1 - an interview with Imam Khomeini, 7 December 1979 (16 Azar 1358 AHS). Sahifah Noor, Volume 4.

2 - Quds is the Arabic word for Jerusalem and means 'the holy.' Jerusalem is revered as The third holiest city in Islam, after Mecca and Medina.

3 - 22 September 1982 (31 Shahrivar 1362 AHS). Sahifah Noor, Volume 18.

4 - the al-Aqsa mosque: the site in Jerusalem where the Prophet ascended to heaven in the eleventh year of his mission (Qur'an 17:1); also the complex of mosques and buildings erected on the site. The chief of these was extensively damaged by arson in 1969, two years after the Zionist usurpation of Jerusalem.

5 - Taken from Islamic Government translated by Hamid Algar, p. 116.

6 - Umma: the entire Islamic community, without territorial or ethnic distinction.

7 - Sahifah Noor, Vol. 12, p. 282. Speech dated 9 August 1981 (18 Murdad 1359 AHS).

8 - Marja'-i taqlid: a scholar of proven learning and piety whose authoritative rulings one in matters of religious practice.

9 - Sahifah Noor, Vol. 10, p. 93. Speech dated 1 November 1979 (10 Aban 1358 AHS).

10 - Sahifah Noor, Vol. 8, p. 235. Speech dated 16 August 1979 (25 Murdad 1358 AHS).

11 - The direction of prayer which is now towards the Ka'ba in Mecca but which at first Was towards Jerusalem.

12 - the feast of sacrifice, one of the greatest feasts in the Muslim calendar.

13 - The scholars of Islam.

14 - Referring to Ali ibn Abi Talib. Cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet. And the first of the Twelve Imams of Shiite belief. The word Hazrat is used as a respectful form of Address.

15 - One of the ahl-adh-dhimma, a non-Muslim citizen of the Muslim state whose rights and obligations are contractually determined.

16 - Taghut: one who surpasses all bounds in his despotism and tyranny and claims the Prerogatives of divinity for himself, whether explicitly or implicitly.

17 - Meaning the Zionists who are different from the true followers of Hazrat Moses: the Jews

18 - Shari 'a: the all-embracing laws of Islam derived from the Qur'an and normative practice and authoritative pronouncements of the Prophet, and a number of secondary sources.

19 - At the Arab League Summit held in September 1964 in Egypt, in addition to discussing the differences that Egypt had with Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and the aims which each of the Arab governments had in their relationship with the newly established Palestine Liberation Organization (which formally announced its existence in 1964), the most important matter discussed was how to divert the sources of the river Jordan in order to forestall the Israelis' irrigation scheme. The Israelis had at that time completed the work needed to enable them to divert some of the waters of the river Jordan, which runs through Syria, Occupied Palestine and Jordan, to irrigate the Negev Desert. The disagreement between the Arab countries was so intense that at the beginning of the conference the open session was closed and the heated discussions carried on behind closed doors. The conference eventually ended with no results.

20 - Zakat: the tax levied on various categories of wealth and spent on the purposes specified in Qur'an 9:60.

21 - Share of the Imam: sahm-i Imam. Monies paid to the Imam, or. In the period of his occultation, to the ulama, for charitable disbursement.

22 - the feast of breaking the Ramadan fast, one of the greatest feasts in the Muslim calendar.

23 - Referring to the signing of the Camp David accords.

24 - see footnote 5

25 - Referring to the Camp David accords.

26 - Referring to the peace plan of Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

27 - A city in Chaldea, site of a decisive battle between the Arabs and Persians.

28 - The Camp David agreement is the name given to accords signed in September 1978 (1358 AHS) by the president of Egypt at the time, Anwar Sadat, and the prime minister of the usurper Israeli regime, Menachem Begin, with the mediation of James Carter, the then US president, at Camp David, a US presidential retreat in the Appalchian Mountains in Maryland. These accords constituted the greatest act of betrayal to be carried out in the Wake of the bloody and heavy battles between the Arabs and Israel and the first step towards Compromise. So greatly offended were the sensibilities of the Arab nations by the move that Egypt was expelled from Arab circles. In the early days of the victory of the Islamic revolution, a revolution which had given self-confidence, a fighting spirit and a new aggressiveness to the Islamic nations, while at the same time weakening the position of Israel and its supporters, this great act of betrayal led to Sadat's assassination (October 1981) at the hands of a number of soldiers who were supporters of the Islamic revolution. A few years later, however, the compromising Arab governments, on conciliatory grounds, once more welcomed Egypt back to the fold.

29 - On January 28, 1981, at the invitation of Khalid. the king of Saudi Arabia. the third conference of Islamic heads of states was held in Ta'if near Mecca, with the participation of thirty-eight countries. It became known as the Taif conference. Because of Egypt S signing of the Camp David accords and because the communist regime in Afghanistan ~ brought to power by Russia. these two countries were not allowed to participate in the conference. Iran and Libya declined to take part. Along with other matters, agreements on Afghanistan and the continuation of the struggle against Israel were approved.

30 - The Camp David plan.

31 - Referring to the peace plan proposed by the then Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

32 - Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt; King Hassan of Morocco; King Hussein of Jan and Sultan Qabus of Oman.

33 - On August 3, 1981 (1359 AHS), Egypt, America and Israel reached an agreement On accords dealing with the stationing of troops in the Sinai peninsula (which was occupied by Israel) after the withdrawal of Israel in 1982. About this time, that is on August 7, 1981, Fahd, the present king of Saudi Arabia, who at that time was the Crown Prince, proposed a plan which contained the following points: 1 - Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories including the Arab section of Beit ul Moqaddas. The rights of the Palestinians who do not wish to return to their homeland are to be guaranteed by recompensing their losses. 3 - Guaranteeing the right of all countries in the region to live in peace with one another. These were just some of the points contained in the plan. The third point was seen by many Politicians as being a cunning, implicit recognition of Israel's existence and provoked Opposition from the radicat Arab flank.

34 - Two summit meetings of Arab leaders were held in Fez, one of the cities of Morocco, during this period At the first, held on November 5, 1981, the eight-point plan of Fahd. the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, was put forward for consideration. Only a few hours after the start of proceedings, the meeting was ended by King Hasan of Morocco because of deep differences of opinion over the proposed Fahd Plan. The heads of eight countries (Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Oman, Sudan, Mauritania and Tunisia) failed to attend. The meeting resumed in Fez on September 9, 1982 with the presence of Yassir Arafat, Palestinian leader, and this time the Arab states, including Syria, agreed on their own set proposals which, apart from asking that the UN Security Council should guarantee peace secure borders among all nations of the region, were the same as the 1981 Fahd Plan.

35 - Sahm-i imam = share of the Imam, or monies paid to the Imam, or, in the period of his occultation, to the 'ulama for charitable disbursement.

36 - Another name by which Arafat is known.

37 - Referring to Saddam's false claim5 that he seeks peace.

38 - The night in which. according to Sura 97. the Qur'an was revealed

39 - Imam's representative for hajj affairs.

40 - A recess in a mosque indicating the direction of prayer (qibla).

41 - Kauthar: the heavenly fountain of unbounded grace and knowledge, mercy and goodness, truth and wisdom, spiritual power and insight, which was granted to the Holy Prophet, the man of God, and in some degree or other, to all men and women who are sincere devotees of God. That fountain quenches the highest spiritual thirst of man; it confers overflowing benefits of all kinds.

42 - Referring to the vicious attack by the Saudi regime's security forces and police On Iranian and non-Iranian pilgrims to Mecca performing the repudiation of polytheists ceremony in 1987. In this attack, hundreds of pilgrims were martyred for the crime of shouting their repudiation of America and Israel.

43 - a city in Iran

44 - Referring to the seizure of the American embassy in Iran on 4 November 1979 by students.

45 - in 1982 a conference of the organization of heads of Islamic states was due to be J in Iraq. In a move aimed at domestic consumption as much as at attracting foreign support and uniting the Arab governments against Iran, the Iraqi regime began to exhaustively use this issue to its advantage. Imam Khomeini's speeches caused doubt for the countries about attending the conference, and eventually, when the conference was convened it was done so without the participation of some of the Muslim and Arab governments such as Syria and Libya.

46 - Zion means the sunny hill or the dry hill. The name came to signify Jerusalem itself and is mentioned in the Old and New Testaments.

47 - Saedi, Zamel, Palestine Liberation Front, p. 114.

48 - Refer to footnote 24.

49 - Zakat obligatory alms tax, which constitutes one of the five pillars of Islam.

50 - KhumS = a tax consisting of one-fifth of agricultural and commercial profits.

51 - The exaggerated propaganda being disseminated by the Western countries, in particular America, on the intifada having as its role model the Islamic revolution in Iran, and on their similarities, was not without malice. In addition to trying to detract from the genuineness of the uprising, they wanted to create an excuse to carry on an angry struggle against the Islamists. Bearing in mind that international public opinion could not accept all the repression brought about by the Zionists, this kind of propaganda gave the Israelis some justification for suppressing the intifada. Now they could say to the westerners: 'If we don't quash this uprising, Palestine, the gate to Europe, will become a base for the development of Islamic fundamentalism and the tragedy of Spain will be repeated.' In this way America and Israel could alarm Europeans with the prospect of a dangerous neighbour with fundamentalist bases, and thus facilitate their attempts to quash the Palestinian uprising.

52 - Hamshahri newspaper Monday 8 February 1992 No. 45. Dr Shaqaqi was born in 1951 in Gaza city. He published the book 'Imam Khomeini wa tarh-i Islam-i Nouvin' in 1979 n 1988 he was sent into exile from occupied Palestine and is now leading the movement abroad.

53 - Ahmad Jibril, one of the famous Palestinian personalities, said in a conference in an in 1992: "Why do we say we need all Muslims? Because we know that the palestinians cannot free Palestine on their own, and we also know that Arabism and Arab nationalism alone cannot free Palestine either." He said that while in the past his ideas had roots in patriotism, racism and nationalism, following the victory of the revolution I Iran his attention had been drawn to revolutionary Islam. Imam Khomeini, the aged leader Islamic revolution in Iran, describing America and the West as the Great Satan, had, id, influenced him greatly, and had made him change many of his previously-held; A'mal al-mu'tamir al-Islami al-awwal haul pailistine, p. 45.

54 - Ahmad Jibril says : Sisters and brothers, we now see that the issue is nothing other than a crusade in different clothes and forms. The European and western governments want to take their revenge on Islam for their past defeat. Same source p. 47. Also Munir Shafiq says: The Palestinian issue is an Islamic issue and this is not contradictory to patriotism and Arabism, and because the Palestinian issue is fundamentally an Islamic issue, a remedy should be sought accordingly. The Palestinian issue has become the focus of the battle and disagreements between the Islamic urnina and its enemies, as it is at the centre of the plans of our enemies, namely the Zionists and western imperialists. For this reason, it is impossible for the uprising of the nation to occur, its independence its unity and the raising of the flag of La ilaha illa 'halt (there is no god but God) to be materialised as long as the Palestinian issue is not a central part in the Islamic strategy of all the Islamic countries. Same source, p. 109.