Consequences of the Speech at the Ceremony of Lieutenant General Zargham

Compiled by: Islamic Revolution Website
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2023-12-14

Time was passing slowly and every day brought a new incident for me, until one day I was summoned to the office of the head of the Taibad Security Organization, Mr. Sharfi. It should be noted that they said SAVAK has a wide range and is very powerful. Anyway, they wanted me. When I went to his office, he was quite respectful. I saw that the "police major" was also sitting there, and there were two or three other people that I did not know. It seems that they were from SAVAK officials, who came from Tehran, and they took me over. They sat in a group, then the head of SAVAK, Colonel Sherfi, turned to me and said, "We want to help you, so that you can get back to your life, lessons, and discussion. We want you to give us a speech!" I said, "What a speech to what occasion.” He explained that Lt. Gen. Zargham has passed away, he was an General of the gendarmerie commanders and was favored by His Majesty, he was a Sayyid, he was noble, he was a patriot, and because we intend to help you. If you give a good speech here, we will bring you back to your life after the speech and help you, so that you will be compensated. I said: It was not made by me. I don't know, I can't give a speech, that too in this parliament, in the presence of military personnel. He immediately said: We have the tapes of your speech, even your speeches in Taibad are recorded before us. We have been told from above that you can and it is in your interest to do this. I said that what you want may not work. Colonel Sharfi said threateningly, "You know, in that case, you will be playing with your own destiny, note that the end of the matter will be decided by you." Apparently, I had no choice and had to prepare myself for another exam, until the appointed time came and they organized a magnificent assembly in the Imam Sadiq (PBUH) mosque in Taibad, which of course was a 100% military assembly, as if it did not matter much to the people that who is dead!

He was one of the senior officers and loyal to the king and the gendarmerie commander at the time, and in fact, it seemed that holding such a meeting, even if it was ordered from above, was a favor to the security authorities there and the police major to the regime, which of course was a decision. They were being followed, especially Captain Rasulzadeh, who was following the course of the case. Such an offer to me, and with the knowledge they had of my records, it was raw and uncooked work, as if God had wanted to wake up the sleepers of that region with another speech from this student. How is it possible to evict a person from his home and life, deprive him of lessons and discussion, and then expect him to act according to their wishes, that is, speech, which is completely related to the speaker's belief, that is, the key to the success of an orator in the field of speech, with all the preparations and equipment he has, is the orator's faith in his words, which gives him the courage and power to speak, otherwise, psychologically, the orator will not be able to do it. In short, they asked me to prepare for the speech, they also made promises. God bless, if a person loses his faith and closes his heart to someone other than His Holiness, the fact that the Prophet (PBUH) used to say " God, don’t abandon me to myself in the blink of an eye" belongs to these times of danger. Sometimes a bit of wonder and ego causes God to take His favor from a servant. This prayer of the Prophet (PBUH) is famous, and in whatever position and position a person is, he should always ask God to take him to God in the blink of an eye. Don't give up on yourself, because the work will be ruined." I also took refuge in God and relied on His great nature to use the situation in favor of my religion and revolutionary thought. Their insistence that you should give a speech reminded me of Mamun's pressure and acceptance of Imam Reza's (PBUH) oath of velayat. I accepted with trust in the Lord, until the promised day came. The mosque of Imam Sadiq (PBUH) was full of soldiers, all over the space of the mosque, the soldiers were sitting on their knees, I was also wearing a military uniform, maybe it was winter and I was wearing a coat. I split the crowd and went to the pulpit, I am not very happy with the top of the pulpit, because it is strange. Even now, I am not used to going up to the last step of the pulpit, wherever I go to the pulpit, I sit at the bottom. But that day, God had given me a different spirit, I had no worries. I went up to the throne of the pulpit, read the sermon, and put this verse as the title: "Why should I not worship the God who created me and to whom you will be returned?" I discussed that when my creator is God and my return is to him, there is no reason to worship anyone else and I went into the issue of servitude, attention to God, monotheism, negation of arrogant powers and even a trend that Mr. Philosopher said, which he used I did and I took the prestige and dignity of the military to nothing. The story goes that when Timurtash became the minister of Reza Khan's court, one of his lady's relatives who was a noble cleric. He goes to see him and orders him to be pious and pay attention to the people and arrest the fallen and invites him to side with the oppressed. The proud Timurtash makes fun of his orders with a drunken giggle and says what is he saying? That respected cleric explains that for the sake of God, be at the service of the people and the supporter of the oppressed, which the proud and drunken Timor says, I prove with a thousand and one reasons, that there is no God in the world, that with its sharp reaction clergyman is confronted and he leaves Timur angry and without saying goodbye, until after a few months, that serious political case is made for Timur and he falls into prison, and this same clergyman, again with the insistence of his wife, who was close to him He goes to visit Timur and sees him in the corner of a dark and dark solitary cell. Says; when I entered the cell and saw Timur in that incredible condition, I said, "How are you?" And Timur, without saying a word, cries loudly and says, "What are you talking about, leave me to myself, if one proof is enough to prove the existence of God, that's enough, that the mighty Timur, the Minister of Ceremonies of Reza Shah, has fallen to black soil." .

In the following, I read this hadith from Imam Ali (PBUH), who says: "It is worthy and proper for a wise person to avoid unconsciousness, not unconsciousness of wine and alcohol, which has its own ruling, but drunkenness of wealth and wealth, drunkenness of position and Power, drunkenness of knowledge and wisdom, drunkenness of praise and flattery, unconsciousness of youth, because each of these unconscious has its own toxicity and leads to the closure of reason and puts a person's personality in danger of collapse!

My speech in Taibad, on the occasion of the death of Lt. Gen. Zargham, is definitely included in the documents of SAVAK and the second pillar and protection of Gendarmerie information of that day. I have missed some important points, so I request to see the documents that exist on this matter. But when I was looking at the notes of the Old Testament, I found this piece of paper, where I also read a poem that I think will be interesting for you and the readers, the title of my pulpit was this verse from Surah Yas that says "And why should I not worship God, my Creator, if your return (and all creations) is to Him? " in which both monotheism and resurrection and return to God are mentioned. And I didn't care about the fact that the parliament is the parliament of the military and SAVAK has aristocracy over it. Therefore, based on the diagnosis I gave that day, I ended the parliament with the same revolutionary spirit. I mentioned one of the things that I mentioned that day and in that parliament. This note was from Abu Al-Tahiyyah; momentarily, in the blink of an eye, in the blink of an eye, don't feel safe from death, that is, a person is never immune from death. Then I ran away from the country's management group that the fate of Zargham today is also your fate and there is no security for you from death, and considering that death is a journey to Allah and after death you are forced to answer, take a look and see what you have done. How can it be justified? How can you answer these threats, this creation of bottlenecks and suffocation in front of God? That is, don't feel safe from death, even if you live in fortresses, or hide yourself in towers, have doors, guards and bodyguards with iron claws, you will not be able to handle death. The same great verse that says; »wherever you are and in whatever position you are, you have no way to escape from death, even if you try to protect yourself with guards and guards. Know that the arrows of death are aimed at their own target, and whoever wears armor and has a shield in front of him«. armor means armor and fear. It means shield. It means that death cannot be prevented with shields and armor. I remember that here I gave an advice and a sermon to that group that what happened that you want to pollute your religion and now that to you consider a lot your outer covering and your own appearances, especially in the military environment, this appearance that you are so bound by, you don't even like sitting on your shoes, but you are obliged to enter the military environment with good looks, how do you prepare your heart and religion? Contaminate with these scumbags that unfortunately exist in the regime's propaganda. You are seeking salvation, you are seeking salvation, but you are not following the path of salvation, because if you are seeking salvation, you must follow the path of salvation, you are hoping for salvation and liberation, but you have abandoned the path of salvation. "a ship never moves on land." That is, if you want to reach your destination, you must choose the right path. This was the address I used in that speech.

They really wouldn't have provided a ready assembly to a revolutionary student if they weren't drunk. Anyway, I said this matter and continued that you should not be proud of your situation, consider God, and then I expressed the same phrases that were not said in relation to Zargham in the official language. Imagine what a meeting it was. By God's permission, it was me who had control over them, because I really went up to the pulpit with testimonies and I knew that I might not lower my head safely. Then I said, don't be proud of your clothes, rank, and position, the parliament was so much in my control that it was as if there was no breathing in it. Now the colonel of East SAVAK, the police major of the commanders of Mashhad have come. They came from Torbat Jam brigade. A person without work and so bold, I finally said that, of course, the gentlemen told me to say that Lieutenant General Zargham was Seyyed, loyal to the Shah, because they told me to say these things, I will also tell you, end the conversation. I did and came down from the pulpit, at the foot of the pulpit, Captain Khanjani told me, you made yourself miserable! And there, they handcuffed me, that is, in front of everyone, they didn't let me leave the mosque, and then they brought me right in front of the door of the mosque and put me in a jeep first. They blindfolded me and took me away. Once I realized that I was in the prison of the Mashhad Security Organization, but I was very happy with what I had done and I was not worried about anything.[1]