Speech [Disagreement with Islam originating in opposition of westernized people and groups]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The day when we lost determined men and youth in Khordad 15 th marks a turning point in the history of the country and initiates this revolution. Those who rose up manly against the tyrants on Khordad 15 th and were martyred initiated this revolution. I implore God Almighty to bless them and grant patience, health and prosperity, to their families.

It was those uprisings for which people assemble with unified purpose. These uprisings connected our ancient schools to universities, and different classes are joined together in such a way that all traversed the way to this time with unity of purpose and resolution. As our nation is alive and found its way which people will continue leading the revolution to Islamic and human results. The sisters deprived of some blessings such as hearing and speaking and are here now inspire hope in all people indicating that they are unified with the divine aim. May God protect them and let them be prosperous.

I hope all different classes here take notice of conspiracies and defuse them as to their will. As you and the so-called intellectual ladies saw that a gossip was spread out in Tehran. The ladies wanted to spill over the streets with no attention to what they were doing. Whereas there was no such law as they presupposed. However, it became clear how careless these intellectuals were to daily issues and to what concerns their fate. They never paid attention to what was broadcast on Radio and TV and media. They just sufficed to care about what some corrupt elements wrote. Are these not plots? Are these not means of disclosing an ill conspiracy that presented as issue that women have no right according to the constitution? This issue is basically irrelevant to the constitution. Are our youths not awakened? Is our male and female youths not awakened that such plots are concocted? Do not you heed that a lie is disclosed in a day, yet it is spread taking advantage of public ignorance? To whom shall we complain that you who call yourselves learned and intellectual are heedless of a law on which your fate is dependent and that without reading papers and the media planned to take to the streets! You disillusioned us because people would ask our intellectuals are such and such, being impressed by a lie that is unfolded in one or two days. Why are they so inattentive to what goes on in their country.

Get yourselves reformed! Stay heedful of your destiny. The people spreading rumors do not want your prosperity. These are the people who drove you to decadence in the name of" free men and free women". They are the people who know freedom to lie in things that bring corruption. As for the things that cause no corruption and are fateful for the nation, they grant no freedom. They look like the same people who want to let those things happen. Be careful of what they spread out. Islam is for every one of you.

I was questioned before on that. I replied that in case divorce is conditioned when marriage contract is concluded and the wife is given attorney to divorce herself. What about the women married now? They oppose wilayat-e faqih whereas they do not know if a husband misbehaves his wife, faqih is authorized first to reprimand the husband, second he should reform and if not, divorce is effected.

Agree on wilayat-e faqih. He is a gift to Muslims, granted by God Almighty. As to the question you posed concerning the women married now, if they are in trouble, what should they do? They should refer to a faqih, to an assembly where there is a faqih, to a court that has faqih who checks the case. If it is right, he will reform the husband and compel him to behave properly. If otherwise, he issues order of divorce as he has sainthood for the action. Once he sees a family driving to corruption, he issues order of divorce. Although man is given right of divorce, faqih orders divorce where it is expedient to Islam. So he is a gift to you from God.

Anyway, we are now in grips with a group of people with different tastes and beliefs, all being unanimous to let the country not be organized. They differ in beliefs and some stay adversary to some others but they are unified in one thing: opposing Islam! They oppose the thing our nation voted for. They are unified in this meaning that they agree on their void. You keep your own rights to keep the wrong people away. Do know that Islam is beneficial to you, everyone, all mankind and us. Know that Islam is a plan more beneficial to the oppressed than others and it is good for all. Fear not of Islam, nor fear people of it. You, who hold the pens, write whatever you want and speak whatever you desire but you are unaware of what Islam is. You have only heard an Islamic word or at times read a book whose writer has had no good knowledge of Islam. You poison the environment with no knowledge of Islam and its philosophy of precepts. It is not obvious that you mean to do some good but you are mistaken. No, I find it very likely that many of them, not all, many are the people who try uselessly to let not the revolution move forward while seeing now that the ex-regime with their benefits are gone and that there is a great distance between them and people in Islam. As you noticed, they disagreed step by step. The day when the revolution prevailed, they opposed here in Tehran and other places struggling aimlessly, to keep the shah in power. When he fled, they tried uselessly to save Bakhtiyar. They spilled over the streets and chanted" the constitution". It meant to preserve the monarchy. They wanted the constitution for being monarchial rather than for its other things. When Bakhtiyar went out, they talked about the constitution, intending to preserve it. In Paris, they came to see me saying that I let the royal council be preserved with changes made on it and so on? Well, I knew that they neither figured out the case badly nor meant to keep the same stories. Given royal council is accepted, it means that imperial dynasty is approved. The Shah is responsible before the royal council; he can leave it aside whenever he wants. In a sense, it is implied that shah is approved. A few of the intellectuals and newly turned out revolutionaries wanted to delude us-may be negligent themselves to keep the royal council. Chief of royal council «1» came up to me in Paris and I said I would not meet him unless he resigns and he did so. People frequently made such a request, but the council was gone and the nation is victorious. But again, disagreements came one after another. Now voices are raised against the Assembly of Experts. Elections are opposed. Later, they would oppose Majlis and the president. The opposition goes on sequentially! For, they are against the fundamentals, and stay in disagreement with Islamic principles. They should know that their attempt is of no consequence. We fear not your useless attempts. We know you are stalemated. You can just write or speak.

That is all! Well, write or speak whatever you like! Yet, be awakened that you should go this way.

Your world is along the nation's way, if you want it to be handled. There has occurred a flood moving against this currency only brings death. If you want to swim against the torrential flood of nation- that is Islam- that destroyed the malicious dynasty, the corrupted royal system, you, just four people, will be rolled away! Think of your world if you are people of the world. Stop standing against a nation that has lost its youth and everything for the revolution and Islam because you had no part in it. If you did not oppose, staying indifferent and engaged in entertainment your palaces and now raising voices against the nation, this treatment is not to your benefit. You are now at odds with the nation and this is not to your advantage, nor to your world and religion. Join the torrential flood to lead the revolution to final victory soon, God willing. Although your challenges never cause the flood to halt, it is disadvantageous to us if they say people of so-called knowledge are against their own nation.

The people claiming that there must be democracy are against the public rule. They stand against the people who voted 98 or more. They disapprove of the Assembly of Experts elected that way.

These people do not know at all what wilayat-e faqih is. They cannot realize its nature! In this way, they start to say if there exists wilayat-e faqih; dictatorship will emerge and so on! Was Commander of the Faithful (`a), guardian of people, dictator? Was the Prophet (s), who had sainthood, a dictator? Maybe they say that sainthood is not fit to the prophet and that he was like ordinary people! This is not outlandish to be said. They do not dare to make such claim. What does dictatorship mean? In Islam, such a thing is not at issue. Islam condemns dictatorship. It brings down faqih if embarking on despotism. How do you say Islam exerts tyranny and such things? If you know it and speak it, why should you stand on the way of the nation? If you do not know it, why should one say something unknowingly?

I hope all, those having their youth martyred since Khordad 15 th those who lost their breadwinner and those now busy struggling reach destination and achieve final victory. May God protect you all!