In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I testify to the main principles of Islam.
I testify that there is no god but Allah. I testify
that Muhammad is the Messenger of God. I testify that Ali bin Abi Talib and his
immaculate children – the twelve Imams – are our Infallible Imams and that they
are “Hujjat of Allah” (God’s proofs).
I testify that the Day of Judgment is true, the Holy
Qur’an is true, Heaven and Hell are true, the questioning and answering (on the
Day of Judgment) are true, and that Resurrection, God’s Justice, Imamate, and
Prophethood are true.
Oh God, I thank You for Your blessings
Oh God, thank You for transferring me from one loin to
the next, from one century to the next, and from one family to the next, until
You bestowed on me the blessing to live during a time when I could see one of
your most prominent Friends who are close to and a companion of the
Infallibles, Your righteous servant – the Great Khomeini. And, I thank you for
letting me be his soldier. If I did not have the blessing to be the companion
of Your Great Messenger, Muhammad al-Mustafa (pbuh), and if I did not live
during the period of the oppression of Ali bin Abi Talib and his immaculate and
wronged children, You helped me tread the same path on which they laid down
their lives – which is worth all the universe and its creatures.
Oh God, I thank You that after your very righteous
servant, dear Khomeini, You put me on the path of Your other righteous servant
– whose innocence even surpasses his righteousness; a man who is the greatest
sage of Islam, Shi’ism, Iran and the political world of Islam today. This man
is dear Khamenei (may my life be sacrificed for him).
Dear God, thank You for allowing me to associate with
Your best servants, for giving me the opportunity to kiss their heavenly faces,
and for letting me smell their divine scent – the mujahidin and martyrs on this
path.
Dear God, O All-Powerful, All-Mighty, and All-Merciful
Provider, I prostrate before You in gratitude and humbleness for having helped
me take the path of Hazrat Fatimah (sa) and her progeny in the Shiite school of
thought – the true denomination of Islam – and for letting me shed tears for
the children of Ali bin Abi Talib (as) and Hazrat Fatimah (sa). What a great
blessing it is, your greatest and most precious blessing. It is a blessing that
contains light, spirituality, and restlessness, in which there is the most
assuring peace of mind. It contains sorrow that is coupled with tranquility and
spirituality.
Oh most Merciful, Compassionate God, accept me and accept me in purity. Accept me in a way that I will be worthy of seeing You. I do not want anything other than meeting You. Heaven for me is being next to You, Oh Allah.
Oh God, I have Hopes in Your Pardon
Oh Dear God, Oh Wise and Unique Creator, my hands are
empty, and so is my backpack. I rush to you without any provisions, hoping that
You will treat me to Your banquet of pardon and generosity. I do not have any
provisions with me, for what provisions does a poor man need in the presence of
a generous Lord?
My shoes are filled with the hope of Your Grace and
Your Generosity. I have brought with me two closed eyes, which contain a
treasure in addition to their impurities. That jewel is tears shed for
Fatimah’s Hussein, tears shed for the Household, and tears shed in defense of
the oppressed, the orphans, and the innocent who were caught in the claws of
oppressors.
Oh God, I have nothing in my hands. They have nothing
to present, nor do they have the power to defend. However, I have stored
something in my hands, which I am hopeful about, that is a continuous movement
towards You. When I reached out my hands towards you, when I put them on the
ground and on my knees for Your sake, and when I carried weapons in order to
defend Your religion, these are the wealth that I carry in my hands and I hope
that you have accepted them.
Oh God, my legs are frail and have no stamina. They do
not have the courage to cross the bridge that crosses over Hell. My legs
tremble even when crossing an ordinary bridge. Woe to me, as Your path (the
bridge over Hell), is thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword.
Nonetheless, I harbor some hope that I may not tremble and that I may find
salvation. I set foot in Your sanctuary and circumambulated Your House (the
circumambulation of the Holy Ka’bah). I ran bare-footed in the shrines of Your
Friends and between the shrines of Hussein and Abbas. I bent and hugged my
knees in long trenches. And, I ran, jumped, crept, wept, laughed and made
others laugh, cried and made others cry, and fell and picked myself up in
defense of your religion. I hope that you will pardon them (my legs) because of
these jumping, crawling, and these holy shrines.
Oh God, my head, my wisdom, my lips, my nose, my ears,
my heart, and all parts of my body harbor the same hope. Oh most Merciful,
Compassionate God, accept me and accept me in purity. Accept me in a way that I
will be worthy of seeing You. I do not want anything other than meeting You.
Heaven for me is being next to You, Oh Allah.
Oh God, I have Been Left Behind the Caravan of My
Friends
Oh dear God, it is many years now that I have been
left behind a caravan. I have constantly sent others towards it, but I myself
have been left behind it. You Yourself know that I have never been able to
forget them. Their memory and their names always echo, not in my mind, but in
my heart and in my eyes with tears and sighs.
My dear God, my body is becoming infirm. How could You
possibly not accept someone who has been waiting at Your door for 40 years? My
Creator, my Beloved and my Love, I have always asked You to fill my heart and
my soul with the love of You. Let me burn and die in being apart from You.
My dear One, I have wandered into deserts feeling
restless and ashamed of being left behind. I go from one city to another and
from this desert to the next in winters and summers, because I harbor hope.
Generous God, my Beloved God, I have fixed my hopes on Your Generosity. You know
that I love You. You know that I do not want anyone other than You. Help me
join You.
Oh God, terror has engulfed my whole existence. I am
not capable of controlling my will. Do not disgrace me. I ask You, for the sake
of those whose sanctity You have vowed to preserve, to join me to the caravan
that has come towards You before I see the sanctity of these shrines being
disrespected.
You, Whom I worship, my Love and my Beloved, I love
You. I have seen and felt You many times. I cannot remain separate from You any
longer. It is enough. It is enough. Accept me, but only when I am worthy of
You.
A Word with My Mujahid Brothers and Sisters
My brothers and sisters, the world of Islam is
constantly in need of leadership, one that is connected to and endorsed by the
Infallibles in terms of Islamic law and jurisprudence. You know perfectly well
that the purest religious scholar who shook the whole world and revived Islam –
our great and pure Khomeini – stated that “Wilayat-e Faqih” is the only
prescription for the salvation of this nation. Therefore, those of you who
believe in it as Shi’a Muslims and based on religion, and those of you who
believe in it as Sunni Muslims and based on logic, should know that you must
refuse to abandon the tent of Wilayat, and without any discord among
yourselves. This tent is the tent of the Messenger of God. The basis of the
enmity against the Islamic Republic throughout the world is for burning and
destroying this tent. You should go around it (like the circumambulation of the
Ka’bah). I swear to Allah, I swear to Allah, I swear to Allah, if this tent is
harmed, there will be no sign of God’s House (Ka’bah), Madinah - where the
shrine of the Holy Prophet is located – Najaf, Karbala, Kadhimiya, Samarra or Mashhad,
and the Holy Qur’an will be damaged as well.
A Word with My Iranian Brothers and Sisters
My dear Iranian brothers and sisters, you honorable
and glorious people for whom I, and individuals like me, wish to sacrifice our
lives thousands of times – as you sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives for
the sake of Islam and Iran – you should take care of the “Principles.” The
Principles means “Wali-e Faqih” (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), in
particular, that sage and that oppressed man who is imbued with religious
piety, jurisprudence, spirituality, and religious understanding. Dear Khamenei
should be very dear to you. You should know that respecting him is like
respecting the sanctities.
You should know – and you do know – that the most
important achievement of dear Khomeini was that firstly, he applied Islam to
help Iran, and then, he put Iran at the service of Islam. If it were not for
Islam, and if an Islamic spirit had not ruled over our nation, Saddam would
have torn apart our country to pieces like a wild wolf, and the U.S. would have
acted in the same manner as a rabid dog. However, Imam Khomeini’s
accomplishment was that he brought Islam to the help of this nation. He brought
forth Ashura, the month of Muharram, the month of Safar, and Fatimiyah (the
period of mourning for Hazrat Fatimah (sa)) to help this nation. He created
revolutions within the revolution. It is for this reason that in every period,
thousands of self-sacrificing individuals laid down their lives to shield you,
the Iranian nation, Iranian soil, and Islam. They humbled the biggest worldly
powers. My dear ones, do not become divided over the “Principles.”
Martyrs are the axis of dignity and respect for all of
us. They have joined the vast ocean of God, the Pure, not only for today but
for eternity. You should regard them as great in your eyes, hearts, and on your
tongues, as they truly are great. You should familiarize your children with
their names and their photographs. You should look with respect at the children
of Martyrs who are the orphaned children of all of you. You should respect
their wives and their parents. In the same way that you treat your own children
with leniency, pay special attention to them in the absence of their fathers,
mothers, wives, and children.
A Word with the Dear People of Kerman
I have a point to raise with the dear people of
Kerman, a lovely people who made the greatest sacrifices throughout the period
of the 8-year Holy Defense and sacrificed great generals and honorable
mujahidin for the sake of Islam. I always feel humble before them. They trusted
me for eight years for the sake of Islam. They sent their children to deadly
battlefields and difficult wars such as operations Karbala-5, Valfajr-8,
Tariqul-Quds, Fath al-Mobin, Bayt al-Moqaddas, and other operations. And, they
founded a great and valuable army in the name of and for the love of our
Infallible Imam, Hussein bin Ali – the Tharallah Division. That Division
frequently made the hearts of our nation and of the Muslims happy, working like
a sharp sword and erasing grief from their hearts.
My dear ones! Today, I am no longer among you due to
divine destiny. I love you more than my father, my mother, my children, my
sisters, and my brothers because I spent more time with you than I did with
them, while they were my flesh and blood, and I was theirs. They accepted for
me to dedicate my life and my existence to you and to the Iranian nation.
I ask you in this will to not leave Islam alone in
this period of time when it has been manifested in the Islamic Revolution and
the Islamic Republic. Defending Islam requires intelligence and special attention.
When it comes to Islam, the Islamic Republic, sanctities, and Wilayat-e-Faqih
in political matters know that these are the colors of God; therefore, you
should prefer the colors of God to any other color.
A Word with the Families of the Martyrs
My children, my daughters and sons, children of the
Martyrs, fathers, and mothers of the Martyrs, you shining lights of our
country, and brothers, sisters, and loyal and pious wives of the Martyrs! The
voice that I heard every day, to which I was so attached, that gave me so much
tranquility like the voice of the Quran did, and that I considered being the
greatest source of spiritual support for me was the voice of the children of
the Martyrs, which I would listen to almost every day, and also, that of the Martyrs’
fathers and mothers in whom I felt the presence of my own parents.
My dear ones, as long as you are the mentors of this
nation, you should appreciate your value. Reflect and manifest your Martyrs in
yourselves in such a way that whenever someone sees you, they feel as though
the fathers and children of Martyrs are the living images of the Martyrs with
the same degree of spirituality, power, and qualities.
I beseechingly ask you to forgive and to pardon me. I
was not able to do what was necessary for many of you, or even for your
martyred children. I ask for forgiveness and for you to pardon me.
I would like my body to be carried by the Martyrs’
children in the hope of receiving God’s attention, thanks to the touch of their
pure hands on my body.
A Word with the Politicians of the Country
I have a short point to make to the politicians of the
country, both to those who refer to themselves as “Reformists” and to the
“Conservatives.” What made me suffer the most was that we usually forget – or
sacrifice – God, the Quran, and values under two circumstances. My dear ones,
no matter what rivalry and contention you have with each other, if your
actions, words, and debates weaken religion and the Revolution in one way or
another, you should know that you will receive the wrath of the Holy Prophet of
Islam and the Martyrs on this path. You should set limits. If you want to stand
together, the condition for being together is agreement over the Principles and
expressing them in an outspoken manner. The Principles are not lengthy or
detailed (and therefore not open to interpretation). The Principles are
comprised of a few important tenets:
2. Having true faith in the Islamic Republic and what
it has been founded on. This includes morals, values, and responsibilities,
whether responsibilities towards the nation or towards Islam.
3. Employing pure individuals who believe in the
nation and who are the servants of it, not individuals who evoke the memory of
former Khans, even if they are elected as a chairman in a very small village.
4. They should establish a method, which includes
confronting corruption and refraining from it, and also includes avoiding a
luxurious lifestyle.
5. During their term of office in any position of
responsibility, they should consider respecting the people and rendering
services to them to be acts of worship. And, they themselves should promote
values, not boycotting them over vain excuses.
Acting as the fathers of the society, they should pay
attention to their responsibility in the area of cultivating and protecting the
society, rather than supporting behavior - driven by negligence and emotions
and for the sake of winning the votes of people who have a transient feeling -
that would promote divorce and corruption in society and would cause families
to break apart. Governments are the main factor in both strengthening families
as well as in causing families to break apart. If the Principles are acted on,
everyone will be on the path of the Leader, the Revolution, and the Islamic
Republic. Then, there will be a proper competition based on these principles
for the sake of electing the most eligible person.
A Word with My Brothers in the Revolutionary Guard
Corps and the Army
I wish to address a brief word in my dear,
self-sacrificing brothers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and in the
IRGC-like Army. You should set courage and the power to manage crises as the
main criteria for appointing commanders. Naturally, I do not mention Wilayat,
because Wilayat is not a part or a component of the Armed Forces, rather it is
the basis for the survival of the Armed Forces. This condition is inviolable.
Another point is that you should gain a timely
understanding of the enemy, his goals, and his policies, and then, you must
make decisions and act promptly. If any of these is carried out belatedly, it
will have a major impact on your victory.
A Word with the Religious Scholars and Honorable
Religious Authorities
Another point is that you should gain a timely understanding of the enemy, his goals, and his policies, and then, you must make decisions and act promptly. If any of these is carried out belatedly, it will have a major impact on your victory.
All of you loved Imam and believed in his path. Imam’s
path was the path of fighting against the U.S. and supporting the Islamic
Republic and the Muslims, who are oppressed by the Arrogant Powers, under the
flag of Wali-e-Faqih. Even with my flawed mind, I could see that some vicious
individuals tried and continue to try to persuade influential Religious
Authorities and religious scholars in society into silence and hesitation
through the use of self-righteous gestures and words. It is clear what the
truth is. The Islamic Republic, values, and Wilayat-e-Faqih are the legacies of
Imam Khomeini (may God bestow mercy on him). Therefore, they should be earnestly
supported.
I see Hazrat Grand Ayatollah Khamenei greatly wronged
and alone. He needs your cooperation and assistance, and you great personages
should direct the society with your statements, meetings, and support. If this
Revolution is harmed, then the situation will not even be like the time of the
cursed Shah. Even worse than that, the Front of Arrogance will do its best to
promote sheer disbelief and deep deviation, which cannot be reversed.
I kiss your blessed hands (in humbleness) and
apologize for these words. I would have liked to make these statements in my
meetings with you in person, but it was not meant to be.
Your soldier who kisses your hands.
I Ask Everyone to Pardon Me
I ask my neighbors, my friends, and my colleagues to
forgive and to pardon me. I ask the soldiers of the Tharallah Division and the
great Quds Force, who are a thorn in the eye of the enemy and a strong
fortification against it, to forgive and to pardon me, in particular those who
helped me in a brotherly manner.
I cannot avoid mentioning Hossein Poor-Ja’fari who helped me well-intentionally, like a brother, and whom I loved in the same way that I love my own brother. I apologize to his family and to all my revolutionary and mujahid brothers who were bothered because of me. Of course, all the brothers in the Quds Force showed me brotherly love and helped me, including my dear friend General Qa’ani, who tolerated me with patience and dignity.
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