Hajj
Hajj and Consolidation of Unity Among The Muslims
part 3
On the verge of the superpowers' invasion of the Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, and ferocious massacre of the Afghani Muslims (who detest foreign interference in their destiny, and America who has a hand in every corruption), and simultaneous with the all-around aggression of the criminal Israel against the Muslims of Palestine and the dear Lebanon, and simultaneous with the criminal plot of Israel to move its capital to Jerusalem (Beytol-Moqaddas), and extend its crimes and fierce massacre of the stranded Muslims, and at a time when the Muslims are in need of accord and unison, Sadat the deceitful, the servant of America and the friend and brother of Begin and the defunct Shah and Saddam, the subservient servitors of America attempted at separating the Muslims and spared no perpetration in their atrocities on behalf of their criminal Master. America, with its repeated attacks upon Iran and dispatching spies in order to defeat our Islamic revolution and conspiracies with Sadat to create disputes, promulgate false rumors and calumniate the executives of the Islamic government of Iran through the Iraqis, is tarred with the same brush. The Muslims must be careful about the treacheries of these subservients of America.
Of the problems devised for separation of the Muslims is nationalism and clannishness that have been fanned by Iraq, for years, which is followed by some of the tribes causing confrontation of the Muslims against each other, leading even to occasional hostilities, little knowing that patriotism, to love the fellow-citizens and to safeguard the boundaries of the country, is beyond debate, but nationalism in the sense of confrontation between one Muslim nation and another, is something else, which is against Islam, Qur'an and the Prophet's commands.
Such nationalism which leads to separation of the Muslims and dispersal of the believers is against the expediencies of the Muslim peoples and is one of the deceits of the foreigners who are distressed to see the spread of Islam.
More dangerous and sorrowful than the nationalism is the dispute between the Sunnite and the Shiite sects and promulgation of seditionary rumors among Muslim brothers, but, thanks God, there is no controversy between the two sects within the Islamic revolution of Iran. They live together, friendly and brotherly. The Sunnites that form a large population in Iran, are living in different parts of the country; they have many pontiffs and chiefs; they are our brothers and we are their brothers and on a par with them, and they are against the murmurs of discord made by some criminals and affiliates of the Zionism and America. Our Sunni brothers in the Islamic countries should bear in mind that the subservient servitors of the devilish major powers are not well-wishers of the Muslims, and it is necessary that Muslims disgust them and do not listen to their mischievous propaganda. I shake hands, brotherly, with all the Muslims of the world and ask them to regard the Shias as their dear brothers, thus nullifying the sinister plots of the foreigners.
The Hajj that is acceptable to God and which is intended by Islam is such a Hajj that, when you go there you enlighten the Muslims of other countries, try to unite them and make them understand why a population of over one billion Muslims are so oppressed by two powers of no more than a few hundred million population?
All our entanglements stem from the fact that the Muslims have been perverted from the right path of Islam, so much so, that even the clergymen, as you might have heard that, some clergymen at a meeting held, did not condemn what Russia had done in Afghanistan.
Lo and behold! O! Powerful Muslims of the world! wake up, recognize your abilities and the world will recognize you. Yield to the commandments of Almighty God the holy Qur'an and throw away any clannish and regional disputes caused by the world plunderers and their corrupt agents in order to usurp you and trample on your humane and Islamic honor. Expel the mercenary clerics (akhunds), and the ignorant nationalists whose harm to Islam is no less than that of the world plunderers. They show an inverted feature of Islam and open up the roads to the robbers.
O! Muslims of the world! true believers in Islam! rise up and congregate under the banner of monotheism and the auspices of Islam and detach the treacherous hands of the superpowers from your countries and their over-filled treasures and revive the grandeur of Islam. Forsake your controversies and carnal desires, as you possess everything. Rely on the Islamic culture, fight against the west and westernization, stand firm on your own feet, attack the westernized and easternized intellectuals and regain your real identity, as the mercenary intellectuals have done the nation and the country, such a mischief that, unless you follow the true Islam and be united, you shall suffer from the same adversity you have been suffering from so far. It is now the time for the nations to enlighten their intellectualists and rescue them from their humiliation and self-surrender to the East and West, as today is the day of nationl movements and guidance of the formerly guides of the people, you should know for sure, that your spiritual power will overcome all the powers and your billion man population, together with your infinite treasures can overpower all the major powers of the world. Help God to be helped by God. O! Grand ocean of Muslims! clamor against the enemies of humanity and overthrow them, as when you heed God the Great, and observe the heavenly teachings, then Almighty God and His enormous soldiery will be by your side.
Source:
"Hajj In The Words and Messages of Imam Khomeini" book
Other Links:
Objectives Of Hajj
The Hajj (Wise Sayings of Imam Khomeini)
