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My Brothers !

This a truth of the greatest importance which was composed due to a spiritual admonishment, and which, if you deem it appropriate, may be given to the Prime Minister and religious deputies.

Introduction: I have given up politics for nearly forty years and most of my life has passed as a sort of recluse and I am not busy with social and political life, and therefore did not see a serious peril, Recently, I have perceived that a danger is preparing the ground to cause serious harm to both the Islamic nation and to this country and Islamic government. I am compelled therefore to explain three points which have been imparted to me as a warning for the politicians who work for the good of Islamic nationhood and sovereignty and this country, and for those who zealously work for the human community.

First Point: Although I have not listened to the newspapers being read, for the last year or two I have heard the phrase "accusations of political reaction" being repeated over and over again. I listened attentively with the Old Said's head and saw quite clearly that the covert enemies of Islam who exploit politics for irreligion are making iniquitous accusations — not of being Muslim or being zealously religious or having powerful belief, but of exploiting religion for political ends and even utilizing politics for religion and making them subservient to it. Those covert enemies who strive to revert to one of the most savage, primitive fundamental laws of humankind, and have donned the mask of patriotism, in completely unjust fashion brand with accusations of political reaction and imagine to be harmful for the country, those striving to reinforce this Islamic government with the moral strength of Islam and to secure for it four hundred million true brothers as a reserve force, and to save it from begging to certain tyrannical Europeans. The time has come to explain, in the second point, the chief of many examples, as a barrier against the awesome injustices of this century. There are two sorts of reactionism, which have two fundamental laws as their source:

The first is true reactionism, which is political and social. Its fundamental law has led to much abuse and tyranny.

The second is the basis of true progress and justice, but it is given the name of reactionism.

Second Point: Those who attack religion in the name of civilization and a fundamental law remaining from the primitive, savage eras of mankind, are reverting to similar savagery and primitiveness due to reactionism. That ghastly, barbaric fundamental law, which annihilates humanity's welfare