In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
False supporters of Islam and the Muslims
Today, I am seated across the innocent faces of the victims who have become orphaned and homeless under the oppression of the big powers, at the hands of their stooges. We find many tall claims all over. All the heads of the Muslim countries make false claims of loyalty to Islam while the heads of other countries make tall claims about philanthropy and championing human rights. There is nothing new about such claims; history has heard many such false claims that did not pass the acid test even in the early days of Islam. The Kharijites, too, made many tall claims about Islam and the likes of `Amr ibn al-`As also did the same. Even today, Saddam claims loyalty to Islam and the Arab world and his treacherous brothers like Sadat, too, make the same claims. However, a glance at their actions reveals that there is a world of difference between their claims and their acts. These very same so-called" loyalists" and" supporters" of Islam gathered in Ta'if- a part of Hijaz that was the center of the emergence of Islam- and said and did things there that you are all aware of! Did they ever make any mention of these innocent children who have been orphaned at the hands of the Zionists? Did they make any mention of Lebanon or any of the other Muslim countries that are under the suppression of the big powers and their stooges? Don't these self-proclaimed" loyalists of Islam" see that Islam in all the Muslim countries is being crushed under the boots of these big powers and their stooges? Were they unaware of the situation in southern Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, and the other Muslim countries and what the big powers have been inflicting upon the people of these countries and how many innocent little children they have orphaned and made homeless? Was the Ta'if Conference unaware of all these issues? They all gathered there in that conference in the name of Islam without the slightest concern for Islam. All that happened was that large amounts of money were spent in extravagance and in luxurious overindulgence without any concern for Islam and the affairs of the Muslims. Has the Prophetic saying," The one who wakes up without any concern for the affairs of the Muslims is not a Muslim," «1» not fallen upon their ears? Did these people show any concern for the affairs of the world Muslims? What did these heads of the Islamic states who had gathered in Ta'if, the place in which the Messenger of God and the Prophet of Islam (s) had commenced his divine mission, contribute toward Islam? What concern did they show toward the affairs of Islam and the Muslims? With reference to this Prophetic saying, can these people even be considered to be Muslims? Did they make any mention of the people of the Muslim countries who are being suppressed by the big powers and are being rendered homeless and are being massacred and orphaned by them and their stooges, in spite of being well aware of all these atrocities? Did they make any mention of the Israeli aggressions against Lebanon and Palestine? Did the Ta'if Conference make any mention of the Iraqi aggressions against the Islamic country of Iran whose only crime was that it had expelled the taghout and is struggling to establish Islam in its place and is striving to establish an Islamic regime in place of the earlier taghouti regime?! Or then are they just making tall claims? All these talks of being Islamic are also tall claims rampant among all the heads of the Muslim countries.
The false claims of the" champions of human rights"
All this focus upon human rights issues are also false claims that are rampant among the heads of most of the countries of the world. Carter also claimed to honor human rights but did he actually do so! Did the deposed Shah of Iran honor human rights for them to support him? Did those countries that imposed the Pahlavi dynasty upon us- these same" human rights champions"- not see what they inflicted upon Islam and the Muslims? Were they unaware of what Zionism was inflicting upon the people of Lebanon and Palestine? Or were they also partners in the whole thing and are just making false claims? There are very few people who are Muslims and are concerned about the affairs of the Muslims. The peoples themselves need to do something about Islam! We have lost hope in the leaders of most of the Muslim countries but we have not lost hope in their peoples and it is they who need to do something. Even as far as the Iraqi attack upon Iran was concerned, it was the peoples who expressed their support for Iran; hardly any government did so. They either gave their approval to the aggression of Islam by kufr and they gave their approval to the Iraqi Ba`athist unbelievers or then they sat unconcerned and silently witnessed the aggression of kufr over Islam. These same people who make tall claims about their concern for Islam indifferently witnessed the Israeli aggressions over Lebanon and Palestine and their countless other crimes. Do you think that they are concerned about the affairs of the Muslims? Or is it that the Muslims are being crushed under the suppression of the supporters of the big governments in all the countries and these people are completely indifferent? How can we accept their tall claims? Even those who murdered the Commander of the Faithful, `Ali (`a) in the prayer niche claimed to be followers of Islam. Even those who formed armies and attacked the army of `Ali ibn Abi Talib (`a) claimed to be the followers of Islam. They fought Islam in the name of Islam! These leaders of today also claim to be the followers of Islam and commit all their treachery in the name of Islam. Saddam also claims to be a follower of Islam and has attacked a Muslim country in the name of Islam. And he has martyred thousands of our youth in the name of Islam and has rendered almost two million people homeless. In the name of Islam, he is committing the same atrocities on the Islamic scholars in his country that the Mongols committed over Iran. There have always been tall claims and it is no different today.
I express my condolences to all you children who have been orphaned at the hands of these criminals. We share your grief. We share your anguish over having no news of the whereabouts of Mr. Mousa Sadr. «2» We share the grief of the Iraqi nation over the manner in which Mr. Sadr «3» and his dear sister were tortured and murdered. We share the grief of all the oppressed peoples of the world and we extend our support to all of them. The oppressed of the world need to rise up against world arrogance. They should not wait for their governments to do something; they should themselves rise up.
May Allah empower Islam and the Muslims and may He grant victory to you sisters and brothers who have been rendered homeless!
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.