Speech [Liberation from West-struckness; explaining the Ayyam Allah [Days of Allah]]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The Holy Qur'an thus states," We sent Moses to his community":" Bring thy people forth from darkness unto light. And remind them of the days of Allah." «1» God, the Blessed and Exalted, gives two missions to Hadrat Mousa: One is to lead his people from darkness and the other mission is to remind them of the days of Allah. All prophets have been on prophetic mission to lead people from darkness into light. God, the Blessed and Exalted, states," Allah is the Protecting Friend of those who believe. He bringeth them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities. They bring them out of light into darkness. Such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein." «2» Here, God places taghout against Him. God, the Blessed and Exalted, also states the occupation of the taghout. In the same way that Almighty God is the Guardian of the believers, and leads them from darkness, from all kinds of darkness and obscurity, into light, on the other hand, the guardian of the disbelievers is taghout who takes them from light into darkness. These are two adverse matters: Leading from darkness into light, removing of darkness and aberrations and leading the nation to light. On the opposite side, to destroy the light and steering the people to darkness; this is the job of taghout; and the former is God's command.

All injustices are aberration. All backwardness is aberration. All attentions to the Mother Nature are aberration. All West-struckness is aberration. They whose attention is focused on the West; their attention is focused on the foreigners; their Mecca is the West; they lean to the West. All these are sunk in aberration and their guardian is no one but taghout.

The Eastern nations which, due to domestic and foreign propagations and due to the teachings of the domestic and foreign elements are drawn to the West, and consider the West as the Mecca of their hopes, they have lost themselves and do not know themselves; they have lost their own glories and ancient traditions and have lost themselves and have become daunted and have replaced their brain with a Western-made one. All these have taghout as their guardian and have entered darkness from light. All the misfortunes of the Eastern nations, including us, and all our difficulties and calamities lie in this very notion of losing ourselves. There is someone else sitting in our seat and that's why everything that exists in Iran is not sold unless it carries a Western name. A pharmacy, too, has to have a Western name. Our textile weaving factories, too, should have a Western emblem at the edge of the fabric and also a Western name. Our streets, too, should have a Western name. Everything else that we possess should have a color of Western nature. Some of the books that are written here by our own authors, our own intellectuals, should carry a Western name on them. Moreover, anything they write, they give a reference to a Western person. The problem is that both they and we are hit by West-struckness. If the books do not carry those names; if worsted cloth does not carry the name" Worsted;" «3» if the pharmacy does not carry that kind of name, a few people will pay attention to them. A book becomes an attention-getter only when it contains, from its title page on, Western expressions and Western words. We ignore our own words and our own phrases; we ignore our own glories in their entireties; we have buried them and use instead others' terminology. All this is because of the deep darkness into which taghout led us from light.

This very taghout of our own time aggravated this West-struckness. They attributed everything to the West. They have taken everything from the West. They took everything that looked praiseworthy to them from the West and injected it to us. Our universities of that era were also Western universities. Our economy was also Western; our culture was Western, too. We have completely forgotten our origin and in lieu of ourselves we planted a Western entity. As soon as a person gets sick, they say, he should go to Britain, or to (other parts of) Europe, this is in spite of the fact that there are physicians here, too. I recall that a relative of the damned deposed Muhammad Rida got tonsillitis; they brought him someone from Europe who did tonsillitis surgery, whereas tonsillitis surgery is a very easy operation for our doctors here. What does this tell to the world? Well, when someone imposes himself as the head of a country and others (outsiders) have recognized him as the Shah of this country but he does not believe that there are physicians in Iran who can operate on tonsillitis. What harm will this cause the medicine in Iran and to the physicians in Iran? What kind of treason is this to the Iranian nation which will be introduced as a nation throughout whose country there has not even one physician who could do tonsillitis surgery? And thus they bring one from abroad to do the operation. How much will this help the notion of colonization? How much will it help the West? How much will this undermine our nation's dignity? When he did this, the people were looking forward to learn what was this guy doing. They were under the impression that they, too, should send their patients abroad notwithstanding that we have physicians in our own country. I recall that in my young years, my eye vision had gotten worse, as it is also weak now. At that time Amin al-Mulk- may God bless his soul- was a practicing ophthalmologist. I made a trip to Tehran in order to have my eyes treated. An acquaintance of him who was also an acquaintance of my family, recommended that we go and see Amin al-Mulk. He- that gentleman- narrated that such-and-such Dawleh developed weak eye vision. He went to Europe to see an eye doctor there. The Doctor-Professor whom he had seen had asked him where was he from? He responses:" I am from Tehran, Iran." The doctor had then observed:" Is Amin al-Mulk not there anymore?" The patient's response was:" He might be but we do not know." As the narrator was saying, the doctor had said something to the effect that" Amin al-Mulk is even a better doctor than we are." Yes, we have competent physicians but our brains have become Western brains. Even the physicians themselves are like that. When you go to see them, they themselves suggest," You should now go to Europe." This is because that's the way of those doctors' brains now. They have lost themselves; they have lost a mind of their own; they have lost their dignity and their nationality- we all have.

This nation will not gain independence unless it withdraws from West-struckness. So long as the condition of books written by our writers is such that they quote a foreigner's saying and those of a Westerner to justify a topic that is our own; unless you abandon this kind of dependence, you will not achieve independence. Till these ladies- and I do not mean this audience, for you are the mass, but I mean those ladies- till they are giving it the thought that such-and-such a thing and such-and-such a fashion should be imported from the West, or such-and-such an ornament should come from there; until a thing is being imitated here immediately after it has been discovered there and until such imitations are not gotten rid of, you cannot become a human and you cannot become independent. If you want to become independent, if you want them to recognize you as a nation, and become a (real) nation, you must abandon these imitations of the West. So long as you follow this imitation, you could not wish for independence. So long as all our writers and our authors say is Western, and so long as they do not abandon that mentality, they should not hope for their nation to become independent. So long as these (Western) names are used on the streets, on the pharmacies, on the books, on the cloths and everything else- except the mosques that do not have foreign names! And that's because the clergymen- depending on their type- are not following this trend. Otherwise, everything is to carry a Western name; both those who use these Western names and you who like to read them. Those who like to read these names will not welcome them, unless they are Western ones. Those who are infidels are ungrateful to God's blessings and bite the hand that feeds them, they hide the realities; they are shallow individuals and are in opacity and they have taghout as their guardian. And what is taghout's job? He leads them from light, from the absolute light, from guidance, from independence, from nationality, from Islam-ness, into darkness. Yes, he will push them into deep darkness.

We now have lost ourselves. We have lost our sources of pride. We have lost our ancient traditions. You will not become independent unless this lost (thing) is found. Look for it and try to find it. Look for the East and try to find it. So long as we are like this, so long as our writers act the way they do, so long as our intellectuals think the way they do, so long as our liberalists long for the Western-style freedom the way they do, it will be all the same way. They cry that there is strangling, that there is no freedom! What has happened that there is no freedom? Those akhounds do not allow men and women to take to the sea and roll over each other! Those akhounds do not let our youth to be free and go to the bars, to the casinos, and submerge themselves in the brothels. There is no freedom! They do not allow our radio-television to show ladies naked and those obscene, shameful and profane scenes so they keep our children and young ones entertained!

This is an imported freedom that has come from the West. It is colonial freedom. This means that they dictated this to the colonized countries; to those who betray their country to promote those kinds of freedom- they are free to smoke heroin and do whatever (they please). They are free to smoke opium; they are free to frequent the casinos; they are free to frequent the fleshpots; they are free to frequent movie theaters. But to what avail? The result is that those youth, who need to be active for their country and the fate of the country, will be indifferent about the fate of the country. All their intention is focused on a night in the town; and when does summer come for them to go to the seaside! That's all they think about. An opium-addict cannot be mindful of a country. A person whose mind is addicted to music cannot be useful for the country. There are those who were deceived by outsiders, and those who without being deceived, act as the agents of foreigners. They promote music; they promote prostitution; they promote the things that destroy our youth. The result of these actions is that they deprive a country whose strength emanates from its young human resources, and for the youth to have the power to manage, but they deprive those youth of this power. The thought of what happens to the country and what the governments do to this country, and what Muhammad Rida did to this country- this thought will leave the minds. All the attentions and all the minds get into music. Instead of a solemn brain, there will sit a pleasure seeking brain. This person was supposed to be one who can think about his destiny. However, they have taken this power of thinking away from him. This is (the result of) the freedom, which we should call, colonized freedom. This freedom is not what the nation should have. Rather, it is a freedom that has been imported from abroad and that is what it has done to us; that is what it has done to our youth. Those youth who get used to these activities, those who get few days in the habit of these activities: to pleasure seeking, to those things, which they did in theaters, and were flaunting themselves. Such people will no longer think about who takes away our oil, or who takes away our iron; who takes away our (natural) gas. These youth will no longer think about these things." What is it to me? Let me enjoy myself and do my pleasure seeking! I am not that idle, good-for-nothing to waste my time on these things." This is how they have trained us. So long as our unfair writers fail to save the youth, refuse to promote sound freedom and prevent corrupt freedom through their pen and pace, we should forget about having a free and independent country. Having a free and independent country will die on the vine.

Moses (`a) was appointed to" Bring thy people forth from darkness unto light." This is a mission. The mission of all the prophets is to lead people from darkness, from the things that are against the way of humanity, that are against the way of nationality, into light; to lead them into light and for him to be alive and luminous. A luminous heart cannot tolerate his sources of pride to be transgressed and for him to keep quiet. A luminous heart cannot tolerate his people to be dragged into such abjection and for him to see his fellow citizens around Tehran dwell in a pigeonhole and for him to keep quiet. And they want to raise you in such a way that you would be indifferent about all their affairs; they do not want you to ask why the destitute have remained poor while foreigners are taking away our oil and you do not commit that to your memory at all; not commit it to your mind that we also have such hardships. Do not judge on the present time when light has entered your hearts; you go back to the past fifteen years or twenty years before and ask yourself," Was there any resistance against those who were taking away all we had?" No, there wasn't. No one cared about what was going on. Once in a while a group would nag a little bit. Neither in our Majlis, nor in our mosques, nor in our universities was there any voice raised about all this; nowhere.

The second command of God, the Blessed and Exalted, to Hadrat Mousa (Moses) is:" Remind them of the Days of Allah." All days belong to God. But certain days have a special characteristic, because of which they become the" Days of Allah." The day on which the Noble Prophet migrated to Medina is the" Day of Allah." The day that he conquered Mecca is the" Day of Allah." It is the day of God's show of force; it is the day when an orphan was expelled by everyone and could not live in his homeland, even in his own house; some time later, the Prophet conquered Mecca and all those bullies, the rich, and the men of might came under his domination, and he stated:" Thus I made you free, all of you can go." «4» This is the" Day of Allah." The" Day of the Kharijites" is the day when the Commander of the Faithful, drew his sword and mowed down those corrupt cancerous glands. This is also the "Day of Allah." Those" holier than-thou," whose believing in God was not for real- though their foreheads were hardened with calluses- marks of stone-clay for prayer- were in fact the ones who murdered the Commander of the Faithful! They rose up against the Commander of the Faithful (`a); they rose up against him though they were from his own army. That was a consequence of the Siffin's events, and the Imam (`a) decided that if those" holier-than-thou" remained in power, they would corrupt the nation; so he killed all of them save a few who escaped. This was also the" Day of Allah;" the days when God, the Blessed and Exalted [let certain events to happen] in order to punish the nations: He inflicts an earthquake; inflicts a flood; inflicts a storm; so as to lash the people out warning those to become (real) humans and upright. All these days are also" Days of Allah." These are the things that belong to God.

One of those" Days of Allah" was Khordad 15. Khordad 15 was one of the "Days of Allah" when a nation stood up and confronted a power and created (such) a situation (for) the imposition of a five-month martial law. However, the nation was not powerful enough. Once again,(a good) gathering was not assembled. They were not awakened yet. So they were defeated. Not a real defeat, but outwardly. Otherwise, that was in fact the focal point of the nation's victory. The 17 th of Shahrivar- this very day that we are gathering here- too, this day last year was also considered one of God's days when a whole nation, men and women, young and old, stood up and gave their blood in order to restore their rights. This is God's day. 17 th of Shahrivar is one of God's days. You should remember. You should remember the" Days of Allah". If you did, these" Days of Allah" should not be forgotten, for it is these days that are human-making days. It is these days that will take out our youth from the fleshpots and into the battlefield. It is these divine days that will awaken our nation, as it indeed did. He commands," Instill the `Days of Allah' in people's memories." Do not forget: these great days that our nation went through. These were the" Days of God." Examples are 15 th of Khordad; 17 th of Shahrivar. The day when that wicked «5» fled the country was one of the" Days of Allah". It was on that day when a nation defeated a mighty power in such a way that he could not remain (in power). Not only his might, but everyone's might, the whole world had risen up against you. I was aware of this. The whole world rose, first to his support and to support his inheritor, which is the person of Bakhtiyar. Next, they stood behind them in order to keep him. America tried hard to keep the Shah. When he fled, they fought tooth and nail to keep Bakhtiyar in power. They were sending their emissaries to us saying," He is one of us,"" He is an insider!" But those were their lackeys. It is not unlikely for them to somehow keep an individual for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, and under the guise of nationalism- a false nationalism- so that one day he could be of service to them. It is (quite) possible for someone to go to a mosque for prayers for twenty years so that one day he could serve them. This is quite possible. And it is also possible for an individual to claim to be honest and nationalistic for ten, twenty years and even to swear at the foreigners and publish articles against them, in order to win the people's heart, for a rainy day. That day was the day when he (the Shah) left, and Bakhtiyar was to replace him in order to protect the foreigners' interests. Do not doubt this at all, for you noticed that it did happen and became a reality and you saw it for yourselves. They even told us that it was so early for us to go." Do not go to Iran right now; do not go now". They wanted to reorganize their power structure and put an end to the confusions in the affairs so that there would be no likelihood of us going. That was another one of the "Days of Allah".

And one of the Blessed and Exalted God's great times was the night when they staged a coup d'etat. From the morning of the night that we [arrived] in Tehran, there was martial law in force and no one was allowed to come out even in daytime. That night- we were informed later- they had planned to kill all the tribal leaders and eliminate everyone else who was asking for it so that would be the end of everything. But God did not will it. That uprising of the nation and that luminous uprising, a committed nation When later on they rose up, the other side's forces joined this side and continued to do so. It was a matter which was divine; it was one of the" Days of Allah". Do not forget that they collected all things and made up all sorts of ruses so that they could stage a coup d'etat overnight and do away with all people who were probably able to do something and return the nation to their prior condition. God did not will that. This was one of" God's Days" when you noble and luminous nation with your faithful hearts were not frightened and despite there being a martial law in effect, you took to the streets on that day and neutralized what they wanted. They wanted the streets to be empty of people and for them to bring their tanks and position them everywhere and engage in that criminal act of theirs at night. God, the Blessed and Exalted, came to this nation's rescue. All the powers were with them. Yes, all the powers, not only a superpower but other powers as well. All those who go with the times, they all extended their support. Yet, God, the Blessed and Exalted, had mercy on you. He made you victorious over those great powers and curtailed the hands of the foreigners from your country and, God willing, will remain curtailed forever. Bear these times in mind; do not let them escape your memory. Bear in mind these great divine times, which emanate from the" Days of Allah". Do not let it escape your memory that we had a 15 th of Khordad; the 15 th of Khordad was the starting point of the Islamic movement in Iran. Do not let it escape your memory that we had a 17 th of Shahrivar. The 17 th of Shahrivar emanates from the" Days of Allah," and we should not let it escape our memory. What a martyrs that we sacrificed on that day and what a blood that we gave while the foreigners were watching and so were their affiliates. Our people rose up and gave their blood, but they gained victory. The starting point of the victory and all other days that we are unable to count; the days that they were attacking (you) in dire atrocity and you, both men and women, confronted them with utmost courage. Someone was narrating to me and said," I myself saw a twelve-year old child- or something to that effect- was riding a motorcycle and raced off toward the tank! The child was run over and was killed by the tank. There was found such a morale that made a twelve-year old child attack a tank empty handed and with no weapons. You, too, empty handed, [defeated] a 2,500 - year-old monarchy and 2,500 - year-old criminals. If someone would do a review of history, they might find not even one person who was not a criminal, with the exception of some being less and some more so. Even those who were called" Jannat Makan" «6» were criminals! Yes even them. One of them «7» blinded his vigorous son lest there comes a time when he would flaunt to power! They «8» were that way, though were genuine criminals and the one who was genuine in committing crimes was the son. The father was not that genuine! The son was, because he had both inherited it and was in his nature! He was genuine in committing crimes, he kept us backward in the name of the" Great Civilization;" had intention to annihilate our dear Islam in the name of Islam; he intended to wipe out our sources of pride; he wanted to change our noble calendar. However, he was the greatest one in committing crimes. This was a person whom no one knows where he is wandering nowadays.

Do not let your sources of pride escape your memory. Our intellectuals, our writers and all classes of scientists and intellectuals pay attention to their sources of pride. Do not bow in the direction of the West when writing a book. You yourselves have enough to say. Why do you care about what has been said by whom? Why do you quote what a foreigner has said and thus make our youth depressed and takes them out of their mold?

It is for you, the nation, to boycott a pharmacy that carries a foreign name and boycott its products unless it has changed its name. If in a book- our beloved universities pay attention to this- if the author of a book is giving citations from foreign sources in their book, you do not read that book, just do not read it. If you act accordingly and other customers follow suit and turn away (from that pharmacy) - and since they need the customers- if the prospect customers turn away, these businesses will cave in and correct their ways. Obviously, when there is no demand for a product, it will not be supplied. Therefore, avoid the things that draw you to the West and trample your sources of pride and replace them with those of the West. Turn your back on those (products); turn your back on a writer of that kind; turn your back on their books. Do not buy the books that contain nothing but things about Lenin and Stalin and the hell! You do not have any obligation to buy books; do not buy those books; do not read those books. My time is up otherwise I was going to go into the details of the issue of the things that we are affected by tomorrow: universities and the conspiracies that they are supposed to brew in the universities. I am running out of time to talk about them. My time is up. But let me add that our youth themselves the majority of whom are committed, the majority of whom belong to this patriotic nation, and the majority of whom believe in Islam; they should not allow a bunch of people to come there and create a state of chaos and engage in acts of conspiracy. Turn your back on them. Do not read their books. I do not suggest setting their books on fire. No, setting things on fire is wrong. Avoiding their books is more effective than setting them on fire. When you set something on fire, people will imagine it has contained something important which has caused the burning of it. But when you turn your back on them, everything is over. Just do not buy their books; do not allow yourselves to be the customers of their books. No, do not be the customers of theirs. Suppose that they bring tons of books and unload them there. Do not rush on them; do not burn their books; do not tear them up either. Just do not read them and do not buy them. If you do not read or buy them, you will see for yourselves that in a matter of a few days, everything will be over. They bring these books for you to read; they want to (change you) from your Eastern state to becoming a Westerner and yet in its worst forms of dictatorship; they want to impose the worst forms of dictatorship on you. Do not buy those books.

God willing, if occasion arises, at some other time I will (talk) more on this topic; I cannot do justice to this topic in this short time.

Let me now pray that God, the Blessed and Exalted, in the same way that He did this nation a great favor and He had mercy on this nation and saved this nation from the evil of the foreigners and of that of the foreigners' lackeys, He will continue to look with favor on this nation such that the foreigners will not infiltrate this country (again).

May the Almighty God bestow upon you prosperity, good health, glory, power, and diligence, and deliver you from these freedoms that are imperialistic freedoms and have been imported from abroad to this country.