Speech [The activities of the committees of Sepah Pasdran are part and parcel of the strength of the nation-maintaining the precepts of Islam and the revolution]

First I should thank the gentlemen who have come around to meet one another. As soon as the Islamic Revolution was victorious, all the individuals around and across the country, the youths wherever they were, and all the classes- from clergies to academics- felt kind of responsibility on their lot. This was one of the peculiarities of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Without there being any organization, each group in its own location created the organizations as if they sprung out of the bosom of the nation. As an example we can refer to the Committees of which the gentlemen are members and supervisors. Another example, the guards. It was not the case for these organizations to have any central authority from the beginning so as to have had invited them for its membership or for adherence to it. However, it was just a feeling of a duty towards humanity and Islam that made everyone be at the service of Islam. This is one of the peculiarities of this movement and this revolution, as well as of Islam. All individuals obliged themselves to serve this revolution. Each and every body did a job in one way or another. The youths, those who were strong enough to become guards equipped themselves as guards. Those who were able to establish committees did it all over the country. In this way each and every class of people engaged themselves somehow in accordance with the teachings of Islam. This movement owes its success to these energetic and brave youths in Guards or in Committees.

May God preserve them for Islam and grant them victory in this Islamic jihad.

There is something I want to tell you again, although I have mentioned it so many times before. When this revolution occurred in the first place, it happened quite quickly and unexpectedly as if a glass might have broken. It assaulted all of a sudden and wiped out the big powers. After the victory, some shortcomings gradually appeared here and there; in Committees, courts, Guards and among different classes. I should say something to you gentlemen, and to each and every citizen of the Iranian nation, especially those who are engaged in some sort of activity for this revolutionary movement. As this revolution is indebted to you for its victory, the preservation of its prestige and entity is also up to you. Sometimes a revolution is national or is due to a particular party instead of being Islamic; that has a different characteristic. But sometimes like the revolution of Iran it is an Islamic revolution. Everybody including both you and we saw that there was no voice except" God's the Greatest" and" We want Islamic Republic". The whole nation across the country used to shout" Islamic Republic"," Neither East, nor West, Only Islamic Republic". This is an Islamic issue. Our nation is enthusiastically fond of Islam. Our people love Islam all- heartedly; that's why they came ahead, exposing their chests to the enemy and sent their youths to the war. Men and women campaigned side by side and met victory also side by side. This was the power of Islam. Otherwise neither any party nor any nation could have done such a thing. If you observe, the national or the parties' festivals are not like this. The whole nation- from the young through to the old, men through to women- all pursued the goal in one voice. It was the power of Islam that made each and every individual to shout only one voice and made the entire nation as a unified whole. All this was done to achieve victory and they did it. Our nation wants only Islam and nothing else. This nation wants to take refuge in Islam. Do they think they would be able to do something if they manage to gather one, two or five hundred people around themselves? They have also issued a few journals. But what the nation wants is Islam. Islam as well as the nation has acknowledged the clergy. Now the dignity and prestige of this campaign depends upon the clergy and the guards. They guard the revolution. Islam is now waiting upon Iran to see what they will do with it. Are they loyal to Islam? Will they serve the interests of Islam? Islam wants to see as to how far it will be respected in different places; in the courts, the committees, the guards of Islam, the police and the security forces etc. Now it is waiting to see what they will do. They reached victory by the power of Islam. Now what will they do with Islam? Are they in line with Islam? Do they want to advance Islam? Do they want to establish Islamic laws in Iran? God willing, the Islamic laws will be established in other places as well. Will this revolution be exported? Or, God forbid, they will follow some other way? Today, we, you and the nation as a whole, and its different classes have a heavy responsibility. Those who are actively at the service of this revolution are responsible for protecting the honor of the Islamic Revolution and also the honor of Islam.

Breaking the sanctity of the clergy is a blow to Islam

If somebody from the stratum of clergy, either in the committees or schools, or from among those who are in the major cities do something wrong it is not attributed only to that individual, but to the whole community of the clergy. They will say that such are the clergy. Those who want to defame and discredit the clergy, and their real goal is to defame Islam want to attack the clergy because the clergy are the guards of Islam and its servants. If any clergy provides them with an excuse, they will make a trite and trivial one into a titanic one. If somebody does something wrong, they will attribute it to the whole community of the clergy. In these committees, God forbid, if any wrong happens, they will say that the clergymen have taken the committees and they are doing what their lust lists to do. They do not say that an individual is wrong. They say the clergy community is wrong. They want to defame the clergy community. They cannot endure watching the clergy reforming and improving the social affairs. They used to see that the clergy could not do any thing. But now the clergy have come into the field. They are all over the country. Those affiliated to clergies such as guards, the committees and all such classes are active and energetic. When the westernized open-minded people witnessed that, they are not capable of doing anything of benefit to the nation, the parties did not do any advantageous thing, and now the clergymen have come into the field just for the sake of God and are sacrificing their lives to protect Islam, they became aware of the shortages in themselves. That is why they want to discredit all these classes; the clergy, the committees and the guards. The clergy are, now performing those things that they were not capable of performing. So they want to introduce them as an inept and impotent class. All people of our nation, whatever their social class is are responsible in front of God. They should save the honor of Islam, the revolution and the movement. So this is a gigantic responsibility. Thus, your service is a great service. Your responsibility is greater.

God, the Almighty, is present everywhere. You should behold Him and be sure that He is present. Therefore, do not do in His presence what He has abandoned and prohibited. Be in the path of God. Be at the service of Islam. God forbid, if we are defeated, we will be martyrs. Let our martyrdom be for Islam. God willing, if we become victorious, we have made Islam victorious. Let us export and carry Islam to every spot of the world. Let us hoist the banner of Islam. My dear gentlemen! Do not be after material advantage. Do not pay attention to material aspects. You have made a great campaigned, but for the sake of your bellies and stomachs. You sacrificed your blood, but not to obtain a position or a place. None of these things existed in your minds. When you poured into the streets, and confronted the tanks and guns you never even conjectured to become the boss of a certain place. Your objective was God, and you succeeded. So now, too, let it be for God to reach success again. If you feel a material shortage, do not pay attention to it, because you did it not for the material achievement. Similarly, in the early days of Islam, the Islamic soldiers used to work sincerely for God. They sustained on one piece of date all daylong and nightlong. Sometimes they sufficed at even less than that throughout the day and night. They served Islam. Even after their victory, they were not after attaining posts and positions or becoming the boss of someplace.

Purify your purposes for God only. Do the job just for the sake of Him. This is worship. Be sincere in worship. This campaign, the whole of it, was worship. This revolution, all of it, is worship. Be true and sincere in this worship. God is on your side. In the case of occurring any problems on your way, they will surely be attended to. In my opinion, all these issues should be solved in the parliament. God willing, they will be settled as per your desires. Your desires must be in accordance with Islam. The demands of all, which are Islamic, I hope, will be achieved. I hope the parliament will open and start its job in no time. The plans, which you submit, should be submitted in the parliament and this must be continuous.

Thank God, for most of the elected individuals are Islamic and dedicated ones. I hope all of us will succeed in serving Islam with pure intention. Whatever we have, is from God, the Almighty. We have nothing except what He has granted us. We are nothing by ourselves. It is He who exists. We are nobody. We got our entity at His Will. Still we are His. We must try to safeguard the deposit God has bestowed. The deposit is spirit. The life is a

deposit. Islam is a deposit. Qur'an is a deposit. May God whiten and brighten our faces on entering His presence. May God grant you all victory. May God guide the enemies of Islam to the right path. If they do not deserve guidance, may God defeat them or perish them.

May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.