In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The late Mr. Taleqani has gone and passed away with honor. It needs to be said that he served and engaged in jihad almost for a whole lifetime and departed; and we must see what we should do before we also depart.
Share of the women in the triumph of the movement
We all have a share in this movement; and you women have a big share. It means that with the coming into the streets and squares of the struggle by the women resulted in the men gaining strength and vigor; while their morale was also boosted with your arrival. You have a big share in this movement, but now we are midway; most of the distance has not been covered. Our lofty objective was not only the departure of Muhammad Rida and amputation of the hands of foreigners; that was a prelude, meaning that they were a thorn in our path that must have to be eradicated so that we would be able to reach that destination which is the main destination and to realize that subject which is our main subject and is the main subject of Islam.
General efforts for the realization of Islam
We all voted for an Islamic republic; you also voted; it is not enough only to vote; the vote is only to the extent that now our country is officially an Islamic republic. But it shall become a true Islamic republic when you the women perform your duties. And these gentlemen also perform their duties and all of us consider ourselves to be obligated and have a sense of duty. A country that after the departure of the destructive elements is a war-torn country; it is a Westernized country; it is a country that is backward in every respect and has been defeated from all aspects; and our national dignity has been taken away from our hands; and its culture, economy and everything it has is in confusion and chaos. This shall not be rectified with a single" Islamic republic" phrase. It will also not be set right with the departure of the thieves and the plunderers; it demands action. Now, we have a duty to make up for these losses that have been inflicted upon this country; whether they are spiritual losses whereby they pushed back our youth- both women and men- from the condition that they must deserve by means of the corrupt propaganda that they engaged in; and whether they were material losses that drove our country to poverty; in the name of" land reforms" they brought misery to our farmers and pushed our country to destruction; and whether it was the schools and our culture that they kept backward and did not permit a proper culture to develop and progress. These chaos must be set right by you and us; at the hands of this nation and government; no one can set these things right all alone. If the women think that they should step aside and leave it to the men to do the job or that the men think that they should step aside and allow the women to do the job or that both of men think that the government should do the job; and or all three of them think that the clergy should do the job- these thoughts are not correct because the tasks are so complicated and chaotic, and the problems so numerous that each individual in whatever area that he is in has a duty to build that area well. If you are in a location where, for example, you must attend to the education and training of the younger women; you must train them well. If you are in a place where you must engage in propagation, your propagation must be right; and every individual wherever he is placed must perform well in the position that he is occupying. If he is in the ministries, behind whichever desk he is sitting there he must perform the duties that are assigned to him well. If he is working in other offices- whichever office he is working in- he should perform his job correctly. Not like the situation before where everything was in disorder and our offices were transformed by him into offices that are not mentionable; the same with our ministries and the same with the other strata; and our youth had been trained in such a way that they no longer felt any commitment in relation to the problems that would occur to them.
Change in the affairs from Westernized form into Islamic
In whatever place they are in or to whichever person they are entrusted or to whichever group, each person must in his own place; each group in its own place; each person in the position he is occupying must perform his duties for the Islamic republic. It means that this Westernized form be changed into an Islamic form. Until now, I must say that almost all our things were Westernized; everything was Westernized. Now after we have severed their hands it must not be in this manner that once again we follow them; that we forget all our things and follow the West or the East. We must be aware of who we are and what we are; and what our country needs and who it needs.
If we revert these spiritual links, these attachments that our youth have and our universities have that have Westernized all our things to their original condition, and we discover ourselves, then we can become an independent nation and a free nation and not be dependant on others and stand on our own two feet; and do our own tasks ourselves; but if we are neglectful of this aspect and once again the same thinking and the same circumstances remain here, then no longer is there any hope that we can remain independent and be free, that we can think freely and act freely.
Efforts of the West to prevent the intellectual-cultura growth of the Iranians
It is the duty of all of us to shun this Westernized form; we should change our thinking; we should change our actions; our cultural situation must undergo a change; our judicial system must be changed. All these are gifts of the West. Our courts of law in the manner that it existed in the taghouti era were a present that was imported from the West. This must be changed into another situation. And the same was true with regard to our culture. All the things that they had used in order to destroy our youth were gifts from the West. This means that they had prepared the means for the destruction of both the women and the men and to thwart their humane development. They had prepared all the means for this objective. They would go to the cinema; the cinemas were such that they would be corrupted. Wherever they would go, the same issues were present. We must change ourselves so that we can stand on our own feet and be aware that we are Easterners and we are Islamic and our objective is Islam.
May God protect all of you and cause you all to succeed in serving this country; now that the country belongs to you, it is your duty to safeguard it. Peace be upon all of you.