In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Rabi` al-Awwal 22,1391 AH
His Eminence Tabataba'i, may Allah always assist him:
Your letter dated Ordibehesht 6 [April 26,1971] arrived. You asked for my opinion regarding the annual meeting of the Persian language group in Europe. It is first necessary for the young educated generation to pay attention to the issues that have been buried throughout the years by the treacherous hands of reactionism and imperialism. It is hoped that by the will of God, the Exalted, this disgraceful spot, «2» which has been made by the Church propaganda for long time on the forehead of Westernized individuals, will be removed.
Although I am spending the old age of indisposition and have not attained desirably any of the hopes that I had, I firmly believe that through the movement that emerged by the help of God and led to the closeness between the secularly educated and religious scholars, this light will not be extinguished and everyday the cleavage that has been brought by the merchant traitors of the East and West with the aim of colonizing the Muslim nations would be removed through a worldly movement and all the classes of the seminary and university graduates. Through information on the sufferings and disruptions, they would look for the remedy and reconstruction.
What can be said as the mother of all maladies is this ever-increasing prevalence of the alien culture of imperialism, it is this current and daily increase of the foreigners' colonial culture that has for many years trained our youth with poisoned ideas, and the internal agents of imperialism have aggravated it. From a corrupt imperialist culture nothing will be produced except colonized employees and employers. You must try to study the mischief of the present culture and inform the nations about it. By the will of God, the Exalted, it would be undermined. Replace it with the Islamic humane culture so that the future generations will be trained through such a man-building and justice-fostering method.
You must struggle to let the mode of the Islamic government and the Islamic rulers' conduct toward the Muslim nations be known to the world so as to pave the ground for the establishment of the government of justice and equity in place of these imperialistic governments whose foundation is oppression and plundering. If the young generation, to whichever section of society they may belong, understood the character of the Islamic government, which unfortunately did not continue but for a few years in the days of the Prophet (s) of Islam and during the very short rule of the Commander of the Faithful,[`Ali] (`a), the very basis of the tyrant and oppressive governments and the deviated communist schools and others shall by itself be shattered. These sky-scraper palaces and those selfish kingly dreams and the void governments which were established by nations, have attracted the people towards corruption. If the Islamic government is established in which the head is equal to the peasants and his seat of power is the mosque on warm soils, the sultan governs with worn-out shoes and apparels, and the nation lives in peace and justice, then the foundation of the left and right corruptions would cease to exist.
You must struggle to regain what you have lost during the surrogate governments, the most important of which being mental independence whose requisite is the feeling of contempt toward such governments. It is necessary for you to thoroughly study the incidents happening in the Muslim countries through the hands of the imperialist agents, and after conducting an analysis the nations should be made aware of the consequences of their (agents') mischief. You must meticulously study the incident- and rumor-mongering activities aimed at fortifying the edifice of imperialist rule in the Muslim countries such as the incidents in Turkey and the Siyahkal incident. It is necessary for you to vehemently denounce the internal rifts, most of which seems to be hatched by the hands of the treacherous organs so that they could comfortably continue their iniquitous filthy lives. Condemn anyone who kindles such kind of differences. You have to render sacrifices to regain the glory and grandeur of Islam- the most important of which is its spiritual glory- so that under the rule of divine justice all classes will live in welfare and comfort.
I beseech God, the Exalted, for success and aid for the respected gentlemen who are in the service of Islam and the Muslims. May God's peace and mercy be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini