Speech [Status of medical profession and duties of doctors and nurses]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I hope that you gentlemen that are working in a ministry to serve the destitute, the patients, the incapacitated and the wounded will benefit greatly from God's favors. May God grant you purity of intention so that your works will be for God! You should make your valuable efforts for God and expect reward from the Almighty. Health care is one of the important services. Physicians, nurses as well as the staff working for the public health are important. What is of paramount significance for physicians, nurses, and those in contact with patients and the wounded is the spirit of affection in them. One of the factors contributing to recovery of patients and their recuperation is that the physicians and nurses should try to improve their moral. If one comes to believe that one will recover from sickness, this will help one restore one's health. If however one assumes that one will not regain health, this approach will bring one closer to death. Physicians and nurses therefore play an important part in both situations. It makes no difference whether nurses are from among ladies and take care of ladies or men attending men. The point that should be born in mind is that affection to them and inspiring hope in them and promise of good health with permission of God will contribute to their health. Your assistance affects the health of patients. If you treat well with them, you will receive reward from God Almighty. For instance, may assume that a certain patient will not recover from a disease, but first you should know that there is the unseen hand at work, which is beyond our ken, so you should not lose hope. Secondly, it is better that a patient who is going to depart from this world be hopeful and satisfied with you. Never tel a patient that he will not recover, because it can expediate his death, prolong his disease and cause hhim to die hopelessly. However, if you inspire hope in him, treat him kindly show him affection, serve him sincerely and cheerfully, most of these patients who are despontend, will leave this world in a hopeful and pleasant manner. This is very valuable for you.

Physicians should give great care to the fact that their work is very important. You deal with the life of people and this is very important. You should pay careful attentions. Unfortunately, many of our physicians live abroad, have left Iran or have been living there, and not returned to the country. One of the points that the physicians living abroad should consider is that their own country needs them.

They have brought up here, received education at the country's expense, and are now living abroad. They are Iranians are indebted to people and Islam. This is the Islamic nation, which is on the receiving end of all sufferings and calamities caused by the superpowers. You physicians, who are living abroad, even if we suppose you live a long life in comfort, what then? Is not it more advisable to be at the service of the destitute and the patients of your own country, and serve this country which has been under oppression for long years? Now that our contry wants to free itself from the burdens of the east and the west, all place pressure on it from all directions. Are not these pressures enough for your expatriate physicians to look at your country and see welack the likes of you here. Everywhere we have the shortage of specialized physicians. It is fair that you specialized physician of this land, where you and your parents were nurtured, live abroad indifferently and nomchalantly watch the sufferings of our patients and those who were wounded in battlefields. Given this state of affairs, is your conscience clear? I do not think if you contemplate an hour, your conscience permits you to remain there even though living in comfort. Thank God, the health care system is rendering services to people. Moreover, as I heave heard, they have provided great services in the warfronts for which they are being appreciated.

I hope that the situation of hospitals will be better than today and greater attention be given to hospitals. It should not be the case that a patient enters a hospital but is not admitted. These treatments are in contrast to human conscience, equity and God's gratification. Much care should be given to these issues.

Among the necessary matters is the prevention of diseases which is more important than the cure.

These big powers never think to do anything for the comfort of nations. See what is going on in Lebanon. What calamity has befallen on the people of Lebanon by these so-called peacekeepers? The US, France, England and Italy have come to secure peace there and but waged a war. They have waged a war in a place that will be more peaceful without them. if the US was not there and did not exert that much pressure on the poor nation, they would probably have done some thing themselves. After exerting all kinds of pressure on nations, the big powers should not expet people to just sit and congratulate them simply tolerate and watch. These blasts are obviously a result of those pressures.

It spells disaster when politician end up being ruffians. When a politician does not move on the track of human ethics, he will end up being a thug, not a hoodlum in the neighborhood, but an international thug. The narration reading that if a man of letters goes corrupt, the world will go corrupt clearly applies to the politicians who are corrupt and lead the world to corruption. Today the world has become corrupt thanks to the scientists- the scientists who make lethal weapons and those crooked politicians who employ these weapons. The world is unstable because of these `ulama' and scientists. If they are eliminated from the world, people will live in greater peace and comfort.

Therefore, we should note that those powers claiming to have come for peace, are attacking `Arabs in their homes, and the `Arabs are just watching them. How can the `Arabs put up with this utter disgrace? The aliens and infidels are attacking `Arabs in their own homes and these `Arab countries are just watching. If these countries block the way of big powers for ten days, they will surrender. If these Islamic countries, these regional countries and the gulf countries block outflow of their oil for 10 days, it will set off an uproar in the world, and they will give in to them. However, they offer their oil, their repute, their country and their people. What for; for a preserve carnal desire; carnal desire is destroying the world. Carnal whims propel them to put their people under so much oppression for four days of comfortable life as they imagine. Carnal passion drives the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan and do those crimes. It is this carnal desire that instigates the US to commit those crimes in Lebanon, and to oreder, its agents cause sedition in Iran. All corruptions in the world derive from big powers; otherwise, these small ones are insignificant.

is now a carcass left over there. He is of no value. Yet, they are doing corruption. An instance of their corrupt acts was deceiving him and tricking him into attacking Iran. Now he has been stuck in it, not knowing what to do. He constantly cries for peace and wants to find a re spite to continue with his mischief. We know him better than others do. He does not want peace. He wants to find an opportunity in the name of peace and reorganize for a greater and stronger attack. Well, it is not possible to make peace with such a person. Who can give respite to one who is the enemy of Islam, God, his own people and our people so that he can rearm himself? The big powers will help him and he will be able to mobilize more people to launch a new attack? No one can give him respite. We should get rid of hi so that the region can do well witout him.

The big powers and their agents who are treating the poor people of Lebanon in that manner should bear in mind that people would not tolerate this situation forever. Finally, the developments, which took place in Iran, will rock other places. The big powers should think as of today. The US should not think they can do injustice and people will be indifferent. The Americans saw their base was blown up. Such things exists now, no manner how hard you try to over them. People are utterly desparate. The people of Lebanon and Palestine are very desparate, and as a result, they resort to suicide attacks. If one is not desparates, he will not contemplate suicide attack to dive the invaders out of his country. People cannot tolerate any longer. Therefore, they should think out a way, and keep in mind that noting can be set aright by hitting, killing, plundering and bombing. They should go away and let people handle their own affairs. They have to leave people alone. Finally, Muslims should think out a way and wake up; otherwise, they are international ruffians and will not let the world be in peace unless the people, the innocent people think out a way for themselves, the oppressed people of the world should find a way out for themselves. If oppressed people come to think of a way, they will curtail the influence of these international rogues. I hope God Almighty will awaken the Islamic nations

and oppressed peoples so that they can lead their own life, direct their own countries and curtail the influence of big powers.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you!