In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
All the prophets are teachers and all human beings are students
Though the gentlemen were not to have taken the trouble of coming here, and the doctors have also been cautious and have not allowed me to speak too much, nevertheless the esteemed students from Pakistan, some other gentlemen and Iranian teachers have come here today. And hence this gathering now is a teachers and students forum. If these two groups are reformed, they will be able to reform a country. If, God forbid, they be anything other than this, the country will be led to rack and ruin.
Teachers and students ought to constitute the country's intelligentsia. Their position is a matter to which great attention must be paid. Their responsibilities must be made clear so that, God willing, they proceed along the path Islam has laid out and the status of humanity demands, and after passing the [various] stages, reach the place where they become [proper] human beings.
All the troubles and pains the prophets and the saints of God have taken from the beginning of creation up to now, and will continue to do so until the very end, constitute the prelude to this entity, outwardly known as a human being, becoming a real one. All the Heavenly Books, that were revealed to the prophets, were for the purpose of subjecting this creature- that left to itself is the most dangerous of the world's creatures- to divine training and instructions, thereby turning him into the best and most virtuous of all creatures. All the Islamic and monotheistic movements took place for the same purpose. All Islamic issues are the basics that lead to man's development. If this two-legged creature is given free rein, it will destroy the whole world. The prophets came to prevent all this big mischief, these devastating wars and grossly unjustifiable acts in which the countries are embroiled, and to guide the people to the [true] path, for them to take and become true and perfect human beings. If this two-legged creature be trained, all the needs of the world and the hereafter will be fulfilled. But if it is left free [to do whatever it likes], or if it acts in a manner that is against its own intrinsic nature, the whole world will be destroyed.
All the prophets are teacher in this respect, and all the people, students. The prophets have a school in which they want to train this two-legged creature which is the worst and which will prove to be the most dangerous of creatures of the world if left to itself. They wish to guide this creature to the straight path; the right way, and it is their duty to carry out this task.
For this reason, the teachers are not limited to the people who go to the universities, the secondary schools or all the other places [of instruction]. And the students, too, are not limited to those who go to the universities. The whole world is a university in which the prophets, the saints and those trained by them are the teachers, while the rest of humanity comprises the students; and it ought to be so. The world; the entire world should consist of two classes: one class, the teachers and professors; and the other class, the students and learners. The teachers' duty is to guide society towards God while the students' duty is to learn.
Man being either divine or taghouti
This means that a society ought to emerge in which everybody is conscious of God, the Blessed and Exalted, and strives for His sake. If everybody follows His path, the economy [of that society] will also become divine and so will its education [system], army, gendarmerie, students and teachers. There is God and taghout; just the two. There is nothing else apart from them. It is either the path of God or that of taghout. The way of God is that which guides man in all his dimensions- the intellectual dimension, the middle dimension which is the one of imagination and the lower dimension that is the one of action- to the path he ought to traverse. They are divine if set on the straight path; the path of God. Anybody taking it is divine until the stage when everything of his- his deeds, conduct, imagination, and intellection- becomes divine. It is either this path or the path of left and right. These are contrary to the straight path; they are deviations leading towards the taghout." Allah is the Protecting Friend of those who believe. He bringth them out of darkness into light" «2»
Darkness is all the world that is not heedful of God, and light is the Absolute Light of the Exalted Lord to which the whole world should pay attention." As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities." «3» These are the only two paths: either[ the path of ]faith and Islam, and the observance of the divine creed whose Lord is the One that guides the believers following this path and makes all the human dimensions divine, or the path of heresy; the one that diverges from monotheism, whether to the left or right, and ends in hell.
All the mischief, all the wars waged in the world by the superpowers are satanic and taghouti in nature. There are taghouti wars and monotheistic ones. The prophets, the saints and the believers made wars to correct the refractory elements and made them desist from their arrogant ways. Such a struggle is a divine one, but the struggles to occupy positions and acquire power, or to impose upon society; or the wars that take place because of the treachery of the superpowers, or any other power, are satanic and taghouti by their very nature. These two are the only [kinds of] wars in the world.
Whatever man does- whether physical, emotional or mental in nature- falls within these two categories: it either follows the straight path or follows taghout and is deviated towards the left or right." Show us the straight path". «4»
One end of straight path lies and the other end connects us to the Other World: the source of light:" The path of those whom thou hast favored". «5»
The place from where the teachings of the prophets came. God has favored us by guiding us towards this path, the divine one, so that all the people of the world acquire proper training and live in prosperity and tranquility, and change all the aspects of this world into the divine, monotheist one. All other acts, whether emotional, mental or physical, that are contrary to this path are taghouti. There are only two paths: the taghouti or the divine; nothing more.
You the teachers and the students: follow this path laid out by the prophets. This is the path of God; the one laid out for humanity by the prophets and the saints of God. This is the divine path along which all of us must proceed. Those who invite the people to a path other than this, are [the followers of] the taghout. And those who guide the people to a path contrary to their own natured one; the one that concerns their own essence, are leading them astray. I hope that the teachers, wherever they be; the sisters and brothers who are teachers, the ones who are students or `alims [scholars], consider themselves as students and teachers. The teachers should guide them [the students] to the right way of the prophets, and the others, in turn, follow the straight path shown to them by the prophets.
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.