Forward March of the Immortal Legacy of Imam Khomeini (RA)

By: S. Nawabzadeh

"If every Muslim pours a bucket of water it would be enough to flush away the criminal state of Israel.”

These prophetic words, if not yet fully realized, portend the impending doom of the illegal Zionist entity, and stand as firm testimony to the foresight of that Sage who predicted the end of communism in his historical letter to Mikhail Gorbachev and had foretold the approaching collapse of the decadent western civilization.

As we commemorate the 29th passing away solar anniversary of the Man of the Millennium on the threshold of the 40th lunar anniversary of his dynamic decision to designate the Last Friday of the Blessed Month of Ramadhan as "World’s Qods Day” in order to mobilize the Ummah for the cherished goal of the liberation of Islam’s first Qibla (direction of prayer), we realize that Imam Khomeini (RA) was not merely an erudite scholar possessing political acumen, but an institution whose firm establishment of a truly Islamic system of government in Iran, has continued to rob the sleep of satanic powers, which in their desperation to undo what he did, are currently in the process of hammering the last nails in their own coffins.

The Father of the Islamic Revolution lived and breathed Islam, as is evident from his words, deeds and writings.

He endeavoured to give practical shape to the Shari’ah in state affairs and the ideal before him was the 11-year administration of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and the four-and-a-half year rule of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (AS) – the perfect form of rule headed by the most wisest of person, as visualized by philosophers from the Greek Plato to the Iranian Abu Nasr Farabi, or the Utopia of the medieval Europeans, which will be finally realized with the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (AS) and his global government of peace, prosperity and justice.

Thus, it was not without reason that Imam Khomeini spurned the suggestion to add the word ‘democratic’ to the Islamic Republic. He knew the havoc played in modern history by regimes ranging from dictatorial to anarchic, styling themselves as ‘democratic’. It was also his firm belief that the term ‘Islamic’ was far more comprehensive than the ancient Greek or modern Western concept, and it is only under the Islamic system that people’s rights are genuinely respected. In the Late Imam’s view the term ‘democratic’ was not only redundant and useless but carried a deceptive and disgraceful tone.

Islamic unity was always at the bottom of the Late Imam’s heart, and he said:     "If this (Islamic) brotherhood is materialized some day with the efforts of the governments and the people, and of course, with Divine Help, you will see that the Muslims will be the world’s greatest power.”

These brilliant views, coupled with his practical steps to bring the Ummah on the platform of solidarity by initiating the "Islamic Unity Week” on the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) in order to bridge the two dates of Rabi al-Awwal held as that auspicious day by Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, as well as his arousing of Islamic sentiments worldwide towards the issue of Bayt al-Moqaddas, changed the texture of the Palestinian struggle and gave birth to Islamic groups in Palestine, Lebanon and elsewhere, fully dedicated to weeding out the cancerous tumour called Israel.

This was where the iconoclast came into open conflict with the hegemonic and materialistic West, especially with America the ‘Great Satan’ and its blinkered vision of life and culture; and this was where godless capitalism miserably floundered against Islamic resurgence.

For the past four decades the US, along with rootless regimes in the spurious states created by Britain in the Arab World, instead of coming to terms with facts and realities, has resorted to a series of intricate plots to try to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran or at least to contain its forward march, but to no avail.

Washington has bolstered, or more properly fleeced, the oil rich Arab states of their ill accumulated wealth by selling them weapons they cannot use and wasting their hundreds of billions of petro dollars in a vain bid to destabilize Syria, Iraq and other countries through the worst ever terrorists the world has seen, but has seen its plots miserably backfired.

The US even goaded the Zionist entity to launch a massive attack on Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah, in 2006, but the 33-day war saw the triumph of Iranian trained Islamic fighters over western weaponry.
The same scenario was repeated in Syria and Iraq recently, resulting in disastrous defeats for the western and Saudi backed terrorists.

At the same time, the ideals of Imam Khomeini have continued to steadily spread, not just in the Levant, where Israel is in its death throes, but throughout the Muslim world, where the Americans are viewed as the most despicable of devils.

To sum up, the latest threats and sanctions against Iran of the quixotic Donald Trump and his team of thugs, as well as his criminal move in setting up the American embassy in the occupied Islamic city of Bayt al-Moqaddas, are nothing but suicidal efforts that will only make the heirs of Imam Khomeini in Iran and the region more determined and more strong.