In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
University and the clergy: intellectuals of society
For several hundred years efforts were made to divide and they did divide the strata of the educated and university-going youth from the clergymen. Those who have drawn the plan to swallow the countries of the East are apprehensive of the powers that are opposed with their objective. They try by all possible means to divert these powers. Those two powers that are the intellectuals of the society are the university youth and the clergymen. They separated these two powers from each other such that through their nefarious plans, they caused them to confront each other while they profited; such that among all the strata, they created various competitions among diverse parties and various fronts in order to thwart the establishment of a unified and monotheistic society; lest the monotheistic society be able to frustrate their plans.
The enemy is on the lookout to drive a wedge between the university and the clergy
Today that they feel this matter, they witnessed that the defeat of those people was because of the coming together of these groups- and it was because they became united in expression and all of them had the same objective of Islam- now they are planning to separate the society of clergymen from you. This was the article that this gentleman read out. These are very good youth and have come from across the world and wish to serve here; and they also want to serve where they are; but propaganda has caused him to say such a thing in such a situation and again a rift be created between the clergymen and themselves such that those who want to damage the interests of Iran find an opportunity. Today is not the time for you to say that the opportunists are the clergy. Now in our revolutionary prisons there are a number of clerics who are imprisoned. There are a number of them who cannot raise their heads; they are in isolation. It is not that the clergy wants to impose itself on society. Even today you can go and inspect the lifestyle of the clergymen; go and inspect our theological schools; inspect the homes of the clergymen- with a few exceptions. Does it look like that they want to grab power? Does it appear that they want all the posts to be in their hands? Or the clergy are seeing that the thing which drove our society ahead and one such enormous power and that the probability to take away that power and to suppress it was made possible by Islam. Our youth had Islam on their minds. They did not care at all for death. Our youth- both when I was in Najaf and since I have come here and now also it is the same- come to me and plead with me to pray that they be martyred. Such a spiritual transformation would not have occurred without Islam. The clergymen have understood that it was Islam that was able to smash that power; and it is the teachings of Islam that can keep our society independent and free, and safeguard it. For this reason the law must be Islamic and the jurist must also be Islamic.
Necessity of supervision of the law by the clergymen
A large number of the individuals to whom we cast our vote or the individuals to whom the people cast their vote are clergymen; for this there is the anxiety that should the clergymen be absent, they will again pull you to the West. They shall make your laws Western. They shall bring back for you the same old problems; for this reason they must supervise them. If it is not done and they do not supervise, once again the previous problems will return.
The clergymen have spent their lifetimes for Islam
We do not want to say that all the clergymen are the angels of God; but the stratum which can understand what Islam is; the stratum that has directed all its efforts for Islam; the stratum that has spent its entire lifetime in those humid chambers and so forth with those pressures of Rida Khan and the period after Rida Khan for realizing the teachings of Islam- it was that faction. Do not get rid of this faction. Sir, do not make this mistake! When I was in Najaf, I went to the pulpit and complained at length to the clergymen and I also complained about you. I complained to them that they should not give up this stratum of the youth in whose hands the destinies of our country will pass on later. I complained about this group; this stratum which holds the power in their hands. All these crowds that you see have now moved, they follow behind the clergymen. If you part away from these people; if you part away with the youth, you will not be able to do anything; the intellectual stratum is incapable of doing the job. Even if it wants to, it has no following. It is these who can do the job. The clergy must be grateful to the stratum of the enlightened youth. Those issues that were present before that these are a bunch of irreligious dressed-up dandies- that the Security Organization would put forward in order to separate us from you- that stratum also is an opportunist courtiers and is British, and these were words that were designed to separate us from you. They separated you from us and derived the benefits themselves.
The necessity of admittance of the clergymen to the Council of Experts
Today is not the day that we should start now whereas we are presently in need of being together; we want to prepare our constitution; we want to reform our country; and we know that if we neglect the constitution and the clergymen do not have a say, it shall return to those same laws and will be worse than before. Now a group of individuals, who are satisfied with everything except Islam, want to have everything except Islam. Should these persons gain entry to a council that is called" Council of Experts", they have no expertise on Islam. They have certain expertise; either they follow deviant ideologies or are Westernized! They want the same issues to be incorporated once again into our constitution and create deviations and afflict us to the end.
That we commend the clergy is not because they have a turban on their heads or I have a turban placed on my head. This is not the issue at all. We also commend you. We also commend the university. Today is the day to commend; not the day to weaken. Today is the day that we commend you, you commend us and both of us commend the entire nation so that we all gather together and build the foundation.
The enemies of the Revolution have come together
Today the enemies are pursuing this aim of dividing us so that they can derive whatever benefits that they wish. Now, various groups that were never together- read the newspapers- have come together for nomination as candidates. Unfortunately, our groups are moving apart from each other. They are fielding separate candidates. This is something regrettable. We must all gather together. We must field the same candidates. All the candidates must be the same so that they can get things to move ahead; so that your country can remain independent.
Gentlemen! Know that these people want to once again take away its independence. They want once again to bring back those hands to interfere; they want to remake those repressions because they have benefited from those repressions; they are once again at work and want to do this job.
One of their big plans is to cause division in our ranks; to tell you that these people are opportunists. Now you have arrived from the other part of the world; now you have made a general statement about what the clergymen are doing. Well you see, go and search and see whether those who are making things go wrong are the clergymen or a bunch of the same people who want to sabotage things and are doing and are blaming the clergymen for it. You must investigate this matter a little; see the truth. The main goal is to separate us from you and you from us.
The movement triumphed with unity
If this separation occurs, know that we will not triumph. We triumphed with unity and reached here. If we divide from each other and they unite, we shall become non-existent; and if this movement is defeated this time, we shall be defeated to the end; it will no longer be possible for another movement like this movement to be born; we shall be defeated to the end. I hope that our youth reflect on the matters a little; that they temper the youthful zeal that is in them a little; that they break it a little. They should focus on the depth of the issues. Reflect on the things that have befallen you and us in these years. What was the reason that we became such? The reason was that they separated us from each other. You were one group while we were another faction; the worker was one group; the businessman was a separate group. Every person would think separately and for himself. This was like the raindrops that would be separate; singly none of them could do anything; but when these raindrops become one, a flood gets underway; when a flood gets underway it uproots everything just like the drops that we were. When we united, it became a flood and it broke this great wall- by the grace of God- that no one thought it probable that it could be broken. Safeguard this unity; strive to safeguard it; be alert; praise the good that is done. It is not necessary that all of a sudden you say that the clergymen are now up to something. You too should honor the clergymen so that they do not tow us behind them, otherwise we are finished. May God grant success to you. May He endorse you, all of you; may He protect our youth both abroad and inside; and that we all work hard for this nation and not be deceived by propaganda.