Speech [In coordination among the Islamic organs; and the necessity for discipline and consistency towards reformation of the country's affairs]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I was never anxious during the length of the campaign that before 15 th of Khordad until the decline of the regime of Shah. The reason was I saw we are in confrontation of a tyrant regime and the foreigners. We are under obligation to change the things. If we had failed in our endeavors, it was not a serious matter to me because we had performed what was incumbent upon us. As such we had no responsibility before God. Some gentlemen used to tell me in Paris that this thing cannot happen. You'd better allow some of them to see you. When the Shah had already gone, I used to say that we have an obligation. We are acting thereupon accordingly. Those who act upon their obligation, they are not anxious whether they will lose or gain. If we won it is so much the better. If we failed, Imam `Ali too had failed in a battle with the Mu`awiyah. Imam Husayn too was killed and lost in the battle. But, in any case, they acted what was incumbent upon them. Likewise, we are acting upon what is incumbent upon us. I had neither worry nor fear along the length of this campaign against the tyrant and pagan hood. But now I am anxious and worried. We wanted to establish Islamic Republic. Thank God, many things are achieved. But my worry is from within us. There are two aspects- one is light and the other is heavy. The light side is the activities of the adversaries- their plots and their treacheries. This is not so important from my point of view. The thing that matters is the incoherence and inconsistency among the Islamic organs. There is no coordination. All are invited to coordination but they themselves do not have that. This causes worry. This creates uncertainty. As a result, the country shall remain shaky. If such a condition prolongs, the harm will appear from within. There is no need to come from outside and hurt us. We ourselves destruct and destroy ourselves. The more worrying thing is this: our hands are tied. Why? If we raise our finger to point at the person or people to tell or announce that he or they are terrorists or malefic and mischievous, it would constitute responsibility. Therefore, we cannot say so with certainty. At most, we can say that they are mistaken or erroneous. The people suppose they are the provincial governors or the ministers or other people. We say we don't campaign with them because they are from us. We used to campaign. The campaign either succeeded or failed. In either case, the victory was ours. But now we have no campaign. Since there is no campaign for us, we have to come to an understanding among ourselves. The country is now in a chaos. Assault hails from every side. So, we ourselves should carry ahead. But much to our regret, wherever you lay hand, there is difference, a division, a crevice, a gulf- governors with others, army with guards and so on. All stand at difference with one another. It is quite likely that this could have taken shape because of a mistake or misunderstanding. The greater mistake is to accept this initial mistake. If we remain in this condition, we cannot administer the country nor could any one else.

Unless there is coordination among the forces and the provinces and a military man in the job, things will not progress. Regrettably, this thing is not yet established among the people. Furthermore, the government officials have not digested the sense of this thing. This matter is not to that extent simply to say that so and so ministry is having problems. Now to whichever ministry you go, you will see that the people working in it have no coherence and coordination with one another. The ministries too are not at good terms with each other. One ministry does not see eye to eye with the other. As such all departments are in chaos. So, who should put the things in order? There is no way except that every one, wherever he is, should mend the affairs there. For instance, you live in a province or in a town. You should attend the things of that spot. You should mend the things existing there. You don't engage your mind somewhere else. You don't think that other places too are in a spoil. If your mind is occupied by the problems of no concern to you, you cannot reform your own environment. If you be engaged in a thought that the ministries too are running the same difficulties, you will be held up from doing your job that is the reformation of your own place or spot. The ministries will have to be reformed by the people working therein. Afterwards when the parliament is formed- by the will of God- these and such problems will have to be mended by the parliament. One who has a difficulty in his house should try to solve it himself instead of going to his neighbor to see how he is. If any difference is running at home, one's anxiety should be to pacify the difference. After this if he finds the same case somewhere else too, of course, it is much appreciable to set up the things there.

You gentlemen! You are governors of the provinces. Your province is like your own home. Your attention should be focused and concentrated to your own province. You see the people there whether all are good. Are there evil and malevolent elements too? You see for yourself if you can change these people to become good? It will be an error and a great mistake if you go after a person who is bad in the ministry of petroleum. By doing so you are ignoring your own province. Each one should attend the things where he is situated. The governors should see after their respective provinces first. Later the turn will come to other spots under your supervision such as districts and sub-districts, towns and localities and so forth.

As for the ministries, Mr. Kani «1» is in the interior ministry. He will have to see the situation in the ministry and mend accordingly. Some one in some other ministry will do the same. If each in his spot alters the things, the country, which is like a society, will be reformed.

However, the worry is that the Islamic Republic may be defeated. Before, we were in confrontation with the tyrant. He might have defeated us. In several cases, the tyrant has been victorious. Now in the world a tyrant is victorious too. But the Islamic Republic, we claim that Islam is there, the laws and regulations of Islam are its contents. If such a system is to be defeated by its own people, it will be too much. If the clerics across the country committed a harmful thing to the Islamic Republic, or the courts or the ministries do something, which is harmful to the Islamic Republic, it will be as though we ourselves have destroyed Islam. Till now, our slogan has" Islamic Republic". Now it is achieved, the contents we could not provide to be Islamic. Furthermore, we should rather destroy it. One pulls the way. The other pushes that way. When one speaks something, the other too says the opposite. As such, the country will become chaotic. All will shoulder the blunder on others' shoulders. No, it is not so. In blunders, we all are equally responsible. You all are shepherds. You all are responsible «2». I cannot say that all the blunders rest on some other's shoulder. We should admit that we have not yet attained the due growth and progress. We are still short of mental, ideal and spiritual development.

These were the people who did the things. Well, now it is your responsibility and ours to preserve what they performed and attained. The masses cannot run the country. But they worked. The masses- they worked. The yield surrendered you. Gentlemen! Now those who are at the helm of the affairs should preserve the gain. This is a divine trust. Each of us, wherever he be, every head of chief be against another head or chief, each power oppugn the other one- if such be the case from Tehran right to the borders and frontiers- it will be a country full of fury, fear, huggermugger and chaos. Such a country needs a caretaker. So, later on they will fix us and appoint us a caretaker. We ourselves should be mature enough. We have gained the victory. As for these matters, if we lack the due maturity, we will not be able to run the country. The thing that worries us is the trust which is now a deposit in our hands; if we cannot protect it or guard it because of lack of maturity, then, indeed, a caretaker will be necessary and a necessity for us. In the world they shout that we need a caretaker. So, one should come and take our care- either it would be America or the Soviet Union. Therefore, we should be aware of the fact of our own existence. We should not miss ourselves. Do not think that we exist no more. Should someone else come for our maintenance?! Now it must be you to maintain yourself. You should adjust the things in respective provinces, since you reside there. You must do that with vigor and power. If there is any shortage, the parliament will attend upon it. Anyway, the matter for worry and anxiety is that we should not be defeated. Defeat of a person or even a murder of a person is nothing. But if the uprising is defeated by our own conduct, it is too bad and deregulation. So we must be vigilant not to let it happen.

All of you- if any one of you has a belief in his country, in his religion, he has a belief in God. Today it must be preserved. Trifle and superfluous differences amidst each other among people should be repudiated. It should not be like this; one pushes aside the other not to lag behind. Whatever happens let the other suffer; this is bad. Such a behavior should never exist. All of us must be careful to have a brotherly approach to a person who might have committed a mistake. We can tell him in a mild way that the thing done by him was not correct. If he stood obdurate, you may refer to the quarters concerned. They will deal with him. Anyway, this has made me anxious. It is quite long that I am worried. I have disclosed my anxiety to all the people around me. I have told them that we cannot keep the campaign alive. We cannot campaign with a tyrant or a campaign against the foreign elements. But a campaign with ourselves! Let us sit together. Let us reach an understanding together. Let us be brothers together. We all are from one soil, of one country, from one land, from one country and from one religion- Islam. We all have sympathy with Islam. It should not be this way to say we are Muslims and others are not. If we, anyone amongst us, do not and does not perform the job which is vested in him in a due and correct manner, none of us is a Muslim. We are tyrants. The problem with the tyrant was the same. He was doing things against the interests of his own country. Now too, if every one of us, wherever he is, in Tehran or in a district, acts contrary to the interest of the country, we must gird ourselves for our own ruin. if our uprising, our campaign, ruins, we are ruined. If so, well, let us destroy; let us ruin our own campaign. It doesn't matter. In any case, I hope that these issues and matter that have gripped you be resolved. God willing, when the parliament shall carry its sessions, take the matter there. Get inspiration from the parliament and get them carried out by the executive side of the government. God willing, all the problems will be solved. In anyway, let me not recite a congregation. I am telling you to remind you that a population of thirty and odd million has campaigned and defeated a great power. Other powers failed to do such a thing. Against them, no power has dared to stand. All are now thinking what to do here. They look upon us as victorious. America is shouting and clamoring out of its absolute inability to do any thing. Others too are sacrificing it, traducing it. So, you need not fear anything at all. God willing, you are victorious. I hope you go ahead and be at your advance victoriously. No one is there to harm you or hurt you. Let this country be Islamic and its gist and contents Islamic too. You try to make the contents Islamic. It should not concern you. For example, somewhere, in some spot, the things are not Islamic. The work that you have to do is to make it Islamic. We, wherever happen to be, if we mend the things there, at our spots, then everywhere will be amended and the structure will stand on a sound and strong frame. God willing, I hope you will progress with all your strength and progress. The country is your own. You yourselves reform it. Its good and its bad is your concern now. Now there is no one to give you orders and commands. This country is your own house. You should maintain and manage your house.

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