Speech [Fifty years long plots to create divisions among the various classes of the society]

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

For you gentlemen, I should narrate an epitome of the history of the days of Rida Khan because you did not witness it. I tell you so that you may know what hands are at work. Rida Khan captured Tehran though coup d'etat. He posed himself as a pious man at the service of the nation. He used to attend the meetings held during Muharram and also the" Takya" which were in a great number in Tehran those days. I witnessed some of the mourning demonstrations of Muharram in which military forces were involved. I have also witnessed one of the congregation gatherings established by Rida Khan which he himself used to join. This continued till his government was well established and stabilized. Then he tricked the nation and all the classes of the people. When the foundation underneath his feet grew stronger and stronger, then he started his program which was predesigned and already determined. It was to weaken the clergy category. He wanted to make the clergy lose their prestige in society. In this way, he wanted to pave the way for doing whatever he wished. The media of those days, the writers, all got well equipped against the category of the clergy. The taxis and the buses were not willing to embark them. The propaganda was so widespread and so strong that our youths got seduced easily. This religious institute" Faydiyyah" that you see was housing six or seven hundred students. They could not stay in the institute during the day. The students used to flee from the institute to the outskirts of the town, in the gardens and return at night. The reason was- the police was after them to take them away and denude their heads of their" `ammamah" (i. e. the head covering of the clergy). The clergies of Tehran were in an even worse situation. They were taken to the police stations where their dress (the cloak of the clergies) was cut to make it short to the size of a coat. Among them were the clergies of respect, honor, prestige, and dignity. Therefore, their cloaks were shortened in the police stations by means of scissors. Whose hand was behind all those crushing and defeating of the clergy? Although they crushed the clergy, the group that stood against Rida Khan was again this very same clergy. All of a sudden from Tabriz, from Khorasan and from Isfahan, the `ulama' came to Qum. From Isfahan, the number was greater. The clergies at the center also joined them. Unfortunately, all the campaigns and uprisings were defeated and crushed. The uprising in Qum was rather fundamental. But that too was crushed. Most of them were cheated and tricked. At the head was the late Haj Nourullah Isfahani- as was told then. It was later known that he was also killed by means of poison. He died in Qum itself. «1» So, what power was it that crushed the category of clergy in such a way? What was the purpose? What power was it, which separated the class of the clergy from that of the university? It was not possible to utter a single name of a clergy. Likewise, in the institute of Faydiyyah too, you could not utter a single name of an academic. So, what power it must be which separated these two classes from each other and made adversary to each other? What power was at work, which changed the university to such a form that its products- whoever came out of it- was a seduced, a perverted and a devious one. All of them were leaning towards the foreign schools. What hand was at work to change the university into a fortification of battle soon after the victory of the Revolution? Again that power is now busy to crush the clergy class. What had they seen of the clergy? They are disseminating the same thought and the same idea the days of Rida Khan against the clergy. They want to repeat the same past insults, vilifying and defaming the clergy and all those in this spiritual cloak. Why? What have they done to this class of clergy? They have created a gap between the clergy and others. Still they are doing so. But, by the grace of God, they will come close to each other.

They have studied the people of the East and the Muslims and the Muslim countries for a long time. Their experts and specialists have come and stayed in the Muslim countries in various forms. They have carried a deep research. They have reached to this conclusion that the Muslim masses are very close to the clergy.

In each town, the" mulla" (clergy) of that town and the leader of the Friday prayers has a close link with the people. The people too respect his word. So, if they want to exploit the society and take it into their own dominance, they should separate them from the clergy. Well, why have they created such a division that one cannot utter a name of a clergy in the university? If a student of the university wants to pray, he should do it very secretly. In the religious schools too, they do not look upon an academic fellow favorably. This is also based upon the same research they have carried out for so long. This is quite obvious that these two classes are the thinking minds of the society. Therefore, they can do what they desire only in the event of separation between these two classes. They will not be able to achieve their end in case these two classes are glued with each other. Therefore, the pens, the tongues and the media that were in their service are put in motion. They are separated from each other to the extent of enmity. Now they have witnessed the powers of Islam. They found out that if those two classes become close and united an impregnable power would be formed. With such a power, they succeeded to expel the Satanic power which nobody in the world ever expected to happen. They expelled the traitor «2» while all the powers were behind him. «3» The foremost of them was America. Moreover the Soviet Union and the other devious Muslim countries were also at his service. We ourselves have experienced this thing. When I was in Iraq and wanted to start the campaign against the Shah, they, the Iraqi government, did not let me do and did not even allow me to stay there. Then I went to Kuwait but Kuwait also did not let me in. So I thought that whichever Muslim country I wish to go, I would have to face the same. God wanted something better for us. I went to a place which was not under the influence of Iran. There too, at the beginning some controversies occured. Little by little, those controversies subsided. Now they are more serious than they were on the days of Rida Khan. In the days of Rida Khan, there was only research and study. The study had provided them with only a mentality. Those days, it was only a matter of conjecture that if the clergy united with the university students, or if the clergy gained power, it would be a hurdle for them and would hamper their exploiting Iran as per their greed. Of course, that was congruous with the reality. However, it was only a conjecture. Now it is no longer a matter of conjecture, but of reality.

They witnessed that it started from the clergy. The universities as well as far as their commitment goes, joined them. Those who were not committed later became obliged to be with them. Similarly, all the classes and finally the whole nation. They knew that the clergy has influence but they did not ever think of such an influence. Shah apologized. He brought Sharif Imami «4» to the office. They said that well we did a mistake. We did not know that people respect the clergy so much. We shall adjust and amend this mistake. We shall serve the clergy. So they started telling such nonsense. They wanted to cheat the nation by these words. But nobody heeded them.

They have seen the power of Islam today. In a population of thirty five million, out of which the youths able to work could be fifteen or eighteen or say twenty million, bereft of equipment, without any military training overruns the regime only with their closed fists. They could not keep the man whom they were very anxious to keep. They saw the power of Islam with their eyes. Now they still want to do something worse. They don't want Islam to get stabilized. What was the purpose of these fortifications that took place in the universities; and who did that? Those who wanted to make the westernized university an Islamic one, should be both Muslims and very committed to Islam. Were they in that fortification, or the pens and the same endeavors, which were active in the days of Rida Khan seeking an opportunity to break Islam and its power?

We say we want Cultural Revolution, of course in every thing, but we should not amalgamate the affairs. Those who speak of Cultural Revolution mix up the things. I have heard them. They put up the affairs together. This will make the way rather remote. The university and Faydiyyah school; they should first start with the university. The economics of the nation should not be their concern. If the academics want to go head with the Cultural Revolution in the field of economy, they will lose their own job as well. If another class, capable of setting right the revolution in their field, come to set it right in another field, ex army, they will lose both of them and the thread will get loose from their hands. Therefore, each class should work in its own place or location. They should work only in those fields of which they are a member. You should not go after economic revolution. Those who want to make the economic revolution should not come after the university.

I am not telling you that these people who are mixing the affairs are traitors. They are just going ignorant. It is very likely that those who want to mix things up and want to mend everything at the same time and together and do not allow the experts of each field to work in their own field, are somehow seduced. When we want to set right the university or start a cultural revolution there we should not amalgamate all things together. Everything should be in its own place. Bazaar should also be set right. But university should not be mixed with bazaar. A group of people should go there and start the Islamic and cultural revolution. They should be from the bazaar, the committed personalities.

The revolution should crawl into the army too. But the army should not be concerned with the university. There is no relation between these two. Although all of them are combined together, each should do its own business. In earlier days, it was said that a good" Shimr" is he who acts as" Shimr" himself. If Shimr speaks or recites a poem like Imam Husayn, then he is no more a shimr. While the institutes are united and are cooperating in creating a scene as a whole, they should not meddle with one another's job. It they meddle with one another, it will provide an undesirable phase. Every one must perform his own duty well. If one pokes his nose in other's job, that job will not be performed well.

The pens, the Speeches and the malefic activities are under way to prevent you from continuing or completing the job you have started. They do not like the unity between the clergy and the academics. Now it is only the very beginning of your job. You have just started. I conjecture that they might come to the persons who are in Faydiyyah or other literary centers and whisper in their ears. Likewise, they will go to the university fellows and whisper in their ears. As a result, both will separate from each other in repugnance. They have been once injured and scathed by the unity of this nation. So they are afraid of Islam. They see your demonstrations. They see your meetings. They hear and see your Islamic slogans and cries. And so they are not at ease.

I saw a writing a few days ago to the effect: Why are you afraid of being a nationalist? Why don't you say the national parliament? I say to that gentleman:" Why are you afraid of being Islamic? Now it is more than fifty years we have not seen a good outcome from this national parliament. If a good man was there, fifty men were also there at the service of imperialism. That one man was crushed by these fifty men. I tell these people that we are subordinate to this nation. We by ourselves are nobody. We want to see what the demand of this 35 million is. We saw that this 35 million say we want Islam. In all their discoveries since from the very early start, there was not such a thing that could indicate they want to be nationalists. Nationalism is contrary to Islam. Islam has come to disseminate equality among all. Nationalism is not such. Now you see what is happening in America between the blacks and whites. This Carter, who claims to be a supporter of human rights, kills the blacks or treats them at prejudice and grudge. This is nationalism. Some of the Arab governments say we are `Arabs and nothing else. Nationalism is pan-Iranism or pan-`Arabism. This is contrary to the command of God, and against the Qur'an. When we say Islamic Republic, we also mean Islamic parliament. We did not see any miracle from that Imamzadeh (i. e. Imam's son). It is more than fifty years they have kept us behind. It is more than fifty years they have been impeding the work.

Throughout the period they had parliament not even once people voted quite freely and at their own will. I still remember during the period of Qajar dynasty, when there was no Rida Khan or Muhammad-Rida Khan, there were khans and princes. The khans used to bring the people in groups to the ballet boxes by force and take their votes for themselves. People were nothing. They knew nothing. They were given a sheet of paper and asked to drop it in the box. When Rida Khan came to power, you have seen that he had no trucks with the people. Similarly, most of you have seen that Muhammad-Rida too had no trucks with the people. Muhammad-Rida himself once told that the list of the candidates was used to come from the embassies. He meant that now it is not so, while he was obliged to bring the listed person to the job. Anyway, this is a confession of a man who ruled this country by tyranny. He was aware of all the affairs. He is making us to understand about the person recommended by either the American, British or Russian embassies. This is a thing spoken by Muhammad-Rida. His point in disclosing the matter was to indicate that he was no more like before. He even vilified his father so that the people may hold him in a greater credit and regard. This reflects the identity of the persons in the parliament. They were servants of foreigners. They obtained access to the parliament by force. You cannot discover a single incident that could show that Iran, as a whole, should have voted after its own inclination or at its own choice. In the earlier stages, the people voted for themselves. The khans were not able to do anything in Tehran. But in towns and villages, they had influence. They used to take the people to the boxes and get their votes for the persons of their choice. For you this is a first experience you are witnessing an Islamic parliament housing the persons of the nation's choice. Before, if nothing was there, some or the other malpractice surely used to take place. The people- young and old, men and women- should come out so freely and cast their votes is quite an unprecedented thing. Well, you have seen Tehran, Qum and other places too. They do not want such a parliament to take shape. A parliament of the nation, of Islam, and its deputies too all Muslims. They don't tolerate to see the cleric and the university fellow to join together and come both under one roof and be combined.

I give a warning that they are busy to separate you. Now you are a plant, not grown. Your links too are fresh- yet to be bloomed. But you form a target for them, that is you are still their target. They do not let to happen a positive thing in the university. They will hurdle and hamper- if possible by guns or by creating fronts or by any other satanic or diabolical mischief. Who writes those slogans over the walls of the universities? What is the point in it? They gather people and shout slogans contradictory to Islam. What is the errand? These are the people who see the university and the clergy a peril to the nation. Since they are harmful, they should be wiped out. This is their point. This very group points their guns at the nation. They have weapons kept in a place to be handy to them at the time of need or at any other opportune occasion. They are the same people who created trouble in Kurdistan. Thanks God they are purged from there. These persons, as disclosed later, have weapons hearing the trademark of Israel and the Soviet Union. They see Islam is the power that stands against them and combats. They are still boys. Their masters, the big ones, who guide them and teach them and teach the boys. They know well that in the existence of Islam and the clergy and the university fellows, they cannot do anything. The clergy and the university- these two thinking minds- if be together, all the people come around them. They cannot return them back where they were. As such they cannot do what they want.

Now they have come to the conclusion that no coup d'etat is workable in Iran. No one can think of it. From outside too, no one can come here and stay. They have learned a lesson from Afghanistan also. They have brought there the most modern weapons, helicopters, the planes and a well-trained army. But in spite of all that, they cannot make the Afghan nation humble to them. Daily they are facing a defeat. In Afghanistan, the government is with them. The persons responsible are also with them. In spite of all these positive elements, they could not prosper. In Iran no one is with them. As for the government, and as for the nation, all are together. There is nothing in their favor. So no one can come here. No one can do anything to their interest. God the Almighty is with us. We want to expel the outsiders for the sake of God. We want to expel those who are anti-Islam. If possible, we want to guide them. When we want to perform a thing for the pleasure of God, He too will help us. The condition is that we should be in the same way as we behaved at the initial stage of the revolution. We had forgotten all the personal matters. We were after one thing- Islamic Republic and Islam. We were never concerned as to what our dimmer to night is or what is our post or grade in the office. We should continue in the same mentality. Do not think that everything now is over. We con go after our life.

The things that are being said to you such as this disappointed you from the Islamic Republic. This is a plot. You should not heed them nor to their words if you want to have a respectful, honorable, and a prosperous life. The fact is that during one year life of this Islamic Republic, many things are done more than the duration of these two traitors. If we take the setback and the handicaps into considered the progress has had been worthy of consideration. The villages had nothing. The two traitors had deprived the people from anything. Now the people, the organizers and the government are in close cooperation with one another and have rendered services to them. Our people should not give ear to their words. Our people should not pay attention to their anti-Islamic writings. Had there nothing was done now, neither you nor I could have been here. Is there any thing better than freedom in this world? Well, if nothing is done, this much has been certainly done that is we have cut short the hands of the foreigners, yes; their roots are still here and there. There are things, which we should bring into account. How nothing is done? Is it a trifle thing- expulsion of Muhammad-Rida from Iran? He was a powerful man. We cannot ignore his leaving Iran as a frivolous thing. Then what is this? An Islamic Republic is established. Now it seems that Muhammad-Rida is still in our country. He is still holding his kingdom. SAVAK is still there working for its interests. They want to play tricks on our youths. Thank God our youths are now awakened. They say nothing is done. What you want to be done? Within a period of one year and few months all the organs necessary for an Islamic country are created. Such a speedy achievement has never happened anywhere. Thirty or fifty years after revolution, even a constitution cannot be prepared. Iraq still has no constitution cannot be prepared. Iraq still has no constitution. A few persons are together only to govern the country. In Iran since everything originated from the people, the revolution emanated from the society, and the people too were Muslims, all the things that form the foundation of a country are performed and taken place. We do not lack anything nor are we short of anything. Now the constructive job should take place. The persons concerned are busy. The thing is that you should not be cheated by these poisonous pens, the magazines and the newspapers that are at the service of others. It is regrettable that the publication permission is accorded to them. Do not let them to play chicanery on you. The whispers in your ears either in the university or the school, say Faydiyyah, should not get access to the inner most recess of mind. This unity that you have reached is very important to the elements of anti-Islam. Therefore, now their target is you. Their target that are anti-Faydiyyah, anti-university and anti-Islam. To continue a job is more than its creation. You went to Qum Saturday together. Talked together. Reached an understanding and a common ground mutually. Now its continuity is important. You should repeat your meetings once in a period of certain duration. You should be of one voice.

I am hopeful that this affiliation of your may be blessed. By this affiliation, you could be able to make your university and the education centers Islamic ones. We understand through the output what its source is. The plant that produces sugar, we understand by the sugar the nature of the plant. We can understand what and how are the colleges by their product that is the students. The gentlemen who claim of having achieved such and such during this period of one gear, we can well know as to really what they have done in this one year. What the product had been during a span of fifty years? In fifty years, one million students should have had served the nation not to others. Has such a thing been ever achieved? Has the university ever produced a mentality in the students to think that they belong to this nation? Therefore, they should be in the service of the nation. They do not belong to foreigners. These communists, from where have they come? These Marxists from they have they come? They have come from this very university. We understand the professors and teachers through the students. We can conceive the inside of the colleges. Its product indicates that. A few persons are committed ones- wherever they be. But as for the university, its roll should be a few millions. As such in a period of fifty years, a population of students, one hundred million, should have come out form the university. Indeed, such a figure has come out from the colleges. Had this university given birth to a desired type of students, now Iran would have been a paradise. We would have never been on a campaign nor was a war the need. There was no need for a revolution. The product of the colleges was an undesired one. What ever post they occupied, they worked in the interests of the foreigners. Let them tell for whom they worked who had such high posts and stations in the government. Did they work for the nation? They are the products of the same university. They left the university behind and took the high offices, jobs and posts in the government. All of them were in the service of the foreigners. Had they worked for Iran, or had the university been in the service of the country, now we would never have had any dispute nor any controversy. The university would never have been a front of battle. The departments would have taken a different shape and form. The university has had been at a failure to perform its due duty to the nation. It has had been in the service of other. However, so and so have trained our youths. They are still trying to hamper the way for the university to be in the service of the nation. When we say Islamic university, we mean a university based and founded to cater the needs of the nation. It should be for the nation. But in the university, the students are trained against the interests of the country.

Education and training has had been a word only. The training was nothing there. The training was to make our youths pro-West or pro-East. The education was to make them irresponsible ones. All these things you yourself have been witnessing.

Save this unity achieved among you. They will assault you to take it away from you. Try to have an independent country for yourself. Try to be free yourself. Be in persuasion of this. You, between your two classes, try to have a continued touch and link. The programs should be prepared by the students at the university and the clergies at the religious institutes. Things in accordance with the needs and necessities of the country should be charted out, not what is of any use to us. There are several things, which do not concern to our country. There should be a correct and sanative training.

When they come out from the college, they should be able to think independently and so in their work. The West and East should not influence them. They should be servants to their own country not to others. This is the meaning of the revolution at university. We should conceive the university revolution from its product. God willing, if after a few years, the product be human, Islamic, or one with a responsibility towards their own country, we will understand that a change has taken place. If it remains the same, communists be its product and Muslims from one side and communists from the other side would confront each other. We will be lame for ever. Even more worse will be in waiting for us. But we are hopeful that God will help us. Due to the endeavors of the clergies and those of yours, we will be able to reform our country.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.