In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O God, everything is You and all are nothing except you. O God, You are cherished, and all are abject except You. O God, You are rich and all are poor except You. This year's Week of War has a different condition and atmosphere. After years of sacred defense, helping the religion of God has assumed a different form. Readiness for war has found more requisites. The enemies of God and His creatures are not once negligent and they are lying in ambush so as to destroy anything that is Godly. The families of the martyrs, up to the perpetuity of history, these torchbearers of the way of the awliya' (devotees of God), have shouldered the honor of illuminating the way to Allah. The wounded and disabled inaction have themselves become light of guidance, who in the nooks and corners of this country show to those who believe in religion the way of attaining the bliss in the hereafter- the way of reaching the Lord of the Ka`bah. The war prisoners who are under the clutches of the executioners are themselves song of freedom, and the freemen of the world sing them. The beloved missing ones are the pivot of the boundless sea of God, and the inherent poor of the mean world are bewildered in begrudging their sublime station. As for the martyrs, nothing (enough) can be said. The martyrs are the light of the candle of the meeting of the friends. The martyrs are in their drunken cachinnation and in the happiness of their union with" With their Lord they have provision." «1» They are among the" souls at peace" who have been addressed by God, thus:" Enter thou among My bondmen! Enter thou My Garden!" «2» Here is the talk about love and affection. In describing it, the pen will stop from inscribing by itself. Peace be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini