In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
His Eminence Hujjat al-Islam Haj Shaykh Hasan Sana'i- may his blessings last,
I do not know what to write about my acquaintanceship with you. You are one of the persons who have been with me for long time. You had no beard yet when I realized your sincerity- years prior to the commencement of the Khordad 15 struggle.
You are an anonymous soldier of this revolution; you yourself are aware that there is nothing better than anonymity. You are a person who has sweet and bitter memories of the struggle from the distant past. You are smart, taciturn, intelligent and prudent. In the whirlpool of the struggle you have always been bereaved. I had hardly found in others your rancor against the Shah. During the crises and pressures you had never doubted me although sometimes you were tired and dejected. Amidst the pressure of the Shah's apparatus, you who were taking charge of the office on theology students' stipends, at the time when you were surrounded by the enemy, in order not to give any information to the enemy, in many occasions you were swallowing the receipts of the charity funds- like digestible food- during the fifteen years of struggle. May your reward with God be wholesome too!
Your talent, your soul's purity and your sincerity are not things that I can forget. You are hot-tempered and rational. I pray to God to make your rationality prevail over your hot-temper. I totally trust you. Thus, you are my proxy in all aspects of the religious law. I wrote these few lines so that I could have offered a small amount of the abundant rights that you have on me and the revolution. May God assist and protect you.
Forget me not in your benevolent prayers. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Esfand 2,1367 AHS