Chapter Three:

WOMEN'S PART IN THE COMMUNITY

The woman has a greatpa1t in the society, she represents the real human ideals.

The woman is the tor of mankind.

Men ascend to high havens from the lap of the women.

Woman is the only being that can deliver individuals to societ) blessing the community rather entire communities are drawn to and lofty human value

A woman's part in thtcommunity is above that of a man, becaw ladies, in addition to king active in all dimensions, they rear and active layers in their

I observe a wonderoutthaflge in the community of women, far hey men.

I take pride in Iranian women for undergoing such evolutionary change that destroyed more than 50 years of evil designs by foreign plotters and their ignoble associates including ribald poets, writers and hired publicity media.

In our age women have proved that in a fight they march by the side of men or ahead of them.

We are honored that the women, small or big, young or old, all are present in the cultural, economic and military scenes by the side of men and, better than them, work for the elevation of Islam and the aims of the holy Quran.

Whenever I see the ladies who, by their decisive will are ready to suffer all sorts of hardship, rather, to attain martyrdom for the sake of objective, I feel assured that this path leads to victory.

The ladies are leaders of our Movement.

You brave ladies insured the victory for Islam, shoulder-to-shoulder, with the men.

You sisters had a great part in this Movement.

You brave, dear sisters insured victory for Islam, shoulder-to-shoulder with men.

ur men are indebted to the braveries of you lion-hearted women.

We owe much of the successes to the services of you ladies.

Much of the men's services is due to women.

Iranian women have a larger part than men in this Movement and Revolution.

ur dear ladies inspired the men with courage and bravery.We have this victory from the ladies before men.

What was greater than anything else to iran was the change that women v through.

If this Islamic Revolution had nothing except the changes that have occu in the ladies and the youth, that alone would have been enough for country!

The nationS whose women are in the frontlifle to advance the Islamic a will not come to harms.

What honor is greater than the fact that our noble ladies stood up in the lines against the former cruel regime and, after destroying that, stoo against the superpowers and demonstrated such resistance the like of w has not been recorded, in any age, not even for men.

Let ladies be pioneers in educating the noble society.

If man - making women be taken away from a nation, that nation will i with decay and defeat.

CorruptiOn and purification of a society has its roots in the corruptiOl purification of its women.

You men and women of history should demonstrate to the world an future generations how to be steadfast in beating the oppressor defending justice!

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Islam has conferred liberty on women.

Islam not only approves rights for women, rather, is itself one of the fo of women's liberties in all its feminine aspects.

Not only Shiism does not exclude women from the arena of social life, rather it places women in their lofty human station.

In Islamic Order women enjoy the same rights as men-rights to education, work, ownership to vote in elections and to be voted in.

From the viewpoint of human rights, there is no difference between men and women because both are human and women can decide about their own destinies just like men.

Women are free, just as men, to choose their own destiny and activities.

In Islamic Order, women, as human beings, can have active participation, along with the men, in building an Islamic society.

Islam has rescued women from the humiliation and disgraces of the age of ignorance prior to Islam. God knows Islam has served women much more than it has served the men.

From Isimaic viewpoint, women have sensitive roles in the erection of the Islamic community. Islam promotes the woman to the extent that she be able to recover her human status in the community and cast off her status as an object, and, commensurate with such growth, she can assume responsibilities in developing the Islamic government.

Today, ladies should perform their religious and social duties and preserve the public chastity while they do social and political work.

That which Islam opposes and has declared taboo is corruption by either men or women. We aim to save the women from the vices that threaten them.

We want women to be on their exalted human status and not be a plaything.

Islam does not want women to be in the hands of men as objects or dolls. Islam wants to protect the personality of the women and develop them into serious, efficient and capable beings.

In Islam, women must be veiled, they need not don the chador. A woman wear anything that provides her veil.

WOMEN'S DAY

If there is to be a "Women's Day", none is more apt, meritorious, auspi and honorable than the blessed birthday of her holiness Fatima Zahra

May Women's Day bring blessing to the great Iranian nation especiall women, the honorable day of a radiant element who is the under! foundation of all human excellences and the exalted values of the "calil God" on earth.

THE STATION OF MOTHER

No occupation is more honorable than motherhood.

A mother's service to the community is greater than of a teacher, it is gi than all other services.

A child's fIrst school is the mother's lap.

Children receive better breeding in their mothers' laps than by professo

A mother's lap is the greatest school in which a child is educated.

Good mothers rear and cultivate good chidlren.

If mother be chaste, they deliver chaste children.

If, God forbid, a mother be pervert her children will be perverts from I

You ladies, enjoy the honor of motherhood and you exceed men in such

The soundness of countries is due to you, you mothers. Prosperity and poverty of the countries, too, is due to you.

May the Praise of God descend upon mothers who send their brave youths to defend justice and take pride in their martyrdom.

That nation, whose brave sisters and mothers take pride in the death of their young, who rank with the martyrs, is victorious.

The brave mothers of the children of Islam have revived the memory of the bravery and self-sacrifices of the champion women of all history.

Education originally begins in the mother pure lap and at the side of the father and by their proper Islamic breeding and education , independence, freedom and dedication to the country's expediencies are insured.

AIDES OF THE REVOLUTION (famffies of martyrs, surviving veterans, freed prisoners of war)

We are all from God, the entire world is of God, is God manifestation and the whole world shall return unto Him. Therefore, much better that the return be by choice and selection, with man opting martyrdom in the Path of God and Islam and choose death for God's sake.

You, families of the martyrs! By the martyrdom of the honored ones of this land you made the entire world understand that in the Path of Islam you will sacrifice all your dear ones.

to the families of the martyrs): You are the sight and the light of this nation! We hope you dear children who are mementoes of those sacrificed in the Path of God and Islam, will, like your noble fathers, prepare yourselves for the

The families of the martyrs, the prisoners of war, the missing, the surv veterans are themselves protectors of the values of martyrdom and sac and, God willing, shall maintain this watch.

You families of martyrs, of the disabled and of the injured, you demonsi that you will not ever let colonialism over -shaddow the destiny country.

Martyrs of the Great Revolution, even as the martyrs of early Islai greatly valued and honored in the Presence of God and are praise blessed by Him and His Saints!

Your service (authorities of the Martyrs Foundation) is the most worth valuable service.

Your services to them (families of martyrs) is service to the holy Prop! service to all prophets.

Whenever I meet these dear ones or see the human-cultivating testam a martyr, I feel humble and belittled.

The martyrs' tombs, the bodies of the handicapped relate and bear witn the greatness of their eternal souls.

You (to: children of martyrs) are the truthful witnesses and mement iron wills, the most exemplar, sincere servants of God.

I am interested to see you each a learned man; a dedicated expert for ti Islam of Muhammad (SAW); a mighty challenger of Islam, American v and the Islam of the affluent; a faithful flag-carrier for your own sacr and martyrs and be able by the light of knowledge and virtue, to wi Islam's lap the darkness of discord, of crooked thinking, of petrifactiol of the sanctimoneouS.

The shining record of the martyrdom and sacrifices of your dear ones is ture witness to acquisition of highest moral degrees and stations by them, signed and stamped by the Pleasure of God and your record is pawned to your effort and struggle.Life in today's world is life in the school of the will and the happiness or misery of any man is geared to the will of same man.

The cherished Missing Ones are pivots to God's endless sea and those with inherent want in this base world are dumbfounded at the majesty of their station.

Convery my greetings and love to these valuable capital assets of the Revolution, these mementoes of eternal teachers of the school of love and martyrdom.

Let no harsh word be ever said to these survivors of martyrs and the incapacitated.

The wounded and the disabled ones are, per se, lights of guidance who in all corners of this land, show the way to happiness to those steadfast in faith.

Praise unto you, disabled and incapacitated ones, who gave your limbs and health to enhance the status of the Quran.

You are the telling language of honor, the telling tongue of Islam.

Those who abuse the blood of the youth, of the disabled for their own sake and power are outside the essence of man's nature.

Whatever the Islamic Revolution has is by the blessing of the struggles of the martyrs and sacrificers.

martyrs, lo and behold! Rest assured by the side of God Almighty, your nation shall not abandon your victory! You survivors of blood-buried martyrs and you disabled ones who insured or yourself the eternal life by the sacrifice of your health, be sure your nation is determined to guard your victory until the sovereignty of Allah is initiated until the advent of the Baqiyyatullah (a.s.) (=a title of the 12th Imam now ir occultation).

THE YOUNG & THE YOUTH

We need our young to be bred as human beings, that is, by Islamic education

Cultivate the young even as you teach them.

These young folks, who must keep and administer this country in future, mus be bred and educated properly.

Islam is concerned with purging of our children and youth more than anythin else.

Purge yourselves of carnal desires while you are young and enjoy the power youth.

Youth days are the spring of Repentence for the sins weigh less, darkness the heart and conscience is lighter and the terms of RepentenCe are easier.

I want the youth, girls and boys not to sacrifice independence, freedom at human values, even by tolerating hardships, for luxury, saturnalia ai presence in centers of vice, things that are presented to you by the West ai its homeless agents.

Those who, during the last 50 odd years and in the course of history wanted rob us, tried to make our youth indifferent.

In the study and research of Islamic truths, Muslim youth should consider a look for genuine Islamic accounts in the political, economic, social, etc ar and never forget the distinctions that separate Islam from all other schools

The young folks should know that no man will care for the ummat unless believes in morality, monotheism and Resurrection

You prolific young people, you honorable students who are my hope, you should be awake wherever you are in Iran, and defend your rights with alertness!

ur people, men, women, young or old and our children, all should make sacrifices in the path of Islam, for the honor of Islam and their homeland and for the glory of Quran.

You, dear youth, admit no disappointment or despair, truth shall prevail!

By the might of you young folks this country shall be reformed!

What an honor, to have such prolific youth of our country serving Islam!

The change that has occurred in our youth, in men, in those who are dedicated, is more important than the change that has come about in the country.

You youth, who are my hope and my promise, try to safeguard your unity of word!

It is incumbent on you, worthy youth of Islam who are my hope to make the nations aware and reveal the vicious and devastating plans of the colonizers.

It is incumbent on you the enlightened youth not to rest until you have awakened the dormant people from their fatal slumber and impart awareness to the negligent by disclosing to them the treasonous and criminal acts of the colonizers and their uncultured followers.

You young generation, you have a duty to awaken the Westernized individuals and expose their inhuman rule and crimes.

Some of our young have sacrificed their national prestige for the West and this was a spiritual set-back to us worse than all others we had.

Let our young not think that everything is in the West and they have nothing themselves.

Chapter Four:

SOCIAL JUSTICE

The Iranians want Justice, liberty and independence and believe they acklieve them only by the light of Islam and its laws.

ErfOrce justice, do not justice only for others, seek it for yourselves as

Jutice is justice and cruelty and crime are cruelty and crime regardless of sourCe.

D .ieviation from temperance and moderation and from divine justice and staight path is pervej0 and avoiding them is a divine duty.

Lt the people of the world know that one must not relent one momeni eUforts in the Path of God, and for initiating divine jusice and severin hz.aflds of the pagans. One must give everything, even the likes of Sari (Ilsinail, the Zabihullab) so that justice may perpetuate

Defending the mustazafin (=the meek, the oppressed, the deprived, etc) is the way of Islam!

In pursuit of the grand Islam, we support all oppressed peoples.

I doubt if a worship loftier than service to the deprived exists!

My dear friends! Prepare yourselves for service to Islam and the deprived nation. Tighten your belts to serve God's servants which is service to Him!

I advise all to make every effort for the welfare and relief of the deprived classes, your charity and reward in this and in the next world lies in helping the deprived.

What a worthy thing it would be if the well-to-do classes volunteer to provide relief and housing for the slum dwellers for it would constitute their good deed and reward for this life and for the Hereafter. It is unfair that one own scores of apartments and so many others not have a roof over their heads!

That day is our day for cheer and celebration when our needy, and deprived acquire decent living and welfare and gain proper Islamic training and education.

The important point is that the deprived classes receive the most attention.

God forbid the day when it becomes our policy and that of our authorities to let up our defense of the deprived and turn to the support of the capitalists.

Islam has come for the meek and the deprived, it's aims are essentially centered on them.

This century, Almighty God willing, is the century in which the oppressed overpower the arrogant and Truth smashes Falsehood!

Serve the oppressed, the needy and the slum-dwellers for they are benefactors!

No service is worthier before God than service to the slum-dwellers!

PALACE & SLUM DWELLERS

We must try to purge this nation of the culture of palace residency.

Most of the corrupt modes of bad conduct reach the people througi affluent classes.

The nature of palatial living negates sound and correct upbringing. It ne effort, invention, creation and compilation.

When considering our rich fiqh and our rich philosophy, we realize that 1 who have thus enriched our religious culture were all from among the dwellers, none came from among the denizens of "palaces".

The shaking and infirmity of the "palace" residents is absent in slum resk The peace that these enjoy is the envy of those in "high" places.

We suffered badly at the hand of palace residents during the Constitut Movement. The Majlis sessions and terms were filled by these, among were a few slum dwellers who prevented a great deal of the deviations.

Today, thanks God, none of our men are "palace" residents, our governm not a "palatial" government. The day our government acquires a 1e toward "palaces", that day we should let the nation's and the governni death knells peal.

The day our President, God forbid, departs from the culture of slum-dw and moves over to "palatial" living, that day his degeneration an degeneration of those he is in contact with, begins

Would that the "palace" residents observe the circumstances of our suffering people, perhaps they could then stop aiding America with its crimes

You "flourishing" slum-dwelling youth enjoy greater honor than the "palace" residents, it is you who preserved Islam!

ne strand of the hair of these slum-dwellers and offerers of martyrs is superior and nobler than all of the world's palaces and their denizens.

These "downtowners" as you term them and barefooted, these are our benefactors.

Without the help of the deprived peoples government could not prevail.

Without the aid of these deprived groups, these villagers and people south of the cities, we would not have been able to resist the difficulties and the former regime could not have been overthrown!

nly those will remain with us to the end who have experienced the pangs of poverty, of deprivation and of oppression!

LABOUR & THE LABOURER

The survival of a nation is due to work and the worker.

The workers are among the most valuable and useful groups in a society.

The great wheel of human communities moves and turns by the able hands of the workers.

Labour Day is burial day for the domination of the superpowers
Iran is a countrY that must have a rich agriculture for it is an agr country.

You farmers, who are the nation's greatest support, must conti agriCUltu activities.

You well know that we are in need of foreigners for food staples, make up for this ourselves and this calls for dedication by our farm

Th worker and the fanner form the basic core of any country. The base of a country is dependent on the work of the workers and farm

Farmers and workers are the backbOne of the country's independenc

The "land:refOrm"*49** we seek, will enable farmer to enjoy the fruit of I and it will duly penalize the owners who have acted contrary t decrees.

CAPITAL & THE MARKET

Right now the market is in the hands of the pseudo-religious. Just because there is no one to dictate prices and put them under pressure, is no reason for unfair dealing, the local governors must prevent overcharging!Islam does not favour unbridled, oppressive capitalism which deprives the masses. Rather, Islam condemns such practices severely in Quran and Tradition and regards it against social justice. Nor is Islam in accord with regimes like communism, Marxist-Leninism which oppose private ownership and favor common ownership.

RETURN OF THE EXPERTS TO THE COUNTRY

The bosoms of the country and the Revolution are ever open to those who have intended or still intend to return and render service but not at the price of their demands on all principles.

PART FOUR

IMAM KHOMEINI (S)

I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not thc service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.

Leadership is of no concern to Islam and me, fraternity is!

I am a brother to the people of Iran and regard myself as a serva soldier of them.

I ask Almighty God to grant success to all. I have come from outside 1 you. I am your sevant and the servant of your nation.

I have come to offer the bonds of my service to you, that I shall be a to all as long as I live, servant of Islamic nations, servant to the great nation, servant to university people, to the Clergy servant to all 1ayer population of the country, to all layers in all Islamic countries and to oppressed peoples of the world
I hope Khomeini will never deviate from the straight path of islam whici fight the oppreSsiVe powerS.

Those who have known me, know that if there is something that I mus do it and nothing can influence me to the contrary.

I have often declared that I have not entered in a contract of brothe with anyone regardless of station or status. The framework of my friet lies in the rightful path of every individual.

i declare if anyone ascribes to me something contrary to Islamic decree person lies
am ready, in times of danger and for the good of Islam, to bow in humility to the least and lowest individual, let alone to the grand ulema and the great marajae (religious authorities), may God increase the likes of them!

I pray for all of you and am servant to all the nation and I hope to be able to complete my service and find opportunity to finish it.

Khomeini kisses the hands of everyone of you and pays his respects to each of you and sees every of you as his leader, as I have often said I am one and same with you.

I have come to safeguard your honor, and to destroy your enemies.

I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.

Place is no issue with me. The issue with me is performing the divine duty, the higher expediencies of Islam and of the Muslims.

Place is no issue with me. The issue with me is struggling against oppression. Wherever it is made better, I will be over there.

I have now prepared my heart for the bayonets of your agents but will not prepare it for humility before your oppressive stooges.

I put no value on a few days of life in disgrace.

If you hang Knomeini, he will not compromise!

Even if Khomeini compromises with you, the Islamic nation will not!The Iranian nation must know that I will be by your side and fight along with you to the last breath for the preservation of Islamic laws and the expediencies of the country.

God knows that I ask no rights, privileges, immunities or prerogatives for myself. If I err, I am ready for the consequences

If ever I see it is expedient to Islam that I say something, I'll say it and it up without fear of anything. Thanks God, I've not felt fear so far. T they were taking me away, it was they who were afraid and i pacified ti

I am not one to issue a decree and sit by to take a nap, I follow it.

I am not a pope to hold some rites only Sundays and be a moflarCl myself the rest of the time and not mind any other thing.

The reason I gave up my job (as student clergyman) and came here is bad no competent government and no competent power.

1 extend a hand in brotherhood to all Muslim nations, in the East an West and to all MuslimS of the world.

I shake hands with all the islamic nations and the world for uprooting colonial 'zation and breaking the chains of ser restore indePeflde to Islamic countries.

I kiss the hands and arms of all the deaf people who, all over the v oulderiflg the weight of the challenge and are detefflhifled to crusS path of God and enhance the honor of Islam and I present rn greetings to all the blossoms of liberty and excellence At the end of life I humbly extend my hand to all the groups who struggle and make sacrifices for the maintenance of Islamic decrees which is the only road to the happiness of Iran and to insure this country's independence and freedom against colonialization, old and new.

I have done and will continue to do all in my power for unity to be achieved by all layers of the Islamic nation.

I advise the Iranian nation that if derogatory words about me are said or written in the Press no one has the right to utter a word. I have forbidden replying to such words because such things are plots and should be neutralized by silence and if plottings increase, we shall put them out by fists.

Although I have lost a dear son who was part of my being (lit., body) yet I am proud that Islam has had and still has such dedicated sons.

I always envy the serenity and sincerity of the enlisted volunteers (the basijians) and I ask God to associate me with them (at Resurrection) for in this world being a basiji is a source of pride to me.

I have readied my unworthy blood and life to pay God's dues and for performing the obligation to defend the Muslims and I wait to attend to the honor of martyrdom.

Whenever I study the morale of men and women who lost their youths yet stood up against misfortune bravely, I feel ashamed.

All of us are brothers and sisters and all are soldiers of Islam. I hope that in the Divine Book in which the names of soldiers are recorded, ours, too, may be recorded.

I hope to attain to one of the two great good things, either advance and establish justice and truth or martyrdom in path of Truth which is the Path of God.

>Let the powers, the superpowers and their servants be assured that if Khomeini remains all alone, he will continue his road which is fighting paganism, oppression, polytheism and idolatry and, along with the basijians the world of Islam, these barefooted ones who have displeased the dictatoi and with God's help, will deprive the eyes of the worldmongers and th agents who insist on doing injustice of an hour of restful sleep.

Heaven forbid that Khomeini remain silent and calm visa vis the aggressic of fiendish atheists, pagans, tresspasserS on the sanctury of the Holy Our and the Household of the messenger of God and to the ummat of Muhamni (SAW) and followers of Abraham (as.), and observe Muslims in the scenes misery and abjection!!

ur Movement is not dependent on individual, it is popular, the nation all leaders, all have woken up