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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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و صلّي‌اللَّه علي محمّد و آله الطّاهرين‌

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I congratulate this great and historical and unique Eid (festivity)

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to all of you esteemed attendants and dear guests and the entire Iranian nation

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and all the Muslims of the world,

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and also to all people whose hearts beat for justice and humanity and freedom.

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The Ordainment is a time of festivity for all people and not just for Muslims.

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Celebrating the Ordainment and commemoration of the day of the Ordainment is mostly for

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the purpose of [making us] go over the main theme of the Ordainment and learn lessons from it; this is the purpose.

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We need the lessons [that we learn] from Ordainment for good;

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the Ordainment was not just a historical event for a certain juncture of time;

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[it was] for all periods of history.

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Today, what I want to choose and present in brief from this huge collection of lessons of the Ordainment

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is that Ordainment was meant to fight “ignorance.”

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In Islamic literature, the “ignorance” denotes the time period before the Ordainment of the revered Prophet [of Islam (PBUH)].

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[We] must not imagine that this ignorance was special to the Arabian Peninsula and Arabs in Mecca and Hejaz and other places;

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no; that ignorance was general. Even Iran in those days was submerged in ignorance;

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the Roman Empire in that time was also neck-deep in ignorance.

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Islam and Ordainment of Prophet (PBUH) came about to counter all this ignorance.

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Ignorance does not simply mean absence of knowledge.

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In Islamic terms and in Islamic literature, ignorance has a much wider meaning.

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Part of ignorance is absence of knowledge and not having knowledge,

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but ignorance, in its wider sense, means

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the dominance and governance of the force of concupiscence and human rage on living environment; this is [true meaning of] ignorance.

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Ignorance means that human societies, overcome by carnal desires and rage of mostly their rulers, change

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in such a way that virtues are lost and proclivities reign; this is ignorance.

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There was a vast realm of ignorance in the life of ignorant people.

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On the one hand, [there was] unbridled [rule of] carnal desires, sexual lust and the likes of that –

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now you look at the environment of the Arabian Peninsula; [but] other environments were also like that.

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They were immersed in their passions in an unrestricted manner and everybody who could, would follow his/her carnal desires.

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On the other hand, the same people who were subdued by their lust,

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[they] went to the most extreme imaginable limit and border when it came to brutality and destructiveness and bloodletting; that is, they killed their own children.

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[Quran says:] “Verily, those who killed their children are at loss

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– those who killed their own children.

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“[They] are imbeciles without knowledge.”

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This is out of imbecility; this imbecility is the same as ignorance.

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The brutality reaches a point where [they] not only [do not have mercy on] other people’s children, not only [show no mercy to] innocent women and children of others,

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but they show no mercy to their own children as well. This is ignorance.

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On the one side, lust, on the other side, rage; then the environment of life

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will become hostage to these two untamable, unrestrained sentiments.

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Islam came to change this situation.

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Of course, exactly the same [situation] existed in royal courts of Sassanid Iran,

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in royal courts of Roman Empire,

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in other places where there were tyrant and oppressive empires and courts and rules.

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Islam stood up against all this ugly reality;

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“[Islam] is issuer of warning to the entire world.”

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It addressed its warning to the entire world; this is the message of Islam.

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Today, ignorance still exists in the world; we must open our eyes and recognize ignorance;

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today this concept exactly exists; unlimited, unrestrained [and] illogical pursuit of lust.

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Today, the logic behind pursuit of lust in the Western world is “inclination.”

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We say why you promote homosexuality and same-sex [relations]?

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They say, ‘Well, this is a human inclination’. This is their logic!

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The same people who stop at nothing and continue to go ahead

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in the pursuit of sexual lust and various kinds of human lust without observing any red lines,

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when it comes to brutality, one can see the same situation here:

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they kill human beings, kill the innocent; [and] suppress nations that have done nothing wrong.

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This is the ignorance that exists today; the modern ignorance.

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The difference between this ignorance and the ignorance at the advent [of Islam] – as put by Quran, the early ignorance –

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is that today, ignorance is armed and equipped with the weapon of science, [and] the weapon of knowledge.

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That is, science, which must form the basis of human salvation,

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has turned into a means of misery for people and misery for human societies.

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Those people who are bullying the world today

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are bullying on the strength of the products of their knowledge.

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The weapon that they have is manufactured by and a product of knowledge.

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The intelligence tools that they have, the security tools that they have, the huge publicity tools that they have,

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these are products of science; [and] all of them are at the service of the same lust and rage.

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This is the situation of the world today. The Islamic society is faced with such a reality

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and the Islamic world must feel this; must understand this.

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Today, ignorance has been reproduced;

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with very high capacity, [and] its danger is hundreds, even thousands of times bigger than the ignorance in early days and early period of Islam.

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Of course, Islam, thank God, has been also equipped today.

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The huge Islamic force has spread across the world today by taking advantage of various tools.

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And the hope for success, the hope for overcoming the stratagem of enemies is no trivial hope;

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it is a high hope. What is necessary, in the first place, is “foresight,”

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and in the second place “determination and perseverance.” This is what we Muslim nations need.

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Well, today, the Islamic world is, truly and fairly speaking, in dire straits.

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You look at the situation of Islamic countries in our own region

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from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Lebanon and Palestine,

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and from Yemen to Libya. These Islamic countries in the region of West Asia and North Africa

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are grappling with many problems today: they have the problem of insecurity, the problem of fratricide,

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the problem of dominance of ruthless groups and on the back of all of them,

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the problem of arrogant plots of big powers topped by America,

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which enter [different] arenas in the name of protecting their interests

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and do whatever they want – which is [another form of] the aforesaid lust and rage;

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that is, they kill innocent human beings [and] support mischievous groups.

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Their propaganda is, fairly speaking, wide-ranging propaganda and they cover all these [crimes] under various guises.

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This famous politician of the past generation of Britain, Churchill – and we Iranians know the name of Churchill very well –

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has a saying which contains a strange irony.

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He says the “truth” is so valuable

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that humans should certainly wrap it and hide it in a cover of lies!

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Just look at this logic! Lying, untrue propaganda, [and] saying something that is exactly the opposite of truth;

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this is what one can see in the policies of Western [countries].

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Today, Americans claim that they want to fight against terrorism,

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while the most dangerous [and] ruthless terrorist groups have been created by them.

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Who created Daesh [ISIS]?

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They have confessed that they had the main role and share in the creation of Daesh.

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Who let other small and large groups – similar to Daesh – to wreak havoc on Iraq and Syria and other places?

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From what place these bullets and these tools and these dollars that are pouring into the pocket of these criminal and killer human beings come?

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From where does this money come?

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Who are these people who on the order of America’s policies support ruthless [and] dangerous terrorist groups in the region?

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Is there any doubt that the [world] arrogance has been playing the main role in creating terrorism and spreading terrorists

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and is helping them and supporting them in our region?

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When you look at all places in this region,

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you see that this evil hand of the enemies is busy creating the incident of terrorism.

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Who is supporting the fake Zionist government which is putting so much pressure on Palestine in this way in Gaza

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and the West Bank region?

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Who is backing them?

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Who is paving the road for them? Who is standing behind them?

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They are the Western powers with America on their top [which support them].

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Then they say in their slogans, [and] their remarks that ‘we are against terrorism, we are opposed to Daesh’,

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and they lie; they do not tell the truth.

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This is ignorance; this is the same ignorance that exists in the world of today. We must be vigilant.

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Dear brethren, dear nation of Iran, the great Islamic Ummah, [and] rulers of [Muslim] countries! Know that

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we can stand up to this ignorance.

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Today, ominous policies of arrogance are [aimed at] waging proxy wars in our region.

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For their own interests, they [want to] instigate regional countries or certain groups within [these] countries

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and make them fight each other and [let them] pursue their own interests;

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fill the pocket of arms manufacturing companies;

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[and] amend economic policies of their almost bankrupt economy;

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this is their goal; we must be vigilant.

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They talk about the Persian Gulf region.

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Security of the Persian Gulf region is the common interest of the Persian Gulf countries;

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we, the countries around the Persian Gulf have a common interest. We are neighbors;


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security here will benefit all of us; if the Persian Gulf is secure, all of us benefit from this security

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and if it is insecure, it will be insecure for all [of us].An insecure Persian Gulf will be insecure for all [regional countries],

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[but] those who should maintain this security are those to whom the Persian Gulf belongs;

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[it] belongs to them; is their home.

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Who is America to come here [and] talk about problems of the Persian Gulf; and recruit allies?

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They do not seek security, they seek their own interests

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and [if] considered necessary, [they] make a place insecure and support the agent of insecurity.

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Well, Yemen has become insecure; Yemen has become a field for the massacre of children and women; isn’t this insecurity?

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Who is supporting this insecurity? America [is supporting it].

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Unfortunately, the agent [of insecurity] consists of countries that are Muslim in name;

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[they] are regional countries, but they have been deceived. It [America] is the supporter; it is the mastermind;

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it is them that are spreading terrorism.

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Then, they say Iran [is supporting] terrorism. We fought terrorism;

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we slapped terrorism in the face.

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Terrorism emerged within our country through the money of our enemies and through the plot of America,

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[but] Iranian nation punched terrorism in the crux of the head within the country and it will be the same after this.

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We, in our country, in Iraq, in Syria [and] in Lebanon;

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cooperated with those who fought against terrorism,

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helped them; [and] will continue to do so. We are against terrorism.

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Zionists are the most dangerous and the most evil of terrorists in this region.

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We are faced and opposed to Zionists.

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[US president] tells us that Iran is supporting terrorism! You are supporting terrorism;

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America is supporting the terrorist Zionist government;

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America created Daesh; America supported Daesh.

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You supported terrorists who kill people in Syria; burn people alive;

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cut open the chest of a dead person, bring out his heart and eat it;

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you supported these [terrorists]. You emboldened them.

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Your unmanned aircraft ruined people’s homes in Pakistan and Afghanistan;

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turned people’s wedding ceremonies into mourning – and this also happened in Iraq.

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You are doing such things; terrorism belongs to you; you are terrorist. [The US president] says, Iran [supports] terrorism. The terrorist [work] is your work.

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We are against terrorism and will fight against any terrorist.

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We support any oppressed; today the Yemeni nation is oppressed.

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No oppression is higher than this that in a forbidden month – the [lunar] month of Rajab is forbidden –  [you kill Muslims].

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[Even] infidels of Mecca stopped fighting when the month of Rajab started.

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Today, uglier and worse than Mecca in that time are those [people]

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who make Yemeni families mourn in the month of Rajab – a forbidden month.

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[They] attack a point one hundred times, [and even] two hundred times in a day with aircraft,

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under a lame excuse, through erroneous arguments, [and] with false claims.

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This nation is an oppressed nation; the Yemeni nation is an oppressed nation;

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the Bahraini nation is an oppressed nation; the Palestinian nation is plagued with chronic oppression

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and for many years this nation has been under pressure.

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We support the oppressed as much as we can

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and to the extent that our abilities and our facilities allow, it is our duty;

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Islam has told us to “be enemy of the oppressor and assist the oppressed.”

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This is a recommendation from Emir al-Mou’menin [Imam Ali (PBUH)]. We don’t say,

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“Help your brother whether he is oppressed or oppressor;”

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this is a slogan [which is the result] of ignorance. They said whether your brother is oppressor or oppressed,

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you must defend him and support him. Quran does not say this; Islamic knowledge has forbidden this.

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No; whoever is oppressor, he must be confronted and his oppression must be stopped;

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[and] whoever is oppressed, should be supported.

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Regional countries should be careful;

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the policy of the enemies of this region and enemies of this Islamic complex

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is to scare these countries of one another;  [is] to create phony enemy

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and keep the main enemy, which is arrogance, is the invading and aggressor [Western] companies and their affiliates,

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[and] is the Zionism, in a [safe] margin.

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[They want] to create phony enemy; to pit Iran against Arabs; [to pit] a given ethnic group against another given ethnic group;

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[and to pit] Shia against Sunni. These are the policies of enemies; these [policies] should be confronted.

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To confront such policies is [equal to] confronting the ignorance.

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The modern ignorance of today is a violent, ruthless, [and] brutal ignorance

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and is equipped with all kinds of tools.

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It must be confronted smartly and the Iranian nation has done this confrontation and will continue to do so.

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Fortunately, the regional nations have been awakened;

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yes, the Islamic Awakening has been suppressed temporarily, but awakening cannot be suppressed;

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foresight cannot be suppressed.

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Iranian nation is awake. Many regional nations are aware and awake

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and the Islamic Ummah, thank God, is awaking.

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Of course, the enemies may dominate [for a short time]

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–there is an opportunity for evil;

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the evil will be given an opportunity.

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Today, these [issues] are the duty that we have with regard to the commemoration of the Ordainment of Prophet (PBUH); we must take care

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not to forget the mission of the Islamic Ummah and do not ignore the power of the Islamic Ummah.

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Fortunately, the power of the Islamic Ummah is very high;

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[and] the evident reason [for this high power] is that for many years they have been using

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all their force to suppress the power of the awakening and resistance in the region and have not been able [to do so].

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They have been struggling against the Islamic Republic, which is the pivot of this awakening, for 35 years;

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thank God they have been defeated [so far] and will be defeated after this.

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O Almighty! Bestow your greetings and mercy on all martyrs of this path and all those who struggled in this path.

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O Almighty! Resurrect our great Imam [Khomeini] who taught us these lessons and opened this path before us,

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with his [holy] guardians and resurrect our dear martyrs with Prophet (PBUH).

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Peace be unto you and so may the mercy of Allah and His blessings.