The Lasting Legacy of the Father of the Islamic Revolution

By: Kayhan Int’l

     

We are commemorating the 35th passing away anniversary of that peerless person who completely changed the destiny of Iran from a US client state reeling under the repression of a rootless British imposed regime, to the paramount power of the region governed by the dynamic Islamic Republic system with profoundly positive influence on the peoples, countries, and freedom movements in the neighbourhood and far beyond on all the continents that make up Planet Earth.

So thoroughly did he reshape regional and international equations that the exploitative West led by the US (history’s most evil regime which he aptly named ‘Great Satan’) continues to shudder at his prediction of the eventual collapse of the decayed, deformed, and depraved liberal democratic system.
Washington’s worries of the fast approaching culmination of its hegemony are evident at not just the materialization of the Father of the Islamic Revolution’s prophecy of the end of Godless communism, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and freedom of the various lands (Muslim and non-Muslim, including Russia which today is an important member of the Free World), but at the throes of death of the cancerous tumour called Israel, in the complicity of whose crimes against humanity, the US regime has also been exposed as genocidal.
This was Seyyed Ruhollah Musavi al-Khomeini (RA) whom the grateful Iranian nation addressed as ‘Imam’ or Supreme Leader (not to be confused with the 12 Infallible Divinely-designated Imams of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAWA) Blessed Household).
He transformed Iran into the crisis-resistant Islamic Republic, as we and the whole world know today. This has been proven at every turn over the past 45 years to the horror of the perennial plotter, sanctions-imposer, assets-freezer, facts-distorter, riot-stirrer, and target-killer – the US or the devil incarnate.
Prime examples of Uncle Sam’s devilry that failed to derail Imam Khomeini’s lasting legacy include Saddam’s 8-year war, the sudden exit of two presidents during its height (Abol-Hassan Bani Sadr the impeached turncoat, and Mohammad Ali Rajai the Martyr), MKO terrorism that claimed 17,000 victims ranging from ordinary citizens to the highest ranking officials (e.g. Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and a Prime Minister Hojjat al-Islam Mohammad Javad Bahonar), and creation of the macabrely murderous Takfiris (Daesh).
Thanks to the foresight of that Sage of the Age, and after him of his astute successor, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic has come out with flying colours through every plot, conspiracy, crisis, and untoward incident.
The latest proof of the soundness and durability of the Islamic system of governance of Iran, is its rock-hard intact and smooth functioning, without the least change in internal affairs and external policies, including commitment to the struggle against tyranny of the Axis of Resistance, and the campaign to wipe out the cobweb called Israeli, following the recent death in helicopter crash of President Ayatollah Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi.
It will not be out of context to recall that during the crucial 1980s the keen eyesight of Imam Khomeini had detected the latent talent of the young judiciary official with record of active service as combatant at the battlefronts of the imposed war, named Ibrahim Sadaat ar-Rais, for grooming as a prosecutor to protect Iranian citizens exposed to the terrorism of the murderous US-backed MKO hypocrites, who are nothing more than traitors and apostates.
In other words, the dynamism of the Islamic Republic system as the perfect model of governance for progress of human societies, with its superb definition of spiritual values, religious rationality, civic liberties, minority rights, women’s dignity under the freedom of the hijab, humanitarian principles, development of modern science and technology, resolve to achieve self-reliance in all fields, and support for the oppressed, is indebted to Imam Khomeini.
Perhaps, one of the most brilliant measures of the person to whose ideals we renew allegiance these days was the concept of “Wilayat-e Faqíh” or Governance of the Supreme Jurisprudent in the physical absence of the Imam of the Age, the Prophet’s 12 and Last Successor, Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance for establishment of the global government of peace, prosperity, and justice).
It was his conviction that authority in state matters was not the prerogative of the infirm in faith, the unprincipled, the agnostics, the immoral, and the unjust, since on the basis of the hadith that “the fuqahà’ (jurisprudents) are the heirs of Prophets”. 
Today, Imam Khomeini is no more with us, but his thoughts and ideas are alive, especially the blueprint of Islamic government which has all the characteristics of a catalyst for aspiring Muslim countries. It is this magnetism that gains new adherents every day around the globe and sends shivers down the spine of the devils masquerading as advocates of democracy and human rights, but indulging in the worst crimes against humanity.