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Speech [Westernization, a chronic disease in Iran]

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Westernization, a chronic disease in Iran
Students of Islamic Association of Mufidi High College of Translation
جلد ۱۰ صحیفه امام خمینی (ره)، از صفحه ۲۷۱ تا صفحه ۲۷۴
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Chronic disease of Westernization

The example of our country is the example of an ill person suffered at least some 50 years and all people aggravated his illness? Now he has become relieved of people who used to aggravate his sickness but he is still sick. One cannot expect the ill person being helped for some 50 years to be cured once the aggravators are out. The disease entering our society from the west and those foreign countries intending to take everything away should not be expected to go out in just 8 months, 8 years or 20 years. These people in universities, of course some of them, have been injected in their brains a disease or brought up like a westerner by the west for 50 years. They have been prepared so to bring up our youth that way. This is unreasonable expectation to have these ill people cure immediately or replace them with healthy ones. I know all people, particularly educational centers where foreigners favored more their upbringing at a certain level or their distraction, have been affected.

Treason of the Shah's regime in spreading westoxication

They cared about universities backwardness and distraction much more than other places. Our youth were taken to a different path and you should not be expectant of them to turn away quickly towards the nation's way; nevertheless, be not disappointed. The nation has found its way and you, the youth, have found your way. If refinement is not made today, it will be made tomorrow. The purge is inevitable; that is to say, the nation discovered its illness. We primarily should realize that what problems we have. We had been remained negligent of our troubles in fifty years. We regarded those infectious microbes as our remedies! We considered those leading us to corruption as healing factors. They injected into our minds through their massive propaganda that whatever you want, civilization, culture and the rest, must come from the west; you lack them.
With the rotten thoughts injected by their spoiled pens and misleading words, the youth and we have been trained in such a way as to consider deadly poison as a healing medicine to our pains! These corrupt are present everywhere in our society. They are found in our universities. Never expect to have a 50- odd year pain cured in several days and years. You see one catches a quarter hour long, while its treatment needs at times a month. Now consider a society that has been under yoke of certain individuals who sought power and imposed cruelty over society for 2500 years.
As far as we remember our country passed through the worst times in the history, during the 50 or so years. We have been attacked from all sided. All people had been subjected to serve them after being studies and having made us empty of ourselves. Not only we but also the East must find itself. We were so directed towards the west and westoxicated that we forgot all our prides, belittling our capabilities. It was just few days ago when a man, whom I do not know came here uninterruptedly saying that sir; we are in need of them. We must obtain everything from them! I did not at all reply. This is such brain! So long as we do not understand that we are needless but that they are the ones who need us, we cannot be improved. The East has everything. Its culture is better than the west's. Western culture is borrowed from the East whose things are much better than the West's. The only thing is that this eastern culture has been emptied. Regrettably, some people are just aggravating the wide-ranging propaganda by the yes-people now presents in the country magnifying the west and empting us so that fancy that everything comes from the west. So long as we find not ourselves, the East finds not itself or better to say as long as this issuing one is not found, we cannot stand on our feet. Concept of "West" has to be effaced from our brains. In those days if they wanted to propagate any street, they named the street Roosevelt and, I do not know what the hell name given to it! Drugstores were foreign-named to attract more customers. Drugs made by them were named with a foreign one to publicize it. Isfahan made cloths that were named foreign! The cloth produced is Isfahan was branded by foreign names! We lost everything we had. We have driven out the thieves, but we have not found ourselves.

Independence requires release from West and Westoxicated

We must come to our sense. The East must close the door of the West before it. You will not reach independence as long as the West finds a way into your country. You will not achieve independence until the existing westernized people do not leave the country or mend their way. They do not let us find ourselves to stand on our feet and understand we exist.
The West has not given and will not give something useful to us. Whatever the west has sent to this part of the world has not been useful to itself; now it matters not whether it is harmful to us or not.
I have said this on and on and reiterate it because I have been so impressed by this western treatment. A few days ago, I read in magazine, in newspaper that drugs banned in America are sent to Third World and under-developed countries! You see how they view us! They do not assume us like a living being! By God man is not willing to send such harmful drugs even for animals. You see what sort of creatures we face! What dirty creatures we encounter in America! I mean not American nation but the state- how the states of superpowers treat us, yet we pay homage to them! We again work for them; may the pens at their service be broken! May tongues talking on their behalf and aiming to destroy the nation be cut off! Let drugs banned there be sent to the third world, to us, mind you! The hell with it! What happens to us is not important, but they charge us the money! This was so from the beginning. Helpful things were not given to us.

West and America, source of all troubles of the East

Gentlemen! All troubles in the East come from the outsiders, the West; America. American now causes all our problems. All Muslims' hardships stem from America that has beefed up Zionism and is still at it, killing our brothers in groups.

Re-discovery of self in pawn of mental independence

We cannot be independent until we realize our full prestige, what we were in history and what we are and have. Your country will not be independent as long as your thoughts are not free. Go get your thoughts independent. The universities shall take care of our youth's independence and should educate them to understand that they have a culture, a great one. They should realize that the culture is exported to the West from the East. They should find out that we are something in the universe and we want to manage ourselves. The rotten brains fond of Americans and the West should be purged out. Our offices have to be refined and cleaned of the traitors who act in favor of the former regime. This country needs refinement but it is to be done in the course of time.

Public obligation

What is our obligation? Our obligation and each member of the society are to do things well. Do not expect who a good professor is. Do not persist that he has to do well. You do well first, and then the society will do well.
Correction begins from us to reach another to be corrected. Work well and seriously. Our farmers and workers work seriously. Do not be deceived by those who want us back to the former situation where everything was dependent on the outside world; do not be deluded by their propaganda.
Our duty is to do well whatever entrusted to us. Study well if you are a student; teach well if you are a teacher and lecture well if you are a lecturer. Work well if you are a worker, farm well if you are a farmer, is a good cleric if you are clerics. Whatever you are, do well whatever assigned to you. The whole action is corrected soon once it is conscious and everybody does one's job well. If I sit to see you work and you sit to see me work, none of us succeeds in doing. Do not wait to see others work for you. This is an expectation we had of America to feel pity on us and give us weapons. Weapons given are of no use and harmful to us! Contracts signed with us were most if not all disadvantageous to us. They do not work for us.

Necessity for assistance of all people in improving the affairs

Do not sit to see others should work for you. You work yourselves. The nation should work itself. One should do well and tell one's friend to do well and the society as well." Every one of you is supervisor and every one of you responsible." «1»
All of us stand responsible before the nation and ourselves. I should correct myself and others as well as I can. Do not say," I am not a man of pulpit and cannot call a society or I am not an orator". No. Do as much as you can and tell your friend with the same tongue to do well. He act and tells his friend to do so. The country is corrected soon once such a feeling is aroused among people. Do not wait for others to work for you. Do not expect the west to import things to you. We do every thing ourselves and forget the west. May God protect you all and move forward in success!
«۱»- Bihar al-Anwar, vol.۷۲, p.۳۸.


امام خمینی (ره)؛ 07 آبان 1358

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