In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I am not an athlete, but I love athletes
I am not an athlete, but I love athletes. I love the doers of good, although I am not one of them. «2» I beseech God, the Most Blessed and Exalted, to grant greater success to you young people, who are the assets of this country and the source of hope for the nation and Islam, in doing sports in all human dimensions. One dimension is the one you are specialized in. It is hoped that you would develop other dimensions of man within you. Athletes have always had a sound spirit because they do not subscribe to sensuality and pleasure seeking; they heeded physical activity and followed the saying that" a sound mind is in a sound body". If you pay heed to the state of the society and the different classes of people, you will see that those who are engaged in seeking pleasure are not enjoying real pleasure. Bodies are cast down, spirit withered and indolence has overtaken them from head to toe. If they live in pleasure for two hours, they are in suffering for 22 hours. Those who are men of God heed God, do physical and mental exercises and are not affected by depression. This is a blessing that God, the Most Blessed and Exalted, may grant to all.
Export of the revolution through decent demeanor
You should be a model in other countries, as you are from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, we need to strengthen Islam and implement it everywhere and export Islam from our own country to other places the way it has now been established in our country. One of the aspects of its export is you, the youth, who go to other countries and multitudes of people come to watch you, to watch your power. You should act in a way that you invite these multitudes to Islam in practice. You should represent the Islamic Republic in your deeds, in your behavior and in your conduct and, God willing, the Islamic Republic will travel with you to other places too.
I hope you will all be successful and sanctioned by God to carry on with your work and, as read and said by the gentleman, as you are advancing in sports, you will serve your people and this move is for the people. However, today our nation requires many things either in the battlefields or behind the front lines, and you are like a strong arm of this society.
We are isolated from among the reactionary governments and governments that want to plunder the people, because they are all against us. However, this is not the case among the nations.
People side with the truth; people are for humane values. It is the governments that have no information about these spiritual values. When you go abroad and contact the people many come to watch you, so you should display your physical values, your physical powers and thus maintain values of Iran. Because you portray to them the values of Iran, moral values, action-oriented values, ideological value you will spread them in those countries, God willing. When you are here, in Iran, you should also serve the society.
Our society needs the youths and their services. Today, Islam is in need of these youth here, who are physically and spiritually strong, to make their best to rescue the country from the corrupt ones. May God grant you all success and keep you alive for us.
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.