speech [Solving of problems through strong faith and morale]

If you traverse this path for the sake of God; if you pass this path for the sake of God, do not be sorrowed if you are not being paid attention to. Almighty God has you under His patronage. Try to make the path you are walking through to be that of God's. Try to close your eyes on the creation and all else but God. If you do a service for God, do not expect people to come to you and salute you for that. You are the type of youth who toiled during this time; you suffered for God; you performed good deeds for God. Now you have gone a long way for God and are here to talk to us, to express your grievances. A service that is done for God, God will be attentive to; and if it is not for God, it will be naught no matter if the whole world pays attention to it.

I, too, know that difficulties are abundant; the discords are plenty; and the hardships of all strata of the nation are plenty. But you also know what kind of difficulties they created for this country; the things they created could not be corrected too soon; the corruption that they did for fifty years, the kind of corrupt education they imposed on our youth for fifty years, the brothels they erected for them and made centers of prostitution everywhere. Movie theaters that should have been educational centers for our youth were practically places of immorality and centers of moral corruption. They did not allow the schools to be centers of creativity, as they ought to be. The young generation of a country is considered its (human) resources and is supposed to take charge of the helm of that country. But they did not allow for that generation to receive the right education for the job. Presently you are in the post-revolutionary period but practically you are still in the period of revolution; it is not yet post-revolution. At the moment, you are in the period of revolution. All across the world, the period of a revolution and post-revolutionary periods are a time of disturbance. Thanks to God, Iran's situation was not disturbing, either during or after revolution. If you delve in the world's great revolutions, the corruptions that came about in these revolutions, the manslaughters that happened during their revolutions, the hardships that were there after their revolutions are not comparable with the situation here. The reason is that the revolution here was an Islamic revolution. In an Islamic revolution there is no room for the corruption that you see in other revolutions. But we all know, you know, we know, the government knows and the people know that disturbances are abundant. Also at the present, difficulties are also abundant. And there are wicked hands in the work of conspiracy; they do not like to see our movement reach final fruition. We are now confronted with serious issues that need to be addressed. We should attend to those issues in order to find ourselves an established government, a Majlis, a president and a constitution. After we have acquired all this, then it would be time for constructiveness. It is not that the government is not willing to do all this; they are working around the clock for that. The problem is that there are plenty of disturbances. I myself here am almost day and night confronted with such problems. It is not you alone who have problems; those who are coming from every corner of Iran also have a lot of difficulties. Incidentally, any group that is coming over claims its difficulties to be heavier than any other group; they claim their bad state of affairs to be worse than that in any other place; people coming from Bakhtiyari say the same thing; people from Ahwaz say the same thing; no matter where they are coming from, it is the same claim.attention to God, you were able to uproot and eliminate the huge problem which was the corrupt regime. Preserve that morale; preserve that high morale. God is with you. When God is with someone everything will be all right. Of course, any revolution is followed by plenty of difficulties. But, those who have faith in this revolution, and those who have faith in this movement along with your high morale and unwavering faith and your attention to Almighty High God pushed you forward. As long as this morale is preserved, you will move forward. Now, obviously the pace is at times fast and sometimes slow and it has its own difficulties; difficulties are components of the path of truth. Any path to the truth has its own difficulties. Satan is sitting on the path to truth in order to mislead the people. This is not something new; it was the same during the Prophet's time with the exception that the Prophet's difficulties were greater than those of ours. The difficulties of the Commander of the Faithful (may God's peace be upon him) were more extensive than those of ours. They, too, were subject to their friends' opposition; the group that revolted in Siffin «2» and rose against and drew their swords on Hadrat Amir, they were indeed friends of the Hadrat; they were the Hadrat's" truly yours". The Hadrat's problems with his devoted friends were perhaps more extensive than the problems created by others. Imam Hasan (may God's peace be upon him) did not have as many problems with others as he had with his devoted friends. The companions who did not have any sense of understanding as to what plans the Imam of their time is following, they, with their narrow-mindedness and defective thoughts, resisted against him and plundered him and inconvenienced and, let me add that they defeated him. They concluded a treaty with his enemies and played a thousand other tricks upon him. Do not ever think that difficulties are only for us; the more the difficulties, the higher the reward and the more its divineness. It is not a great deal if people are attracted to Islam in their state of being wealthy and having fun and pleasure; everyone will show up at a time of fruition. The day when Islam is in trouble and has nothing to offer but difficulties and toil; the day that Islam needs blood-giving; the day it is suffering; the day that people are confronted with lances; the day they are confronting tanks and gun-barrels; that is the day when cowards and dastards are distinguished from those real gentlemen and Muslims are distinguished from non-Muslims; that is the day of reward; the day when Almighty God paid special attention to this nation.

The secret that made you victorious was your faith in God and your attention to God, and that I see in your features; do preserve that. Do not complain of others; you are doing these for God. Also do your best to save those who are sick; if you are unable to do that, you are excused before God. We should do whatever are in our power, to give someone a leg up, especially those who are down.

Those who are addicted to those narcotics, those are our brethren and we have a duty to save them and treat them as our fathers, our brothers, and guide them and save them. We should try to save this population and the nation. You have come a long way here on foot with a firm determination and that power of faith; the sisters up there have come on foot. I am ashamed of all these emotions. I am ashamed of sitting here and my friends wander through the deserts (to get here). I pray for you. May God protect you, God willing. You are the resources of Islam. You youth are the resources of this nation. It was this kind of emotions that made you victorious.

The spiritual change, the change that was found in our youth, was indeed made by the hands of God. No man could influence the people's spirits in this manner. That is only God Who is close to the hearts and Who has all the hearts in His hands; He transforms; He strengthens the weak hearts. The heart that was scared of a bobby, is now confronting tanks and gun-barrels; he is going out welcoming death and martyrdom. This was God's doing. One should see God in these affairs. Put your trust in God; pay attention to God, no matter if the creation accepted it from you or not. That is nothing to be worried about; you do your efforts to save your brethren, to save your nation. All our efforts should be to establish Islam in this country- the way Islam is- and the way that has been ordained by God, the Blessed and Exalted; to establish it in Iran in those ways.

It is a long way. You should be strong and powerful; you should have a strong will. God willing, these luminous faces are there for Islam, and may this period end with the advent of Mahdi (may God's peace be upon him). «3»