In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The pure blood of hundreds of sagacious artists in the warfronts of love, martyrdom, nobility, and honor is the inexhaustible assets of such an art, which must, in proportion to the dignity and elegance of the Islamic Revolution, always scent the fragrance of the beautiful and admired soul of the seekers of the Truth's Beauty. It is the only art acceptable to the Qur'an that would be the polisher of the pure Muhammadan (s) Islam, the Islam of the Imams of Guidance (`a), the Islam of the suffering poor, the Islam of the barefooted, and the Islam of the whipped ones of the bitter and disgraceful history of deprivations. It is a beautiful and pure art that would be the destroyer of modern capitalism and blood-thirsty communism, and the annihilator of the Islam of comfort and luxury, the eclectic Islam the Islam of compromise and ignobility, the Islam of the indolent affluent ones, and in a single word, American Islam.
Art in the school of love shows the blind and ambiguous points of the social, economic, political and military complexities. Art in Islamic mysticism is the lucid portrait of justice, nobility and equity, and the embodiment of the affliction of the hungry ones disfavored by power and money.
Art, in its true station, is a leech-like picture, which enjoys sucking the blood of the authentic Islamic culture, the culture of justice and purity. One must only pursue an art that would teach the way of fighting the world-devourers of the East and West, at the top of which are America and the Soviet Union. Our artists could conveniently lay to the ground the burden of responsibility only when they would be certain that their people, without relying on others and only within the framework of their school of thought have attained the eternal life.
Our artists were like that in the warfronts of our sacred defense in hastening toward the Celestial Court. They fought for the sake of God, their
honor and prosperity. In the way of the victory of the dear Islam, they disgraced the artless indolent claimants.
May their God associate them at the proximity of His mercy.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Shahrivar 30,1367 AHS