Speech [The misconception of the term "A Homogeneous Society" to deceive the youth]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I wish the success of all layers of our society, especially that of the Yazd police personnel. I pray for your success and beg God to make you succeed in carrying out your duties. Today, all the police personnel across the country are serving Islam. At one time such forces were at the service of the arrogance. Today your responsibilities are heavier. Today you are the police force for the Islamic Republic, for Islam and for the Imam of Time (the twelfth Imam (`a)). The duties which are on the shoulders of the last Imam's forces are different from those carried out by the civic squadron of arrogance. This is because the twelfth Imam (`a) differed from the arrogance. One was the government based on injustice and the other one was a government based on justice. One was the reign of the arrogance; the other one was the government of God.

In Islam there is one rule and that is the rule of the God, there is one law and that is the law of God. Everybody has to abide by this law. Nobody is allowed to break that law. It is the law of justice; it is a community of justice. But there are some corrupt individuals among the police personnel, army and gendarmerie who spread the misconception and have compelled the youth to commit unmeritorious acts telling them that since we have carried out a revolution and the arrogance has gone and an Islamic republic has been set up then there should be no difference in rank between soldiers in the police or the army personnel and the officers; the society is a homogeneous one. They conclude that it is a homogeneous. And this is one of those misconceptions which are spread by those who do not want Islam to find reality and be materialized. They have inculcated these among the nations in the mind of the youth who ignorantly kowtow.

A classless society, as defined by the agitators, is a chaotic society. Supposing that in the police department, the inferiors stopped obeying their superiors, what would happen? Could everybody be major-generals? Could everybody be privates in the army? Could everybody be chiefs in the police or in the army? Could such an army or police department exist at all?

If a homogeneous society is defined the way these agitators wrongfully inculcate in the minds of some, then everyone must be soldiers or majors or major-generals. Will such an army be fit for a country or will it plunge the country into anarchy. In such a community, chaos would reign. The basis of a military structure, the gendarmerie, or the world order not only here (in this country) but in the entire universe ever since armies came into existence is that hierarchy has to be maintained. The difference between an Islamic and non-Islamic government lies in the fact that in the former injustice is non-existent, from top to bottom. Everybody should obey the commands issued by the superiors. However, injustice is not allowed. At the time of the great Prophet (s) everybody obeyed him: he was the commander, but he did not practice injustice. It was also the case at the time of Imam `Ali (`a), too. He issued commands and everybody obeyed him. Malik Ashtar, too, issued commands in his territory and everybody obeyed him. However, he did not practice injustice against anybody.

In its true meaning, a classless society means a community in which everybody is of the same view; all are united while they observe hierarchies. The police department, the municipality, the army, the gendarmerie, the government officials, the president and the common people should have the same objective, and this objective should be divine in nature. We have such a unified community in our bodies. The human body acts as a unified community. Our eyes, ears and hands are all obedient to a commander. The brain issues commands, the hands obey them. But all of them have a unified way. All cooperate to manage the" country" of our body. The commands are issued up[ in the brain ]but are obeyed by the lower layers. All are organs of one single entity. All have the same identity. All are working in close coordination. But there is a commander and all organs obey it. The brain issues commands; the nerves carry out these commands to the organs which obey the commands. The community of our body is classless: all work for a common end. In our body, all the organs will do their jobs: not one of them goes astray. All organs are obedient to the brain or the soul. All work for a common objective. All work for the entity and identity of one person. In a classless society, while there are president, a consultative assembly and the common people and the major general, everybody obeys the person in the higher rank; all work in a coordinated manner; all go toward the same direction. If in a country the army, the police and the gendarmerie go their own separate ways, disorder will prevail. The common aim should be the integrity of their land and the independence of their country.

The classless society in the way these corrupt people have defined means a community of beasts. We do not have a classless community even among the animals. A group of animals and insects are" civilized," such as termites, the male bees and ants in that they live in hierarchical order. In the lower animals, where their intelligence is lower, the community is classless. All donkeys are the same; the cows, too, are the same; they lack commanders. Now, are you looking for such a society? Do you want a society in which there are no ranks, no hierarchies, and no order? Everybody should be grocers, they say! If all are not grocers, then the society is not classless! If this is so, the classless society has never been with man except in those days when he was savage. But when man became civilized, he had to live in specific hierarchies. Among the pre-requisites of a civilization is that one should be a doctor, the other should be an engineer; another should be a major in the army and so on. If the hierarchies are removed, man reverts to his previous savage life.

Those who inculcate such notions into the brains of our youth want to introduce us as a bestial society to the world. They want to create the concept that the authorities in Iran are not capable of managing themselves. When we do not recognize the government, then chaos will prevail; it is a beastly community; it needs a guardian!

The agitators plan to force our youth to bring about chaos in the army, in the gendarmerie, in the garrisons of the Islamic guards and in the police departments. Chaos and disorder in the police and military forces, which are the backbone of the society, would mean a disaster. A society will decay when there is no order and no obedience to the commanders. In Islam, we have had hierarchies and orders. No society in the world can live under chaotic conditions. You have noticed our nation united and could defeat the enemy quite successfully. A society would never get hurt if all the police and military forces, all the social layers including the university students, businessmen, workers and farmers, stay harmoniously united, while observing the hierarchies; in this case all would resemble a human body in which every organ carries out its specific duties. This is the genuine and correct meaning of a classless society. However, they have made our youth listen to the distorted sense of the classless society. Our simple-hearted youth are easily deceived into believing such misconceptions. These satanic elements are now active in the army, in the gendarmerie, in the police departments, in the market and in the alleys and are planning to prepare the grounds for another government of arrogance.

Now I am telling you- by the way I am an elderly man and may go to the other world even before I bring this lecture to an end- that the spiteful, self-interested groups are implementing the plan of deceiving our youth so that they could set the stage for the revival of American domination here in Iran. The American and European mass media then spread the propaganda that chaos prevails in Iran and that nobody obeys anybody else and that they are fighting with one another like animals and that, therefore, such a community needs a guardian. Then the world will decide that Iran needs such a guardian. They set the stage for the appointment of another guardian like Muhammad-Rida or a despot like his father. Our adversary is not a usual rival. Our enemy has at its disposal the most sophisticated political experts. They are planning to demolish a revolution which had badly hurt them. They believe the army should be destroyed by the army itself and that the police should get destroyed through the police itself. The same thing, they contend, should happen to the gendarmerie. The mullas should be destroyed by the mullas, they say. The religion should vanish in the hands of the religious people themselves. These are their diabolical plans. The agitators deceive our young army officers and personnel by making them think that ranks and hierarchies should be put aside in the army. They might spread this wrong concept among the police personnel or the gendarmerie personnel and among the garrisons of the Revolutionary guards as well. They do the same thing by taking to the fields and by bothering our farmers and plundering their produce. They go on cutting trees and harassing our farmers. They do the same damage to our supermarkets. They disrupt our university students. They are making us decay from within. It is strange since we were supposed to be regarded successful by the world's nations after what we had done to the previous regime.

If the people of the world saw that we were engulfed in anarchy and ignorant of what we have to do instead of forming a unified community in which everyone was in solidarity and following one direction to maintain the harmonious relationship of all members of the community like the coordination of various body parts and preserve the ruling hierarchy in the society, it would, sooner or later, deteriorate and crumble into pieces. The world would judge of us as a nation which, after its revolution, would be plunged into chaos and disorder if our activities were not coordinated, if our military and police forces were not in harmony, if our revolutionary guards did not harmonize their plans with other disciplinary forces and if our government did not work closely with our nation. They would think such a community is on the verge of collapse. If our departments worked properly together, our society would be invulnerable. If the different organs of any country worked together, it would be vulnerable. Let our youth understand from where the blows are inflicted on us. Our youth think they are doing a service to our nation. They are not serving anybody. They are assaulting your Islamic republic while they are under the assumption that they are serving their country.

Those who hear slogans like" we do not need discipline in the army; ranks are not necessary," should pay attention where these statements come from. When they say no ranks are necessary in the army, they are, in fact, trying to get rid of such an institution altogether. If these slogans are heard, likewise, in the police departments or in the gendarmerie, it means they do not want any kind of policing whatsoever. Then, chaos would reign in such a society: it would be a country with no discipline. Then, they would say there is no need for the president because it is a classless society. Then they would add later that the government is of no use, and neither are the ministries. This they do to let the world know that we are incompetent to be free. When I was in Paris and Muhammad-Rida was still in Iran, I heard Carter saying," The Iranian people are given too much freedom." With this pernicious remark, Carter wanted to convey the idea that this country lacks the capacity to be free; it should be denied freedom. Carter, through his statement, wanted to conclude that the Iranian people deserved what Muhammad-Rida did to them, and that Iranian people should be kept with no freedom so that they could be controlled. In his understanding, we are like animals which should be bridled. Now that Carter sees our advances, he is spreading the misconception that we do no deserve freedom. We witness their instigations at the army when the officers took off their badges, claiming that they want a classless society. Where in the Islamic texts can we find statements which approve of such lawlessness? According to Islam, order should prevail. And discipline in the army implies giving out ranks. If you are for yourself and I am for myself, then we will have the opposite of a classless society. Lack of discipline contradicts the idea of a classless society. Our body would collapse if it lacked this delicate order. If our brain ordered by our hands refused to obey, the conditions of life would change. Through these wrong notions, the agitators would like to convey the message to the world that this nation, who rose up against superpowers, is unable to manage its own affairs. They want to relay the idea to the west that this country lacks any stability, that its markets are not functioning properly, that its agriculture is disturbed and that it needs a guardian. They conclude that they need somebody to tame these savages.

My dear youth. Do not listen to these agitators since they are working in accordance with pre-meditated plots. Be yourselves. Work for your own country. Let not your minds be disturbed by expressions such as" classless societies." They are means and instruments to demolish us. Everybody should be vigilant. Let us look at the roots of the problem. Our enemies have done a lot of researches on our lives. They exactly know when and how to act against us. Now they are planning to disturb the order in the country and to cause the corruption of our system from within. They want to break the unity and cohesion which exist among us. They want to put us in an awkward situation so that we will fight one another. They want each one of us to betray all others. They want us to defame one another. They would like to convey to the world that we lack proper courts to try an army man, for instance, if he has done anything wrong. They tell the world that Iranians have access to ammunitions and rifles and they do whatever they want to do. This is the way they are introducing us to the world. They propagate that such a society is mentally backward. Therefore, they conclude, we need some guardian to lead us. May God make you successful.