In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
On the holy birthday and the blessed migration of the last Prophet, the best of the Messengers, I congratulate all the oppressed and deprived ones, and the nations of the world in general and Muslims specially. It is the origin of the divine and Islamic appraisal. It is the source that spreads justice, and the culture that moulds one into a human. It is the start, a beginning of the movement towards wiping out the base of tyranny and injustice, and at the same time is uplifting to the highest station of man. It is a migration from all tyrannies and satanic and bestial attributes towards the absolute light and foundation of perfection. He is the founder of a nation and Imamate (the divine leadership). The Muslims should rise up. They are at the threshold of fifteenth century (Hijri). They should come under the Islamic and Divine banner to defend their rightful rights. They should cut the hands of the tyrants particularly the superpowers of the East and West. They must repudiate the dictatorship claiming democracy and communism.
The pristine and prodigious divine- Islamic Revolution of our Iran anniversary is today. It mirrors the great and glorious campaign of Muhammad, the Messenger of God. His holy birthday and migration that gave a move happened in an age that the darkness of ignorance had shadowed all over the world. The powerful and mighty ones like beasts that live upon human flesh had darkened the day of the oppressed ones. The Islamic appraisal of the people of Iran happened in an age which is the example of the same age of ignorance. An environment which is the same where justice is succeeded by lances, prison, torture, and suffocation instead of freedom, poverty and plaint instead of relief and comfort. In such a circumstance our nation campaigned. Why? Because the jaws of the wild in the guise of man were drowned up to the elbows in the blood of our dear youths. The breath in the bosoms was not at a continued pulse. It was about to vanish the symptoms of Islam and mankind. The mansion of justice was about to be pulled down to the dust. Dread, fear and terror was such a dominating power that husbands in front of their wives, brothers in front of their sisters had no courage to complain. Pens and the media were in the service of tyrant. In such a time the powerful hand of God came out from the sleeve of justice. It stretched under the shadow of Allahu Akbar. It transformed the nation of Iran from weakness to power, from cowardice to courage, from somnolence to movement. It brought a flood of human beings in which men of God saw happiness in martyrdom and worship in the sacrifice of blood came in its current and pulled down the wall of devil like men. Besides, they crushed the 2500- year era of governing the throne and crown in the hands of tyrants- idle ones who lived on the toil of others. No symptom, no sign of it remained.
Now the Muslims at the opening of the fifteenth century (Hijri) and Iran on the anniversary of its revolution is celebrating. On the birth of the Prophet and his migration and the Islamic Revolution, we celebrate and wish blessings to each other. But the greater celebrations shall be when the oppressed ones become victorious over the arrogants, and isolate them totally. Muslims with the unity of their word under the banner of monotheism should cut the hands of tyrants from their countries. The Iranian nation by the grace of God within a year after the revolution has achieved the Islamic Republic, constitution, and the president of the Republic. God willing, they will attain to parliament in peace with the maturity of mind, too. They will repair the ruins that were under a estimated design of big powers particularly the nation of Iran, towards total collapse. All the losses now are irreparable and irretrievable. The youths who were martyred as they defended Islam and their homeland. And a great number during this very period became badly disabled. How could this loss be repaired? Alas, our nation could have had been able to invite the thinkers of the world so that they could see the blood of our youths in the streets and lanes and the sky of Iran as it had turned red by the red of the horizon. Alas, the free people of the world could have heard the wailings of mothers and sisters and the agony of them. All this could have served them an example of that mountain of crimes committed by America and the deposed Shah.
The free nation of Iran supports the oppressed nations of the world against those whose logic is gun and tank, and whose slogan is at the head of lance. We support all the campaigns for freedom across the world that fight in the way of God, truth, reality and liberty. The brotherly Arab nations, and brothers of Lebanon and Palestine should know whatever agony and misfortune they are suffering is at the hands of Israel and America. Their agony originates from the differences among the heads of the Islamic countries. Therefore, they should be united. They should uproot Israel, the head of the corruption by the strength of faith.
We once more declare our unconditional support to our Muslim brothers, the victims of Afghanistan. We strongly condemn the aggression of the aggressors. We are Muslims. Whether East or West, it does not concern to us. We defend a victim. We assault a tyrant. This is an Islamic obligation.
O, the nations of the world! You are oppressed ones. You should get up from your places and take your right. Do not fear the clamor of the powerful ones. God is with you. The earth is your inheritance, too. The promise of God is never reneged. I pray for the victory of the deprived ones. I hope the unity of the word of the people of truth. I hope the respected gentlemen, who have gathered in the cemetery of `Behesht-e Zahra' following the martyrs drowned in blood for the sake of Islam, to witness an example of the crimes of the deposed Shah. They have seen from a close, small scene to the big of crimes of America and the Shah. I hope they will be able to hear their victimized cries and which they convey to the world. They foil the vast propaganda being done by America and Zionists against our nation. If it is so, they may prosper in the court of mankind. May God's peace mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini