Speech [The key to victory: unity and love of Islam]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The command is the same in the verse that this sister recited," And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and do not separate". «1» In this verse, the exhortation is not only to congregate; the order of all the common people and secular regimes is to gather together. It is only an order to congregate whereas the commandment of Allah is," And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah". That which is important is not only everybody come together on an issue and not be divided; the directive is that we should all together cling to the rope of Allah. The path should be the path of truth and the focus should be on the truth and the clinging should be to the path of truth. The prophets did not arrive so that people would rally round an issue; the prophets came to gather all on the path of the truth; this path is the path that begins from the physical plain extending to the metaphysical and further to where we are as of now not in a position to comprehend. If everybody come together and trek this path, trek this path together, we shall both manage the affairs of the world and take care of the affairs of the hereafter.

You noticed that in these demonstrations that you recently carried out, you all came together. The secret of your victory was the same aspect of divinity of the matter. In other words, all the citizens of Iran were focused on wanting Islam; this was" clinging to the rope of Allah". Islam is the rope of Allah. For so many people to trek a single path- and that too the path of God- gifted this victory to us. Thus, what caused us to emerge victorious in the face of the big powers both inside and outside the country, or in other words, the immense power that the former Shah had and who was backed by all the powers of other countries without exception- almost all the Arab countries were supporting him; all the superpowers too while he was personally powerful and possessed satanic power; all the powers that were in the world and who could have been on our side were in favor of him and wanted to prop him up- but they could not. You had nothing; you had no weapons in your hand- now that you see a few handguns were taken as booty after having defeated them. Before that you people had nothing in your hands It was you with nothing and they being equipped with everything of the satanic equipment. Although they had everything and you had nothing, you defeated them. Everyone was in favor of his stay; and even after his departure they wanted the regime to remain and a royal council to be in place but it did not happen; they could not make it happen. This was a divine power; not the power of you and I. This was for this very reason that all the society had held firmly to the rope of truth, or in other words, to this Islam that is likened to a rope between God, the Blessed and Exalted, and the people. All held firmly to Him; all were focused on Islam. This resulted in us emerging victorious. Now, we must safeguard it. If you want that this state, this country to become prosperous; that your triumph to reach its final objective; that we are not stranded midway, or God forbid, we are not turned back from our destination; if you want- of course you do want- that this country of ours to remain independent to the end and that our interests are not handed to others and that our path to be the path of happiness, then we should connect to Islam which is the rope of Allah and not be divided among ourselves; all should rally around Islam; rally around this path and there should be no disunity among us.

Now, these persons that have infiltrated the ranks of the people and are sowing the seeds of discord with their pens, with their speeches, with their gatherings- they are soldiers of Satan. You who are, God willing, of the soldiers of Allah on the basis of the commandment of God, the Blessed and Exalted, who has stated," Cling firmly to the rope of Allah", and on the basis His prohibition," Do not be divided," if we act on this one enjoinment and prohibition, then all our happiness shall be assured. Until now, too, it has been for this reason that all of you were devoted to God; all of you advanced with the chant of" Allahu akbar" and neutralized all things. This means that one of the things that happened was to cause them to abandon the idea of suppressing you- not that they could not- as they possessed all the means to fly the aircraft to bombard all the cities in Iran (from above). But a terror was struck in their hearts by God, which was that when the population chanted" Allahu akbar", all the strata that backed them reverted to your side; their ranks constantly deserted them and joined your ranks. From the army, the government and from all those that they imagined were on their side, all of these strata joined with you because this path was the path of God and it was" Clinging to the rope of Allah" and you have trekked this path to here and that you must trek from here onwards in the same direction. This weapon; this great weapon- clinging firmly to the rope of Allah and not being divided- you must maintain; this clinging to the" rope of Allah" and clinging to Islam; Islam is everything for you. It is the happiness of the world, the happiness of the hereafter- Islam is everything for you.

Try to ensure that the constitution is a well written one, and try to elect the pious and the upright from among the `ulama' so that the constitution be compiled in the manner that Islam wants; and then, God willing, ratify it yourselves and build an Islamic country in the manner that we all want; a country that is permeated everywhere with the scent of Islam. May God bless you and cause you to succeed.