Letter to Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Husseini Khamenei
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
All praise is due to Allah, the One who grants honor to the believers and humiliates the oppressors, who has made our lives a path of jihad and preparation, and our deaths martyrdom in His cause at the hands of the worst of His creation. Peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, and his pure and noble Household. May Allah hasten their blessed reappearance while granting us goodness and well-being.
Allah the Almighty says: "O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you..." (An-Nisa: 59)
Our Master, the Leader and Guardian Jurist, Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei, peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.
We, your sons and brothers—the Khameneists of Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon—send you this letter with hearts filled with hope and prayers that you remain in the best of health, safeguarded by Allah's mighty protection.
First, we congratulate you on the martyrdom of our father, the martyred Guardian Leader, who concluded decades of jihad and leadership, combining knowledge with action, opening the doors of giving as a distinguished jurist, Qur'anic thinker, and steadfast leader, until he was martyred like his grandfather, Imam Ali, at the hands of the "Ibn Muljams" of this era. We also extend our congratulations on the martyrdom, sacrifices, and wounds of your brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters among the fighters of this nation on the resistance front, especially the people of your beloved country, the Islamic Republic of Iran. We ask Allah to envelop the martyrs in His mercy,u grant the wounded a swift recovery, and bestow patience and solace upon their families.
We, who have long made pilgrimages to the holy city of Mashhad and drawn from the pure spring of the compassionate Imam Al-Ridha (peace be upon him), raise the banner of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) with the hand of jihad and preparation while confronting our enemies at point-blank range in the spirit of "Labbayk [At your Service] " and "Hayhat" [Be Away from us Humiliation]." With our other hand, we greet our dear brothers—the sons of Imam Al-Ridha (peace be upon him), the graduates of Imam Khomeini's school, the bearers of Imam Khamenei's legacy, and those who raise your blessed banner among the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Basij, and every honorable and noble individual who breathes the fragrance of guardianship in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In them, we see the love and sacrifice of Imam Hussein, the insight and selflessness of Abbas, and the certainty and loyalty of Salman.
Today, you carry the banner of authentic Muhammadan Islam, which the martyred Guardian Leader carried after the great Imam Khomeini. It is the same banner that Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) raised in Karbala when he stood alone before the enemy's armies and declared: "By Allah, I will never surrender like the humiliated..."
Our Leader, from the heart of the battlefield where we wage our Karbala-like struggle against the tyrants of the earth, we extend to you our pledge of allegiance with full determination, convinced that in doing so we are pledging allegiance to Imam Al-Hujjah (may Allah hasten his reappearance), for you are his rightful deputy and Allah's proof upon us during the Major Occultation.
We pledge to continue steadfastly on the path of dignity, preparing and persevering. Just as we stood beside the martyred Guardian Leader, we shall stand beside you, fearing no reproach for the sake of Allah. Upon our shoulders rests the trust of the martyrs, the wounded, the prisoners, the missing, and their steadfast families, while in our hearts lives the legacy of the martyred Khamenei—strength and trust in Allah.