Exile for keeping Imam Khomeini

Compiled by: Islamic Revolution Website
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2024-9-12

One of the mosques that moved in the line of the Imam and the name of the Imam was mentioned [in it] and the name of the Imam of the matter was called, was our mosque (Jalili Mosque), as I said, after the death of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, I did not introduce anyone other than the Imam as a reference. That I always took the positive side of the case and did not say anything that would weaken other authorities or insult them and promoted the Imam.

From the very beginning when Mr. Boroujerdi passed away, I used to express Imam's margin on Imam's fatwa in the mosque and meetings to the people. Even if I wanted to talk about the issue of complaints, in order to bring a name from them, I would have talked about Imam's explanation of the problems. It is clear that the complaints were not a political issue, but I felt that his name should not be forgotten at that stage of the struggle. Keeping the Imam's name alive was unbearable for the apparatus and the regime was even afraid of the Imam's name.

I will say about the analogy; We have a verse in the Qur'an that says, "The polytheists hated the word Rahman, and therefore when they heard the word Rahman, they were upset and said that you should not say the word Rahman", Because the word Rahman was the special name of the Almighty God, as the universal mercy of God, and this was not compatible with the beliefs of idolatry. Because the idolaters did not believe in a Lord who intervenes in the entire world of existence and in the affairs of all the worlds, but believed in a different Lord. It is used from the Qur'an that they believed in the only creator, that he created the world, but the management of the affairs of the world and its lordship is with the Lord of all kinds and idols, and they put the Supreme Creator on the sidelines and said like the Jews: "Yadullah Mogholeh"; It means that he has nothing to do with anyone else and it was the gods who interfered. Therefore, the word Rahman was one of the attributes of God-worshippers who were not contaminated by polytheism. Rahman is an exaggeration in terms of public mercy to all the worlds of existence, and they used to run away from this name.

Contrary to the beliefs and practices of the idolaters, the teachings of the Qur'an emphasized on this name (Rahman) that Muslims should never forget the name of Rahman and always describe God with the name of Rahman and start prayers and other acts of worship, transactions and work with name of God. It means that after name of God, the prayers should be repeated in all the surahs of the Quran. Perhaps one of his wisdoms was to repeat this word in all worships and at the beginning of all works against the thoughts they had.

Here, I would like to state in parentheses that saying the slogan "In the name of the Lord of the Martyrs and the Friends of God" is against the tradition that the Prophet (PBUH) practiced and ordered. We must respect the martyrs, but in the same way that the Prophet and the Imams, peace be upon them, have guided.

In any case, I was inspired by this verse that the insistence of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) on the blessed name of Rahman has a philosophy that we should use this insistence - incomparably - towards the blessed name of the Imam. Therefore, I was bound and every time I went to the pulpit and every sermon I read, I said after that; tonight I want to tell you two issues from the fatwas of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini. Even when there was no difference in the fatwa, in order to mention his name, I would have said that he had said this in the treatise. Therefore, SAVAk asked me several times, why do you mention their names? You should not mention their names. When they pressed me a lot, I said, "Sir, they said." The last time they summoned my servant in the month of Ramadan, they said to me: Why do you say sir? I said: I will not say anyone's name. They said: The audience knows who you are talking about. Then I said for a while that had said so. Colonel SAVAK told me for the last time: Sir, if you don't give up this card, we will take you where the Arab will throw straw. But I used to repeat his words every day between two prayers during Ramadan.

This continued until the 22nd night of Ramadan 1974, when we prayed and talked. There we prayed for the Imam's return, of course, not by name, but by pointing and sarcasm, I said, "Oh God! You know what we want." We used to say brief statements and people said loud and strange amen.

I remember that the late Ayatollah Taleghani was also in our mosque that night. When the pulpit was finished and most of the people left, Mr. Haj Ismail Dayantzadeh - who was in charge of our mosque's affairs and is now deceased - came and said to me: "Sir! The deputy of police station located in Takht Jamshid [current Taleghani Street] will visit you for a few minutes. I said, "We want to go home for breakfast." We were also small and we wanted to go. They were waiting for me on the other side of the street and they took me with a police car.

We went to the police station and from there we were deported to Bukan in Kurdistan province. We went to Bukan through Kermanshah and Sanandaj. It was the month of Ramadan and the native residents there were Sunni Kurds and a group of Shia Azeris had migrated there. Azerbaijanis had a mosque and a hosseiniyeh, and I lived there and led congregational prayers for the Shiites and led religious debates. After two or three months, they came at night and brought me from there to Mahabad and from there to Tehran and in Tehran to the Joint Anti-Sabotage Committee and detained me.[1]