[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]
Ramadan the month of purification and repentance
God willing, you will meet the month of Ramadan with a healthy spirit. During the blessed month you will see yourselves in the banquet of God, the Blessed and Exalted, and you will see Him as your Host and to be really present. If, God forbid, once you wanted to insult an individual; you have to understand that you are insulting the servant of God in His Presence. If you backbit a believer, you have to know that in God's Presence you backbit a believer. Your deeds- according to the Prophetic traditions- are to be presented before the Messenger of God (s). If your deeds are presented and the Messenger of God sees that you are a wrong doer, how upset would he be? You do not want the Messenger of God to be upset; so do not offend his blessed heart. If one day your and my records of deeds are taken and the Messenger of God sees them full of backbiting, slander, abusive language, and the like; in respect to the heart, as he is aware of, it is giving all attention to the world, and in respect to behavior, it is full of corrupt morals, malice, jealousy, and vengeance, and I say, pessimism toward the people, then perhaps seeing such things in the presence of God's angels and in the presence of God, the Blessed and Exalted, he will be ashamed that this person is his follower, his Shi`ah and a member of his ummah. If a person is related to another person, he is connected to him. Take for example, the brother of a person, son of a person, relatives of a person, and servant of a person; if the other person related to him commits something bad, the person would be ashamed of the people. You are all related to the Messenger of God. By your coming to these theological schools, you have connected yourselves to the jurisprudence of Islam. You have connected yourselves to the Messenger of God and the Qur'an. It is possible for the Messenger of God to be offended by a bad deed. It is possible, God forbid, for him to curse us. God willing, compensate during the month of Ramadan. If you have committed something, compensate for it. If, God forbid, you have committed a sin, repent before the arrival of the month of Ramadan; turn away from it. You have to know that there is a lot of dangers; you have to know that there are a lot of places that we must enter; there are a lot of dangers for us. By the will of God, you will enter the month of Ramadan with a wholesome and clean soul, and will act upon its duties during the month of Ramadan.
By His will, God will grant you all with success; place you all among the knowledgeable scholars; purify you all; purify the society through you; and remove the calamities from you.