In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
We take our complaint to God
On the eve of the auspicious feast of Sacrifice, I should congratulate the Muslims of the world, particularly the pilgrims to the House of God, travelers towards the great altar of the father of Prophets- Ibrahim, «1» the friend of God (peace be upon him). Unfortunately, this year afflictions have befallen Muslims, who we should condole rather than congratulate. Muslims should mourn not only for the aggression of the great Satan, the criminal US against the sanctuary of Muslims but for the indifference of the so-called Islamic governments. We should not be aggrieved simply by the attack of the terrorist and criminal Israeli leaders against the dear Islamic land of Lebanon, we should not be sad about the crimes perpetrated by `Aflaqite Saddam, this slavish mercenary of the US and Israel, against `Arab and non-`Arab Muslims in the south and West of Iran; and we should not mourn over the jubilation of the rulers of Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Morocco, etc., for the victory of the enemies of Islam and humanity over the oppressed people of Lebanon and Beirut, with thousands of innocent young and old and children and women weltering in their blood. Although all these are disasters and must be mourned for, the greater disaster eclipsing all others is that a handful of ignoble Zionist terrorists attack Muslims in the most ruthless manner, but Muslims are sitting idle. Muslims command enormous spiritual and material resources by which they can easily drive back the US, let alone Israel, from the region. We are aggrieved not only by the homelessness of a number of innocent Muslims who have been driven out from their land, but we are mourning over a greater disaster. The greater disaster is that these crimes are being committed by Israel in broad daylight and before the eyes of the Islamic governments. The greater disaster is that the governments claiming to be Islamic are striving to acquire gratuity from the US and Israel in exchange for implementing the Camp David Peace Accord or other similar plans and recognize Israel openly as their master despite its committing these enormous crimes. The disaster befalling Muslims is that some of the so-called Islamic governments prevent the innocent people from even complaining about the brutalities of the oppressors.
The great dilemma is that the US has committed whatever oppression against the Muslims of the world, particularly, the Muslims of the region, for the past half a century and plundered their resources. The Islamic governments for fear of the US not only keep mum about the oppression done against their innocent people but they have even outpaced the US and Israel in voicing opposition against the plundered people of Iran, who launched the Islamic Revolution to make their outcry heard by the oppressed peoples of the world. To endear themselves to the oppressors, they help the aggressor by supplying it with all types of propaganda and weapons. Instead of shaking the hands of brotherhood and unity with the people and government of their brothers-in-faith, they shake the hands of servility and slavery to the US and Israel, rising to plot against the Iranian nation. We are now disappointed with the so-called Islamic governments and have no hope in them being guided. The only hope is that the Exalted God may favor and bring about a transformation in them to study the issues properly and to save themselves and their countries from the paws of world-devouring wolves. Let me now give some guidlines to the pilgrims to the House of God:
1- It is necessary that the pilgrims learn from the `ulama' the rules of Hajj- ranging from obligatory rules and acts that are forbidden- during Hajj to avoid any violation, which may waste their efforts, cause their Hajj not to be accepted, and create difficulties for them.
2- The Iranian pilgrims are required to note that they are departing for Hajj from a revolutionary, Islamic country committed to Islamic laws. The eyes of both friends and foes are fixed on them. Friends closely watch them to see if the respected pilgrims have retained their commitment to Islam or not; if they preserve the prestige of the glorious Islamic Revolution in their deeds and words and in dealing with other Muslims of the world; if they show patience amidst troubles and shortages, which are an integral part of such a holy sojourn; if they always God Almighty to be present in all affairs and proudly return to their country; if they act in a way that their country and revolution will be proud among Muslims; if they export the Islamic Revolution to other Islamic countries and among Muslims; or if they will, God forbid, in contradiction to Islamic ethics and conduct do some acts, through trifling, overtly or covertly which may degrade Islam and the Islamic Republic, an act that is an unpardonable cardinal sin. The enemies do not hesitate to magnify the trivial misdeeds you perform, attempting to take your wrong deeds, however insignificant, as an excuse to damage the image of the revolution and the Islamic Republic, presenting Iranian Muslims as unprincipled people, Islam as a school remote from lofty human values and the noble Iranian nation as decadent. You should know that the esteemed pilgrims shoulder a heavy responsibility before God and the struggling honorable people of Iran, who are committed to Islam and its heavenly teachings. Don't take this year as you have done the previous years. We all know that the claws of superpowers and their affiliates have been thrust upon the body of Islamic countries and oppressed people of the world, with the blood of young tyrannized Muslims dripping from them.
The superpowers of the world are now scared of the Islamic Revolution's policy to be independent from the East and West and the arch-Satan has summoned the petty demons to employ all sorts of plots to extinguish the light of God.
3- The pilgrims of any nationality or sect are required to submit to the commands of the Holy Qur'an. They should shake the hands of brotherhood to confront the catastrophic satanic wave from the West and East and their slavish affiliates to eliminate Islam. Pay heed to the divine holy verses enjoining Muslims to clutch the rope of God and forbidding discord and difference. Take the greatest spiritual and political advantage from this politico-religious ritual of Islam in that holy place, which has been set up to secure the interests of monotheists and Muslims of the world. Pay atention to the mystery of the Ibrahim-Isma`il altar that for the sake of the Blessed and Exalted God, and the sacred Islam one has to resist to the point of sacrificing his dearest fruit of life. Muslims should drive out the Satan and other big, medium or small evils from the sanctuary of the Ka`bah, curtailing the hands of evils from it and the sanctuary of Islamic countries. Muslims should respond to the call of God. The pilgrims of the Islamic Revolution of Iran should convey the call of the selfless and brave people of Iran to the Muslims of the world in that general assembly of Muslims. Iranian pilgrims should invite the Muslims of the world to convey the message of the Iranian people to the oppressed people of the world, and let the outcry of this revolutionary nation reach the world. The pilgrims should make the Muslims of the world know that the Iranian nation wants Muslims at large to rise up not for personal and regional interests but for Islam. Today, the plots of world-devouring criminals have afflicted Muslims. If Muslims fail to set up an iron dam against them with their Islamic unity, this devastating deluge of blasphemy and infidelity will inundate all.
4- Muslims should know that after the Islamic Revolution, which gave rise to the tendency towards the wonderful power of Islam, the US has concocted plots to create division between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to attack Iran, as the center of gravity of Islamic Revolution, to storm Lebanon and commit those heinous crimes in an attempt to efface Islam and debilitate its divine power. You should know that the plots of the US implemented by the sinister Israel would not end in Beirut and Lebanon. They have targeted Islam everywhere in Islamic countries, particularly in the Persian Gulf region and Hijaz, the nucleus of divine revelation. The first and foremost aims are to make the rulers of the region to blindly obey the commands of the US and, more painfully, that of Israel and yield to the disgrace of servitude. In such an atmosphere and enormous disaster, Muslim nations should not be indifferent or spare any effort to preserve Islam and the Islamic countries. How painful and calamitous is it to see the usurper Israel intruding into the lives of the innocent Lebanese people and the dear sisters and brothers of Beirut so impudently before the eyes of Muslims and the so-called Islamic governments. Rather than rising to stop the intruders and defend the oppressed Muslims as their divine and human obligation, the governments of Islamic countries show such leniency. These governments are actively engaged in executing the sinister purposes of the US and Israel and targeting Islamic Iran and Islam rather than the tyrannical Israel.
If they could provide excuses for their silence and assistance to the sinister goals of these criminals and their masters, can they distort history? Can they deceive liberal nations? Can they convince the vindictive God with their implausible excuses? Will be the cardinal sin of treating the great Islam as a play thing, forgiven? Can they provide an answer when they are called to account for the innocent blood of women, men and children of Beirut?
5- In this sacred journey the caravans should coordinate views on political and Islamic currents and avoid disorder and acts in contravention of Islamic ethics. The respected pilgrims should follow the guidelines and proposals of the superintendent of Hajj, Hujjat al-Islam Mousawi Khoeyniha. If each group or caravan wants to act independently and without coordination, this lack of harmony might lead to disaster and can distort the Islamic image of the Islamic Republic and Revolution, in which case we have committed a cardinal sin, and have made ourselves accountable to people and the great God.
I hope that the dear pilgrims, may God assist them, take care of themselves and their friends lest this great divine act of worship be tainted by sin and wrong act. In divine places and sacred precincts in the blessed House of God, the performance of the rituals in the sacred presence of the Great God releases the heart of dear pilgrims from all bonds except God. Empty your heart of everything other than the Friend, adorning the ritual of Hajj and spiritual journey with rays of the divine manifestations. Return to your country with a light heart relieved of the bonds of nature and egoism and filled with the knowledge of the beloved. Bring with yourself eternal spiritual souvenir for friends rather than perishable material gifts. Join your martyrdom-loving friends here with a handful of human and Islamic values for which the grand Prophets from Abraham, the friend of God to Muhammad, the beloved one of God were delegated. These values and incentives release man from the bondage of the carnal soul and dependence on the West and East and help us sit under the blessed tree of neither East nor West. If the Muslims of the world come to realize the incentive of the Prophets, culminating in the Prophet of Islam, Satan and his hordes would never be able to enslave them. The teachings of Prophets have been summarized in the last revealed scripture, the Holy Qur'an, the book of guidance and instruction to elevate man to the real status of human beings. This holy book was revealed to the brilliant heart of the Seal of Prophets (peace be upon him) from the source of light," Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth," «2» to liberate the hearts of human beings from the veils of darkness and light, filling the world with light. If people join the light, they will never submit to Satan and evils, nor will they accept the brand of disgrace and abjectness on the forehead for a few days of illusionary seat of power, never grappling with each other to approach the great Satan for translating the enslaving Camp David Peace Accord into action. O, drops detached from the ocean of the Qur'an and Islam, come to your senses and join the divine ocean. Seek assistance from this Absolute Light so that the covetous eye of world-devourers would be disappointed in you and so that their perverse and aggressive hands would be curtailed, and you would lead a life replete with honor and human values. You will then be emancipated from this deplorable life governed by a handful of Israeli peddlers suppressing the innocent Muslims before your eyes. O, God! Grant vigilance to the slumbering ones and bring the rulers of Islamic countries to their senses to rule Muslims based on Islamic criteria, and shatter the ominous and arrogant idols.
6- The respectable clergymen and committed writers and speakers are required to introduce the real picture of Islam and the Islamic Revolution in Iran to the world. At opportune times compensate for poisonous propaganda released by mass media apparatuses affiliated with the US and Israel, which indulge in rumor mongering and spreading false against Islam and Islamic Republic of Iran. Highlight the Islamic accomplishments achieved thanks to the unceasing struggle of the committed people of Iran despite all the difficulties and sabotages created by the enemies of Islam inside and outside of the country and prepare nations. Unravel the slanders leveled by propaganda machineries against the Iranian nations and thwart the plots of the US and its affiliates. Enlighten the people on the attack of Aflaqite Saddam's army ordered by the US and supported by its affiliated countries. Make Muslims aware of the afflictions brought by American-oriented rulers on Islam and Muslims. Particularly remind them of the worst disaster: official identification of Israel that has savagely attacked Lebanon and killed and wounded tens of thousands of innocent people. Perhaps God Almighty will prevent this catastrophic disaster in history and withhold Muslims from being denigrated before the world and future generations. May God deliver the dear Islam and Muslims from this great shame and Muslims rid themselves of this misery that makes every committed Muslim tremble.
7- I warn the regional governments who come together for ploys and insurgency against Islam and teachings of the Qur'an against Islam and Islamic nations. If they do so, the government and people of Iran, as the biggest power in the region, will not forgive them and they will be responsible for any consequence that might come about. God and the people will not accept any excuse from turn, who hold the lifeline of the world's economy and industries. It is hoped that the dear Islam achieves its goals with the support of Islamic nations in the world, particularly, in the region and that the Muslims of the world emerge victorious over arrogant powers. May God's peace be upon the righteous servants of God.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini