In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Dhou'l-Hijjah 8,1398 AH
To all Iranian distinguished clergy and Hujjat al-Islams, may their blessings long last:
After extending greetings to you, I would like to declare now that the hands of the Shah's criminals and executioners are more than ever drenched with the blood of our youth and children, and have left behind many killed and injured, and have made a huge number of people homeless and unprotected, and have brought you gentlemen and myself great grief. Now that strikes and public shut downs have been undertaken as a protest against the tyrant system, and for administering justice for those without shelter, it is obvious that such occurrences will bring about losses, and some sectors of the noble and deprived traders, employees and workers, already have and will suffer; and this matter concerns me a great deal. Therefore, I am respectfully asking you gentlemen to appoint and assign reliable missions to every city and their suburbs to obviate the needs of the needy, whether for surgery, lack of a guardian and care or financial hardships resulting from their just strikes and shut downs, and to eliminate their problems as much as possible, so that they would be encouraged to hammer the enemy down by their strikes. And it is to the brave and conscious people of Iran to assist their sisters and brothers directly and pay their divine debts.
You, distinguished gentlemen, are allowed to spend from the blessed Imam's (`a) Share for this legitimate and divine matter; my representatives are allowed to spend up to half of the Imam's (`a) blessed Share for such matters. You, gentlemen, should also encourage the respectable merchants and benevolent people not let their brothers and sisters, who have experienced hardships trying to save Islam and in the demand for justice, and who have served the great nation and shed their blood in doing so, to suffer. I pray to the supreme God for the eminence of Islam and the magnificence of
the dignified nation of Iran, and for cutting off the hands of the foreigners from Iran. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini