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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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So, I said that if the student environment

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firmly believes in an issue

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and follows it in diverse student activities,

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this will have an effect on future [outlook] of the country.

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It is not correct to think that

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what use does it have for us to do these activities as student or to make this effort?

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What impact will it have on the realities of the country? No, it has an effect; [and] it has a lot of effect.

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The mechanism for its effect is this that I said;

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his will turn into a discourse,

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first in the student environment, then gradually in country’s environment

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and this will turn into a major decision-making element.

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Yes, you may not be making decisions in a given organization, but you can help shape decisions.

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Therefore, follow the ideals.

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I mentioned some examples of the ideals, but these are not all [of them];

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search the collection of Imam [Khomeini]’s remarks, the collection of the Islamic Revolution’s ideas,

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[and] through precise study of the Quran and Nahj-ul-Balagha prepare a list of ideals,

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classify them, divide them into groups,

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work on these [ideals] and insist on ideals.

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I mean, realities should not take us away from ideals;

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realities should take us close to ideals like a ladder.

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If a reality causes troubles [in this regard],

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fight it, counter it, and remove it; this is the [true] meaning of idealism.

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Of course, its opposite point – as I said before – is conservatism;

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it means to get along with realities; accept those [realities] that are bad, [and also] accept [those realities] that are good.

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[Simply] live under the pretext that “well, what can we do, we’ve got no choice;”

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well, it is clear what fate would await such a nation.

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If student organizations and student current want

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to have such an influence, it has [its own] requirements;

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those requirements should be observed.

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One of these requirements is to work on Islamic concepts;

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that is in-depth work on [all] issues;

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superficiality will be harmful.

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I, of course, in remarks that these friends made today

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– in some remarks, I’m not saying in all of them –

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I observed the signs of in-depth [thinking].

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I saw that fortunately, the young student looks at issues with an in-depth attitude. This is the first condition.

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Sometimes some slogans are chanted, slogans with an Islamic appearance, which are not Islamic in their core;

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among things that have become very prevalent recently

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and one hears in the writings and in words is “merciful Islam;”

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well, this is a beautiful word, both its Islam is beautiful and its merciful is beautiful.

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But what does it mean? What is the definition of merciful Islam?

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Well, the Almighty God is both merciful and compassionate, [and he] is also the strictest of punishers;

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He has both the Paradise and has the Hell.

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The Almighty God has not treated the faithful and unfaithful alike;

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“Then is the one who was a believer like the one who was defiantly disobedient? They are not equal;”

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the merciful Islam that they say,

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what judgment does it pass on the faithful, on the unfaithful, on the infidel, on the enemy,

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and on the infidel that is not an enemy?

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Just throwing around a world without looking at its depth is wrong

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and possibly misguiding.

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Some people in their words and writings and remarks use this term “merciful Islam.

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One sees and correctly feels that this merciful Islam is a keyword

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for [certain] ideas that have their root in liberalism;

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that is, the thing that is called liberalism in the West.

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Of course, the term “liberalism” and the title of liberalism

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for the Western civilization and Western culture and Western ideology is an erroneous term

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because in reality they are neither liberal,

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nor believe in liberalism in true sense of the word;

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but well, liberalism is a term.

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If merciful Islam is used in reference to this,

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it is neither Islam, nor merciful; absolutely.

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The liberalistic thought comes from the thought of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries

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– that is, [from] the humanist theoretical fundament which requires negation of spirituality and God and the likes of them.

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Since there is no God, then [everything] is based on [human] choice;

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human things [ideas] are like this;

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even in scientific facts and laboratory facts, you see how choices are different.

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Today, they reach a diagnosis about a substance that, for example,

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this is good for that given disease or for that problem;

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a while later, [other groups of] scientists announce that no, this is not useful, [and] is [even] harmful!

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I mean, the work that is not based on divine revelation is open to error and mistake

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and double thinking and so forth.

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So, when thinking is not divine, [it] is based on choice; [and] when it is [based on] choice,

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then values are defined on the basis of the interests of powerful groups.

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Today, there is something known as American value;

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you hear in the words of Americans, [they say] American values; our values.

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The founders of the independent America,

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in the 18th century when America got rid of British colonialism

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and introduced itself as a country on the other side of the world, set some values;

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– those people who existed at that time, George Washington and those around him and his successors –

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[and] called them American values.

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Those values, when it comes to assessment, are fraught with problems;

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[they are] the same things that lead to today’s world devouring situation of the hegemonic system;

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however, the same values

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have been forgotten today in the American society [and] in the political system of the present-day America.

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– those things of them that are positive, those things of them that are good –

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Once, a few years ago, I was studying

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the remarks of these very people who have been [known as] the so-called founders of America

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since 200 years ago, [since] two hundred-odd years ago,

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– [I studied] their words and the charter that they had formulated

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as the charter of America and American values –

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and compared them to behaviors of present leaders [of America and] saw that many of [those values] have been breached.

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It occurred to me right then that someone

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must show this off to American nation that these values that you say are these,

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[and] these [values] today do not exist in the behavior of the American government and the regime of the United States of America;

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now, it is what it is. If this term “merciful Islam”

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refers to such a thing, well, it is one hundred percent wrong.

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If this is what merciful Islam means that we look upon all creatures in the world

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with the eye of mercy, [and] with the eye of friendship, this is not correct either;

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[and] this is also against the Quran. The text of Quran is against this saying.

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Yes, it does not consider compassion and friendship and being just as special to Muslims;

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it says you who can, must treat non-Muslims with friendship and justice,

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provided that they have not been hostile to you and don’t want to be your enemy.

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Amir al-Mo’menin [Imam Ali (PBUH)] [says] in his famous sermon:

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“I was told that some of them [enemy troops] have entered upon a Muslim woman and another [woman] who belonged to the People of the Book;”

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then at the end of it, Imam says a Muslim person deserves to die of sorrow for this issue;

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why die [of sorrow]? Because the army of Muawiyah had entered upon non-Muslim women

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– People of the Book means a Christian or a Jew who lives under protection of Islam –

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and insulted her and, for example, yanked her bracelet or other jewelry from her hand and took them away.

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Imam says, one has to die of sorrow over this [issue].

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Yes, this is about a non-Muslim who is not hostile. Quran says,

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“Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them.”

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[Those who] are infidels, but have not been and are not hostile toward you,

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do good to them, [and] treat them with fairness and justice;

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however, on the other hand, it says,

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“Would you not fight a people who broke their oaths and were determined to expel the Messenger, and they had begun [the attack upon] you the first time?”

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You want not to fight against those who break their oaths,

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make effort to disrupt your life and that of the Prophet,

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and they have begun the hostility?

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This is the verse of the Quran; with a reproachful and complaining and critical tone it says,

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“Do you fear them?”

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Are you afraid of them? Then it says:

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“But Allah has more right that you should fear Him;”

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if you are right, [and] if you are believers, then you should fear God, not these people.

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Well, this is [what] Quran [says]. If the meaning of merciful Islam is that

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we must treat the enemies, who are endeavoring against Islam, against Iran, against the Iranian nation, [and] against the progress of Iran,

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and do not spare any effort [in this regard],

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with a compassionate countenance, [and] with pure and clear heart, no, this is not Islam.

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I do not recommend such invented, [and] cooked-up ideas.

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But I recommend [you] to real ideas of Islam.

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Student organizations [should] work on the ideas of Islam. We have no shortage in terms of books;

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we have many books [in this regard].

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Once we had to refer [you] to Martyr [Morteza] Motahhari’s books

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– of course those books are still at the peak and are very valuable –

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but today, we have many books other than them;

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[students] can choose [the best] ways and methods to study [books], study [them], work [on them], discuss [their material],

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organize oration sessions, [and] as they say, organize conference(s), organize roundtable(s);

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I mean, [students should] elevate the level [of their studies]. This is one of the requirements.

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One of the requirements of having an effect is to attract the main student body.

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[People active in student] organizations are [just] a student minority.

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The totality of you, [student] organizations, does not form a majority among the multitude of students.

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You must be able to create attraction among you to attract [university] student(s).

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How attraction can be created?

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I believe that there are many ways; you are young,

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your initiatives are more numerous than ours

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– of course, when we were young, likewise, ten methods and ways

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occurred to us for any problem, but now your minds work better –

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find initiatives to make student organizations [more] attractive.

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Of course, attraction through [organizing] co-ed excursion, is one hundred percent wrong and mistake.

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Some people want to create attraction in this way.

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[They want] to take an student group, now under the glamorous title

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of guild-related and scientific, and specialized organs, or even under an Islamic title,

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take boy and girl together to the mountain, take them on a trip, take them to Europe; overseas excursions!

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These [measures] are certainly treachery against student environment and treachery against the future generation of the country; [there is] no doubt about this.

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These are not a [suitable] way to create attraction. As they said, [and] I also emphasize,

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the [correct] way to make your [student] organizations attractive is not to launch a music concert.

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I said that once – of course, many years ago – student organizations did this.

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I wondered why that student organization did this.

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It seemed very amazing to me. [When I] asked [about the reason] they said, “We want to attract students.”

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Well, we later paid a price [for that].

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That reminded me of a story told by Sayyid Qutb

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in one of his books, which I, in one of the writings

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that dates back to many years ago – belongs to before the revolution – told that story quoting him.

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He says, “I was moving along in a city in America, [when] I reached a church;

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I saw that there was a gathering hall attached to the church.

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Then they had posted the “night’s program” [to the wall]; I read the [schedule of the] program

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[and] saw it included, for example, that type of music, then that type of music, then that type of singing,

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then a light dinner, then, for example, a such and such session;

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I became interested to go and see what is going on.

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He says, “I went that night and saw that yes, there is a hall like a cabaret!

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There, girls, boys, youths come and become intimate;

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there are programs on the stage; music and the likes of that;

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[and] I kept watching the situation in there. Then they brought us a light dinner [and] we ate [it]

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and [then] for example [they gave us] a drink, something;” this is the interesting part;

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he says, “a few hours passed into the night, it was the end of the night. I saw the priest

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– the priest of that church to which this hall was attached –

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entered the stage gracefully from one side,

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went over [to the other side] and hit some of these power switches and turned off some of the lights, [and] then the priest left.”

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He says, “I did not stay there and went [out].”

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He says, “The next day I went to the priest and asked what was all that about?

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After all, you are a cleric, you are a priest, [and are supposed to] promote the religion,

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what was that situation last night, for example, with all these young people and these program?”

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He [the priest] said, “Sir, you do not understand.

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I have to do this in order to make the church attractive for the youth.”

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He [Sayyid Qutb] said, “I told him – now I say this in my own words – damn this church!

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Well, let them go to a cabaret; [if] they are supposed to do the same things here that they do in a cabaret,

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well, let them go and do them in the cabaret; why do they have to come to the church?”

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If we are supposed to direct our youths toward corruption

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and sins and debauchery and banned music and such things,

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well, why calling ourselves Islamic?

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This is not Islamic anymore; this is un-Islamic, this is against Islam.

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Therefore, this attraction that I say the Islamic organizations should have,

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is not any one of such attractions; these are against expediency; against the truth;

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these are treachery to student environment; attraction [must be created] in suitable ways.

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One way to create attraction is to say something new;

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[as the famous Iranian poet says]: “Bring a new word because there is a different sweetness to it;”

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new words. New words do not mean manufactured claims.

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There are many facts that one comes across by studying the Quran,

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by studying the Nahj-ul-Balagha and in traditions.

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I, who have been [active] in these field and worked [on them] for [a period of] for example sixty [or] seventy years,

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sometimes turn on the television, one of these gentlemen is, for example, talking

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[and] all of a sudden he says a point, which I see this point is new to me;

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I had not understood this so far,

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[and] had not used this [point], now I use it.

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That is, for a person who, now for example for sixty years or more than sixty years

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– I have been wearing a turban for more than sixty years –

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has been in the environment of religious knowledge and such things,

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there are words that are new;

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[and] I read this much of the Quran, [and] I am so in contact with traditions;

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I have taught the Quran for many years, have taught the Nahj-ul-Balagha for many years,

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however, a young cleric, for example, comes out and says something on the television

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[which] is new to me, [and] I take advantage of it.

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There are a lot of new words;

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[students must] search and find new words; however, [those doing this] should be

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people who are competent for this work;

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[and] be able to do this. New word is not limited to new religious word, it is also new political word,

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is also new social word, [and] is also new word in the field of international affairs.

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When you say something new [and] say a new word in your organization,

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young [people] are attracted; it has attraction after all; new word has attraction.

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Another method is to use part of artistic methods

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that have received less attention; [for example] the theater; the student theater.

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Unfortunately, in our art environment, the theater got off on the wrong footing from the first.

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I mean, our theater, has been either [consisting of] meaningless, futile plays like vulgar songs, for example, like this,

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or has been an aimless protesting theater, namely without correct direction;

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then [they talk] with a language of ambiguity,

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[because] they think the theater must necessarily use the language of ambiguity and symbolism

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and enigma, which is not actually the case.

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The theater means an actor [doing a play] in front of the viewers on the stage.

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Unlike cinema, unlike movies

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where you only see something on the screen,

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here in the theater, one can feel [the presence] of humans,

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[and] hear their words from their own tongue.

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There can be many constructive things in this. The theater; student plays.

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Art groups should sit down and [express] the true concept of Islam in reality.

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In this very Hosseiniyeh [religious place] many years ago – perhaps 20 years ago –

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a play was performed for me, which was about Prophet Job

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and took a long time; it took one hour, [or] two hours.

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When it was over, I told its director that “I have read the story of Job in the Quran

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perhaps a hundred times or hundreds of times up to now,

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but this understanding that I got tonight of the story of Job through your play,

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during this [long] period of reading the Quran, I had not reached this understanding.

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Is this insignificant?

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Cartoon. Cartoon is one of very effective art methods.

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Satire. Satirical works, which [our] youths have fortunately done, and are doing, good things in this field.

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These are very good works [to do].

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Student activities do not merely mean announcement of positions through a statement,

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which is a repetitive measure and may not be attractive,

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or, for example, write a book and give [it to others to read],

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or [organize] a student session;

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[student work] is not limited to these [examples]; of course, these are good,

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but new steps can be taken.

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For example, consider ballad, or audio periodicals;

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the issue of ballad, the issue of poem, is a work of art;

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[student organizations] must really pay attention [to such activities]. There are issues whose effect is multiplied

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several times through poems, through poetical and artistic performances.

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Take advantage of these methods.

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Of course, I now told you if I wanted to mention initiatives,

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I may [tell you] just these seven, [or] eight items; you, who are young, sit down and think [about it],

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[and] twenty items, [or] thirty items of new initiatives may occur to you.

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Take advantage of these [initiatives] [so that student organizations] become more attractive.

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One of the ways to increase effectiveness and attractiveness of [student] organizations is intellectual contentment;

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intellectual contentment; [that you would] be able to convince the opposite side.

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This issue is secondary to that you should work correctly.

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You work in a correct way;

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really [when] a fact becomes part of your thought and your mind, you can

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[convince others], [and] you find the power to convince, [and you would] convince your audiences; [this is the meaning of] intellectual contentment.

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If we wanted to impose something on the mind of the opposite side

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using angry remarks and threat and brute force,

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they] may, for example, under the impact of emotions,

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[accept [what you say] momentarily,

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but this would not last.

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Communists in the time that they existed [used force to go ahead]. Now,

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fortunately, the failure of communism

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has been taken as the failure of the Marxist way of thinking in the world and this is also true.

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Of course, I have heard that in our universities, there are certain currents that are again

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bringing to life what Marxism said, but

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this is like blowing into a dead furnace, it is not useful anymore.

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like painting on water;

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Despite all those claims and allegations and with all that hue and cry and all the victims [of communist claims] and the likes of that,

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communist systems in the world,

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after sixty years, [and] seventy years, produced nothing other than fiasco.;

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I mean falseness of their slogans has been proven,

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[and] their inability and insufficiency has been proven;

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therefore, that [school of thought] will never return. However, now I have heard that some people [are pursuing this goal],

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which if true, and [if] the Marxist current

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has become intellectually active in our universities, it is certainly backed by American money;

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because there is no motivation. They spend money;

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because the very division of students

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is a great bounty for them.

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One of the [ways to create] divisions [among students] is that to bring Marxists to life again.

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Those people who were members of the Tudeh Party (a Marxist party)

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and had been in jail for 20 years, later came

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before the Islamic Republic’s television without any pressure and force,

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wrote a “letter of repentance” and read it;

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perhaps you don’t remember this; it dates back to early years of the 1980s.

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Ten or twelve elements of the Tudeh Party came before the Islamic Republic television

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– I was president at that time; I was surprised;

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I, [my] active friends and top officials of the country were amazed

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how these people [have come before the television]; we knew some of them up-close;

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some of them were in prison with us; some of them we had seen out of the prison

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and knew them, and their claims and allegations soared high

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– these people came [and] stood in line, [then] sat on chair(s),

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[and] one of them, serving as host, started asking them questions

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[about] cases that proved the treacheries of the Tudeh Party to the country.

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Then [when] everyone of them tried to show some restraint and did not talk,

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this host, since he was one of them, said, “Sir, at that time,

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you did that thing, said that thing,” [and in this way] he was forced to say “yes, I said;”

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I mean it was not us who wanted to make them confess,

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they themselves took confessions from one another.

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This is among very valuable documents of the IRIB;

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[IRIB officials] should not let [such documents] to be ruined; these are very important things.

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Well, after all these [confessions], now the same people write books

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and pamphlets in defense of Marxism; well, this is ridiculous.

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Well, Marxists in those places where they staged revolution and formed a government,

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pursued their goals with force and violence, even in student environments.

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You know in this very Afghanistan, our neighbor,

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following [the ouster of Mohammed] Zahir Shah and after [Mohammed] Daoud [Khan], a Marxist government came to office;

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it started before the victory of our revolution and then coincided with early years of the revolution and continued – which when the communist government was announced,

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it started before the victory of our revolution and then coincided with early years of the revolution and continued – which when the communist government was announced,

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I was in exile in [southeastern Iranian city of] Iranshahr;

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there I heard that a communist government had come to office in Afghanistan and was not informed of [details of] affairs;

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now, news [about it] is being released by and by – inside the Kabul University,

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those organs [which were] affiliated to that people’s party,

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which had came to office through a coup d’état, went into the rooms of students,

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[and] dragged out those students whom they thought were opposed [to the communist government]

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and beat them until they died or were about to die;

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the same people went [and] arrested these students, [and] took them

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and turned them over to government forces to be sent to jail;

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I mean, they had contaminated even the university environment with such pressures and violent acts;

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[however,] it was not like this here. [In] this very Tehran University, there were beatings and clashes,

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but [they were caused] by Marxist groups; by Monafeqeen, by Mojahedeen Khalq;

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they were the ones who had turned there [Tehran University] into their arms depot; not Muslim students.

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In the early months of the victory of the [Islamic] Revolution, I went to Tehran University’s mosque every week,

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both delivered speech(es) to students, and answered the questions; every week.

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Students, [as well as] Muslim [and] revolutionary youths, came [and] sat quietly,

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heard [what I told them] [and] went away; their number was high; there was neither a war room, nor gun [was  used],

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nor unsuitable slogans were chanted; at the outset of revolution, and in a student environment, and that in Tehran,

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and that I, who was not even president at that time, I was member of the Revolution Council

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– I mean all factors of being revolutionary were there –

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I went to the  university and talked to students,

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in a calm environment, in a rational environment;

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perhaps out of these brethren and sisters who were student in those years,

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there are people among you who remember those years.

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The day that the university had been occupied by communist groups,

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which there was the risk of destruction [of university], it happened to be the day – I don’t know whether it was Monday or Sunday

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– when I went to Tehran University in those days of the week. I went as usual.

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A few of revolutionary guards were with me [and] told me, “Sir, don’t go,

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it is dangerous.” I said, “What danger?, I’ll go.”

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I went into the mosque, which well, nobody was there. Naturally, I returned.

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he person that made the university environment unsafe, stoked unrest,

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wanted to inject his thoughts into the other side if possible through force

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and beating and if not, by using bullets, it was not  Islamic groups;

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they were either Marxist groups, or the Mojahedeen Khalq group,

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which was a replica of the Marxist groups; their name was Islamic,

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[but] on the inside, their way of thinking, [and] their ideology, [and] all their writings were purely Marxist.

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We don’t have this in Islam; in Islam, we have contentment;

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the meaning of this [Quranic verse], “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion,” which is in the Quran, is this;

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that is, religious thought cannot be transferred and reflected but through contentment.

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[If you] could convince [others]; this will create attraction. Therefore, this is one of the factors for attraction.

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Among other [important] things is presence of professors devoted to [Islamic and revolutionary] values.

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Take advantage of these devoted professors.

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The other day, in the gathering of university professors who were here, I said,

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“In early [years of] revolution, there was a time when all our faculty members across the country

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were estimated at about four [or] five thousand, which today

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stands at about eighty thousand or more, who are our faculty members.

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Most of these eighty thousand people are Muslim and revolutionary and interested and good persons.

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Of course, there are some people who are indifferent – we have this in this very university of ours;

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I am not unaware of this – [and] we had also certain persons, which now I hope they are not there,

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who marked elite students,

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wanted them, [and] encouraged them to migrate from the country;

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[they told students], “Sir, you have stayed here to do what? What benefit does [staying] here have for you? Go.”

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That is, the professor, instead of encouraging the student to stay in the country,

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encouraged him to migrate from the country [and] go [to other countries];

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we also have such persons. However, well, these are just a minority; the majority of professors are devoted to values, are faithful professors;

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both in the Ministry of Science [Research and Technology] and in the Ministry of Health it is like this;

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there are very good elements;

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take advantage of them in [student] organizations; ask them to come and spend time [there];

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[even] outside the university. Here, they mentioned the name of one of my very good brethren

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who speaks at Friday Prayers sermons; very well,

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take advantage of him, of those like him, [and] invite them to [student] organizations.

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Of course, this is just the positive side of this issue. The negative aspect is that

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those elements that have proved they are not unsafe, should not be absolutely taken advantage of;

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absolutely do not take advantage of [such elements]. There are some people

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who have shown and proven that they are unsafe elements. For whom they are unsafe?

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For me? No – I am very comfortable in dealing with this and that [person];

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I can deal with any kind of person; I have good connections;

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it is possible for somebody to have no problem with me except in terms of conviction

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– they have proven their distrustfulness to the [Islamic] Establishment,

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have proven it to the country, have proven it for the Islamic Republic;

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both for its Islamic [component] and its republic [component].

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These very people who started that game in [the Iranian year 13]88 (2009),

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well, these [people] opposed the republic nature of the Islamic Republic Establishment, without any logic,

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without any allegation [that would seem] acceptable and suitable to fair people.

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These [people] are unsafe; I do not absolutely recommend these [people] to be used [in universities], by no means;

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neither recommend [using such people] to you, nor to any [other] student, and nor to any university.

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There are good professors; take advantage of them.

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One of the things that I believe is very necessary for [student] organizations and is good [for them]

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is understanding the current situation of the country.

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[When I say] the situation of the country [it] does not simply mean domestic situation and existing problems

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and these things that they said [in this session] – issues related to villages, justice seeking,

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Resistance Economy, problems that exist, management problems, studious management

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and the likes of these. Of course, these are part of the realities.

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There are also a number of other important realities; brethren, sisters, my dear ones, pay attention!

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One reality is that in this country, after the demise of Imam [Khomeini],

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a determined group [of people] tried

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to totally discard the ideals of the revolution.

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Some of them made a mistake and declared this at the outset [of their activities.

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[They] wrote editorial(s) in newspaper(s), [and] talked [about it]. They made a strategic mistake here,

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or made a tactical mistake and showed their true colors

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[by revealing] that they want to put aside [the Islamic Revolution’s] ideals totally. Of course, they have now become more mature.

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Now, they don’t say [such things], [of course,] some people [still] want to put aside the ideals, but don’t say this openly;

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instead of saying [this] they do it [in practice].

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At that time, [these] imbeciles, started to talk before they acted.

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Well, they awakened those people who did not guess that such a thing existed.

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[It all] started on that day. And they have worked incessantly.

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They did not just work inside [the country]; [they] both worked inside the country, and worked outside;

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both used the intellectual elements and used the scientific elements;

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both used the artistic element and used the political element,

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[and they did all this] because they wanted to do away with the ideals in the country;

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that is, [they wanted to do something to make] the young generation totally forget about ideals.

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Now you look and see that despite [all efforts made by] them,

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at what level is liveliness and existence of ideals in the country. Before the sunset I said that

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most of prominent scientific advances [in our country] have been achieved by youth devoted to values;

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most ideological and spiritual and religious sessions are made up of the youths;

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most elements taking part in demonstrations related to the Islamic Republic and the revolution are youths;

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these youths who have not seen the war [which was imposed on Iran by Iraq], nor have seen Imam [Khomeini], nor have seen the revolution

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, nor [these issues] have been explained to them correctly. I am telling you;

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you my dear ones – well some of you are like my children

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and at an age to be my children, [and] some [of you] are even at an age to be my grandchildren

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– you are not aware of many incidents,

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despite all these remarks that are made now. I mean, issues [that happened] at the outset of the revolution,

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issues of the revolution, details of the revolution, details of the Sacred Defense period,

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[such issues] have not been even explained correctly – of course, book(s) are written [on these issues];

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[but] at a print run of 2,000, 3,000, 5,000, or 10,000;

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I read these books [that are] related to issues related to the Sacred Defense;

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I make time for myself, [and] look at them and read [them]

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– [these books] are but a very small part of the realities; you do not know these [realities].

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Then a young person who is not suitably aware of these very brilliant, and attractive,

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and thrilling and exciting realities, is so inclined toward the ideals.

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That is, despite [the efforts made] and in spite of those who want ideals to be annihilated and destroyed in the country,

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[those] ideals have soared since the demise of Imam [Khomeini] up to the present time.

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This is one of the realities of this country.

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One of the realities of the country is the amazing presence of the Islamic Republic in this region;

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not material and bodily and physical presence, but spiritual presence.

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One of the things that these Americans in their negotiations – in covert negotiations, [and] behind-the-scene negotiations –

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in meetings that they have with governmental elements of this region or with some of these very Arab reactionaries,

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when they sit and talk, chitchat and, in fact, sympathize [with each other]

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[is that] they complain about Iran

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and expect America to mount pressure and it [the US] tells them that ‘well, what am I supposed to do, I can’t [do anything]’

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; this is the gist of their chitchat!

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All these complaints and grievances and quibbling is [due to the fact that] Iran's influence has spread [through the region].

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Now, it is more than one hundred days that Saudis have been bombarding Yemen;

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[they are] not [pounding] the military centers of Yemen to which they don’t have much access;

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[but they pound] a hospital, a mosque, a house, a market, a public square,

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and [in doing so] kill groups of women and men and small and big [individuals];

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[they have been doing this] for one hundred days; this is no joke!

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The 33-day war in Lebanon, lasted for 33 days.

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The longest war in the region during these few years, which was launched by the Zionist regime, was last year’s war on Gaza,

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which lasted fifty-odd days. They have been pounding [Yemen] for one hundred days.

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Now, here I [must] say this in brackets: the liberal West, that is, the [so-called] freedom seeking and freedom loving [West],

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has not said a word! A resolution

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was adopted by the United Nations, [and] the Security Council, which was among the most disgraceful resolutions of the United Nations, which will not be forgotten.

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Instead of condemning the bombarding side, [that resolution] condemned the bombarded side!

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These are liberals; liberalism means this! Now, a bunch of simplistic people inside our [own country],

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support [them] and write article and print their photos

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in support of this method of governance, and method of ruling and managing society, and the likes of that

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[which are all] based on lie and cheating and treachery, and indifference in the face of oppression and even taking part in oppression.

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Well, this is a reality; one of the realities is this: vast influence of the Islamic Republic.

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I have always told these esteemed presidents of ours, – all of whom I hold in resect, [and] all of whom I help,

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and all of them and every president that people elect and comes to office, I support

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both the present esteemed president and those before him, I have always told them

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you go to any Islamic country, if people in that region were free and [if] permission was given

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and you wanted to go among them, they would accord you such a welcome

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that they would not accord that welcome to heads of their own state.

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This is the meaning of influence; influence means this.

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Out of spite for this influence, they have been pounding Yemen for one hundred days;

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because they say ‘you have influence in Yemen’. Well, what have we done in Yemen? Did we take arms to Yemen?

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Did we deploy troops to Yemen? They choose mercenaries from other countries, pay them petrodollars,

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clothe them in the uniform of Saudi army, [and] bring them into firing range of [Yemen’s] Ansarullah!

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They are intervening [in Yemen], what intervention [have we done in Yemen?]

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Well, [this] influence is a God-given influence. Can [anything be done about this?]

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Assume that our great Imam [Khomeini] sat here and talked,

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[and] his words were transferred from person to person,

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for example to the remotest parts of Africa or to the remotest parts of Asia;

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[those words] had such an influence that a person living in a given remote African or Asian country

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named his child Ruhollah. This is [true] influence;

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without having spent a single page of paper to this effect.

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Well, when a word becomes influential, when a word is a correct word,

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it arises from heart and descends upon [other people’s] hearts; well, nothing can be done about it;

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"Say, Die in your rage.”

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Well, if you cannot [do this], as put by the late Martyr Beheshti – who has been quoted as saying this –

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die of your rage! Well, what can we do; this is one of the realities.

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This is one of the realities of the Islamic Republic;

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pay attention to these [realities]; I mean don’t keep looking [at different issues] with a pessimistic attitude.

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Yes, we are expected to do more; I expect a lot from myself and from others;

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we must work more, [and] advance more,

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[and] end the decade of progress and justice really with progress and justice;

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I accept these; however, the other part of this issue;

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[consists of] advances and achievements and realities.

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Well, with such realities, student organizations can work,

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sit down and work on international issues of the Islamic Republic;

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[and work] on the situation in Yemen, on the situation in Iraq, on the situation in Syria, [and produce] attractive analyses [and] set your sights upon the future.

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This is one point that after all if you want

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the influence of the student environment on the country to be like what I already explained, this is the way:

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you influence the student environment [and be sure that] the student environment will influence the [entire] country.

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Of course, well, there are [student] organizations that are like disposable dishes,

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[because] they are only created for the purpose [of being used during] election time; their only purpose is for elections.

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Some of the organizations are like this; they establish an organization, [and] they are not even ashamed of it,

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[and] they say that ‘this organization we have established in order to be useful to us in that given election’.

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Well sir! This is an insult to the students;

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it is objectification of the students; [and] that [is an insult to] elite students

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which are now supposed to come together in an organization; this is an insult to them.

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How valuable elections are for a person to humiliate student(s) for their sake?

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[and] that the elite student(s). I don’t believe in such organizations

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and don’t believe that they are beneficial to the country or can be useful for the country;

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[therefore] I do not recommend their establishment. However, those organizations that are truly Islamic, [are] interested

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and at the service of the revolution and Islam and future of the country, [they] can be very useful.

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