A Tear of Hope in the Sanctuary of the Revolution
Mujahid al-Suraymi — Sana’a:
O people’s revolution — root of freedom and source of independence — you are not strange to us. Every free person has read you letter by letter, absorbed you word by word, and understood you line by line since the Master of Glad Tidings delivered speech after speech and raised his voice as a call from God on the eve of your coming, Hussein al-Jarf (may God be pleased with him): lesson after lesson, obligation after obligation. Your maturity was completed and your resolve grew firm and steadfast, until you were gathered verse by verse on the faces of the oppressed; eyes recited you in God’s name from every corner of the world — from the sites of revolutionary presence and mass mobilization to the fields of struggle and sacrifice — as a rebuttal to all forces of arrogance and the remnants of guardianship and tyranny, which we still live under and see in all their manifestations to this day.
Therefore, I beg you: do not turn away from the oppressed whenever they seek to draw your attention to the danger of the ember of past guardianship emerging from beneath the ashes and beginning to burn all their aspirations and hopes. Do not be displeased with them when they offer you some warmth — born of the boiling of their blood as it surges in every artery and vein — for fear that the ice of indifference will touch you, or the dunes of apathy will overwhelm you, making you like those who preceded you in time, easy prey for the pillars of influence and tyranny that still exist and remain active in many ways.
O our spirit: our present time and our human and national condition — which express a glorious revolution, a sincere will to obtain freedom and achieve independence, and a desire to bring about reform and righteousness — require a particular kind of people to lead the fields of responsibility: people whose awareness of the methodology and commitment to it has reached the level indicated by the martyred leader (may God bless him), who said, in essence, that the true believer is the one who regards every action he performs as a duty to be done, since it is part of what God has ordained of worship that draws him nearer to God and secures success and salvation in both worlds.
We need those who understand what I mean when I say, “I move in the way of God,” and who grasp what this word demands in terms of belonging, action, and practical performance — for the way of God admits no division. It rejects selfish monopolizing of any scrap of spoil, and it rejects those with diseased tendencies: arrogance, greed, aggression, despotism, oppression, self‑love, complacency, defeatism. The insistence on taking before giving, or on taking after giving, is rejected on the way of God, because this is giving without waiting for the moment of receiving. It is sowing without concern for harvest so that one may benefit from the fruit planted. The true doer sows and leaves his reward to God; whether the harvest comes today or tomorrow, by his hand or another’s, is not important. What matters is that he has sold his self and his wealth to God and does not break the contract of sale between himself and his Lord.
Today, what we need is a practical spirit capable of elevating its level of activity to match the methodology we uphold — a methodology we speak of and highlight on every occasion, celebration, and stage of time. Since our revolution is one with a genuine Islamic dimension, grounded in all its affairs upon God’s methodology, it aims to dismantle all manifestations of ignorance, backwardness, oppression, tyranny, and exploitation, in order to build an integrated, balanced, united, and just society.
Therefore, it is essential to work on the purification and cultivation of souls from all the remnants of the past. This is achieved by presenting the correct and clear methodology to the people, both in word and in action, by entering every societal sphere with speech, stance, action, and commitment, led by the vanguard that takes upon itself the responsibility of realizing the revolution’s goals and ensuring the continuity and permanence of its achievements.
The revolution compels us to maintain an environment conducive to comprehensive action across the entire societal sphere. Put more precisely: reality demands that we establish intellectual, scientific, and cultural systems through which all people can be addressed, talents can be refined, capacities discovered, and abilities strengthened among all members of society. Once we understand these capacities and engage with them in ways that nurture and reinforce them, we can set our society firmly on the path it must traverse to reach its ultimate goal: attaining the highest station in the journey of its full existence, with complete psychological and spiritual growth.
This goal cannot be achieved except through diligent, sincere, and earnest efforts to establish a monotheistic society, one where there is no room for classism, opportunism, or exploitation. In such a society, all are servants of God, and their servitude to God requires that they be free before all human beings. It also demands rejection of all forms of tyranny and false gods, and rebellion against and struggle with them, regardless of their origin or source. This is a fundamental and universal objective in the mission of all the prophets and messengers of God, and for all who follow their path across time and place. It is, indeed, the guiding principle of their comprehensive movement for change and reform. As God Almighty said: “And We sent a messenger to every nation, [saying], ‘Worship Allah and avoid Taghut [false gods].’” (Qur’an 16:36)
