Speech [Foreign conspiracies instigating deviation in the scientific-cultural centers of the country]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

We are approaching a blessed day and an auspicious `Id on which the greatest personality of the universe came into this world for the salvation of mankind and to bring about the most supreme transformation ever as well as the auspicious birthday of his grandson Imam as-Sadiq «2» (`a) «3» who furthered the cause of religion and presented true Islam to mankind.(They brought about) transformation from various kinds of polytheism, atheism, fire-worshipping, and all sorts of deviation to stability, monotheism, and worship of the Supreme God; right in the heart of where idols and idol-worshipping had replaced monotheism and the rule of God and where fire-worshipping had replaced the worship of the Almighty God.

It is an auspicious day that we are approaching and is a day which heralds man to the call of resistance and toward guidance unto the Straight Path for mankind. And the followers of that great one[ the Prophet (s)] are those who follow the same path and tread in the same footprints and first begin with themselves and then go on to others. You young students and all you dear ones who have come here from all corners are the hope of this nation and are expected to complete this mission that has been placed before you. And to continue this movement for which countless sacrifices have been made. This is the Straight Path that the prophets of God (`a) have placed before mankind. This is the path that the gracious Prophet of Allah (s), the last of the prophets, and the most noble of them all has placed before mankind and he has invited them to this Straight Path and has guided them to the path of humanity and toward freedom from all kinds of disbelief and atheism and freedom from all forms of darkness to the Absolute Light. You young ones should pursue the same path in order to be the followers of the Noble Prophet (s) as well as the worthy followers of Imam as-Sadiq's (`a) school of thought.

My dear ones! Those who have gone astray and those who want this religion to fail in its mission and those who have faced humiliation at the hands of the school of Islam and those who see the religion of Islam as being against their personal interests as well as the interests of their lords and masters are first aiming to bring about deviation within the schools in which our children, our youth, as well as our adolescents are seeking to gain perfection. They are lurking for the opportunity to bring about deviation in schools which are the fountainheads of all progress and to lead astray our adolescent youth who should be carrying this country toward its optimum growth and who should rescue it from the clutches of strangers. And that is why you can see that the primary schools right up to the university have become their centers of conspiracy and you are their targets and they want to lead you astray from the precious path of Islam; and to turn the universities and the secondary schools and the primary schools and all the centers of education and moral training into centers in which, if education is offered, it would only be for the benefit of the superpowers. And that whatever is gained in those places and in those sacred centers is to the benefit of the superpowers. They begin right from the kindergarten and as our youth and our children move forward they have plans to chase them there. The kindergarten schools, right up to the universities, are under the detestable sway of imperialism and they know very well that if they manage to lead these youth away from the straight path and from the Path of Allah, they will attain to their wicked goals. And that is why their attempts and their targets begin with the kindergartens and continue up to the universities. And those centers which should be used exclusively for social welfare- for spiritual welfare in society and for material welfare in society and to secure the future of our beloved country- are dragged by them into corruption and then they stand aside and watch our youth because these misled ones have done their job and want to spread corruption at your hands.

You youth all over the country, right from the kindergarten school levels in which children study, up to the universities which should be the centers for education, learning, and morals should stay alert and should protect these centers from corruption. For those who enter these centers and are involved in propagation activities, you should- our youth should, the teachers of these youth should- check out what their backgrounds have been and where they stand today and what was their thinking in the past and what they are actually propagating. Today your nation, your country is the target of conspiracies. This is because your country has caused great damage to the interests of the superpowers and has brought about such humiliation to those big powers and their roots of corruption that they will not rest until they revert it back, or so they think, to its former state and into corruption. And they know that if they manage to mislead our children right from the beginning, this deviation will stay with them for life. And that if they lead our adolescents astray this nation will be led astray. And that if they deviate our secondary schools and our universities this country will be deviated.

The biggest safeguards for Islam are these centers in which you are spending your lives and in which you are gaining education. These are the centers, on the welfare of which depends the welfare of the nation and with the destruction of which the nation will be led to destruction. Our youth and our children should open their eyes and their ears wide and big so that these devils do not mislead them; and so that they are not coerced everyday by them into creating chaos and leading protests. No matter where you are studying, wherever all our youth and children all over the country are studying, you should always keep in mind that no matter which educational centers you are attending, education must always be accompanied by ethics, moral commitment, and lofty human values in order to have a life worthy of a human being and to free our country and make us self-reliant. If you youth pursue education simply in order to gain a certificate or a degree to put at the disposal of your material needs, this is exactly the deviation that they are aiming at. And if those of you who are studying in these centers adhere to the right trend of thought and follow a desirable goal and pursue your education in order to attain to this goal and to reach the aim that Allah, the Almighty, wants us to- which is purification of the soul and the sole worship of Allah and warding off all kinds of polytheism, deviations, and atheism from yourselves and from your centers- you will emerge victorious. All the deviation and all the problems that a country faces are because its centers of learning and education are not centers that teach moral virtues. And this applies for both the traditional schools of learning and the modern schools. So long as there is no ethical development and moral commitment and if man has not found his path at the onset, i.e. his Straight Path, and if his education is not abiding by the pure Islamic trend of thought this itself will cause deviation and this is what causes us and the Muslim countries to incline either toward the left or toward the right; either toward communism or toward the commands of America. These trends begin from the schools. They begin from the schools and the universities. They intend that whatever is achieved in our universities, schools, and secondary schools and whatever is achieved by the prolonged struggle of this nation and our youth should be to their benefit.

I wonder if you heard what this man" Hamid" «4» who they showed on television last night said on radio and television! If you haven't heard him yourself, ask those who have heard him and (see for yourself) how and with what tricks those criminal hands drag our educated youth into their traps. And the youth who should be the capital for their own country and who should endeavor toward the progress of their own nation are ensnared by them and are forced to struggle against their own interests. This is only one instance that you have witnessed; there are many such cases. This is because this trend was covertly rampant in the previous regime. Our universities were encouraged to follow this trend. To corrupt our young children right from the time they entered kindergarten schools up to the time that our talented youth who are the capital of this nation left the universities. Plans were to bring them up in a manner that would leave them totally influenced either by Moscow or by Washington. Such was the case and now that you dear young ones and all the school and university students want to take the reins of your country into your own hands, to protect its independence, to attain freedom, and to stride on the path of humanity and to reach human perfection and to attain to the goal of the creation of mankind, these devils are struggling to lead you astray.

Those who step into schools, and with their misleading propaganda compel our youth to act against what they learn through education and do not want them to get educated and do not want them to grow up into youth who are assets for their own country, find various excuses to drag them into staging protests and into differences and then stand aside and laugh at you and at us. Their attempts to re-open the universities before any proper planning was done were because they wanted to tender our society the same former conditions that prevailed when people like them were in power in those days. That is what they wanted. And they enter the kindergartens and the secondary schools with their own propaganda and their own instigation in order to compel our youth and our children to involve themselves in violence and fights instead of seeking education and instead of involving themselves in the purification of the soul, and instead of imparting Islamic ethics, leave them to face corruption, which is nothing but their former strategy. Our children, our youth, all of them- boys as well as girls- should put in all their efforts to recognize them and to understand what their aims are. They should recognize who those people were in the former days. They should know that they are busy causing corruption behind the scenes while our youth from the army and the revolutionary guards and the gendarmerie and all strata of people, tribes, and others are busy sacrificing themselves in the war centers and at the battlefronts. They are busy helping their lords and masters. They should know that they are supported by the foreign radio stations and by all the corrupt radio stations while the Islamic Republic is condemned by them. And they want to eliminate the Islamic Republic. In the same manner that Saddam and other such deviants have attacked our country and have started war. They are also waging the same war although in a different form in the schools, the colleges, and the universities. They are all foreign agents and you should stay very alert, wherever you are, on these matters lest you suddenly open your eyes and find that you have been deceived; in the same manner that" Hamid" confessed last night. May Allah protect you for the future of this country! May Allah guide our youth on the right path and may He place us at the service of Islam and our Islamic country!