In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The respected and most learned Shirazi scholars residing at Qum, may their graces last:
I thank you for your respectable letter which conveyed the kind sympathy of the Muslim nation, particularly the religious seminaries and you, learned gentlemen, may Allah elevate their words. At this time when regretfully the foreigners are rapidly and strongly setting up and fortifying propaganda and non-propaganda bases in the Muslim countries and by launching anti-human propaganda through the press and other means, distort the progressive commandments of Islamic as contrary to truth, and have applied all-out pressure on the religious and scientific seminaries which is the only stronghold of Islam and the independence of the Muslim countries and is the only barrier that repels the aggression of the foreigners, it is the duty of the learned clerics and grand preachers and scholars to defend Islam and religious seminaries with all their might and through their propagation introduce Islam as it is. You gentlemen, who in the future will have to shoulder the heavy responsibility by the will of God, the Exalted, must prepare and strengthen yourselves and be ready to tolerate difficulties to elevate the word of truth so that you can glorify the Muslim nation and the `ulama' of Islam. I beseech God, the Exalted, for the success and confirmation of all the `ulama' of Islam and the esteemed scholars, and I hope for the the glory of Islam and the sacred religious seminaries. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini