In His Most Exalted Name
I do acknowledge the receipt of your respected letter dated Shawwal 10. I pray to God, the Exalted, for your health and prosperity. As you have succeeded in managing the Isfahan sacred religious seminary, thanks to God, the Exalted, and that you are discharging your duties with good intentions, I am grateful. I hope God will perpetuate that blessing. Thanks to God, I enjoy good health but am unhappy and anxious about the conditions in Iran and the problems of the Muslims there. I hope God will bestow immediate relief. As you wrote," I hope I could help the Qum Religious Seminary," I am grateful. It is necessary for the gentlemen to maintain the Qum Religious Seminary and not to allow it to be defeated, God forbid. Tell Mr. Kouhpa'i to meditate on this subject. I ask your pure self to exert more efforts for the prosperity and relief of the Muslims. May God's peace and mercy be upon you. Right now I have no intention to know what you have written to me through my brother «2» but I am sure that your letters will not remain unanswered and maybe I have mailed my answer but they have not delivered it to you. Maybe I can locate your letter among other letters at my leisure and reply to you again.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Shawwal 21,1385 AH