Speech [The revolution of mercy; the need for vigilance of the people and the `ulama' of Kurdistan]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

God's mercy surpasses His wrath;" O Thee Whose mercy surpasses Thy wrath." «1» The opening of God's words start with the names" Compassionate" and" Merciful". The Qur'an opens with the words" Compassionate" and" Merciful," which repeat themselves throughout the Qur'an. God has mercy to all His creation. And this very mercy is the cause of the creation of His servants and providing them with means of welfare and servitude. And this mercy is the cause of sending the great prophets. God's mercy makes all God's servants blissful both in this world and the next. He has provided all the means of prosperity- material and spiritual. The servants of God came into existence by the words" Compassionate" and" Merciful" and continue their life in this world and the next. And although the mercy of the Most Exalted surpasses His wrath, but if it is called for and the people do not appreciate the mercy of the Most Exalted and disobey the command of the Most Exalted and cause sedition and corruption, the door of mercy will be half-closed and the door of wrath opens. The Noble Prophet (s) was the Prophet of Mercy and treated people with mercy. And it was this very mercy which guided people and brought sorrow to the people. And because of his mercy, he was compassionate for the people in aberration, but when he saw the fringes that made corruption and that their corruption might result in the nation's corruption and these were cancerous glands that might corrupt the whole society, although being the Prophet of Mercy, he opened the door of the wrath. The Jews of Bani Quraydah, those very merchants whose trails are the Zionist and corrupted; when he realized that they were corrupted and caused corruption, he commanded to exterminate them, and did away with this cancerous element. With all that kindness, with all that mercy, when the Commander of the Faithful realized that the Kharijites «2» are the people who are corrupted and seditious, he drew his sword, and killed all of them save a few who fled. When mercy is needed, there should be mercy and if some people do not deserve the mercy, there should be vengeance and wrath.

After our nation became victorious and we expelled the traitors and the criminals from the scene, i. e. expelled by the nation, we opened wide the door of mercy to the nation and all the strata of society. It was done by mercy; they were set free; the borders became free; the pens became free; the political activities became free; all things became free and all were treated by mercy. No revolution had mercy like our revolution. And no revolution treated the people and treated one and all with mercy. The pens were set free; the press was set free; the parties were set free; the groups were set free. The door of mercy was wide opened to the nation, the same mercy that is the continuation of Islam's mercy that is the continuation of the mercy of the Messenger of God. But the traitors and germs of corruption and the cancerous glands caused turmoil, raised sedition. The nation wanted to establish justice and Islam in the country by giving its blood and treats all with mercy,(but the above mentioned bunches) did not appreciate the value of this mercy and engaged in acts of conspiracy. If the conspiracy continues, the door of mercy will be totally or half closed and the door of wrath- God's wrath, Allah's vengeance, will be opened. They shall not do something that causes the door of mercy to be closed. They should put away their acts of conspiracy; they should put away their venomous pens. They should put away the non-Islamic activities. It was that opening the door of mercy and that same moderation and toleration which caused the tragedy of Kurdistan. They used and abused the opportunity and the mercy; they abused the freedom- that is God's mercy. They did abuse it.

The corrupted individuals who have contacts with abroad betray the country; they want to put Kurdistan in the lap of communism. They want to wipeout Islam in Kurdistan. And now they are engaged in false propaganda.

The foreign and internal pens are operational and engaged in false propaganda. On the one hand, they claim," We want to protect the Kurdish nation." On the other, they claim," The government wants to suppress the Kurds"! The Kurd's question is not an issue here; the issue is communism. The Kurds are Muslims; our Kurdish nation is Muslim and is committed to Islam. No Muslim fights fellow Muslims. They want to drive our country, our Kurdistan to aberration, to communism.

The Kurd nation should wake up. The distinguished `ulama' of Kurdistan should pay attention to introducing the germs of corruption. The nation of Kurdistan should pay attention to the fact that these people do not believe in Islam. They consider Islam contradictory to their interests. They consider Islam as adversaries of their masters. They do not want Kurdistan to become prosperous. They want to cause destruction in order for Kurdistan to become depraved and thus exclude it from Islam! O people of Kurdistan, come to the rescue of your youth! O venerable `ulama' of Kurdistan! Come to the rescue of the people of Kurdistan! Do not give any chance to these germs of corruption. O valiant people of Kurdistan! Rescue Kurdistan; rescue Islam. O you germs of corruption! You are good for nothing, so get out of the scene! We will bury you alive. You were not worthy of being guided. Those who aimed at driving our country to corruption and destruction in the name of democracy beguiled our youth. They should be suppressed. Our nation will suppress them. Do not create a situation to cause the door of wrath to open and the door of mercy to close.

The army, gendarmerie and the Revolutionary Guards are bound to have good rapport, and to be in harmony with each other! If they are not harmony with each other, they will be considered guilty of charge and will be punished. The army commanders are bound to provide the war means for our brothers; our guard brothers. The army commanders should immediately eradicate these roots of corruption. They should not grant a respite to these elements of corruption. Their leaders cannot be guided. These are worse than the Jews of Bani Quraydah! And they should be executed.

All the people of Kurdistan- except a few of their leaders- are in safety and the door of God's mercy is open to them. The people of Kurdistan are our brothers. We pay more attention to Kurdistani brothers than to our other brothers. Welfare will be provided for them. Their necessities and everything else that they need and are justifiable will be given to them. Do not pay attention to the false propaganda. Islam is kind to you. The mercy of Islam is open to you; the door of mercy of Islam is open to you. Arrest those treacherous leaders and turn them over. O Kurdish brethren! Lay down your arms; come back to the bosom of Islam and help your army brothers and uproot those germs of corruption. Islam is a refuge for you; Islam wants what is in your interest. They who set on fire your harvest, they who cause your youth to get killed, they executed the youth who went to help the farmers, who went to purify and those who went to help. Those who act as such are not to be considered as humans; they possess the habits of animals; they are even worse than having animal habit! They want to destroy Kurdistan.

May God deliver you from the evil of the corrupt. May God rescue Kurdistan from the evil of these germs of corruption. And by God's permission and by God's order, we will deal with them in a stern manner. And we will suppress them soon. Mercy to all our Kurdistani brothers; and wrath and curse on the corrupt leaders of that region.

I pray to God, the Blessed and Exalted, for the good health for all Muslims and prosperity for all the believers. And may God, the Exalted, have mercy on all of them and do away with the corrupted ones.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.