In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Our path, the path of prophets
Following the example of the honorable prophets- may God's peace be upon them- we started from zero. The prophets (`a) embarked on their mission of calling the people to rise against taghouti from naught; and their great calls would begin from a single unit until groups would be formed. On that day, when we started the uprising against the taghouti regime we were nil. The Muslim groups and various sections of our nation did not dare to breathe and were under a great repression. We started from naught and bid the people to an Islamic calling; and this single drop turned to drops, and the drops to a flood and the flood into a sea. This great sea, with the power of faith, destroyed all the powers that were against Islam and against the Revolution. Our Islamic calling reached the stage that all the sections of the nation responded positively to it; university students, traders, farmers, workers, police forces, the military- all joined with us. Because the call was a divine call, the call was for the cause of God, the uprising was an Islamic uprising, the people were and are attached to Islam; it reached the stage where now, in this very gathering, various groups from different lands, have come together in brotherhood, and all of them have announced their backing for the Islamic movement and the Islamic Republic. Our nation, containing all the sections that it has from the center to the farthest border areas, are unanimously and single- mindedly happy at the victory of Islam and have announced their total support for it. And, we shall move ahead with the support of the great nation of Islam, and we will sever the hands of the criminals and their rotten remnants.
This power of Islam, the power of the faith of the nation, and the awakening of the nation has arisen under the protection of the glorious Qur'an and the teachings of Islam. The oppressed arose and confronted the arrogant oppressors; in the same manner that throughout history the prophets with the oppressed had arisen and fought with the arrogant oppressors and had defeated them. Our oppressed nation, following the teachings of Islam and the honorable Qur'an, have responded positively to the Islamic call; and the more toil and trouble that they suffered, the more determined they became and the more martyrs they gave, the more determined they became.
Martyrdom, the eternal honor
Today, that you have gathered here to express your condolences on the death of one of our beloved, and for the assassination of a scholar, knowingly and determinedly you are resolved to continue the struggle against the taghouti regime, colonialism, and arrogance. My brothers! My sisters! My dear ones! Be resolute, do not be afraid of assassination; do not be afraid of martyrdom, and for sure you are not. Martyrdom is an eternal honor; it is immortality. Those people should be afraid of martyrdom and be afraid of death who regard death to be the end and human beings to be ephemeral. Whereas why should we, who regard human beings to be immortal and the eternal life to be better than this worldly life, be afraid? I thank all the various sections of the people, the tribes, the army personnel, the ladies and the teachers, who have gathered together here, and pray to the Blessed and Almighty God for the heath and happiness of all.
May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.