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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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The birth of the Imam Mojtaba, Imam Hassan (PBUH);

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the embodiment of good in the words of the Last Prophet (PBUH),

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who chose this name [Hassan] for this newborn

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– and this is very great, [and] very important

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that the Prophet (PBUH) would name this reverend, [and] this auspicious child “Hassan”

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– would be, God willing, blessed for all of you.

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I remind the blessings of the month of Ramadan for your sensitive hearts,

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your ethereal souls, [and] your fluid feelings;

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actually, if anybody is supposed to take advantage of this big heap of blessings,

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among those who must make the most and do it,

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are those who have [a special] flair, have [an ethereal] soul, have [a sensitive] heart, have [fair] feelings; that is, you [the poets].

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Who would be better than you for taking advantage of the minutes and moments and hours and days and nights of this month

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– which is a month for getting close to God, a month for ethereality of heart, a month for affinity with the Almighty God, a month for the mention [of God], [and] a month for humbleness

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– and who more suitable than people with such pure and ethereal hearts and delicate feelings [to avail themselves of this month].

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To enter the paradise of [constant] mention [of God] and affinity [with God] and enthusiasm [for getting close to God],

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the best means are prayers that have been specified for this month;

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both those prayers that are special to this month,

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and those prayers that can be read at all crucial times,

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like the prayers of Sha’baniyeh, like prayers [that have been given] in [the book of prayers,] Sahifa Sajjadiya; taking advantage of these [prayers] is very valuable.

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“And hear my prayer, when I pray to you, and hear my call when I call on you, and pay attention to me when I pray to you;”

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these [concepts] can be expressed by your delicate hearts with more attention [and] with more focus.

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“Verily, I have fled toward you and have stood in front of you;”

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these are interpretations [and] words that have come forth from the most delicate of hearts and the most eloquent of tongues.

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Who must pay attention to them, understand them, [and] take advantage of them

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better than you, better than these pure and delicate hearts? Do not neglect praying in this month.

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In Sha’baniyeh prayer [you say]:

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“O God! Bestow upon me a heart that would get close to you through its enthusiasm, and [give me] a tongue, whose honesty would elevate it toward you, and [give me] a [kind of] look who would get close to you due to its righteousness;”

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such a heart whose enthusiasm [for getting close to God], will uplift it, [and help it to] ascend

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[and] get close to the Divine Being, this [is what] a human being asks God.

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Well, what heart is more ready than that sensitive and delicate heart?

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Which, thank God, this exists in you.

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In the prayer [called] Abi Hamza Thomali, [you say]:

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“[O God! I came to know you through yourself and it was you who guided me onto you and called me toward you and if it were not for you, I would not know what are you;”

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this delicate spiritual contact with God, with the origin of compassion and dignity;

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these are very valuable, these are very important;

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[such a contact with God will] give warmth to these hearts that are sensitive,

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maintains them, inspires them with hope, and becomes a refuge and [point of] reliance for them.

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“O pivot and haven of the most beautiful of chaste

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and glorious moments of my loneliness and recluse,

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I don’t care for whom and for what purpose the late [Iranian poet] Akhavan has written this poem;

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I read this poem addressed to the [book of prayer,] Sahifa Sajjadiya;

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I read this poem addressed to the Abi Hamza Thomali prayer:

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“O pivot and haven of the most beautiful of chaste

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and glorious moments of my loneliness and recluse,

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O [you] my sweet and dignified river.”

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This is prayer. Don’t give this up, do not turn your back on prayer; prayer is very valuable.

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Prayer is the same elixir which can change those hearts that have been contaminated with despair,

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are plagued with suspicion, or are polluted with wrong feelings,

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[and] guide them toward the right path; prayer is such a thing.

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take the opportunity of these nights, you are the most eligible people who can say a prayers

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and take advantage from prayer

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Of course, simple reading of the words of prayer is a lower stage of praying

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– which these words can be read by a human who does not know their meaning, or just know their apparent meaning –

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but getting entangled in prayer,

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[and] getting entangled in its themes and becoming immersed in them is very valuable.

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Well, poem is an effective element,

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[and] its effect within the set of verbal factors, is an intensified effect;

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that is, no word, [regardless of] how eloquent, how beautiful, [and] how meaningful [it is],

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if [it were] not in verse, it won’t have this effect; poem is such a system, [and] is such an element.

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Poem plays an inciting role, in a place which is a place for incitement;

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it [also] plays a guiding role, plays the role of setting the direction and plays an orientating role

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for the listener and for the person who reads the poem for himself; well, this is a cause for responsibility.

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When you have a wealth, [and] an ability,

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which can be used to do great things,

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if you don’t use it, you would be acting against your responsibility, [and] against your obligation.

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This is [a] cause of responsibility. Now, the Almighty God has bestowed this bounty on you,

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but like all bounties, it would be asked about,

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question will be asked about [what you have done with] the divine bounty.

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You will be asked about what you have done with this bounty.

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By taking advantage of poetry as a tool, the audience can be guided toward the right path and the direct path;

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they [the audience] can be also made go astray, [and] make them fail.

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Poem can take humans to be abyss;

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we have this sort of poems. Especially today that, unfortunately, a runaway culture,

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which has nothing to do with the moral and human norms,

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is being widely propagated through these new tools – new media tools -

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sometimes poems become a tool for making mistakes,

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taking a tumble, and going astray; this is the other side of this issue.

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Therefore, a poet can do both things.

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Through his delicate feelings, a poet both understands,

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and becomes ecstatic, and becomes nostalgic and [starts to] write a poem;

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this [kind of] writing by poet is the result of enthusiasm, result of nostalgia,

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result of feeling, and understanding and observing a thing that others cannot observe.

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Well, this issue has two sides:

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it can both direct [people] toward good,  [and] can do the opposite [of that].

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If poem comes excessively under the influence of the sexual instinct

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– which unfortunately today some hands in our country

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are dragging [poem] in this direction,  [are] taking it forcefully [in this direction],

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after our youths have moved in sincere and delicate

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and very beautiful spiritual and epic and revolutionary conditions,

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now certain hands have started in various places,

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most of all in virtual spaces; now, other means also exist,

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[but] they [also] want to drag and take [our youths] toward excessive sexual instinct through poem

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– this would be very bad, [and] this is an alarm ring.

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Sometimes it is this [problem that plagues poem, and] sometimes pursuit of personal profit

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and sometimes eulogy of oppression,

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which unfortunately, this [latter] concept has a long record in our history; to eulogize oppression and oppressor.

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Today, we have the opposite point in front of us [as well]; thank God,

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I have fortunately seen that a few of our dear young poets have stood against [it];

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I have already heard [and] read poems about Yemen – [including] the poem [written by] Mr. Sayyar – and other poems,

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which is very good; these [poems] that you have written, these [poems] that [our] friends read tonight;

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these are correct, this is correct, this is that correct job [which must be done],

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this is that obligation of which the Almighty God will ask [questions].

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One of the paragraphs in Makarem-ol-Akhlaq prayer is this:

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“and assign me to what you will ask me about tomorrow;”

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this must be thought of; tomorrow, they will ask us about certain things;

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[the person who prays] says: “O Almighty! That thing about which you are going to question me,

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today provide me with a means of attending to it and acting according to it.

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Well, now you have the means; there may be people whose hearts are filled [with complaints] but cannot give voice to them;

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you, thank God, can say them; [so,] say them, [and] it will be effective.

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This poem that you write for Bahrain, or write for Yemen, or write for Lebanon,

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or write for Gaza, [or] write for Palestine, [or] write for Syria;

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every poem that you write about the goals of the Muslim Ummah,

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such a poem can be used at any point and can be taken advantage of.

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If this poem moves in these directions, then [the saying]

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“certainly some poems are knowledge,”

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would apply to your poem, which certainly [such a] poem is knowledge.

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I want to say – of course, I have said this in this meeting and in many other meetings

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– that impartiality in the confrontation between the right and wrong has no meaning.

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Sometimes a confrontation is ambiguous, [well,] that is a different story;

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when there is the right and the wrong, here, impartiality is meaningless;

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one must take sides with [what is] the right, [and] stand against [what is] the wrong;

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now, one can stand [against the wrong] in its military form, [and another] one can stand [against it] in a political form;

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they can stand [against the wrong] in various forms; one can stand [against it] with language,

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with expression, [and] with thinking; [at any rate we] must stand [against it].

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A poet cannot remain impartial in the confrontation between the right and the wrong.

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If a poet, [and an] artist remained impartial, they would waste the bounty of God;

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if, God forbid, they took sides with the wrong, then they would have betrayed [their cause and]

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AND would have committed a crime;  [in this situation] the problem is not about oversight, it is about [committing a] crime.

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Well, your nation has suffered a lot during these long years;

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these oppression should be retold, this should be reflected to the world.

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[They] bombarded [the city of] Sardasht in [the Iranian year, 13]66 (1987) – [its anniversary] belongs to these days

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- is this a joke? [That they would] chemically bombard a city,

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annihilate thousands of people in a city – child, adult, elderly, youth, woman, [and] man

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– and the world remain silent! A world where sometimes the fall of a cat in a well becomes a major issue

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[and is] reflected by news agencies and in newspapers

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and in televisions that yes a cat or, for example, a fox had fallen into a well,

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[and] that organ, [and] that organ, [and] that organ came together to take it out alive

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or a marine animal has fallen on the beach and is dying, [and they try] to somehow return it to sea.

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For these things, the world stokes a lot of ballyhoo,

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then it remains silent on the chemical massacre of a city!

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By saying the world, I don’t mean nations, nations have no means, have no tool;

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I mean the powers that dominate the propaganda machines of the world;

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its Persian translation is America, England, dominant Western forces, [and] the Zionist force.

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These are [the powers] that dominate the world’s propaganda sphere [and] don’t allow anybody to be informed [of anything].

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Now, they are pounding Yemen in that way – day and night – [and] no voice [of opposition] is heard;

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they were pounding Gaza yesterday, [and] before that they were pounding Lebanon, [and] no voice is heard coming out of anybody;

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now assume that two smugglers are tried in some place, [and] are executed,

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[in that case] a propaganda outcry is launched; well, this is the world;

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well, this is the world; what should be done in the face of this world?

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What an honorable person does in the face of such partiality, in the face of such an outrage,

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[and] in the face of such evilness?

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Regardless of the religious motivation and faith-based obligation; what judgment does human honor, human conscience,

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[and] humanity of humans pass? These are all burdens on [our] shoulders.

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I, of course, am very satisfied with the progress of poetry in the country during post-revolution era

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and [the situation] has really greatly improved. These young people who read poems today,

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have clear and evident differences with the young people who, say, read poems ten years ago;

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I mean real progress has been made; poem is very good,

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however, the capacity of poem in our country is much more than this; is much more than this.

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You look now [and] see this young girl is a student

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– I have heard that the Shahrestan-e Adab [cultural and arts institute] has started student activities,  [and] brings people together

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– our students, our youths, our adolescents, our girl, our boy,

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are writing poems and do it this good, with these good themes, [and] with this powerful imagination;

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this is very good; of course, I [must] say that the general level of today’s poem

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has not yet reached the general level of poem [that would be] suitable for Iran;

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I mean, we have had periods [of time] – which are not very far from us –

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when the general level of poem, that is, in view of those climaxes that had existed, has been higher than our current level.

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Well, we have had prominent [figures], [we have had] poets,

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both in ode and in ghazel, in different styles;

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[we] must have them so as to uplift this level;

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this needs work [to be done] [and] this needs effort.

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In terms of the expanse [of poem] we have a large expanse;

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we must try to go ahead with this broad expanse and this needs work [to be done].

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Of course, the Arts Department [of the Islamic Development Organization] is responsible, [and] other organs are also responsible,

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state-run organs and organs related to [the Islamic Republic] Establishment and the likes of them

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– [including] the IRIB and others – have duties [to fulfill].

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Poem should be valued, poem is a very big phenomenon;  [and] is an important phenomenon.

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I see that in our system, in our country, those who must understand this fact,

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As if some of them – now I don’t mean all [of them] – has not correctly found out about the depth of the importance of poem; [they] have not valued poem at all;

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“they did not value poem as it deserves;”

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did not correctly understand the real value of poem.

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Poem has a strange effect; sometimes a single line of poem or, now, a ghazel

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or a piece of poem, is more effective than a one-hour [or] two-hour long speech

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by an expert, [and] informed person.

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Well, this is a very important issue; I mean, this is, as saying goes, a valuable gem;

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enjoys such importance; they must be able [to value this].

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By the way, one of the works that is very good in our country, which thank God,

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its effects were seen in this meeting and had been seen before and I am very content with that,

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is the rapid reaction that our young poets show to incidents;

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this is very valuable; this is very good.

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Nobody should imagine that this is a negative thing; no, this is very positive.

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Throughout history and in contemporary time close to us, we have had

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cases in which these very rapid reactions have created the best effects.

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When that Israeli airplane was hijacked by that girl,

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the late Amiri Firouzkouhi [wrote an ode]; now Amiri Firouzkouhi,

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[our] friends who know him [are aware] that well,

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he was not young and revolutionary and things like that, but on the basis of the feeling that he found,

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[he] wrote a beautiful and excellent ode at the same time – [in the Iranian year] ’40-odd (circa 1960s) –

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suitable for that period, suitable for that time;

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[his poem started with] “there a gazelle…;” now I don’t remember many of its lines,

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at that time, I knew many of its lines [by heart]; I had heard [the poem] from the poet himself.

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Anyway, this is very good that rapid reaction is shown to incidents

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and [those incidents] are explained; this is very good.

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And I hope that, God willing, the poem of the revolution would rise in rank and level day by day.

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Of course, my purpose of the poem of the revolution is not that poem that was written during the period of the [Islamic] revolution

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even though it was against the revolution; this is not [my] purpose of revolutionary poem.

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Some people think that the war poem is the poem that is written about war,

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even if [it is] against war! This is not war poem, this is anti-war poem.

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The poem of the revolution means that poem which serves the goals of the revolution;

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this is the poem of the revolution, not the poem [that has been written] during revolution period; this is not what I mean.

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What I mean by the poem of the revolution is the poem that serves the goals of the revolution.

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[I mean the poem] that serves justice, serves humanity, serves religion,

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serves unity, serves national upliftment,

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serves all-out progress of the country,

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serves [the purpose of] making human beings in true sense of the world in the country;

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this can be called the poem of the revolution, which is in line with the goals of the revolution.

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I hope, God willing, God will make all of you successful,

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give you long life, and [that] your youths will, God willing, tread this direct path for many years

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and, God willing, give benefit to the country and the future and the [future] generations.

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