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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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I am very happy that, thank God, an opportunity has come about again [for me]

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to be able to meet with a group of you dear ones; though this [opportunity] is not enough.

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Some of these dear war veterans told me that ‘we have been waiting for twenty years, [or] thirty years

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for this meeting to take place’, [and] I told them that ‘I feel really ashamed

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that you had to wait twenty years  for an affair which is so trivial,

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but well, [due to] our [limited] abilities and our shortcomings and such issues, it is like this;

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I mean, one does not have more ability than this;

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otherwise, if I could, I wished to be with you much longer than this’.

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First of all, [the value of] your endeavors and your [spiritual] reward are both reserved with the Almighty God,

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and God willing, are on the rise day by day;

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because your work was not totally finished.

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This affliction and this test comes over you in a gradual manner, [which is quite] unlike [what happened to] martyrs.

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[During the war] martyrs were hit by a mortar [shell], [or] were hit by a bullet and went to Heaven, flied toward Heaven,  [and] their job was done;

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[but] not you; every day that passes by, [and] every hour that passes by,

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you have a suffering, [and] have a problem, [and] although you have conceded to this problem

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and [only] the Almighty God knows [what is going on] in your hearts, which you are patient.

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However, every minute, every hour, [and] every day this very patience of yours entails a double reward;

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therefore, this is an accurate comment that the reward [considered] for war veterans [by God] is day by day on the rise.

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Every hour that you live more, to the same extent, your reward is going up.

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We have in [Islamic] traditions that sometimes one gives away a small thing - a dirham or, for example, a small amount of money - for the sake of God,

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[and] the Almighty God in [the Day of] Resurrection, returns that to him [while in terms of magnitude it looks] like the Mount Uhud;

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what you do is like this;

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[you] lost a limb, [and] accepted a loss,

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which of course, is very big and vey important and entails a lot of [spiritual] reward,

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but this reward is constantly on the rise and is increasing.

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[Therefore,] thank God for this increase in [your] reward.

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Secondly, [the fact] that you are war veterans,

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[means that] you are right now fighting,

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[and] right now with this very disability of yours, you are, in fact, doing jihad;

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how? I don’t mean cultural jihad;

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I don’t mean that you deliver a speech somewhere or say something or do something,

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or to give money [to those in need for the sake of God], or to teach something - well, these are very good in their own place; [because] these are [all examples of] jihad

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- however , this [situation] that you are sitting on a wheelchair or are lying on a bed,

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or while being deprived or [your] eyesight, or [a] hand, or [a] foot [you] are [still] moving in alley and market, it is [a form of] combat;

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why? Because it is indicative of the affliction and great suffering of this nation in a difficult period.

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You, in fact, are like a picture, like a painting

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that are showing the war and the Sacred Defense to all those who see you;

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you are an image of that period of the great affliction of Iranian nation and the great test of Iranian nation;

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[therefore,] this very presence of you and this very existence of you, is [a form of] combat, an expression, and a publicity.

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Looking at you reveals

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the crimes of those powers, who supported and defended the regime of [former Iraqi dictator] Saddam [Hussein];

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looking at you is sign of the grandeur and greatness of that Imam [Imam Khomeini]

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and that revolution that managed to raise you in this way and send you to battlefields.;

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looking at you retells the history of part of the life of this Iranian nation;

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therefore, a war veteran though his existence and through his presence among the people

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Is a declaration of certain facts, even if he does not say a word,

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[and] even if he does not take part as a publicity agent or as the one who explains [something] in any ceremony;

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[however,] the mere existence of you is sign of [certain] facts;

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historical facts, cognitive facts, political facts, [and] international facts; [the effect of your presence] is like this.

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This, per se, also has its own reward with the Almighty God; this is the second point.

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The third point is about these ladies,

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who are taking care of you as [your] wife and are accepting [the burden of] your suffering.

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Yes, just in the same way that this gentleman expressed in this beautiful poem

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, these ladies are sacrificing in the true sense of the word; this is sacrifice, [and] is a great sacrifice;

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their service has a very high value.

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The suffering of the one who takes care of a patient, if not more, is no less than the suffering of the patient.

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[The fact] that one would take care of a war veteran with [all] his problems, [and] with his physical limitation,

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serve him,  listen to him,

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[and] does not lose her patience in the face of natural short-temperedness that a war veteran may have,

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[this] has great reward with the Almighty God.

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To [these] ladies - the wives of you war veterans - I can say this that

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the Almighty God gives good tidings to you for the sake of the grandeur of what you are doing;

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this is really a jihad and an epic; [and] this is another point.

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The last point is that both you dear war veterans, and your wives,

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and your children and your relatives and [all] those who have a share and [play a] role in taking care of you,

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must try to safeguard this huge spiritual wealth.

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Know that sometimes due to our negligence, great riches that are at our disposal are lost.

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If we become negligent, become inattentive,

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[and] do not act in the way that this spiritual and divine status calls for,

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whatever is at our disposal in the form of this spiritual wealth, would be lost; [therefore, we] must be careful.

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[I wish] the Almighty would enable all of us to, God willing,

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safeguard these divine bounties - which some bounties are material bounties,

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, [and] some bounties are spiritual -

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and thank [God] for these [bounties].

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Once again, I welcome you dear brethren and dear sisters

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for [coming to] this meeting today and for coming to [this] Hosseiniyeh [religious place]

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and thank you

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and ask the Almighty God for happiness in your hearts and progress in your works

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and granting of your demands and requests [from God].

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May the Almighty God, God willing, keep your children [alive and healthy] for you

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and, God willing, enter sweetness into your lives and, God willing, grant you long lives

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along with total body health.

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