Reply to a Query [Hujjatiyyah Society being permitted to use the funds to combat Baha'ism]

«۱»- Refer to the next footnote. «۲»- For the reasons of the unsound positions taken by the Anjoman-e Hujjatiyyah [Hujjatiyyah Society] and exploitation of the Shah's regime and cooperation of some of the members of this society with the Shah's regime, Imam Khomeini, after being informed of these issues, nullified the previously-issued authorization. In ۱۳۵۰ [۱۹۷۱], he wrote in response to a letter by Mr. Gerami who had inquired an opinion about the status of the Hujjatiyyah Society and its founder:" The meetings arranged by the mentioned person are detrimental. Since the time I have been informed of this, I have not confirmed him and God willing, never will."Imam Khomeini, in the famous" Charter of the Clergy" so indicates,". Yesterday, the Hujjatiyyahs sanctioned the battle and, in the thick of fight, exerted all their efforts to break the strike festooned with lights on the occasion of the mid-Sha`ban in the Shah's interest. Today, they pretend to be more revolutionary than and outdo the real revolutionists! These undeveloped peasants of yesterday, who have disgraced Islam and the Muslims through their silence, have literally broken the back of the Prophet (s) and his chaste household. For these peasants, the title of wilayat [vicegerent] has not served anything but amassing wealth and pleasure-seeking are today claim to be the founder and the inheritor of the wilayat and begrudge the wilayat of the Shah's era.Mr. Hashimi Rafsanjani, in an interview on Hujjatiyyah Society, and Imam Khomeini's nullification of the authorization, so states:" Another event that had presented itself was the Hujjatiyyah Society. What this body had in mind years back was to start a campaign against the Baha'is. They founded a society whose job was to identify the Baha'is, who were later condemned and the Muslims were prevented from approaching them. Overall, the regime was in favor of such activities for they would not offend the regime. The Baha'is, too, had ordered their people not to get involved in politics. They had forbidden any struggle and the regime did not trouble them. They had arranged some classes where they would gather the Muslim kids together and thought them the principles of ideology. Since this group did not approve of and combat and was absorbing a group of combatant forces, we were in opposition with it.The criticism that we had about it was due to its going out and mobilize a group of the young forces and that in many places the combatant forces had joined them. The battlefield was becoming vacant and we were under the impression that our principal mission at this time was to challenge the regime. We saw all this as weakening agents. Thus, there was a confrontation between this group and the forces of the Imam's line. Even at the beginning, the Imam had apparently given this group authorization to use the blessed Share of the Imam (`a). But later on and when it got to that point, he withdrew the authorization. The Imam was asked by one of the Qum's instructors about this and the Imam's response was that:" No, they could not be given the Share of the Imam (`a)." And naturally, they were looking for Mr. Khou'i.