Speech [Strife for autonomy and independence]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Let bygones be bygones. Happy are those who fulfilled their duty whether in jail, under torture or out of jails. You should be prepared sufferings one after another. You accomplished a revolution and swept a dam, an act that is singular in the world. Do not expect that after breaking these barriers, cutting the hands of super powers off your treasures, escape of traitors and curtailment of the hands of opportunists, things would go smoothly. We should be ready to offer greater number of martyrs, as we did one- the late Mr. Qadi «1»- May God's blessing be upon him- who was martyred. Prior to him we offered martyrs and after him, we would do so. Martyrdom should make us stand more resolved. You are treading a path for which many prominent men have been martyred. It is the path of Islam. You rose up for Islam and one who revolts for right and for Islam, hardship would be easy to tolerate. Martyrdom is God's gift for the deserved ones. Each martyr should make your resolution stiffer.

Make them understand that by such foul plays and dastardly actions they cannot revert to the former conditions. Killing people in secrecy is evidence of their defeat. If they had any power, they would have entered the scene. As long as they commanded power, they were present at the scene. You were also present at the scene and the nation repulsed them. These trivial confusions, these struggle to kill one, burglary and fraudulence are evidence of their disappointment and defeat. You should be strong-hearted and do not at all fear these martyrdoms. Move forward as courageously as you launched the revolution and shattered this dam.

Remain in the field bravely and push forward the revolution so that God willing Islam would find reality in its progressive spirit and our country would be entirely Islamic in the full sense of the word. All strata should be Islamic; that is, the government should be Islamic, so do all ministries, departments, office of governor general, bazaar, university etc. We should strive for this great goal sought by prophets of God to the end and pushed it forward. Following the prophets of God and the saints of God, we should push forward this school. God Willing, we will make this country a model for other Islamic countries, if not all other countries in which the oppressed are entangled by arrogant powers. I hope you will be successful in your struggles whether in Reconstruction Jihad, army, courts or offices and give your heed to God. Who would help you and who not, should not be counted? You are performing a human-Islamic act for God. If you could do, you would see the results and if not, you would still be the winner, because you struggle for God. It is a divine struggle.

Those working for God will never lose. Those working for the world are losers if they fail to achieve their mundane end, wasting their life. Even if the latter succeeds, they are losers. However, those who rise up for God, obey God's command, they would never suffer defeat. Such a revolution is for God, all revolt is for God and actions are for God. On the surface, if it is assumed that we failed and thus lost, we have not actually suffered defeat, because we have worked for God and one who works for God, we are the winner. Life is not restricted to this world; there is the next world as well.

Obviously, the government and governor-generals are duty-bound to accompany and fulfill the requirements of the reconstruction effort the youths are engaged to accomplish. The government should not temporize. The government and governor-generals should also help as much as they can. In fact, we all are duty-bound to manage the country we have pulled out of the throat of colonialists so that we would no longer stand in need of them.

Need to enemy should be taken as the bitterest thing ruining man's palate. Once one may stand in need of one's brothers, this is not good as well, but it is unfortunate to stand in need of the enemy. I mean it is most caustic if we go cap in hand to one that has struggle to impoverish us in the course of the history of our country and committed treason and crime against us. Now, we stand in need of such an enemy to provide us with foodstuff. How sad it is to stretch our hands to give us wheat and advisor. This should be the bitterst thing for man's palate to stretch one's hands before one's enemy who has ruined everything belonging to us and beg for food. Our people should undergo change and feel ashamed of begging the US for wheat and advisor. People should mind their works; they should rise up and meet their needs. All of us should help one another. People of all walks of life should try to attain self-sufficiency. They should not beg others. The farmers should develop agriculture to a large extent. Thank God, agriculture has thrived greatly. I saw somewhere in Qum and its surroundings that products have risen as much as four times that of previous years. I hope that in coming years we can export the harvests. I wish they would stand in our need and we would not go to those who inflicted those agonies on us, begging them to give us wheat. This rule should apply to all other fields.

If a country wants to be independent, the first condition is to be free from need to others. If a country stands in need of others, it cannot be independent. Need is itself a political dependence. If once one whom we need supposedly stops meeting our needs, we have to succumb. We should act in a way as to be independent and free from need. This is obtainable provided that university students struggle to fulfill our needs. It is shameful for a country whose medicine foreign countries have practiced and now the one suffering from a disease goes to London to seek help from our enemies or the one that is now supporting our enemy- the US. What a shame if one goes to the one that is protecting our number one enemy to conspire against us. It is disdainful for us if our patients are taken to such countries. Our physicians should be trained in our country; they should not be disappointed with thought of being unable to treat them. They should not feel exhausted. They confided in each other that it would be impossible to fly in the face of these powers. Let us collude with them. However, you saw it was possible when people willed so. When a nation wants something, it will be feasible. God is with them. In the same way that it was said it was impossible to disrupt this power and you acted and did it likewise, they say it is impossible to become self-sufficient, but we can and should struggle to achieve it.

Physicians must be from our country, engineers must be from our and all other things must be from our country. We should not need to import things from abroad; we should import minds. We should have sound minds. The minds that leave the country are of no use for us.

You should construct yourselves from the beginning so that you would be able to administer the country. Do not expect now that you are working, all departments should certainly accompany you.

You are working for God. Obviously, the government departments should also do so. However, if you encounter a standstill somewhere, you should not be filled with terror or feel despaired. You are strong and can do it.

I hope that God would grant success to you and us to work for God and not suffer defeat. This is above all success to work for God. To serve the nation is to serve God. To serve your country is to serve God. God favors this country. To serve to rid of need for foreigners is a great service, a divine service. Such a service is for God. Endeavor to work for God. When you work for God, you should not fear anything. God is with you. You should fear nothing.

May God sanctions you and you will be successful. If there is something to say, please write it because I do not have time to sit and speak any longer.