In His Most Exalted Name
19,1393 AH
To my dear friends, the young classes of clergymen, university-educated, businessmen, villagers and other classes:
After offering my salutations, I urge you to spend the forces which God, the Exalted, has favored you with in the way of pleasing Him. At present you possess a magnificent force of youth; a force which can bring Islam and your country to the peak of grandeur and honor and can cut off the hands of the criminals from the Muslim countries as well as your country; a force that once you use in the way of truth, have eternity and will become an ever-lasting power, and if used foolishly and erroneously in this world will bring suffering and slavery and in the hereafter punishment and humility. Awake; awake those who are in deep slumber! Live and give life to the dead and offer sacrifices under the banner of tawhid [monotheism] for destroying the red and black offices of imperialism and the worthless ones who have sold themselves! Expel the ignominious oil-devourers and their disreputable agents from the Muslim countries as it is done with trash. Stay away from their unending celebrations, which in reality are lights in the cemetery. It is hoped that you, my dear ones, will very soon hold celebration for the death of imperialism and its agents; if we, the old ones, do not witness it, at least you, young ones, will do. I beseech the Eternal Power for the unity of the magnificent power of the Muslims. Extend my greetings and salutations to the young Muslims and the beloved ones of the country of the Commander of the Faithful, peace and salutations be upon him.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi Khomeini