Speech [God's rule/dominance over the self is a touchstone to measure faith]

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Gentlemen, I am very grateful for you attendance here to meet me and enabling me to have a few words with you. God has maintained a scale in the Holy Qur'an through which we can recognize ourselves and the other. God Says:" God is the guardian of those who believed. He takes them out of darkness and into light. As for those who disbelieved, their guardian is the tyrant who takes them out of light and into the darkness." «2»

The scale to measure the faith in a true believer and a non-believer is this according to the God's word. God is a guardian for a believer. God will bring all the believers out of darkness, any darkness and curtains to the light. God will lead all the men who are drowned in tenebrous ness and hidden in veils and curtains. He will bring them out of all kinds of darkness and launch them into light if they truly embrace the faith. God will lift the curtains of a heart- dark heart- to which all things in this world are dark and hidden behind curtains, one after another and make the light glitter in the place. The light, the absolute light, is His own effulgence of beauty. If we want to scale or balance ourselves, we should first see the scale, which God introduces for the identification of a believer and a non-believer if it exists in us. We claim that we believe in God. This is and shall be a vain claim, a claim based on vanity, if that touchstone, referred by God, does not exist in us. Let us see if we are among the friends of God and God is our guardian, or protector. If we are among the friends of a tyrant or an arrogant then the tyrant is our guardian. See if you have come out of this entanglement of nature, this decoy of nature and this darkness of the natural world,. See if the attachment with it (the world) is completely severe? Or at least diminished? If you discover yourself, if you coulombs yourself, and what you want to do be for the sake of God, then God will dominate you. Your whole being will be under the influence of God. Your strength, your process, your things, your limbs- all will be obedient to God and God's commands. If yours eyes are not curtained and they look at everything I mean the things that are prohibited, things that should not enter sight, then the tyrant is your guardian. On the other hand, if your eyes avoid looking at what they should not look at, that is if your eyes refrain from embracing the prohibited objects into their sight, this shows that God is the guardian, the protector and the proprietor. If your eyes embrace the illegitimate objects, it will cause darkness in heart. The test and the trial are great. Who is able to recognize or identify or spot himself as to the faith which he lays claim upon? He can detect as to whether the ray of faith penetrated into his heart, whether the darkness is shattered and spelled. This is the rule for Whoever, wherever he is; you wherever you are; in bazaar, in a school, and whoever you are, a guard, a police, president of a republic, a minister, a deputy or among any class- this is the general and common rule to all. This touchstone or test is for all and it is the same. We ourselves in the solitude of night and in our loneliness should see if our heart houses a light, whether our heart has developed any heed to light? Or it is still a dark heart, a dark cell for satanic hopes and aspirations? Our heart cannot be a third station. It should be bright, shining with light or a dark cell of Satan. We are dominated either by the rule of God or a tyrant. It is quite clear. If we take this world to heart and its temptation attracts us we do every thing for ourselves. There is no God in our calculations and actions. All will be self-centered. Then we are among tyrants and arrogant. Our guard will be tyrant too. If we purge and train ourselves, get rid of these worldly attachments and take steps towards the origin of light then our hearts will develop a care towards God- the consummate light will go toward the absolute truth, and will spend in God's way the bounty which God has granted us, this shows that we have driven ourselves out of the darkness or some part of the darkness, and entered into the region of light. You gentlemen can test yourselves. You are at the head of Sepah. See if you have sincerity in this service? Are you working for God? Are you trying to promote God's commands? Are you working to promote the Islamic Republic? Or you have other purposes? This service is like an umbrella which conceals your motives. It is just a pretext to persuade your own selfish aims. So by this touchstone, you can test yourself. If you find yourself after mundane gains such as your position or his position or be carried away by bestial instincts then you should try to rescue yourself from this fatal stage. It is quite likely that one throughout his life be in the service of a tyrant unintentionally.

This is one of the very important issues which should be comprehended. Sometimes man moves towards hell. He is heading to hell all during his life but he is not aware. From the beginning till the end of his life he is dealing with selfish motives. His deeds are in line with his own interests although he is a guard in Sepah. Since his actions are for his own sake, it has no value for God. He is serving in the army; His services seek his selfish aims though. Hence, he has neither connection nor a link with God. He may be a clergy, a student of a religious or a theological institute. His motive, his errand and his purpose is in line with his own self. It has no relation to God. He may be a `Mullah' giving sanctions to the groups of the people. But God is not important because he himself is employed. This is a scale fixed by God." Those who denied, tyrant is their guardian." This is a scale which measures faith, and finds out its existence. It is likely that we testify the things that are in Islam by word. It is also likely that our testimony be a sincere one. But if we look at the touchstone, fixed by God, we will find ourselves among the pagans category though we are among Muslims. God has divided human beings into two categories:" Those who believe" and" those who denied". Well, we testify that God is one, Muhammad is His Prophet. Moreover there are obligations to be performed. There is nothing beyond this. But, as for the faith- it is an issue above all. It is a thing above all things. We should test ourselves to the extend that God has indicated. We should know as to who is in charge of us, who is our guardian? Is it God or a tyrant? We should know if we are serving God or serving the devil. We are reading lessons. These lessons are for God or for the inclinations of lust of self that is Satan. We issue decrees. Well, are they toward God or to cater the self-lust that is Satan? We are working in an office. Whether we work for God or for self-proclivity? This is a trial. This is a test. This is a touchstone. God has fixed this. Oh my brothers! This is a house that you are in. But you have to leave this house. You have to take off the covering. It is late. But it is there. One may live for a century. Yes, it is likelihood, a possibility. But finally he will die. He will go. Well, when he goes, will he enter light or darkness? So, here is the scale. You are the guards of Islam. Your friends are guards of Islam. You have to search to find out if you are doing this job to promote your selfish motives? You seek some or other pretext in a day. Are you, God forbid, going astray? Or, you have sought a straight path. Are you on a right path? There is no deviation, neither this side nor that. The right path is a path which its one end is here and the other end to God. Straight means that the path is clear. It is not tortuous, not sinuous, not crooked. Deviation is a thing that hampers one from pacing the way. It is the deviation that drags one to darkness.

Try to diminish your desires. Minimize your wishes to the least possible extent. God willing, you will prosper. Your Desires shall die, they shall succumb. You want to serve Islam. You have been doing so since the beginning. When this uprising and this Islamic revolution started, all groups, except the misguided ones who are always misguided, automatically understood the reality that they have to go this way. Nobody whispered this in your ears. You understood the way of God by yourselves. You have so far crossed one of its stations. You have crossed the obstacles, the setbacks and the handicaps, that were impediments on the way. You have repudiated them and cleared the way. Those hindrances were blocking the progress of Islam and its regulations. However there are some left but most of them have been cleared. You all became united. All the population of this country became one and united in their voice. When you all were one voice and sacrifice was your occupation, no tyrant or no arrogant existed. There was only God. It was a strange change; a miraculous change had taken hold of you all- all the classes. Nobody ever thought that he was doing the job to attain certain position. It was never so. Nobody was concerned of any place or any station. He who closed his fist and went beneath a tank, was it for a position? He was being crushed. There is no question of a position. This was for God. He who attacks without any weapons on the armed persons, he is not after worldly gains or any mundane temptations. He is sacrificing his life. He who prefers to give up his life, there is no doubt that worldly gains are not important for him. He is leaving the world itself and all in it. In that change, all who were in the field- women, men, children, elderly people, women with their infant in their laps, were united. Not any satanic idea surrounded you nor did any devilish hope persuade you. Remember your feelings at that time. Remember when you climbed over your roofs and shouted" God is the Greatest" (Allahu Akbar). Satan was around you trying to hunt you. Remember when you poured out into the streets and confronted those who had no fear of God and wanted to crush you under their tanks. Remember that condition. Remember your feelings in those days. It was the time when your guard was God. Everything in you was divinely. Every movement of yours was a Godly movement. In those days, you were the" Hand of God". These groups that were working together were" The Hand of God", hand of God with a group. «3»

That position, that condition, let them be in your memory. Preserve it. Keep it alive. The job is not finished yet. Don't distribute wickedness. This is the job of those who fight for worldly and material benefit. You did the job quite uniquely. You placed your life in a tray of devotion and presented it. Did you fight for the sake of your motives that you want the Distribution now? There is no distribution in question.

Ask God for reward. The worldly things are nothing to be a reward for your life you sacrificed and forwarded it in devotion. Now after sacrificing your life do you want a house? Do you want a shop? Do you want a post? Can this compensate that? One who has given every thing- his life, his youth, himself- whatever he had, now demands a house in return. Is there any return to it? Nobody can reward such a sacrifice except God. If this whole world is given to you, it cannot compensate it. Try to return back to that condition and save it. Don't be misguided by Satan again. Don't let a tyrant be your guardian. If those conditions in you are saved, the guardianship of God in you will rule. Nothing can substitute it. You go to Kurdistan and sacrifice your life there. Such a sacrifice has no compensation in this world. In the Battle of Hunayn, the Muslims were triumphant and won the battle. So the spoils of the battle fell into the control of Muslims. The Prophet returned back the spoils to its owners who were the Meccans; Abou Sufyan and his like. The Prophet gave back all the spoils to the owners who were his adversaries. Some complained. The Prophet replied:" They take their camels and as for you, the Prophet remains with you. Don't you like that?" The Prophet added:" It is a matter of regret to take a camel against so many sacrifices. They took their camels, and your lot is the Prophet himself" «4» You were in Kurdistan. You have seen those events. After rendering those sacrifices now you have returned to demand a camel? You do want something for yourself. There should be something tantamount to these sacrifices. There should be a thing in parity to its worth- the worth of the sacrifices. You overlook, you ignore, and you forgo these attachments. You give up your endeavor to these mundane things. The attachment itself is darkness. It is the same darkness that God says:" Those who disbelieved, their guardians are the tyrants who drag them from light to darkness." The innate quality of man is based on light. The innate nature of all of you is bright, a glitter, a Levin. It is the quality of monotheism. But it is turned black and turned to ignorance by our own hands.

We must be a guard over ourselves. We must fight against ourselves. We must take account of our selves before we are called for to give account. You yourselves take your own account before the accountant hails upon you. All the moments of your eyes, all the memories of your mind, all your ideas and thoughts, the erroneous, are in the presence of God. They are also written down in the sheets and recorded in the files. Each and every moment among the moments of your eyes if happened to be against the command, do know that it is and it has happened in the presence of God. The same is registered either. It is also in the narrations that every week twice the record of our deeds is presented to the Imam of the Age (i. e. Imam Mahdi). Therefore, be careful that your deeds may not be comprised of any such things that could cause his gloom or regret or sadden him. Before the angels of God, he might feel uneasy. He will say to himself that they are my Shi`ahs, my friends. They act against the pleasure of God. Chief of a nation will feel uneasy if his nation makes some errors. Dear Guards! Dear soldiers of Islam! Wherever you be, guard yourselves against the self in you and all the Satans around you.

I hope that you will not be fair-weather friends. You shouldn't desert the associates and colleagues in the middle of the way after having shown that much zeal and enthusiasm in this upraising. Note that the caravan has started and now is on the move. It is heading towards God. Therefore, be all together in this path. When you all are together, God will be with you too, since this journey is towards Him alone. Don't create divisions. You are all brothers." Indeed the believers are brothers." «5» This is also another touchstone to judge whether we see others as our brothers. Do we live together like brother? Or, God forbid, there is animosity among us. Are our relations brotherly or inimical? A believer is the one who is a brother to others. This bond of brotherhood, in reality, God has created in you. We are brothers half way, while enemy is in ambush. This is a path we are pacing. This is a path of God. Satan (Iblis) is the enemy. He tries to stop you. Be your own guard so that you can cover the way safely. You may arrive there safely. There is also a way for the progress and promotion of Islamic aims. Thanks God, you have so far crossed it. Later on you may proceed safely. You recall those feelings, which used to drag you to the streets and the squares in the beginning of the revolution. Now too, you should resuscitate the same feeling in you. If you regain those past feelings, you all will be brothers together. This is an aspiration, which is possible for every one.

You have a trust in your hands. You should preserve it. That trust is Islamic Republic. God bestows this to us. We should not think that we did this and that. If we say that we did so and so, it will be the same tone of the Satan. God has given this to us. A little group, which had nothing, overran the big powers. The Islamic Republic with all its organs came into being. Now it- the Islamic Republic- is a trust for us. We shall not be able to surrender this trust to its owner if we are at divisions among ourselves, squad of guards have confrontations, police be at confrontations, and the other classes of the nation develop differences on worldly material. A trust should be returned back to its owner. We should consummate the Islamic Republic. The commands of God must be exercised in our country first and then in other countries. We have to preserve this trust. You don't go after hopes and desires that are vile and low and carry satanic pleasure. You must courageous. Now you can have the same courage. Don't pay attention to those who are ahead and those who are behind. You should not care about these things. You should be together in the presence of God. God willing, all are the soldiers of God. God is our guardian. He will extricate us from all kinds of darkness and take us to the absolute light. May God support you all and be prosperous.

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