In His Most Exalted Name
To all Muslim students residing in Europe, America, and Canada- may Allah always assist them:
Your letter of agony which justly recounted some of the present sufferings and afflictions of the Islamic nation and society of the clergy was received. The sense of responsibility of the young generation and their untainted struggles in defending Islam and the principles of the Holy Qur'an is a source of appreciation and hope.
In this second place of exile, I have pinned my hope on the Muslim seminary and university youth and I expect that with self-purification and sincerity, they would start their extensive and incessant study and research in the realm of understanding the laws of Islam and the luminous foundations of the Qur'an; they should know and impart the authentic Islam. Awaken and inform the Islamic nation; inform them of the contrast between the Islam of God's Messenger and His awliya' and the feigned Islam of Mu`awiyah and the usurper and unjust governments of the satellite states of imperialism, which feed the people with televisions, radios and ministries; make the world aware that the Islam, which the surrogate governments are speaking of and with which they hold conference in the name of Islamic unity, is a forged and coined Islam of the `Umayyad and `Abbasid rulers, which has been created to compete with the Qur'an and the lofty precepts of the Great Prophet of Islam. Thus, we can now see that the imperialists and those who used to raise the Qur'an in their hands and say:" So long as this Qur'an is prevailing among the Muslims, we cannot control them," are supporting such kind of Islam and Islamic unity so as to misguide the nation of Islam; make the Holy Qur'an obsolete; extinguish the religion of God; and pave the way for the realization of their wicked motives and imperialist objectives.
As I have time and again warned of the danger if the Islamic nation does not wake up and become aware of its responsibility; if the `ulama' of Islam do not feel the sense of responsibility and act; if the authentic Islam which is the cause of unity and movement of all Muslim schools of thought vis-a-vis the foreigners and the guarantor of supremacy and independence of the Muslim nations and Islamic countries remains hidden in the hands of the agents and lackeys of the foreigners under the dark curtain of imperialism and kindles the fire of differences and discord among the Muslims, then more dismal and ominous days are lying ahead for the Islamic society and a menacing threat is posing against the foundation of Islam and the ordinances of the Qur'an.
Overt and covert onslaughts of the enemies of Islam and the international aggressors against the Glorious Qur'an and liberating teachings of Islam extensively continue from every direction. Many of the governments of Muslim countries, as a result of self-alienation or as a mission, are the executors of their sinister and treacherous plans. Whether those who render lip service to Islam, organize conferences in the name of Islam or those who cancel Islam as the official religion in the Islamic countries- wittingly or unwittingly, all of them are threading the same path and that is the implementation of the sinister and imperialist motives of the enemies of Islam who want to perpetuate this deplorable condition of the Islamic society; to let Israel dominant on the lives, wealth and lands of the Islamic nation; to maintain forever the imperialist supremacy and predominance over the Islamic world; to let the expansionist and destructive program of Zionism in the Muslim countries be implemented; and to let directing their begging hands and eyes toward the criminal imperialists as the profession of the Islamic nation and governments of the Muslim countries which have always been abject, contemptible and captive at the hands of the international aggressors, and thus, not to let them attain independence, freedom, peace, and security.
Of all these the most lamentable is the state of affairs in Iran wherein through the publication of copies of the Qur'an; feigning Islam; and in the name of `Religious Corps', endowment organization and other deceitful titles, the regime is commissioned to uproot Islam all at once, to degrade and subjugate the Islamic nation ever more, and to make the mosque and altar of the Prophet of Islam (s) as a sort of propaganda agency of its anti-Islamic (royal) court. For the implementation of these sinister plans the regime is totally in need of the help and assistance of the servant and devoted pseudo-clergymen. Through their cooperation it wants to manage the mosques and
other Islamic assemblies, control and supervise religious ceremonies, and penetrate the theological schools. Now, it is for the Muslim educated generation and the enlightened and wary people, with all efforts and in every possible way, to inform the Muslim nations of Islam, the Islamic leaders, and the heavy and gargantuan responsibilities of the `ulama' of Islam to make the people aware and ostracize the group of deviant pseudo-clergymen who have been directly and indirectly serving the tyrant regime. If only the Islamic nation is aware of the luminous principles of the Qur'an and the heavy responsibilities of the `ulama' and leaders of Islam, the pseudo-clergymen and court-akhounds would be silenced in the society. If the ill-reputed fake turbaned men and pseudo-clergymen who are silenced in the society do not able to deceive the people, the tyrannical regime will not succeed in the execution of the sinister plans of the imperialists. First of all it is necessary to settle the issue of the pseudo-clergymen. They are the most dangerous enemies of Islam and the Muslims today, and by their hands and the hands of the stooges of imperialism, the menacing plots of the old enemies of Islam are put into action. They must be removed from the theological schools, mosques and Islamic gatherings so that we could sever the hands of the imperialist aggressors and enemies of Islam from the realm of Islam and the Holy Qur'an and defend the independence and preservation of the Muslim countries and Islamic nation.
It is hoped that the distinguished `ulama' and grand religious authorities of Islam would take a preventive action against the treachery and influence of the foreigners and imperialist agents in the religious seminaries and the society of clergymen; ostracize and defame the hands of the enemies who are in the midst of the clergy and threaten the fall and degradation of Islam and the clergy; and not permit a handful of the deceived and worldly to sacrifice the one-thousand-year-ol independence of the Shi`ah before the altar of the whims and caprices of the enemies of Islam and hirelings of imperialism. I beseech God, the Exalted, for the ever-increasing success of all the Muslim students in serving Islam and the Muslims. May God's peace and mercy be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi Khomeini
9,1393 AH