Sunni-Shia Unity

IN THE NAME OF GOD THE BENIFICIENT THE MERCIFUL.

Sunni-Shia Unity

A lecture by

Shaykh .Ahmad Deedat

The Following speech By Shaykh Ahmad Deedat, who is a world renowned
Sunni scholar from South Africa was made following his trip to the
Islamic Republic of Iran on 3 March , 1982.

INTRODUCTION

In the Holy Quran, Allah (SWT) says "It is he who has sent his apostle
with guidance and the religion of truth so that he may make it prevail
over all religions even though those who worship false Gods may detest
it" (Quran 9:33). Even though the United States, Russia and all the
superpowers may detest it. Allah's promise is not conditional on the
strength of the superpowers. In its widest sense the Islamic movement
spans the entire ummah, in its narrowest it represents that part of
the ummah which is most advanced in its struggle towards establishing
Islam as a total way of life.

A few years ago one could not recognize a single leading edge in the
Islamic movement. This was the bleak outlook which faced the ummah as
history moved into the final decade of the 14th century Hijra. But the
world was unaware of the Islamic movement in Iran. Iran under the
ex-shah was beyond the pale of Islam. Iran was a blind spot. We were
Sunni and our age old ignorance was deep and total, and thus when the
Islamic revolution in Iran began to make headlines in early 1978. The
bulk of Muslims, who called themselves Sunni, were caught unaware. The
Shah's propaganda had then blamed the Islamic masters. The western
media, and the Muslim media manipulated by the west, and the alienated
regimes of Muslim countries had then dismissed the events in Iran as
insignificant. All of us were slow in recognizing the new reality in
Iran. There has been a systematic attempt at smearing Islamic Iran.
And the western media deliberately promoted false accounts of the
events of the Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini who was
indeed the founder of the revolution, and the leader of the Islamic
republic of Iran.

This campaign against Iran is nothing new. Right from the beginning
vested interests have carried on an unending campaign against the
Islamic revolution in Iran. this evening our guest speaker, Mr. Ahmad
Deedat who is a distinguished scholar of Islam, who hardly needs any
introduction to the public and who has just returned from his trip to
Iran, will present to us his first hand account on Iran. I now call
upon Mr. Ahmad Deedat to speak to you.(applause) .

Shaykh Ahmad Deedat

I seek refuge in the accursed Satan, In the name of God the Beneficent
the Merciful.

The Holy Quran says:

"And if you turn away (from Islam and the obedience of Allah), He will
substitute you for some other people, and they will not be like you."
Quran 47:38

Mr. chairman and brothers: While we are looking skeptically of the
miracle of a nation reborn. Allah's inexorable decree is finding its
fulfillment in the rise and fall of nations which is mentioned in the
verse I have just read to you from Surah Muhammad. In the last section
of the last verse Allah(swt) reminds us, and warns us that if ye turn
back from your duties and responsibilities if you do not fulfill your
obligations then he will replace you with another nation.

Our urdu speaking brethren use these words so beautifully when they
describe some mishap that occurs in the community in talking about
that other nation that can replace them. It is actually Quranic. And
this really has been happening throughout history again and again.
Allah (swt) first chose the Jews, the Bani Israel as he tells it in
the holy Quran: "O children of Israel! call to mind My favor which I
bestowed on you and that I preferred you to all other nations."(Quran
2:47). That favor was that they should become the torchbearers of the
knowledge of God to the world. This was the honor, this was the
privilege that was at first given to the Jews But because they did not
fulfil their end of the obligation, a Jew amongst the Jews Hadhrat Isa
(A.S.) as recorded in the Christian gospels told them "That the
kingdom of God shall be taken away from you and given to a nation
bringing forth the fruits thereof."(The Bible, Matthew 21:43). And
that nation, we will happily own up is the Islamic ummah. It was taken
away from the Jews and given to the Muslims. The Muslims then, among
them who were the Arabs at first, were given by Allah (SWT)the
privilege that they became the torchbearers of light and learning to
the world , but when they relaxed and failed to bring forth the
fruits, Allah(swt) replaced them with another nation. In history, we
remember the Turks and Mongols destroyed the Muslim empire and when
they accepted Islam they became the torchbearers of light and learning
to the world.

As Iqbal beautifully describes this situation: "O' you Muslims, you
will not perish if Iran or the Arabs perish, that the spirit of the
wine is not dependent on the nature of it's container." The container
is our nations, our boundaries and the spirit of Islam is not
dependent on our geographical boundaries or national limitations. So
this is what Allah (swt) does again and again, he chose the Jews then
he chose the Arabs then when they became lax he chose the Turks and
when they became lax another people and so on and this is a continuous
process. If you don't do the job, Allah(swt) will chose another people
who will. In the world today there are a thousand million Muslim, that
is ,one billion we boast! And 90 percent of this one billion happens
to be the Sunni branch. We have stopped delivering the goods so
Allah(swt) chooses a nation that we have all been looking down upon.
The Iranians! The Shias! History has been very unkind to our brethren
in Iran that the shah happened to be the ruler, and his name happened
to be Muhammad. Imagine, that this mans name happened to be Muhammad
and he really wasn't a believer. It's hard for us to imagine today,
but once you go to that country and you go into the details and find
out what was going on. That this Iranian the shah it seems to be,that
he was a foreigner. If Hitler conquered this land and oppressed them,
then we could understand. If the Russians conquered the people, we can
understand. But here is a man who is an Iranian, speaking Persian,
whose name was Muhammad, and look at what he was stooping to. For
sixteen years he had forbidden Jummah prayers. Sixteen years. We had
been equating Iran with the shah and the shah with Iran. To us they
were synonymous terms. But when you go into details we learn that the
shah and the Iranian people were both apart. They were in reality
foreigners to one another.

Now about this visit of mine to Iran and my impression. Let me begin
with the place where I had the first fragrance of this Iranian
brotherhood of ours and it happened to be in Rome. First I smelled it,
and then some of my companions had smelled it in the Rome airport. We
were waiting to get on the plane, and we had some problems with visas
and one of our men was given the responsibility of overcoming these
problems. So he goes to the Iran air office and he tells our problem
to a young lady wearing full Islamic attire with her body well
covered. It was Beautiful, Just beautiful to look at. And I mean that
when you look at these people in this attire you see that they are
beautiful people. So there was a lady in Rome and you brothers should
have seen the way she handled these problems. And someone came to me
and told me, man if you want to see a real Iranian Muslim girl you
should come over and I went and some others went and we saw. And that
was the first whiff we had of the Iranian ummah in Rome.

When we landed in Iran, we were taken to a five star hotel which was
there before the revolution known as the Hilton hotel but is now known
as Hotel Istiqlal. And we were taken around. to places of interest and
I will relate to you some of the things we saw and I will try to
describe the feelings one has. If I remember correctly, the first
thing we visited was the Behesht Zahra cemetery. Behesht means
paradise in Persian and Zahra is the title of Fatima Al-Zahra (AS) who
was the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (saw). And Zahra means the
radiant one. So it was called Radiant paradise. And before arriving in
Iran, I had read about the Behesht Zahra cemetery. And I remember when
Imam Khomeini had arrived in Tehran he made a trip to the cemetery.
And I'm thinking why does one go to the cemetery? To make du'a? Yes.
For the departed souls? Yes. And when you think of cemeteries here in
South Africa you think of Brookstreet and Riverside. You cant imagine
that this cemetery is square kilometers by square kilometers. You Just
cant imagine. It is a big open ground where about a million or two
million people can be accommodated. And people gathered here because
it is the easiest place where people can release their emotional and
spiritual baggage because there you have the martyrs. Their were
70,000 or so people who were martyred in this revolution and 100,000
maimed. Unarmed people with only the slogan "Allahu Akbar" as their
weapons had toppled the mightiest military force in the middle east.
So we went to this cemetery There were about a million people there.
There were men and women and children and we were greatly inspired by
the enthusiasm and the feeling of our brothers and sisters there. It
was mid winter there, and the men and women and children were sitting
on the cold ground for hours on end. In mid-winter on the ground with
no carpets or chairs! A nation that could endure that discipline for
hours on end , you can only imagine what destiny Allah(swt) has
planned for them. A day or 2 later on my program I read Behesht Zahra
cemetery, again. The first time we went for a lecture, but we had seen
the graves people reciting poems of sorrow and reciting dua' and I
thought this second visit would be redundant. Why should one go a
second time? I've seen what a cemetery is. But all my companions were
going and I thought if everyone else was going, it wouldn't be good
for me to stay in the hotel relaxing when all my companions are going
in these buses to a cemetery. But I went and I became very happy. And
the second time I went it was a Thursday afternoon and Thursdays in
Iran is like Saturdays for us. And tens of thousands of people were in
the cemetery. This was a custom. It was like Eid. Tens of thousands
are there, for what else, but to charge their spiritual batteries. It
was a constant reminder to not forget. "My son gave his life for
Islam" or "my father gave is life for Islam " that they gave their
life for Islam. With that kind of system, Every Thursday is a
spiritual injection and reminder that they are willing to give their
life for Islam.

There was a town hall that accommodated 16,000 people, compared to the
biggest town hall in South Africa which is the Good Hope Center in
Capetown for 8,000. This was built by the shah to boast his own "Aryan
myth". He was boasting not only that he was the shahanshah or king of
kings, but also that he was the aryamehr, light of the Aryans. What is
this Aryan sickness? Remember Hitler bragging about being Aryan
because the Germans are Aryans. And the Hindus boasting we are Aryans.
If my people, the Gujarati people, weren't Muslims we'd be boasting
about being Aryans as well. The ex shah claimed to be the light of
Aryans and he built this monument as a tribute. He built another
monument spending millions to commemorate his ancestor Cyrus the
great, a pagan, a mushrik and squandering the wealth of this nation
for this project. In 1984 he was supposed to have the world Olympics
in Tehran to boost his ego even further. In this town hall we saw
athletics, gymnastics, acrobatics. Unfortunately we Muslims here in
South Africa are like jellyfish, that is we have made ourselves into
jellyfish. Our young men do not participate in that kind of activity.
Who here does athletics, gymnastics, acrobatics we do not do that
here. It's not for us. Who does jogging, You know the young people
here, when I meet them I shake hands with them and they are like
jellyfish. Almost every young man you meet in Iran appears to be an
athlete. They are doing sports on a world standard and it makes one
feel so happy because there they are not projecting Iran. They are not
talking about Iran "we are Iranians, we are Aryans" instead they are
talking about Islam, about Islam, about Islam. There was not one
semi-naked girl, not a single girl who was half naked there. If the
shah had his way, if he was alive and organized it, there would have
been semi-naked girls for everyone to stare at and feast upon.

In Iran everything is Islamic to strengthen the morality of the
people, boosting the men and women by the thousands. We were thrilled
, we were thrilled to see our children, we felt as if theses were our
children, our own brothers and sisters, we were really thrilled. We
saw these as things that our children can do. Then we went through a
military parade with different groups of Iranian men and there was no
shortage of man power. You know, some people want to go and help our
Iranian brethren. Alhamdulilah there is no shortage of man power they
only want the tools, and the weapons. If the Iranians had the military
weapons that the Israelis had, the whole of the middle-east would be
free from every kind foreign intervention in no time. This is a nation
that can do it. The spirit is there, the spirit of Jihad is there in
each and every man and woman in the nation. It seems that the whole
nation is involved in promoting Islam. We are talking about 20 million
people that they can put into the field. If they had the weapons and
the materials, every man woman and child would can go and do jihad.

Then we visited the Iraqi prisoners of war. As you know when this war
started Iraq attacked Iran. The whole country was in turmoil. Iraq
felt that the Jews did it to the Arabs in 6 days, then they will do it
to the Iranians in 3 days and the whole world thought that in one
weeks time, Iran would crumble to pieces. And do you know how long it
has been now? It's been a year and a half, and even more. And in the
beginning there were twenty to one odds against them in men and
materials and the Iranians turned the tables and brought the odds to 3
to one still against them. And they were able to push them back. They
recaptured all their land and a hill that was named Allahu Akbar.
Before I went to Iran Dr . Kalim Siddiqui from the UK jokingly
remarked that "you guys have half a chance of becoming martyrs
(shahid).." It was a joke and it nearly became true. While we were
coming out of a city on the war front there was a field of tanks. And
our young men came out of the buses and started to climb onto the
tanks taking pictures to show people back home. Then one of the tanks
in the courtyard came out for a training demonstration on how it works
and suddenly we hear gunfire and in the distance we saw smoke coming
from a few places and some of our young men got scared and started
hiding behind bushes., and it turns out that we were under attack from
the Iraqis. And there were bombs exploding all around us and Allah
(swt) saved us. And remember Khaled had said that was half a chance
that we would become martyrs, well it almost became a full chance.
(laughter).

We visited those wounded in the war and no one was complaining about
what had happened to them. One man had his leg amputated, and there
were no tears, I never saw a single tear from anyone, and they were
asking if it was possible to go back to the front. Their regrets were
not about their injuries but why they can't go back to the front to
fight and become shahid, this is the ambition of each and every Muslim
there. When we visited the prisoners of war the Iranians had captured
7000 prisoners of war and they looked healthy, well clothed, well fed.
One of my friends was interested in finding out what the Iraqi
prisoners felt about their condition first hand. And anyone he asked
said that they were being looked after very well. Then I had an idea.
Some were here for over a year and others for a few months and I was
wondering how many people had committed suicide. And I asked each
group of the prisoners of war and asked each group how many people
committed suicide. They said not one. I then asked the next group and
so on. Not one single person committed suicide amongst the 7800
prisoners of war. And if we look at our so called civilized western
country of South Africa, 46 people committed suicide in our prisons
this year alone and they are well fed well clothed have their own
cells and 46 committed suicide so far. And if people are not well
treated some are going to want to find an easy way out but there was
not one single person who committed suicide amongst the 7800 prisoners
of war.

We went to visit the Imam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini. There
were about forty of us who waited for the Imam and the Imam came in
and was about ten meters away from where I was, and I saw the Imam. He
delivered the Lecture to us for about half an hour, and it was nothing
but the Quran, the man is like a computerized Quran. And the electric
effect he had on everybody, his charisma, was amazing . You just look
at the man and tears come down your cheek. You just look at him and
you get tears. I never saw a more handsome old man in my life, no
picture, no video, no TV could do justice to this man, the handsomest
old man I ever saw in my life was this man. There is something unique
to his name, too. First he is called Imam Khomeini. The word Imam is
to us a every cheap word. Wherever we go somewhere we ask who is the
Imam of the Masjid here. To the Shia there is only one Imam in the
world and he is the Twelfth Imam , they believe in the concept of
Imamate and that the Imam is the spiritual leader of the ummah. And
the first Imam according to the school of Imamate is Hazrat Ali(RA).
Then comes Imam Hassan who is the second Imam, Imam Hussein the third
Imam all the way until the twelve Imam, Imam Mohammad who disappeared
at the age of 5 and they are expecting his return. They use the term
"occultation" something like a spiritual hibernation like the Ashab
Al-cahf. And that he is expected to come back and he is the only one
in the world who can be called Imam. Most of their scholars are called
mullah, and Ayatollah means Allamah And Ayatollah Khomeini is called
Imam out of respect but they are waiting for the real Imam to come.
Ruhollah is the name his father gave him and do you know what it
means? Ruhollah means the 'word of God' and this is the title of
Hazrat Isa(as) in the Quran. Then he is Ayatollah which is another
title of Hazrat Isa(as) in the Quran. Al-Musawi is from the family
Musa and from the city of Khomein which is where his last name
Khomeini comes from. ...(break in audio at 41: 05 seconds). But they
are waiting for the Mahdi, and not Khomeini. They want to clean the
stables and make preparations for the Mahdi to come. In the Sunni
world we are also waiting for the Mahdi to come but we want him to
clean the stables for us, make us masters of the world and to make us
sit on the thrones. The Sunni world is just passively waiting. Until
then we can carry on with all our petty little squabbles, whatever we
are carrying on now. And it is only the Imam Mahdi which can clean the
world for us. This is the Sunni line of thinking. Khomeini on the
other hand tells his followers that we must help prepare the way so
that when he does come everything is already set up for him to act on.
While we, the Sunni world are waiting for Imam Mahdi to pull the
chestnut out of the fire for us, the Shias are preparing the world for
his arrival.

You know there were many people with us from all over the world. And I
found types and types and types of sick people, a mental sickness that
is. I came across an alim from Pakistan Mauna Sahib and he thought
that there was something wrong with our Shia brothers. You see in Iran
when someone is lecturing and the name Khomeini is mentioned people
stop and everyone says durood on the Prophet(S) three times. But when
the name Mohammad is mentioned they send durood once. And this alim
from Pakistan says " look at these people just look at them. What kind
of Muslims are these people. When the name Mohammad is mentioned they
send durood on the Prophet(s) once but when the name Khomeini is
mentioned they send Durood on KHOMEINI three times."

I said " What do they say , what do they say in this so called 'durood
on Khomeini'. "

He said: Peace be upon Mohammad and the family of Mohammad.

I said " Who is Mohammad? Khomeini? Who named Khomeini as Mohammad.
Their durood is on Prophet Mohammad(s) and you say it is on Khomeini."

You know it's a sickness. There are many learned men but their minds
are so prejudiced. They are just looking for faults. [1]

Another example is that the Shia brothers when they make salat, they
have a piece of clay (turbah) that they do sajjdah on. And he says
"see what they are doing here. This is shirk. They are worshipping a
piece of clay. " I said why don't you ask them why they place their
foreheads on a piece of clay and learn the logic behind this. You see,
the first time I experienced this was in Washington D.C., the Iranian
students there had invited me to give a lecture there at the
university where they were studying in America. At that time, it was
time for Isha and we made salat. And everyone was given a piece of
clay. I at the time thought it was so funny, so I put it aside and I
made my salat with the Iranian students. And after salat I wanted to
know about this and I asked them. Why do you carry this clay tablet
everywhere you go in your pocket. They said " we are supposed to do
sujood on Allah's earth with our foreheads touching the earth. We say
"subhanna rabia Allah" three times with our foreheads touching the
earth." So the Shia want to actually touch the earth with their
foreheads and not a manmade carpet. They want to be true to the
expression of praying with the forehead actually touching Allah's
earth. You see they don't worship the clay tablet as many wrongly
think. And this is always something that we Sunnis are always making
fun of and mock the Shia, but on my way out from Tehran across the
plane in the aisle were two Shias and when prayer time came one of
them took his clay tablet out of his pocket and, Allahu Akbar,
performed salat right there on the plane in his seat, and when he
finished he gave this to his neighbor and he performed salat. And this
may seem like a joke to us. Isn't it? And there were dozens of Sunnis
on the plane and out of those dozens of Sunnis only one young man did
the salat, and I tell you that young man wasn't me. But we are
laughing at the other Guy. He is sitting there and doing something
better than we are and we make fun of them and sit in judgement. He
may not as polished and refined as we are in South Africa. You know we
Muslims in South Africa are very polished and refined in our salat.
The Arabs are no match for us, the Iranians are no match for us, the
Americans bilalans, the Negroes they are no match to us. With the
Arabs you are bowing down in ruku and the guy next to you pushes you
aside to make space.(laughter) Who knows brothers, maybe it is valid,
we don't know. You know, between the four Sunni mazhabs the Hanafi,
Hanbali, Maliki and Shafei there are over two hundred differences in
salat alone. Did you know that? Two hundred. But we take it for
granted. The Shafei says amin loudly and we say it silently, they say
bismillah loudly we say it silently and there is there is no problem.
A s a child my father would repeat the famous formula that he in turn
learned from his father. : "all the mazhabs are equally valid and the
truth for them is in the hadith and the Quran." And so we accept it.
When it comes to the Shafei, Hanbali, Hanafi and Maliki we are
tolerant but when it comes to the Shia you see he is not in the
formula that we are taught as a child, so what ever little
idiosyncrasies there exists between us and them we cant tolerate and
reject we say that he is out because we are programmed to believe in
only the four. But we accept the idiosyncrasies between the four.

I say why cant you accept the Shia brothers as a fifth madhab. And the
astonishing thing is that he is telling you that he wants to be one
with you. He is not talking about being Shia. He is shouting "there is
no Sunni nor Shia there is one thing, Islam." But we say to them "no
you are different you are Shia." This attitude is a sickness of the
devil. He wants to divide us. Can you imagine we Sunnis are 90% of the
Muslim world and the ten percent who are Shias want to be partners and
brothers with you in faith and the 90% are terrified. I cant
understand why should you the 90% be so terrified. They should be the
ones terrified. And if you just knew the feelings that they have for
you. During Jummah prayers in Iran, there are a million people. And
you should see the way they look at you when you pass by, they
recognize that you are a foreigner and not one of them and tears start
rolling down their cheeks. This is the feeling that they have for you,
but you say no, you want to keep they out, afraid that they will
absolve you. You can only be absolved if there is something better
than what you have. I don't know, maybe some of you think I am a Shia,
but I'm still with you all here. What is all this Shia-Sunni tensions?
It is all politics. These antagonisms we have are all politics now. If
a Sunni brother somewhere does something wrong you say oh the
individual is not being very Islamic, he is a kaffir, But if a Shia
does something wrong you want to condemn the whole Shia community, the
whole nation of millions, and say they are all rubbish just because
one Shias actions are not very Islamic. At the same time where we look
the other way if one of your relatives does something serious because
he is your father or your uncle. One group of Sunnis says to another
"you are not a Muslim" another group of Sunnis says "you are not a
Muslim you are a kaffir" look that's among us, and we fight among
ourselves. And some of us do funny things.

I met one brother who told me when you go to Newcastle go visit Mr. So
and so and inshallah everything will be taken care of for you. So I
went to the man and exactly as I was told he took me home for lunch
and when I'm sitting at the table I see on the wall 'burat' you know
what burat is? A donkey like animal with the face of a woman its
supposed to provide electrical force. I told him this is not right.
Allah(swt) created electrical force, you can not create it with a
statue of a donkey with a woman's face. Oh and he was so upset. But
he's a Sunni, he was a brother and is still my brother. This
Sunni-Shia tensions is the work of the devil to divide us.

Let me say something about Iran. What I found was that everything is
islamically oriented. The whole nation is geared towards Islam. And
they are talking about nothing but the Quran. I have never had a
single experience with an Iranian when the man contradicted me when
I'm talking about the Quran. Whereas our Arab brethren again and again
you quote them the Quran and they try to contradict you with the
Quran. They are Arabs, they are supposed to know the Quran better than
us, but the Iranians seem to be on the wavelength of the Quran.
Everything he is doing everything he is thinking about is the Quran.
You remember Tabas[2] when the American people wanted to free the
hostages. The mightiest most technologically advanced nation on earth,
a nation that can land a man on the moon and bring him back, a nation
which tells you which part of the moon they will land and bring them
back, they send mars and Jupiter probes. A nation that warned Pakistan
about the tidal wave tragedy and they didn't heed the warning. They
warned the Israelis in 1973 that the Arabs were on the move, they
didn't heed the warning. That nation couldn't land in Iran. Imagine
they went there with their helicopters and crashed them selves and got
themselves killed. Imagine. A nation that lands on the moon and comes
back cant land in Iran. And the Iranian people were not in any
position to do anything to them. The Americans could have gone and
done what they wanted to do. I went and saw the American embassy and
you think that its just a big building, but man its acres and acres
right in the center of Tehran. They could have easily gone in and
gotten these people out, even if they lost a few men. They could have
achieved their goals. It was very well planned. But you know what
happened? Fiasco, retreat failure, the Imam Khomeini is told what has
happened. He doesn't say Subhananla, he doesn't say Alhamdulilah, you
know what he said. He quotes the Quran : "Have you not considered how
your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?" 105:1 These are
the words that came out of him. I tell you he is a Quranic computer.

You know what they call those huge helicopters? Jumbo helicopters, and
those big planes are called jumbo planes. You know what jumbo means in
Swahili, Elephant. It's a Swahili word. That's where they got the
name. So these elephant sized helicopters go and the Imam says: "Have
you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the
elephant? Did He not cause their war to end in confusion," Quran
105:1-2

But we are so skeptical, the Muslim world has become so skeptical we
don't believe in the Quran anymore. You don't really believe in the
Quran, for most people it is all for entertainment, for the good
spiritual feelings that you get when reciting the Holy Quran. But the
directives that Allah(swt) gives, nobody seems to care. May Allah
(swt) make these brothers of ours, the torchbearers and light of
learning today to the Muslim world . And here is a nation geared to do
the Job. When you look at them the earnestness that is in them, a
nation that is not afraid, when you look at them with the enthusiasm
they have. They are not afraid to say "marg bar amrika" death to
America.. Then say "marg bar shuravi " death to USSR. Imagine that!
(laughter from the audience). And death to Israel." Can you imagine a
nation doing that and not in the least afraid. This is not the Islamic
spirit that is in us here, but the Iranians are all heart and mind.
They don't say "this is an Iranian revolution "or "we are Iranians".
They are talking about Islam, an Islamic Revolution. This is not an
Iranian revolution but that this is an Islamic revolution. It's a
revolution for Islam and little wonder why the nations of the world
cant stomach it because it is Islam that they cant stomach. So my dear
brothers and sisters I have taken so much of your valuable time
already. And with these words I take leave of you to sit down and to
take your Questions.

[1] " O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from his
Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will
love Him,- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters,
fighting in the way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of
such as FIND FAULT. That is the grace of Allah, which He will bestow
on whom He pleaseth. And Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all
things." Quran 5:54