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the preservation of Islam takes precedence over all obligaions.
All prophets from Adam (AS) to Muhammad (SAW) have consistently taken care of and made sacrifices for it.
After the Prophet of Islam the Innocent Imams strove hard for its preservation and some gave their lives for it.
It is now incumbent on the Iranian nation particularly, and on all muslims in general, as custodian of this divine trust that has formally been proclaimed in Iran,
and which has given magnificent fruits in such a short time, to do all that is necessary for its enforcement and maintenance.
It is to be hoped that this divine trust will radiate to other Islamic lands from Iran and all Muslim governments and nations
may come to a common understanding of the issue, and as a result, they will thereby cut off the hands of the world-mongering super-powers
and criminals of history and remove their hold on the oppressed peoples of the world.
AS I approach my last breath, I feel it is my duty to state some of the points that are involved in the preservation
and perpetuation of this divine trust (the Sovereignty of Islam) and some of the things that endanger and threaten it, for the present and future generations.
May God bless all with success and happiness!:
a)
Without a doubt, the secret of the survival of the revolution is the same as the secret of its victory.
The nation knows this secret and the future generations will read about it in history texts.
Its two essential components are the supreme divine purposes and aims of the sovereign rule of Islam
and the coming together of all the nation in unity of word and expression for the sake of the same purposes and incentives.
My advice to all generations, present and future, is that if you desire God's sovereignty to continue
and domestic as well as foreign colonialization of your lands and exploitation of your resources be curtailed,
do not under any circumstance, abandon this divine incentive that the Holy Quran has emphasized.
Forsaking this theocentric incentive and goal, which is the secret of the victory of the Revolution and its survival,
will result in dispute, disunity and a forgotten purpose and objective.
It is because of this that trumpets of propaganda are sounding off everywhere sowing the seeds of discord and disunity
by distortion of facts and outright falsehood and lies.
Millions upon millions of dollars are being spent for such mean purposes.
The constant visits by the enemies of the Islamic Revolution to the region has this purpose in mind.
Among such visitors, unfortunately, one sometimes sees heads of Islamic states who can think of nothing but their personal interests.
These elements blindly hand themselves over to the U.S.A.
as well as pseudo-clergymen.
What the Iranian nation and Muslims everywhere must be mindful of, now and ever after, is the importance of neutralizing the vicious disuniting propaganda.
My advice to all is that you should react to such plots and, by all means possible, render your unity
increasingly more solid and thus disappoint the heathen and hypocrites.
b)
One of the major plots of the century especially of the last few decades and particularly after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran,
which is clearly manifest, in the multi-dimensional propaganda launched, has the aim of disappointing nations especially the Iranian nation with Islam.
Sometimes with explicit but crude argument it is claimed that the laws of 1400 years ago can not efficiently administer the modern world.
At other times they contend that Islam is a reactionary religion that opposes any new ideas and manifestations of civilization
and that, at the present, no country can remain aloof to world civilization in its various aspects.
Sometimes, in fiendish yet foolish propaganda jargon, they claim the sanctity of Islam
and maintain that divine religions have the nobler task of purging egos, of inviting the people to asceticism, monkhood, morality
and of admonishing them against the world of matter. They say that prayers bring men closer to the Lord;
that politics and government are opposed to these great moral purposes and are contrary to the traditions of the great prophets.
Unfortunately, such propaganda has impressed some of the clergy and faithful Muslims who are not properly tutored in the teachings of Islam.
Such that some simple-minded Muslims have considered involvement in government and politics a grave sin and evil.
This is a calamity by which Islam is affected.
The first group, it must be said, either knows nothing about government, law and politics or else they sham ignorance.
The enforcement of law is based on equity and justice; on prevention of cruelty and dictatorship- on the extension of personal and social justice;
on prevention of vice, deprivation and perversion; on liberty, reason, independence, and self-sufficiency;
on prevention of colonialisation, exploitation and serfdom; on penance and the limits punishment (hudood and taazirat)
on Qisas or retaliation in kind and on the basis of implementation of justice to control corruption and vice in the world.
Politics and administration of a community according to reason, equity and justice, etc.
is not something to wear away or erode in the course of history and man's life on earth.
Claiming such a thing amounts to arguing that principles of reason and mathematics must be altered today and replaced by some other rules.
It is absurd to say that social justice which was to be practiced from the beginning of creation
and crimes and cruelties which were to be avoided can no longer be exercised in the age of atom.
The contention that Islam is opposed to innovations is as foolish as Muhammad Reza Pahlavi's claim that "in this age they want to travel by quadrupeds".
This is nothing but an inane accusation because, if by innovations and new features of civilization is meant inventions, new discoveries,
industrial progress and the like, let them consider the fact that neither Islam nor any other monotheistic religion has ever opposed such things.
Rather, science and industry are very much emphasized in the Quran and Islam.
However, if by modernism and civilization is meant, as some professional intellectuals claim, freedom of vice,
prostitution and even ***-sexuality, then all divine religions, men of reason and learning are opposed to it,
even though some individuals with pro-western or pro-eastern leanings may blindly promote these things.
The second category of the foes of Islam who entertain more vicious plots claim that religion and politics are not compatible and cannot be combined.
These ignorant individuals must realize that the Holy Quran and the traditions of the Prophet of Islam contain more lessons, decrees and commands
on the rule of government and politics than they do on any other issue. Indeed a good many Islamic laws concerning worship have political aspects as well.
Neglecting such aspects has often resulted in catastrophes.
The prophet of Islam founded a government just like any other except that it seeks to promote social justice and equity.
The early caliphs of Islam enjoyed extensive rule.
The sovereign rule of Hazrat Ali (AS) with the same objective, but on a much wider scale and dimension, is all too well known in history.
However, after Ali (AS) gradually the rule of Islam became nominal.
Even today there are many governments which claim to be Islamic but rarely pay Islam even a lip service.
In this my final will and testament I merely mention these points in passing
and hope that historians and sociologists will make Muslims see their mistakes in this respect.
The contention that the prophets and Imams have been only concerned with moral and spiritual issues
and government, being concerned with secular or temporal matters, has been rejected by them is woefully wrong.
Adhering to this unfounded contention leads to corruption of Islamic nations and opens the way for the blood-thirsty colonialist.
What is taboo is the satanic, dictatorial rule; domination, thirst for power and *** for wealth;
in short all the worldly things that make man forsake the Lord.
But, divine rule is in the interest of the dispossessed and oppressed and seeks to prevent cruelty and injustice.
Similar to what Sulaiman lbn Davood and the Prophet of Islam (SAW) and his successors tried to do.
Maintenance of justice in the society is a duty in Islam and is regarded as a sublime act of adoration and worship.
Wholesome and healthy politics that existed in the above rules are necessary.
The alert Iranian nation must neutralize the plots mentioned above with Islamic thought and perception.
Let writers and preachers rise and help the nation to defeat the plotting devils.
c)
One such conspiracy, a most vicious one, is the widespread rumor claiming that: 'The Islamic Republic" has not done anything for the good of the people!
Poor people! They made sacrifices to overthrow the despotic regime of the Taghoot (despot),
little did they know that they would emerge with a worse regime.
The arrogant have become more arrogant and the oppressed are more oppressed. Prisons are full of youths who are our hopes for the future.
Torture has become more inhumane and severe than before. Every day a number of men are executed, - all in the name of Islam.
They had better not call this system 'The Islamic Republic". Circumstances are worse than at the time of Reza Khan and his son.
People are suffering hardships; prices are soaring to high heavens; authorities are leading the regime to communism;
people's properties are being confiscated: freedom in all forms has been withheld from the people, etc.
Such rantings are proof of planned conspiracies that are carried out daily in some form in some location, town or borough;
in taxi cabs, in buses, at small gatherings, etc, and as one false rumor wears off a fresh one takes its place.
Unfortunately the clergy, unaware of the satanic plots, come in contact with agents of discord and think that their incantations are true.
The fact is that many of those who listen to the rumors and believe them are persons who lack knowledge of world conditions,
of the world revolutions and of post-revolutionary events and their inevitable concomitant problems.
They lack knowledge of the changes that have occurred in favor of Islam and so, when they hear such rumors they deliberately or by mistake, accept them.