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The message of His Eminence the Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah addressed to emigrants


In The Name Of Allah The merciful The Most Compassionate

Allah's praise and peace upon our great Prophet Mohammad, his pure progeny, and all the prophets of Allah.

May peace be upon you brothers and sisters..

Dearly loved brothers and sisters:  
I address to you these words from afar while you're away from your homeland to earn a decent living so as to assume responsibility towards yourself and your families against the harsh circumstances imposed upon you by the challenges that surrounded Islam and Muslims as well as the oppressed and the deprived. While I speak to you from afar like a father to his children, I like to you from the position of faith, what I like to myself, because the Great Prophet said: "One does not consummate faith until he likes for his brother what he likes for himself." And while I speak to you, I want to remind you and myself of Allah (SWT) who is everything in our existence. In every aspect of this existence there is the Creator Who created us from nonexistence. He is the Provider who guarantees our livelihood despite our sins and guilt. Just as Imam Zain-el-Abideen (A.S.) expressed while confiding to his God with the tongue of sinners, although he is infallible from committing sins; he said: "You endear to us with blessings and we go up against You with our sins. Your good to us is descending, and our evil to You is ascending. And there is still a noble angel who brings You a shameful act of ours, but this doesn't stop You from overwhelming us with Your blessings and grace. Glory to You, how Lenient, Great, Most Generous You are as an initiator and a repeater."

Love is to Allah first  
Thus we see that Allah (SWT) gives he who asks him with compassion, and initiates with good he who doesn't ask him with condescendence and generosity. And He is the one Who gives those who disobeyed Him same as He gives those who obey Him, since giving, generosity, and compassion is peculiar to Him. He is the merciful God who mercifully takes care of us with all what we flow with and act in our small or big affairs. In this existence, we are an emanation of His mercy. Therefore, if you mention Him, do mention Him with His mercy, kindness, generosity, and giving so as to love Him in your depths, because it is not normal that our relation with Allah be a formal one so that we think that Allah is as far from us as the sky from earth. Rather, we have to think of Allah as the secret of our existence, and when you mention Him then you have to love Him. Indeed you love scholars (Ulamas) while He is the whole of science. {And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures, none knows them but He; and He knows what is in the land and the sea; and there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, or anything green or dry but (it is all) in a clear book} (Al An'aam; 59). 
You love those who have beauty and He is the Creator of beauty and its God. From Him comes the beauty of humans, animals, nature, and the whole universe. You love those who are strong, and the strength is wholly Allah's. You love those who are honorable and to Allah belongs the honor wholly. Indeed you love those who are generous and Allah is the most generous; there is no limit to His giving. Therefore, if you love people for what they posses of characteristics, then you should remember that Allah has the best names, the highest exemplary, and the great attributes. Therefore, do love Allah before you love anyone else. 
Allah (SWT) approaches you so as you approach him. Allah says to you: {then surely I am very near; I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and believe in Me that they may walk in the right way.} (The Cow; 186). He shows love and affection to you. He is telling you that He is very near, very near to your pains to soothe them or remove them, very near to your dreams to make them come true, very near to your lives to give them every mercy and rest and to drive them forward to the guidance in the path of light and the brightness of the right. He is telling you, responsibly, that He is close: {And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein. When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left. He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand} (Qaf, 16-18). So Allah is living inside your existence and He is nearer than any one who looks into your inner self {He knows the stealthy looks and that which the breasts conceal} (Ghafir, 19). And He surrounds you from all your directions because He is dominating the whole universe and the Subduer over His people, and He hears the insinuations that preoccupies your chests {Nowhere is there a secret counsel between three persons but He is the fourth of them, nor (between) five but He is the sixth of them, nor less than that nor more but He is with them wherever they are; then He will inform them of what they did in the Day of Resurrection: surely Allah is Cognizant of all things} (Al-Mujadalah, 7).

Do not disobey Allah, in gratitude to His favors: 
Dearly beloved: 
If you were alone with yourselves and Satan comes to you to grant you security from people and from any watcher because the doors are closed, and there is not anyone who can see or hear, you should remember that Allah (SWT) sees you from while you cannot see Him. Remember Imam Ali's (a.s.) words: "Beware of sins to Allah in privacies, because verily the witness himself is the judge"
 While you are living every favor {And whatever favor is (bestowed) on you it is from Allah} (The Bees, 53), {And if you would count Allah's favors, you will not be able to number them} (The Bees, 18), you should not disobey Allah in gratitude for His favors, as Imam Ali (PBUH) said, "Were it not for Allah's threat on his disobedience, then He should have not been disobeyed in gratitude to His favors". We have to thank Allah by obeying Him and thank Him by not disobeying Him. Thanking Allah (SWT) is by praying to Him, and he is not in need of our prayers. The Great Prophet (PBUH) had said to someone who said to him "You do that and Allah has forgiven all your precedent and belated sins?Muhammad (PBUH) said: Don't I need to be a thankful servant". 
Every prayer, supplication, glorification and praise, and every worship, fasting or pilgrimage or else, is an expression of the gratitude's profundity to Allah (SWT). Allah's love is not a heartbeat, not even a pulse of feeling, and not words we utter, it is, however, the walking on the path of the Great Prophet (PBUH) in obeying Allah. So if we love Allah and obey Him by expressing His love, then Allah will love us {Say: If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you} (Aal Omran, 31).

Be the keepers of your religion so that they will not steal it from you: 
Dearly beloved: 
circumstances have forced you to immigrate to a country where Islam neither has a base in nor a force. However, Islam is suffering so much from the elements of people's straying from the right path. Islam is also coming under tremendous arrogant pressures that might defeat the believers . Therefore, be the keepers of your religion so that others do not steal it from you, and so that you do not fall in front of the challenges aimed at you. Hold your religion even if it were like ember, because religion is the rope that binds our relation with Allah (SWT), and the issue that determines our fate in this life as well as the Hereafter .This is not a marginal issue but a vital one. It is totally everything and anything else is indeed marginal since religion does not guide us in our worshipping only, but in all of our life so that every good deed and every act of guidance to people turns into an act of worship.

Let the Dua'a (supplication) of Imam Al-Saj'jad be our daily program: 
Do read Imam Al-Saj'jad Zain el-Aabideen's Dua'a ,everyday in the morning and in the evening, so as to sense, with it, your unity with the whole existence through the notion that existence, in all its aspects, is a creation of Allah (SWT)! In everyday, which comes to you, do sense that He is a witness watching you. Try to see, in every minute, an eye staring at you, and every hour a watcher watching you, and so in every day, month, or year witness who will testify upon you in the Judgment Day "And this is a new occurring day, a forthcoming witness on us it is. If we do well, it will depart with praise, but if we do badly it will pass away with dispraise". 
Thus, Imam Zain el-Abideen (a.s.) defines to us our daily program that makes our day Islamic "Allah's praise and peace upon our great Prophet Mohammed, his pure progeny. O Allah, grant us success in our day and night and in all our days: to make use of the good and desert from evil, to be thankful to Your favors and follow Your norms, to avoid heresies and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, to preserve Islam, to disparage and degrade falsehood, to uphold and honor the right, to guide the aberrant, and to help the weak and salvage the athirst." If you actuate this daily program in your daily items, then the whole day serves the cause of Islam and becomes a feast as Imam Ali (a.s.) said, while talking about the Eid el-Fitr: "Truly it is a feast to he whom Allah has accepted his fasting and thanked his prayers; everyday we don't disobey Allah in is a feast". Make feasts of your days so that you jubilate with Allah's gratification, since Allah's gratification is the one that endures to you. Allah is the one who pours out mercy, grace, and care upon you. Let our feast be a feast of obedience and avoidance of sins.

Safeguard your family and children so as to avoid the hell of the Hereafter.
 Dearly beloved: 
"Judge yourselves before you will be judged and weigh yourselves before you will be weighed" and remember what Allah (SWT) said, He wants everyone of us to attach importance to his account of deeds and not to limit himself to his money account, {O you who believe! Be careful of (your duty to) Allah, and let every soul consider what it has sent on for the morrow and be careful of (your duty to), surely Allah is Aware of what you do. And be not like those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake their own souls: these are the transgressors. Not alike are the inmates of fire and the dwellers of the Garden; the dwellers of the Garden are they that are the achievers}(Al-Hashr, 20-18) 
So, when you look at your children to overwhelm them with your emotions, do remember that you have to protect them from the hell of the hereafter just as you protect them the hell of the present life. And when you look at your family: your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, wives and husbands, remember to give them love. And remember that true love is to salvage them from Allah's wrath and discontent because the heavens and earth do not withstand His wrath and discontent, so how can a negligible, miserable, and submissive servant withstand that? 
Remember Allah's words: {O you who believe! Save your sons and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones; over it are angels stern and strong, they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them, and do as they are commanded. The gardens of perpetual abode which they will enter along with those who do good from among their parents and their spouses and their offspring; and the angels will enter in upon them from every gate. Peace be on you because you were constant, how excellent, is then, the issue of the abode.} (Al-Ra'ed, 23-24)

Submit to Allah alone, and be the free in front of the world: 
Dearly beloved: Be strong in confronting temptation. Be steadfast in confronting challenges. Be patient in confronting psychological and all kinds of pressures (financial, physical… etc). Be the free in front of the world. The problem of many people is that they say they are free in front of Allah (SWT), and when Allah wants them to obey Him then one of them would say I am free, I do not pray nor fast. I am free to drink alcohol (wine), to commit adultery or steal, but they are slaves in front of the slaves of Allah. Doesn't someone say to a rich person (I am your slave)? Imam Ali (a.s.) says: "Do not be the slave of others, for Allah has made you a free person". 
Be the free in you free wills. The freedom is not that you can walk around freely, but don't foresake your willpower before others who want to pressure your will and void your humanity. Just as Imam Jaafar el-Sadiq (a.s.) said: "The free person is free in all circumstances so if a misfortune befell upon him he resorts to patience, and if disasters befell upon him he wouldn't be subdued even if he were captured or defeated."

Neither money nor sons would help: 
Dearly beloved: 
Verily, we would live for years but eventually we will stand for judgment before Allah (SWT) {The Day on which no soul shall control anything for (another) soul; and the Command on that Day shall be entirely Allah's}(Al-Infitar, 19), {The Day a father shall not make any satisfaction for his son, not shall the child be the maker of any satisfaction for his father}(Lukman, 33). {(Remember) the Day when every soul shall come, pleading for itself} (Al-Nahl, 111). 
{And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty fearing from what is in it, and they will say: Ah! woe to us! What a Book is this! It does not omit s small one nor a great one but remembers them (all); and that they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone} (Al-Kahf, 49). 
{Read your Book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this Day.}(Al-Israa, 14) {O people! Guard against (the punishment from) your lord; surely the violence of the hour is a grievous thing. On the Day when you shall see it, every woman giving suck shall quit in confusion what she suckled, and every pregnant woman shall lay down her burden, and you shall see men intoxicated but the chastisement of Allah will be severe} (Al-Shoaraa, 88-89).

My sons and brothers: Allah will not make good of any disunity: 
Dearly Beloved: I address you from afar, the address of a father to his sons and a brother to his brothers. You are my sons all through life; and you are my brothers as faith endures. From the depth of my experience as I approach the seventies, and from the depth of intellect, as I lived through many intellectual and practical experiences, I would like to say to you that disunity among believers, in all its forms, does not serve anyone. Even those who work in the path of disunity shall fall under its effects and feel the brunt of its flame before others feel it. Because he who sows the seeds of discord among people shall lose love and the open soul as well. He, who does that, is living a black darkness inside his heart. He is also living in caves full of fears and terror inside his mind. The problem of those is that they do not want to face their souls, because their souls detest them. They do not want to face their reality, because their reality damns them. Allah (SWT) will not make good of any disunity nor make evil of any unity. {And hold fast by the covenant of Allah all together and be not disunited, and remember the favor of Allah on you when you were enemies, when He united your hearts so by His favor you become brethren; and you were on the brink of a pit of fire, then He saved you from it; thus does Allah make clear to you His communications that you may follow the right way} (Al Omran, 103). {And surely this your religion is one religion and I am your Lord, therefore be careful of your duty) to Me} (al-Mu'mneen, 52).

Dearly beloved: In your countries away from home and in your homeland, unity is the one that makes people get united in major issues and the one that secures a foothold in shaky positions. Indeed, disunity originates from the preoccupation in small and marginal worthless issues. In fact, we do have major issues that relate to the challenges that Islam and Muslims are facing on the security, economic, political and cultural levels. Therefore, we are living in a state of contingency on all directions; a state where the ground is shaking under our feet and only by our unity will we be able to make it settle.

Learn from the Holy Quran to face disagreements on the basis of unity: 
Dearly beloved: Someone might say that we disagree in our faith, partisanship, political trends, and interests. But, then, why do we talk about disagreements and not talk about what we agree on? Is not Allah (SWT) our God who unites us in His divinity and our slavery to Him? Is not our Prophet (PBUH) the Messenger of Allah who unites us in his mission and in abidance by his path and religion? Do not we believe that the Quran is our Holy Book, that Kaaba is our Kiblah, and that Islam is our religion? Are not we praying towards one Kiblah, observe our prayers in similar times, do pilgrimage in one place, observe all aspects of our worships and transactions with little detail here and margin there? One desirably cross his arms while praying, while the other let down his hands. One washes his feet during ablution and the other wipes his feet. But we all are observing our prayers and ablution.
 We have to learn from the Quran to meet on what we had agreed upon, and to mention the words of similarities not the words of disagreements. Does disagreement among Muslims in all their faiths reach the level of disagreement between Muslims and the people of the Book? 
Are the disagreements of the followers of the same faith who disagree in partisanship, religious authorities (Marjaa), and political orientations, more than our disagreements with the people of the Book? What is the use of this heated argument that we curse one another, because we disagree in certain peculiarities? Is this the kind of argument that Allah (SWT) wants when we disagree? I think that you do not read the Quran carefully. {Call to the way of your lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and have disputations with them in the best manner} (An-Nahl, 125). {Say: O followers of the Book! Come to an equitable proposition between us and you that we shall nor serve any but Allah and (that) we shall not associate aught with Him, and (that) some of s shall not take others for lords besides Allah} (Al Omran, 64). {And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit} (Al-Ankaboot, 46). 
Why do not we learn from the Quran the equitable and good words. {And say to my servants (that) they speak that which is best; surely the Shaitan sows dissensions among them; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man} (Al-Israa, 53). Why do not we learn from the Quran how to solve our problems in a goodly manner and repel them in a friendly manner. {And not alike are the good and evil. Repel (evil) with what is best, when lo! He between whom and you was enmity would be as if he were a warm friend} (Fosilat, 34-35). 
The Holy Quran is telling you to turn your enemies into friends of your religion, homeland, and nation. It is calling on you to turn the enemies of your parties, movements, and religious authorities (Marjaa) into friends of yours. 
Why do you like enmity? Why are you fond of hatred that you direct against believers before unbelievers? Why do occupy yourselves with all the methods that disunite you? Why is all you concern is defaming the believers' image particularly those in the position of leadership, and so on?

Do not judge what you have no knowledge of: 
Why do you consent to all what you hear knowing that Allah (SWT) says: {O you who believe! If an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done} (Al-Hojorat, 6). 
Why do you accuse and judge with no knowledge on you part? Allah (SWT) says: {And follow not that which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these shall be questioned about that} (Al-Israa, 36). Allah will ask the hearing about what and how it had heard, the sight about what and how it had seen, and the mind about what it had perceived and how it perceived it.

The boundaries of Allah in all the words you say: 
Dearly beloved: Islam tells you: "place the deed of you brother at its best". Imam Ali (a.s.) says: "Do not mistrust (or misinterpret) a word your Muslim brother had said while you can find a room of good trust for him". Your major concerns must primarily be your enemies in which you would not have any gap to be preoccupied negatively with your friends and companions. Satan has had a major influence on our societies until we have come to a point where we focus on our negativity within the believers' circle rather than the ones in the nonbelievers' circle. We know, before hand, that international, local, and regional intelligence did not find an opportunity to create a split among believers except to make them busy with one another so that they become engrossed from the arrogants, the unbelievers, and the oppressors. 
I, with all the love, say to you: Observe the boundaries of Allah in all the words you say {O you who believe! Avoid most of suspicion, for surely suspicion in some cases is a sin and do not spy nor let some of you backbite others. Does one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? But you abhor it}(Al-Hojorat, 12) {O you who believe! Let not (one) people laugh at (another) people perchance they may be better than they, nor let woman (laugh) at (other) woman, perchance they may be better than they}(Al-Hojorat, 11).
 My advice to you is to fill your hearts with love to the patrons of Allah, and hatred to the enemies of Allah. There is a Hadith that says: "if you want to know whether you had good inside you, then look into your heart. If your heart likes those who obey Allah and detest those who disobey him, then there is good inside you and Allah loves you. But if you heart detests those who obey Allah and likes those who disobey him, then there is no good inside you and Allah detests you,." Therefore, try to learn how to love for your love to be right, and how to detest for your detestation to be right.

Stand against the rumors your enemies are evoking: 
Dearly beloved: 
While I am talking to you I feel sorry from the impact of all the rumors that Allah wanted you to be God-fearing towards. The intelligence agencies employ rumors as a means to destroy someone or defame the image of another. Or perhaps take some people away from a certain person, group, or a nation. You all know very well how the enemies of Allah evoke false rumors against the faithful to Allah. Therefore, these rumors must not defeat you, and you must stand against it with awareness, precision, and certainty so that you defeat those who fight against you and fight Islam with rumors.

We are not fundamentalists as far as fundamentalism is defined by the West:
 Dearly beloved: 
As we face our reality in this world, we see that there is an international war being waged against Islam and its followers under the title of Islamic terrorism, Islamic extremism, and Islamic fundamentalism. Tell people (around you) that we are not fundamentalists as far as fundamentalism is defined by the West. Because fundamentalism in the Western meaning is to cancel the other and not to recognize him. And Islam has recognized People of the Book, lived peacefully with them, and did not void them up till now. Fundamentalism, in the Western understanding, considers violence as the only means to solve problems with others, and Islam says: Repel (evil) with what is best, when lo! He between whom and you was enmity would be as if he were a warm friend} (Fosilat, 34). The Great Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) says: "when kindness is put on anything it adorns it, and if raised it disgrace it", and "Allah is kind and likes kindness. He gives upon kindness what He does not give upon violence".

We stand up against every oppressor; oppression has no faith: 
We are fundamentalists in the sense that our fundamentalism originates from our faith, religious jurisprudence, conceptual, and movement-principles. When we start off from the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammad and the Imams after him, and the virtuous Companions of the Prophet, then we are not terrorists. We want the world to live in peace; we do not want to harm the peace of any person in the world. But, as we like peace to the world we also like peace to our nation and ourselves. We believe that the occupation of a land is not peace. The displacement of people from their land, just as what had been done to the Palestinians, is not peace as well. Also, giving the occupier a reward for reconciliation between him and those who he had long oppressed, occupied, killed, and displaced is not peace. 
Even though we differ with the Jews, but we do not have a complex with them as Jews, as far as religion is concerned. But since Jews had oppressed us, we treat them just as we treat the oppressors. We stand against those who oppress us even if they were Muslims, and stand with the oppressed even if they were unbelievers, since oppression has no faith. 
Allah (SWT) wanted justice to be humane, so that every man, even the unbeliever, has a right in justice. Allah also wanted oppression to be inhumane so that oppression has no value even if the oppressor were a Muslim. We are not extremists, but we are committed to a cause rather. There is quite a big difference between extremism, which is far away from the normal boundaries of things, and commitment, which abides by these boundaries. We are not fanatics, but rather open-minded. We call for dialogue and argument in a friendly manner. Therefore, do not listen to this war-of-words, lest you victimize yourselves under its influence. You should possess the awareness of words so that others do not topple you with their words. 
We may live in some areas of weakness, but we as a nation do possess many areas of strength. However, we have to organize, accumulate, concentrate, and mobilize these areas of strength.

We should face Arrogance with planning and rationality: 
Dearly loved:
 The arrogants are very strong, but diseases are ruining their strength. Their body may be strong in shape, and we may be weak but we possess the elements of strength. Do not let others defeat you and try to seek strength from Allah (SWT) the Almighty: {when those who disbelieved expelled him, he being the second of the two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: Grieve not, surely Allah is with us}(Al-Tawba, 40). Follow the example of the Prophet's companions who struggled with him: {Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against you, therefore fear them, and they said: Allah is sufficient for us and most excellent is the Protector. So they returned with favor from Allah and (His) grace; no evil touched them and they followed the pleasure of Allah; and Allah is the lord of mighty grace. It is only the Shaitan that causes you to fear from his friends but do not fear them, and fear Me if you are believers}(Aal-Omran, 173-175). The international arrogance has started to wage a war on the free, open-to-freedom and justice movement-Islam. It is waging an economical, political, and media war on Iran because it adopted Islam as a force that liberates the whole world from the tyranny of the arrogants. And because its wise and prudent leadership, represented by Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenie (may God protect him), represents the awareness that is open to Islam as well as Muslims as a whole, and also represents the leadership that guards the Islamic reality. They do not want any leadership, which is strong by Allah and persistent in its stances, to exist. Therefore, let us have a vigilant posture against arrogance, not an emotional anarchist posture, but a reasonable subjective posture that plans, prepares itself and studies the circumstances and variables, the same as arrogance does. By this we become self-confident, solid and resilient in our stances, stable, and firm against the rage of storms.

Let us differentiate between the West's administrations and its peoples: 
The battle between the arrogants and the oppressed is a historically deep-rooted battle, and we should prepare ourselves for it in a civilized and Islamic manner. Therefore, you should be aware of all the methods that aim at driving you away from prudence and self-control. 
I say to you: you have to differentiate between Western and American administrations and their respective peoples. We want to be friends to the Americans, Germans, British, French, and all the peoples around the world. Therefore, we have to employ our relations to educate and enlighten them about our causes.

Dearly beloved: I say to you: you are the messengers of Islam to these countries, just as Imam Sadiq (a.s.) said, "be the preachers of your souls by a different language than that you speak".

Be the pious and the faithful when dealing with other people:
 Dearly beloved: 
Be the bright image of Islam and the entrusted on people's money there. You are not permitted to take people's money unlawfully even if they were non-Muslims. You are not even permitted to harm the security of the country that is hosting you, because otherwise you will be evil guests and as a result you will also do harm to your Islam. Do not try to create disorder in the country that is living under law and order. I am not saying that the regimes there are legitimate, but I am asking you to be exemplary of a nation that observes and respects others just as we want others to respect us. Do not pay attention to any Fatwa that legitimizes the trading of drugs under the title of confiscating the money of others. Do not pay attention to any Fatwa that allows you to desecrate people's honors under the pretense that you do not need any legal contract with women. Do not even listen to anyone who wants you to assassinate a person here or a person there, or to bomb a place here or a place there, especially if these bombs inflict harm on innocent people (children, women, and elderly). And anyone who tells you that, by this, you will achieve big results politically, do not believe him. Because if we had to study the issue realistically, then we will find that disadvantages in such issues reach over 80 percent, and that the advantages, if any, do not go beyond the 10 or 20 percent. We also read in the Holy Quran: {They ask you about intoxicants ad games of chance. Say: In both of them there is a great sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is greater than their profit.} (The Cow, 219).

Dearly beloved: Be the faithful, the truthful, and the pious in dealing with other people. Ill-gotten gains never prosper, and lawfully gained money will prosper. Lawful jobs are blessed, so is lawful amusement and lawful foods and drinks. Yet there is no blessing in any forbidden deed, even if it were a devilish allurement or in response to one of your desires.

The Islamic Resistance represents the vigor and pride of the nation:
Dearly beloved:
 We are facing one of the toughest stages in the arogant's campaign against the Mujahideen whether that was international, Zionist, or Arab arrogance. They want to besiege the Mujahideen so as to perturb them with their unjust laws. Therefore, you have to act with vigor in order to support the Mujahideen, especially the Islamic Resistance. This Resistance represents the spot of light in all this darkness, and the vigor, the pride, the freedom, and dignity of this nation.
 If you commemorate Imam Hussein (a.s.) and his companions in Karbalaa every year, then you should commemorate Imam Hussein's (a.s.) companions in Lebanon and Palestine in every stance you take. Because the cause is the same and so is the path "By Allah! I will not submit to you the submission of the meek, nor I will avow to you the avowal of slaves". Imam Hussein has taught us not give in to those who represent evil because if we do so we shall merit the wrath of Allah.
 So those Mujahideen represent the hope of the nation that revolt against those who impounded and destroyed it. The nation will never fall so long as those Mujahideen are there, and so long as there are those who have hope in Allah (SWT) {O my sons! Go and inquire respecting Yusuf and his brother, and despair not of Allah's mercy; surely none despairs of Allah's mercy execept the unbelieving people}(Yusuf, 87).

Hardships will never defeat us, and we will continue topursue the staight path:
 Dearly beloved:
 Verily this stage is very hard. But despite all this intimidation that the arrogant media is massing, we are not falling down. Do not believe that Muslim believers are waiting for a knock on their heads with nothing to do accept to think when the strike will fall upon them . Muslim believers are standing steadfast and will never bow except for Allah (SWT). Therefore, do not think we are in a weak position. On the contrary; we are in a strong position taken from Allah and from our will and awareness of the whole reality. We may face some hardships or be surrounded with pressures, but all of that will not overpower us and we will pursue the staight path {if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer as you suffer pain, and you hope from Allah what they do not hope;}(Al-Nisaa, 104), {And be not infirm, and be not grieving, and you shall have the upper hand if you are believers. If a wound afflicted you, a wound like that has also afflicted the (unbelieving) people; and we bring these days to men in turn} (Aal-Omran, 139-140).

Dearly beloved:
 we go back to what we stated with: fear Allah as he had guided you and say: {All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this, and we would not have found the way had it not been that Allah had guided us; certainly the apostles of our Lord brought the Truth} (Al-Aaraf, 43)

Abide by your Islam since what surrounds you may take you away from Allah: 
Dearly beloved:
 You Islam is a treasure, so do not lose it and do not let anyone take it away. Try to live within yourselves the charges of the soul in every day and night especially thursday night(the night before Friday) . Commit yourselves to reading the Kumail Dua'a (supplication), and weep before Allah in submission and devotedness, because in doing so you wash your souls and hearts from every evil and purify your minds from filth.

Dearly beloved:
 Try to gather to perform your prayers and recite your supplications, and try to listen to the sermons that bind you with your God. Because everything that is around you takes you away from Him. Therefore, you should work hard to get close to Him. If you do not find some one who can deliver sermons to you, then you can obtain them through cassettes and videotapes of various sermons by prominent scholars. So, make use of these tools so as to learn a lesson from or to take (a) guidance from, and do not be like that person {He shall say: My Lord! Why have Thou raised me blind, and I was a seeing one indeed! He will say: Even so: Our communications came to you, but you neglected them; even thus shall you be forsaken this Day} (Taha, 125-126). We cannot afford to have Allah (SWT) neglect us, but indeed we need His protection and guardianship in the hereafter.

Dearly beloved:
 Verily I send you wholeheartedly all my love and sentiments and prayers. I sent these to your youth, young girls, elderly, women, and kiss the cheeks of your children. May Allah (SWT) bless you and guard you. May Allah guard you against the slides of Satan and strengthen you against the challenges. May He wide-open the doors of livelihood and the doors of overwhelming mercy. May you always be under His watch so that you return home to your families sound and safe from every Satan, enemy, and illness, successful with your faith and morals and unity. {And say: Work; so Allah will see your work and (so will) His Apostle and the believers;} (Al-Tawba, 105).

All Praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and mercy of Allah be upon you.

With my love and Prayers.