Speech [The critical mission of the officials - the establishment of trust and security among people]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I would like to thank you staunch youth who are now serving in the Islamic police forces. I hope that the Exalted and Blessed God is pleased with the services you are rendering. May God help you succeed in reconstructing Iran in the way Islam looks at it.

At the time of the Shah although you and I were engaged in some kind of misconduct, this act did not harm Islam because it was practiced during period of the government of evil-spirit. But now when you are experiencing an Islamic government, subsequently you are also considered as the force for Islam, you are the police forces of Islam, if God forbid if any wrong thing is committed by anyone of us and you, the Islamic Republic of Iran will be blamed for it. And those who are against our Islamic movement are looking for excuses to blame it and to raise hue and cry and blow the trumpet to sabotage the Islamic Republic. Therefore, our tasks, our divine tasks, are extremely intensive now. It is duty that all of us should stay united and without your being domineering over the nation or without our nation making trouble for you, we should continue in a brotherly fashion the work that we have started up until our goal is reached. God willing, I want to convey the good news to you that if we become united and Islamic rules are carried out at all phases, then there will be created in the nation and the country and all its aspects trust which is above all virtues. Suppose you were on board a ship and you had all sorts of merry making. The very concept of getting drowned would make all your pleasure dissipates. Afterward no pleasure doesn't feel sound for you and turns in to bitterness. If country is unstable and furthermore there also exist a fear of being detained of America and there also exist an alarm of being detained in the hands of super-power; if there doesn't subsist satisfaction in our hearts and independency of spirit and we don't up rise subsequently these pleasures will not give taste anymore. If we get satisfied that we are independent, our destiny is in our own hands and we don't have any lord over us and if we were sure that we were independent, that we were not bothered by any military interventions or that nobody interfered in our own affairs we would enjoy a spiritual security which is the best God-given asset to man. I will assure you that such satisfaction will be accessible for you very soon.

You should not worry that those who betrayed and fled from this country will return. They will never comeback here. And do not be afraid that those powers who plundered this country and stashed away and destroyed the possessions of this nation, which is now in a shambles, will ever return. Never be frightened of them. Do not allow this fear to creep into you. Be steady in trading your path. What I want to advise you to do is that the centers within the control of everyone; what so ever within the control of army, what so ever in the control of military forces, what so ever is within your control; these centers should be resembling of that the people who enter your departments feel they are secure what I want to advise you to do is to.

You are aware that previously people were not at ease to enter any police station. They would suffer a lot of discomforts. Those maltreatments have created a lot of psychological complexes and which will take ages to heal even now that the government of the Shah has fallen. This will be accomplished through the way you behave towards the people. You have to treat people amicably bearing in mind that they are of you and you are one of them. Now, the situation is like this.

You have noticed how people welcome you when you treat them kindly. They would use favorable slogans for you. They would also utter good slogans for the army. And this is a good sign of progress when in a country everybody is trying to keep its independence. Do not let the nation feel alienated from you or separated from the army. If separation takes place, then turbulence is inevitable. The more united you are, the more assured you will be and the sooner you will reach your objectives.

I hope every one of us will realize our specific tasks. Let us think that we are living with our brothers in this country. May God assist and grant you success and health you the best of luck.