Speech [Era of decline of human values and dominance of satanic values]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

It is a good coincident that on the auspicious birth anniversary of His Holiness Jawad- peace be upon him- we are in gathering of two honorable strata comprising of teachers and workers. I hope that these two respected strata that are the two arms of the country and the nation succeed in their respective trenches to intensify the struggle against the oppressors. The teachers and tutors should train the youth for service to the country and to Islam; and the most beloved workers work earnestly to rescue their own country from the evil that had existed in the reign of the evil" Taghout". The former group in education and rearing, while the latter in action and work make all the countries of the world to understand that a nation that wants to make itself stand on its own two feet shall itself be trained and shall also itself work.

Beloved brothers, we are living in an era in which darkness has enveloped the entire world. We are living in an era in which human values have been totally destroyed and replaced by demonic inhuman values. We are living in an era in which the satans of the world have launched an attack on human values and wish to bring the world under the subjugation of Satan. With trust in the Blessed and Almighty God and seeking assistance from Islam and the glorious Qur'an and the Messiah Imam of the Time- peace is upon him- we must try and undertake a Jihad. Jihad in the universities and colleges, Jihad in the factories and workplaces, Jihad in agriculture, Jihad in schools, Jihad at the universities and Jihad everywhere; Jihad on the fronts and Jihad behind the frontlines. It is possible that the demons infiltrate all these groups that are revolting for the sake of God.

All the strata that we have must face up to these demons and confront the hypocrites. It is possible that there are influential persons in the factories that would like this country to revert to domination of the superpowers; it is necessary that the devoted brotherly workers and for this great Islamic Jihad to confront them and not allow their negative propaganda to corrupt our youth. At the universities and colleges and high schools and academic centers, the teachers and students- the professors and the students- take care not to allow those corrupt elements and the hypocrites and the non-hypocrite elements that are all corrupt gain influence and God forbid, revert the university to the situation it was in before. The teachers, the students and the school students must strengthen their bonds with the seminaries. Our beloved workers and agriculturists, that are all important people in whose hands lies the economy of our country, must strengthen their bonds with Islam, the Qur'an and the theologians of Islam.

If you want to triumph in all difficulties, you must stand firm opposite all the powers. You must prepare yourself to face all difficulties. You must send abroad human values from here to all places and must firmly sustain your overall independence- be it cultural, economic, and social and all other forms of independence. This is possible under the auspices of devotion to the doctrine of Islam and trust in the great God and in fraternity and brotherhood of all the strata with one another. The enemies are in ambush. You are observing around you what the enemies are doing to us with their propaganda and what they are doing with their endorsement of our enemies. We have no one except the Blessed and Almighty God to lean on; whatever they have, we have human values and God on our side. You see what those that claim to be supporters of the masses and supporters of the `Arabs are doing in Khuzestan province; and what they have done to the beloved town of Dezfoul. They are under the immoral impression that by launching missiles on the homes, the children and the women and by killing the old and young, they can cause us to surrender. Once again, they have not understood Khouzestan; they have not understood Dezfoul; although from the start of the war until now they have had the experience and destroyed the homes of these our dear ones and have martyred a large number of the friends of God. Yet they are seeing that the people are firmly resisting and the nation of Iran and the beloved Dezfoul are firmly resisting them and although today they inflicted so many sorrows upon them, yet the cry of" War, war until victory" resonates from our youth in Dezfoul.

Those that make hollow claims of being supporters of the masses are behaving in this manner with the people of Iran and are assassinating the great theologians of Iran, the great beloved of Iran, the great scientists of Iran and all strata and are shaking the hands of friendship with the government of Saddam who has committed these crimes in Iran and committed this great crime in Dezfoul, they have revealed their hands to the world. Even today, they are not ready to condemn these savage acts and these horrendous crimes committed by this evil man. This is how the situation in the world has become. You are observing that such a great crime that has occurred and that has repeatedly taken place in recent years and has occurred several times in the past few days has not been condemned in all the mass media. They would make a passing reference to them or say a word that Iran has said such a thing while on the other hand Iraq was saying that it would avenge it. Human values are buried in this world. We have not seen those that clamor for human rights and organizations and so forth that are to be found with great pomp throughout the length and breadth of the world to condemn this act. They falsely take something from those that are hostile to us and issue announcements against Islam, against Iran and against the beloved nation of Iran and warn us and the reason they give is that the enemies have said such a thing. The solid reason of the organizations of the world is that we kill small children in the streets and everyday in the Evin prison, hundreds of people are killed by firing squads; the reason is that the hypocrites" munafiqin" have said so. This is a big reason for the organization; but the organizations never ask what Saddam has done here. This is how the situation of the world is. We are hopeful that a situation is created in this Islamic center of Iran whereby those immoral values are buried and the beloved Islam is propagated and the rays of the Qur'an are manifested throughout the world so that Islamic values that have been eliminated and human values that have been eliminated are revived and resurrected. For this, the first thing is that we pay attention to ourselves; we take care that if we are to choose between humane and divine values and evil" Taghouti" values we choose the humane values. If we are to choose between either serving our own country and being devoted in relation to Islam and our own country or serving the countries of the East and the West, we must choose that thing which is for ourselves.

Those that are in this country and are the remnants, one group of them clamors for the East while one group for the West while at the same time claiming to belong to the nation. the person that wants to create disruption in the factories; who wants to pull his country towards domination by others and the person that creates disturbances in the university and wants to drag his university towards subjugation by others, these are foreigners in the guise of nationalists and in the guise of Iranians. They are strangers to Iran and Iran no longer recognizes them as being Iranian. We do not regard the one that sacrifices all his Islamic and national values for the Soviet Union or sacrifices all his values for America to be Iranian.

Brothers and sisters! We have entered a path, which is the path of the Prophets; and history reveals that the Prophets were faced with difficulties. They were always of the deprived strata opposite the evil" Taghout" and the problems they faced were very many and energy sapping. From what we know of history and that has been handed down to us from the Prophets, we notice that all the Prophets were faced with the contemporary evil" Taghouts" and were having problems. We that want to step in the path of the Prophets must not be afraid of facing difficulties because in the same way that the honorable Prophet of Islam- peace be upon Him and His Household- accepted all the difficulties in the more than twenty years of his Prophet ic mission. To spread the commandments of religion he bore all the difficulties; he faced economic hardships, was imprisoned several times in a cave, and was faced with those hardships but he did not surrender his objectives. The Quraysh clan did to him what is revealed in history, yet he did not give up his objectives and similarly, the other Prophets. When the objective is divine, however difficult the path but because the objective is divine, it must seem easy. You see in some of the narratives that Husayn Bin `Ali (`a) would become more radiant the closer he got to the noon of `Ashoura. His face would light up «1» because he saw that it was Jihad in the path of God and because it was Jihad in the path of God, the loss of his dear ones was in fact not a loss but were reserves for the eternal world. You that are equipped to serve Islam, our beloved workers that are equipped to serve Islam and to operate the factories and they should act with earnestness so that they safeguard their independence. They do have problems but the problems are not unsolvable problem. The universities, the teachers and professors and the students that work for the sake of God do have problems but they are in the path of God and the hardships in the path of God are not hardships so to speak. If we take into account the hardships faced by the Prophet of Islam- may God's peace be upon him- and Hadrat `Ali- may God's peace be upon him- they were far greater than the hardships that we are plagued with today. They were patient and the Blessed and Almighty God is on the side of the patient. We must be patient and face the powers that want to swallow us and bang their heads.

Brothers, my dear ones, sisters, the beloved of Islam, be careful and take care of yourselves and do not allow any hesitation to overcome you for we are victorious. We resisted on the day when we had nothing and all the powers were against us. Today, thank God, we have a nation that is united in the face of all the powers; we have a Khouzestan province that has bravely faced those hardships and we have a Kurdestan province that has valiantly resisted despite all the hardships- and all over Iran, it is the same. Thank God, today we are strong and the region has no such power. Today, we are resisting all and no power can harm us. Hardships have no effect on a nation that is ready for martyrdom. The parents that sacrifice their beloved ones for Islam face no hardships; they have overcome the hardships. Our country has overcome its hardships; it has tolerated all the pressures brought upon it from all around." For verily, God is with the patient." «2»

After placing our trust in the Blessed and Almighty God and are on the right pursue the truth, why should we be afraid of anything. We are not afraid of martyrdom and thank God, today the power of Iran and the power of Islam in Iran is such that it has attracted the attention of all the oppressed nations and Islam has been exported all over the world. From the dear blacks that are in America and Africa and on to the Soviet Union and everywhere. The light of Islam is shining and the attention of the people is drawn towards Islam. This is what we meant from exporting the Revolution, it has become a reality, and God willing, Islam shall prevail over faithlessness everywhere.

May God grant you happiness and may God connect our beloved that have been martyred and especially the recent martyrs of Dezfoul to His own blessing. May He grant patience to the inhabitants of Khouzestan and especially Dezfoul and a great reward and equip us to face greater hardships and grant us greater benefits by His own favors.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.