Speech [Motivation and blessings of the Prophetic mission of the Prophet (s)]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Reciprocally, I extend my greetings for this auspicious feast of the Prophetic mission to you sirs and the noble nation of Iran and to all the Muslims, rather, to all the oppressed of the world. The subject of the Prophetic mission and its blessings are not something that our restricted vocabulary can mention; the spiritual and material aspects of it are so vast that I do not think that we can speak even about its fringes. The subject of the Prophetic mission created a mystical-scientific upheaval in the world that it transformed the rigid philosophies of the Greek that had been realized by the Greeks and was and is also valuable, into a tangible mysticism and an intuitive reality for the masters of intuition. This aspect of the Qur'an has not been recognized so far by anyone except by the addressee of the Qur'an and in respect of some dimensions it is not discovered even by the addressee and is manifest only to the Essence of the Owner of Glory. If a person reviews the philosophies before Islam and the philosophies after the dawn of Islam, especially in the latter centuries; and the mystics before Islam and those that in India and other places pursued such subjects and the mystics after Islam that entered this realm with the teachings of Islam, you will understand what a transformation has taken place even though the great mystics of Islam are also rendered incapable of discovering the truths of the Qur'an.

The language of the Qur'an, which is of the blessings of the Prophetic mission, is among the great blessings of the Prophetic mission of the Prophet of God, is a language that is impossible to comprehend. Many perhaps think that they can understand the Qur'an as in their opinion it is easy to understand. Many of the scholars of wisdom and philosophy think that they can understand the Qur'an because they do not know the aspect that has manifested itself to them and the aspect that is behind these aspects. The Qur'an contains aspects that had not revealed themselves to anyone of the creatures of the heavens and the earth until the honorable Prophet- may God's peace be upon him and his household- had been appointed Prophet and the Qur'an had descended from the status of the invisible and by manifesting its descent in the heart of the Prophet of God. After the Blessed Prophetic presence of the supreme trustee got connected with the source of knowledge to the extent that it could be connected, the Qur'an manifested itself in his blessed heart and expressed itself in a seven-stage descent on his blessed tongue. The Qur'an that is now in our possession is the seventh descent of the Qur'an and this of the blessings of the Prophetic mission. This same seventh descent created such a transformation in Islamic mysticism and in global mysticism that the men of wisdom know a small part of it, not all aspects of it have been revealed to humankind, and it is not known if at all, the aggregate aspects of it shall be revealed. There are verses in the glorious Qur'an that are once again of the blessings of the Prophetic mission. These verses at the same time that a person thinks that well it is obvious, but they have not as yet been understood." He is the beginning and the end and the seen and the unseen and He is aware of all things and wherever you are, He is with you." «1»" He is the light of the heavens and the earth." «2» These are verses which neither the commentator can comprehend nor the philosopher and nor the mystic. Whoever claims to have comprehended them is steeped in ignorance. He has delivered the Qur'an to," Verily the one that can understand the Qur'an is the one to whom the Qur'an addresses itself." «3» A limited number of the Prophets of God and the immaculate Imams- peace be upon them- and through them, a limited portion that is comprehensible have been interpreted for humankind. But that which is the puzzle of the revelation is the same verse, which states that," Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth." The commentators who laid their hands on it have interpreted" Allah, Light of the heaven and the earth" meaning that it is not connected in any way to the Qur'an. These commentators, although they have taken a lot of trouble, yet they are unable to comprehend the subtleties of the Qur'an. It is not that they are to be blamed but the fact is that the glory of the Qur'an is far more than these matters.

The question of the wisdom of God that is propounded in the Qur'an, it states that" We have not comprehended you in the way that is your right to be understood." «4» and not" We have comprehended you to the extent of our ability to comprehend in relation to you." To the extent that is the right of comprehension of humankind, it has comprehended it but the scope of understanding of humankind is other than the right of understanding of God. The right of comprehension of God and the right to worship of God even in keeping with the above narrative, the honorable Prophet who is the biggest mystic and the greatest worshipper states that," We have not recognized the right of your comprehension and your worship." But he does not say that," We have not worshipped you in the manner that is your right to be worshipped." This is because he has repaid that but that pleasure is humane and is an apparent manifestation while for understanding of God, neither the closest angels and nor the Messenger of God can find that understanding- and this is of the blessings of the Prophetic mission. The amount of knowledge that has been attained for the men of knowledge is a result of the book of God that has descended on the heart of the Prophet of God that also is of the big secrets. Quality of revelation is a subject that except for the Prophet of God and those that were the closest to the Prophet of God and have been inspired by him cannot be comprehended by any person. Thus, whenever it has wanted to introduce itself, it has done so in the language of we the common people as in the case of the Blessed and Almighty God Who in the language of the ordinary human being refers to Himself as a camel «5»; He refers to Himself as the sky; He refers to Himself as the earth and as the people and so forth. This is because the tongue fails to do justice to the subject the way it should be and so the Qur'an has done justice to the extent it could and no book of knowledge has been able to do justice while those that have been able to do justice have done so in emulation of the Qur'an.

If the Qur'an did not exist, the gateway to understanding of God would be closed until eternity. The Greek philosophy is another gateway, which is very admirable in its own place because it proves with logic while no knowledge is gained; it proves with reasoning the existence of the Blessed and Almighty God. Knowledge is other than proving the existence. The Qur'an has descended in order to prove it with the same usual methods and perhaps even more basic methods than that. The other aspect of it is the mysticism of the Qur'an which to the extent that is in the Qur'an you will not come across in any book not even in the books on Islamic mysticism that have been transformed and is vastly different from mysticism prior to Islam. Still the changes of the Qur'an are other than what they have.of spirituality with the material and the reflection of spirituality in all aspects of the material are of the characteristics of the Qur'an. At the same time that the Qur'an is spiritual book, it is mystical in a manner that in our hands; in our thinking; in the thinking of the Trusted Archangel Gabriel it does not come across as such; yet it is a book that it polishes the moral behavior, that also reasons, that also governs, that also enjoins unity and also urges fighting. This is to the limit of a human being and also the gateway to material as well as connection of the material with the spiritual and also the gateway to administration and also the gateway to rule and to everything. We who hope to be the followers of Islam and be the followers of the Qur'an must consider all aspects of it. Not only must we keep it in mind, rather to pursue it until we attain it; we should engage in holy struggle until we attain it.

If in case with the same apparent aspect of the Qur'an, the same aspect for which the Qur'an descended on humankind, which was to eradicate oppression from among humankind. This implies that one aspect of it is to eradicate oppression from humanity and establish social justice among humankind. If we strive and those that regard themselves to be followers of the Qur'an; if the Muslims of the world endeavor to spread this aspect of the Qur'an which is the aspect of implementation of Islamic justice in the world, then it will become a world that is apparent manifestation of the Qur'an. We the nation of Iran that started a movement and cut off the hands of oppression must pursue this matter of justice to where the hands of the tyrants are totally cut off from our country. With the guidance of this light, the rest of the Muslim countries and the rest of the oppressed of the world should awaken and liberate themselves from the domination of the big powers. The thing that we must pay attention to on the anniversary of the Prophetic mission is that the objective of the Prophetic mission of the Prophet of God was to teach the people the path to eliminate oppression; to teach the path that would enable the people to confront the big powers. The Prophet ic mission was to save the moral conduct of the people, the lives of the people, the souls of the people and the physical bodies of the people and all of these from evil; to do away totally with darkness and replace it with light; to do away with ignorance and replace it with the light of knowledge; to do away with the darkness of oppression and replace it with the light of justice. It has shown us the way; it has taught us that all people, all Muslims are brothers and must be united and not have differences.

Brothers, we are suffering at the hands of all the evil powers of humankind; we must pay attention and see what is our divine obligation today when all have attacked us. All the strata of the nation, all those that are administrators of the country and are government officials; all those that have been entrusted with the Judiciary; those that have been entrusted with other tasks; those that are guarding the frontiers such as the army and the others; those that have been entrusted with all things and the rest of the strata of the nation have a duty to safeguard Islam; they have a duty to protect the Islamic Republic. This biggest duty that Islam has and it cannot be accomplished except with understanding; except with all the nation-becoming brothers. " The pious believers are brothers." «6» If this religious fraternity is sustained throughout our country and every person does not think about himself and pays attention to the objective and sacrifices himself for the objective, then no one can violate this country. If God forbid, among the sirs, among the people, among the government administrators; among the legislators; among the various strata of the people, workers, employers and agriculturists if among all of them this religious fraternity is weakened, on that day the demons shall infiltrate your ranks and sow discord among you and the big powers will derive the benefits.

They, the big powers, are sitting there with their operatives in this country to find ways whereby the inhabitants themselves clear the path for them. They will not approach you directly; with these methods, with corrupt pens, with corrupt thoughts that they employ to serve them they will approach you; and with rumor-mongering and spreading lies among you, they want that each person becomes distrustful of the other. The day that the strata of the nation God forbid, contrary to what they are today, become distrustful of each other, on that day they shall infiltrate and exploit them. We are all responsible; from me the clergy up to the theologians of the Islamic homeland and the authorities. The parliament, the president, the military, the Guards Corps and all the strata of the nation are responsible before God. All of us shall one day go in the presence of God and we shall be questioned; they shall question us about the blessing and that blessing is Islam. We are responsible, we must trample upon our personal grudges for the sake of God and for the objective. We must all live for God because we are from Him and whatever we have is from Him. Whatever power there is belongs to Him; whatever blessing there we have is from Him and He is the light of the heavens and the earth. We have a duty on His behalf and on behalf of our own mind and our conscience to serve the One who is custodian of all our things. Our objectives and aspirations should be to strengthen His religion and to implement Islam among humanity and this would not be possible except with your unity of expression and shunning differences if at all, God forbid, there is and God willing, it is not present. I am optimistic that with unity of expression and fraternity of religion, we and you stand firm and safeguard this country from the events of the world. May God willing, all of us are granted the pleasure of receiving the spiritualities of the Prophetic mission of the honorable Prophet. May the Almighty God, grant us the blessing of the light of His Wisdom that has been sent down by means of the Qur'an. May the Almighty God safeguard the Islamic unity of this nation and awaken the Islamic governments and link the nations of Islam together.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.