It is true that our people came to Islam through the various Caliphates...

It is true that our people came to Islam through the various Caliphates, but we must recognize their insurrec­tions against both the Caliphs and their institutions includ­ing those of the Omayyad’s, Abbasids, the Khans, Turkish Khaghanis, Tazis and Mongols. We must distinguish be­tween the people and the Iranians who are attached to their institutions under the name of 'Islam', 'Qur’anic Gov­ernment', 'Prophetic Traditions', 'The Front of Truth' and 'The Truth of Religion'.

All the expressions of the beliefs and the new found­ed wisdom of Islam come from the Caliph's institutions: their words from the pulpits and minarets, their books and commentaries upon the traditions, their orations, adver­tisements, philosophies, men of letters, poets, historians, warriors and even companions and associates of the Com­panions of the Prophet. Every single one of these groups were extensions of the Caliph or Sultan's institutions.

Loud speakers, transistor radios, films, television, magazines, newspapers, advertisers and theoreticians are extensions of the rulers' class. Those in power who form the times and who are the relatives of the official leaders. relatives of the Prophet and the Imams who are legally appointed in the name of Divine Rule and Traditions are all extensions of the Caliph or Sultan.

These amazing people of ours, under the bombard­ment of publicity, without having any sort of security, be­hind the thick, black clouds of the accepted sciences, architecture, theology, government, religion, culture, his­tory, interpretations, jurisprudence and traditions which incidentally happen to coincide with the ruling Caliphate, and confirmed the governing institutions, without even knowing the official language of Islam, cleverly enough know, however, that these are all lies.

They know that the Truth is not attached to these eye catching forms. Rather, the Truth belongs to a man who is alone, who has his home in a corner near the Prophet's mosque and who is surrounded by the ignorance of his tribe. He lives amidst the great political sacrifices of the friends of the Prophet and the great thinkers of Islam.

Beyond the green palace of Damascus and the hang­ing noose of the fairy tale Caliph of 1001 Nights of Bagh­dad, Iranians find the abandoned, mud built house of Ali and Fatima and discern that Islam is in ‑this sorrowful, abandoned, silent abode.