The Prophets that were appointed to Prophetic missions were appointed in order to cause the spirituality of the people and those talents to bloom and that in that blossoming they would know that they were insignificant. In addition, it was to liberate the people from the control of the arrogant oppressors. From the start, the Prophets held these two jobs; the spiritual job to extricate the people from captivity of the carnal soul; from the captivity of the self, for Satan is great- and to liberate the people and the oppressed from the clutches of the oppressors. These two tasks are the jobs of the Prophets. When a person observes His Holiness Moses and His Holiness Abraham, and the things that have been quoted in the Quran from these two Prophets, he notices that they held these same two positions. One was to invite the people to monotheism and another was to rescue the people from under oppression. If in the teachings of His Holiness Christ, this job is less noticeable, it is because His Holiness Christ did not live for long and had less contact with the people otherwise his style was the same as that of His Holiness Moses and all the Prophets. In the highest of them all who is the Prophet of God, we see these two tasks manifestly in the Quran and the practicing of the tradition of the Messenger of God himself. The Quran has invited the people to spirituality to the extent of the ability of humankind can attain and beyond and next is establishing justice and equality. The Prophet also as well as those that was the language of revelation also followed these two methods. The knowledge of the Prophet himself was such, that until the day he had not formed an administration, he would strengthen spirituality. As soon as he was able to establish a rule, he would establish justice in addition to spirituality; he formed a government and rescued the poor from under the yoke of tyrants to the extent that the era permitted. This is a common feature of the Prophets that those that are the followers of the Prophets must sustain this feature. Both from the aspect of spirituality that individuals acquainted with spirituality must strengthen and all the people, the people themselves, must also strengthen this spirituality and the second subject that is the establishing of justice. The rule of Islam must establish justice at the same time that it reforms and propagates spirituality. If we are the followers of Islam and followers of the Prophets then we should know that this was the permanent feature of the Prophets. If the Prophets arrive until eternity, again this holds true; again the spiritual aspects of humankind to the extent that humankind merits and the perpetuation of the establishment of justice among humankind and cutting off the hands of the oppressors holds true- and we must strengthen these two subjects.
We must, all people must, all human beings must, strengthen the Islamic government in order to establish justice. The government must also consider the spiritual aspects meaning that because it follows Islam, it must be styled in the manner of Islam. Styled in the manner of Islam implies these two objectives; the same two paths that Islam has which is safeguarding spirituality and strengthening spirituality of the people and the establishment of justice among them and the salvation of the oppressed from the hands of the oppressors. Now it makes no difference whether they are the oppressed that are being oppressed by governments or the oppressed that are being oppressed by the masters. Islam has arrived for these two reasons and we are followers of Islam and must safeguard these two reasons. The Islamic regulations must be safeguarded to their highest level for if the Islamic regulations are safeguarded to their highest level, then these two objectives that are the objectives of all the Prophets shall be- the objective of spirituality of the people and the objective of the establishment of justice in the society. From the one who is at the top to the individuals that compose the three powers and on to those that are outside these but are devoted to Islam, all must lift this burden and there should be no differences among them. The objective is one and all must participate in this singular objective. The nation must participate in this objective; the government must participate in this objective; the Parliament and the Judiciary must participate in this objective; all must participate in this objective; the theologians of the land wherever they are must participate towards realization of this objective.
Sahifeh, vol. 17, Page: 488-489
Speech, July 12, 1983