"There is no room for play in Islam … It is deadly serious about everything."

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“Mystical Poem of Imam Khomeni”

“These people are trying to bring back the regime of the late Shah or another regime. I will strike with my fists at the mouths of this government. From now on it is I who will name the government.”

“At the start of their mission, the prophets first confronted the upper class; Hadrat Moses, confronted the Pharaoh. The upper class enjoys the priority of being confronted and guided first.”

“The essence of praise accrues to none but God; your praise of a rose or an apple is praise of God.”

“Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.”

“Their plan is to keep us backward, to keep us in our present miserable state so they can exploit our riches, our underground wealth, our lands, and our human resources. They want us to remain afflicted and wretched, and our poor to be trapped in their misery. Instead of surrendering to the injunctions of Islam, which provide a solution for the problem of poverty, they and their agents wish to go on living in huge palaces and enjoying lives of abominable luxury.”

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Literature1958

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— Noam Chomsky

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