is designing a bill according to which the non-Muslim men and female jurists are allowed to be judges in the Islamic country of Iran. I thought to myself to publish a declaration in return, notifying the contravention of this scheme to Islam «3» No; you should only go on preaching. The days of Muharram are very suitable for preaching and propagation. I plan to write to the preachers of Khouzestan, Shiraz, Lorestan, Tabriz, and Yazd; and to send some orators around to enlighten and notify people. You also have to reveal the dark deeds of the despotic on the pulpits, in Tehran. You will always have my benevolent prayers with you"