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And now that by the grace of God and the sacrifices of all the nation including the clergy, the university people, the businessmen,
labourers, agricultural and other segments, the fetters of bondage have been removed,
the shackles of serfdom broken, the powers of arrogance repelled and the country virtually sequestered and saved from their clutches
and from the clutches of their domestic puppets, I would like to recommend to the present and future generations not to slacken their efforts.
Let the university men and the youth strengthen their links of friendship and mutual understanding with the clergy
and the students of religious sciences.
Never overlook the plotting of the perfidious enemy,
provide counsel and guidance whenever you see someone trying to sow the seeds of discord and disunity.
If your counsel to such individuals is not effective, turn away from them, isolate them
and do not let their machinations and conspiracies take root as prevention is easier than cure.
As soon as you hear an instructor say or explain things in a manner that distorts the truth and tends to misguide the mind,
guide him, and if it was not effective, reject him and turn him away from your classes.
This suggestion is directed primarily toward the clergy and students of religious sciences in theological centres.
Conspiracy in a university has a particular dimension and depth.
Both categories of students, being the brains of the society, should beware such plotting.
e)
One of the most effective conspiracies that has, unfortunately, left an indelible mark on the nations, including our own,
is the alienation of the peoples of colonised countries with their true selves.
And westernization or Easternization of them, such that peoples have become estranged with their own cultures
and they have come to regard the peoples of the super-powers as being of races and cultures superior to their own.
They look upon the super-powers as their Qiblah (direction to which Muslims face when saying daily prayers, i.e., the Kaaba in Mecca)
and think that affiliation with one of the two poles of power is indispensable to themselves.
The question has a long, sad story and the blows we have received and are still receiving from it are devastating and fatal.
A most unhappy point is that the colonialists have bared the oppressed peoples under their rule from all progress
and have turned them into consumer nations.
The colonial powers have so frightened us through their satanic might and advancement that we dare not venture into any initiatives.
we have submitted our minds to them and placed our fates in their hands and have become their followers with our own eyes and ears shut.
This vacuity and artificial mental inanity has prevented us from trusting in and relying on our own knowledge and thinking
and made us blind followers of the East or the West.
And whenever and wherever we did have and made manifest our own initiative, our own industry and culture
these came under such heavy barrages of criticism and ridicule by Communist or Westernised writers and commentators
that the net effect was to suppress our native abilities.
Foreign customs and ways, no matter how trite, hackneyed or redundant,
were promoted and propagated and imposed on nations through actions, words and eulogies.
For example, if books contain a number of foreign words and terms they are accepted right away with wonder and awe regardless of their meaning.
The writer of such a book is deemed erudite and broad-minded.
Whatever is tinted with Western or Eastern terminology is good, noteworthy and a mark of progress and civilization.
If elaborated in native terms, it is regarded as decadent.
Our children whose names smack of foreign Western roots are honored and progressive.
if they carry traditional names, then they are looked upon as retarded.
Streets, alleys, firms, drugstores libraries, textile materials, and other commodities, if manufactured locally, should have foreign names
so that people may be pleased with them and receive them well.
Manifesting Western ways in all facets of life and in all aspects of social intercourse
is cause for pride and regarded as tokens of civilization and progress.
Meanwhile, traditional modes of conduct and customs are deemed as retrograde and ancestor-worshiping.
Going abroad for treatment of minor ailments that are easily cured at home is the thing to do, disappointing our own scientists and physicians.
Making a trip to England, France, U.S.A or Moscow enhances one's dignity
while going to Mecca to perform the Hajj or visiting other holy shrines is considered backward and old fashioned.
Disregard for all that is related to religion and morality is a sign of open-mindedness and civilization
whereas commitment to these issues is a sign of being backward and antiquated.
I do not say that we have everything.
In the course of recent history especially during the recent decades we have been deprived of any progress.
The treacherous statesmen of the Pahlavi regime and their propaganda
belittled every domestic product, created inferiority complexes in us and withheld all means for advancement.
The importation of all types of goods and commodities from abroad provided channels for our young men and women
and specially our youth to preoccupy themselves with such trivial things.
They became engaged in childish competitions and pursuits with imported objects as toilet articles, and games of chance.
At the same time they became consumers of such things as well as items of luxury which has a long, sad story.
No effort was spared in diverting the attention and the minds of our youth from thinking about their own fate and the destiny of their country.
And, now that the Iranian nation is to a large extent freed from such traps and the deprived generations have risen to the occasion
to create and build, at their own initiative commodities many examples of which we witnessed
such as aircraft spare part that all thought could not be manufactured locally and all hands were extended to East or West for such items.
Because of economic blockade and the compelling conditions of the imposed war
our dear young people made their domestic production without assistance of foreign experts possible.
Such items were produced more economically and they satisfied our needs. Our people have proved that they can do things if they want to.
Our people should be alert and watchful lest the East or West affiliated politician draw us back towards the international pilfers.
Take decisive action to do away with all dependencies.
Be sure that the *** or Arab races are in no way less endowed than the Europeans, American or Russian races.
If we succeed in finding our true selves and not let despair overtake us and rely on ourselves and expect nothing of others,
we shall be able, in the long run, to do and make everything.
This is possible provided you rely on Almighty Allah and yourselves and sever all dependency on others.
Moreover, you should work hard to achieve an honourable life and escape the influence and domination of others.
It is incumbent on the authorities both in the present and the future governments to cherish and appreciate their experts and specialists
and encourage them through moral and material support to make initiatives. It is necessary that harmful consumer goods be not imported.
Let the people do with what they have until they can make everything themselves.
I ask the youth, boys and girls not to compromise their freedom, independence and human values for luxury, pleasure-seeking and other vices
that are offered to you by the corrupt agents of the West or the East.
Experience has taught us that they think of nothing expect your degeneration, your indifference toward your own destinies and the fate of your country,
control of your natural resources, your consumer potential, your dependence, in short your colonisation and exploitation.
They try to keep us in a state of backwardness and underdevelopment and, as they say, a semi-primitive men.
f)
One of their major plots, that was noted before, is to take over the education centres especially the universities
whose trained output must have the control of the country, in their hands.
Their methods is different from the clergy and the schools of Islamic sciences
Their plan is to remove the clergy from the scenes and to isolate them.
During the time of Reza Khan considerable torture and persecution was used to achieve this but results were contradictory.
With propaganda, false accusations, and devilish plans
they tried to segregate the educated and the so-called intellectual layers during the Reza khan's rule besides persecution.
This was continued during the time of Muhammad Reza, viciously but without violence.
As to the university, their plan is to alienate the youth with their own values and culture and draw them over to the East or the West
and to select the statesmen from among them, institute these selected individuals in position of authority
and do whatever they want with country, its resources and people by the hands of their puppets
while the isolated, despised and defeated clergy looks impotently on.
This is the best way to hold a nation in a backward state and to pilfer the countries under domination
because it is easy for the superpowers and is of no cost to them while all that there is goes to their pockets quietly.
And, now that the universities and teacher training colleges are being purged, it is necessary that we all help the authorities
and not ever let these institutions deviate from the right course and take necessary action as soon as we notice a deviation.
This vital task must, in the first place, be carried out by the young men of the universities, teachers and colleges.
Saving the university from deviation and perversion is saving the nation and the country.
I urge all our youth and the young people in the first place and their parents and friends in the next place,
and the statesmen and intellectuals who care for the country,
to participate wholeheartedly in this important task that maintains the safety of your country, and to entrust the universities to the next generation.
I also counsel the successive generations to guard the universities against defection to the East or to the West,
as this necessary for the salvation of yourselves, the country an the beloved Islam.
This humane, Islamic act severs the hands of the superpowers off the country and makes them lose all hope. May Allah bless and keep you!
g)
The commitment of the representatives of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (the parliament) is a major issue,
we witnessed the damage that Islam and Iran suffered at the hands of the corrupt and perverted representatives of the former parliament.
since the constitutional regime was initiated in the country through the era of the Pahlavi rulers.
Such representatives were worthies! individuals, servants of foreign powers and they betrayed the country and the nation.
During the fifty years of the tyrannical rule of the Pahlavi regime, a sham majority of representatives was forged
against the oppressed minority,
which carried out the dictates of the U.S.S.R and England and of the U.S.A in recent decades.
After the constitution was initiated in Iran its major articles were almost always ignored.
Before Reza Khan came to power, the country was in the hands of number of treacherous pro-Western feudal overlords.
Then came the bloody Pahlavi regime and its cruel agents.
Now that by grace of God and the determined an, spirited endeavors of the nation,
the destiny of the country has fallen in the hands of the people, their true representatives are elected and sent to the Majles
without foreign interference and without intervention of the government or feudal khans.
It is to be hoped that with their dedication to Islam and the interests of the country, all sorts of perversion will be avoided.